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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2,

1938.

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ANNOUNCES

JAPAN PREPARED TO END CHINA WARFARE. Date of Termination of 'Incident'

Hongkong Incident Discussed

British Ambassador Sees Sawada

TOKYO, Dec. 2. THE BRITISH AMBAS- SADOR, Sir Robert Craigie, called on the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Renzo Sayada, on Thursday afternoon.

Robert I understood that Sir

information with Mr. exchanged Sawada on the strength of an officini eport from the British authorities in Hongkong.

The report was in connection' with

incident the settlement of the November 20, when Japanese forces entered British territory by mistake. -Domel.

FORMER C, IN C. RETURNS TO TOKYO

Tokyo, Dec. 2, Lieut.-General Motown Furusho. former Supreme Commander of the Japanese Forces which effected the landing in Blas Bay is arriving this afternoon from Formosa.

Upon his arrival in Tokyo General Furasho is expected to submit his to His report on military attairs Majesty, the Emperor.

was recently General Furusho replaced by Lt.-General Domci.

Tibet's Sympathy For China

Ando-

!

London, Dec. 2. The Times Delhi correspondeuti says that travellers' reports from the; Indian border countries indicate that in Lhasa a close interest is being taken in the Sino-Japanese war, and throughout Tihet prayers are being! offered for the success of the Chinese armies.

This sympathy with China has greatly relaxed the tension which formerly existed between the two countries, over Jasues affecting Eastern Tibet, the boundary of which marchen with China-Reuter,

300 More Jews On Way To Far East

London, Dec. 2. About 309 German-Jewish refugees

"SO THIS IS HONGKONG?" asks one of the China ponies which disembarked on Wednesday from the steamer Kwangtung. specially chartered to bring them from the north. A total of 98 ponies were landed.

Strike Situation Suddenly Flares

PARIS, Dec. 1.

A new outbreak of strikes has brought reinforce- ments of troops and guards to the principal cities throughout France, it was reported here to-day,

Meanwhile, the Confederation of varying from nuc week to three French Trade Unions has called a months. meeting of the national council to M. Daladier has taken personal discuss the failure of the general charize of the penalties to be inflicted strike.--United Press.

against arsenal and naval yard! warkers, which will be severe be cause it is regarded necessary maintain military discipline.

|GRAVE TURN

St. Nazaire, Dec.l

A general sirike has been declared

in ali naval shipyards, and 10,000) men are affected,

The strike was decided upon sud-

to

Government's swift reprisals of locking-out the strikers in all the nationalised and requisitioned in-

Will Be Fixed Shortly

THE TOKYO GOVERNMENT may shortly terminate the "China Incident,” as the Sino-Japanese War is called in Japan.

By "termination" is ap- parently meant the suspen- sion of all military operations and a period of consolidation.

Prince Konoye, the Premier, has promised the Privy Council to obtain Imperial Sanction for the date of termination, which will be fixed by the Government, according to a copyright "Domei" mes- sage.

The Japanese Premler, in announcing the radical change in Japanese policy, pointed out the dificulty in setiling the War

rapidly with only a military

force.

Unlike the Sino-Japanese War

1938

DUNLOP

10 117KSOP GROWTH,

DUNLOP Fort

The Tyro with 2,000 Teeth

Italy Joins Chinese Man

Naval Pact

With U.K.

LONDON, Dec. 1. "THE INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION." by which Kaly signifies her adhesion to the London Naval Treaty of 1938, will be signed at the Forcion Office here on Friday by the Under-Secretary of State. Air. Montague Scott and the Italian Ambassador. Count Grandi, thereby conforming to the Anglo-Italian agreement which came into force on November 10 last.

It will be recalled that al- though Italy sent an "observer" to the negotiations view of the naval agreement of 1036. zhe subsequently declined to participate In

owing to Lanctions being taken by the League of Nations in connection with the Abyssinian war,

10 is further stated that negollations between England and the Scandinavian States for a naval agreement are about to be concluded.-Truns-Ocean.

Of

Mystery

In Arms Case

LONDON, Dec. 1.

"THIS CHINESE MAN of mystery" was how Mr. G. C. L. du Cann referred to Mr. Chou Tin-shu during the resumed hearing of the China arms cargo trial to-day.

Three men-Frederick Willing, aged 50, metal merchant, of Tavistock-court, Tavistock-square; his son, James Oll Herbert Willing, aged 24, metal merchant, of Dorset House, N.W.; and Dennis Michael Corrigan, aged 46, agent of Park-lane, W.—are charged with conspiring with Chou Tin Shu and others unknown to cheat and defraud M. Theodore Laffitte of £7,250, obtaining the money by false pre- tences, and attempting to obtain a further £4,000.

Germany Adopts Balloon Barrage for Defence

BERLIN, Dec. 1. FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE set by England, balloon barrages have now been introduced in Germany.

The case for the prosecution was that the three put forward Chou Tin Shu as an important offfeist at the Embassy in London and

Chinese head of a Chinese commission for buying arms in Europe.

M. Lafitte ugreed to

buy 50 It is announced that the first barrage has been establishmachine guns und 600,000 rounds of £7.230. ed around the gigantic Leuna works at Halle, for the works, ammunition, and he paid with their 16 immense chimneys would offer a particularly When the goods arrived at Marseilles, Instead of guns and ammunition the favourable objective to enemy aircraft.

and

According to reliable information the efficiency of this bar-cases were found to contain brick,

rubble, antt dict motor parts rage was proved during attacking manoeuvres recently carried

tyres. out by several bombing squadrons which showed conclusively that the Leuna works would be adequately protected in the event of war.

"PLEADED PRIVILEGE" Representatives of a firm of ship-

stated that the firm thought it was

London and "would have to obey their commands."

The Leuna works are mainly concerned with the producing agents, recalled this morning, tion of nitrogen and with the hydrogenation of coal-Trans-dealing with the Chinese Embassy in

Оссан.

RUMANIA

STAMPS OUT

NAZI BAND

in 1894-95 and the Russo- Ruthless Action Against

Japanese War of 1904-05, the

current "China Incident" pre- sented a vastly different prob- lem, he said.

"The China Incident' will

be

Iron Guards

BUCHAREST, Dec. 1. KING CAROL has terminated through a chronic pro- ordered mass arrests and cess," Prince Konoye declared.

"It will be considered terminated the dismissal of doubtful when hostilities have ceased and army officers in his exten- when peace and order have returned.

"If the Chinese National Govern- sive precautions against ment will disband and rally under terrorism, following the the banner of the new regime In (Continued on Page 4)

Magistrate Called To The Bar

attempted escape of the

of the

former Iron Guard leader The old famillar $ sign has dis- Codreanu, and the threaten-appeared from the funnels

President liners and has been re- ing pamphlets issued by the

placed by the insignia shown above. Iron Guards.

The Une is now controlled by the

Meanwhile outlawed chief of American President Company and.

the President Monroe, which arrived the Iron Guard have charged yesterday, was the first ship to com- that the slaying of Codreanu by mence the new schedule. guards was "outright assassina- tion", and they claim that this allegation is supported by the

Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyon fact that relatives and witnesses

A Barrister

denly without a ballot, after the This afternoon 00 per cent. of the the Kowloon Police Magistrate, has

en route to the Far East are aboard –Router,

* 700,000 DISMISSED

Paris, Dec. 1.

in addition

were not allowed to inspect the bodies before burial.”

It, Is reported that Codreanu and

his colleagues were killed in jail, and their bodies removed 'afterwards to another Jail.

It is reported that General Ion Antonescu has been discharged from the army, and that two of the men arrested yesterday would be taken before a milltary tribunal.-Unlied

dustries, have been followed by News has just been received that most of the private industries. Mr. Quentin A. A. Macfadyen, B.A., shipyard had decided to re-engage heavy industries in Paris

and the been called to the Bar ("Inner the men who struck yesterday, but with the elimination of the agitators. industrial suburbs were locked-out, Temple") in absentia.

and The announcement is contained in to the peroplane chemienl factories other parts the Times of November 18. the Italian liner, Conte Blancamano, necarding to the Times Aden corres-

Mr. Macfadyen, who is a Bachelor throughout the provinces.

columns of strikers, visibly of Arts, Wadham College, Oxford, Press. pondent, who reports that when the

a Cadet in the Hong- liner passed through Aden, many of

It is estimated that 700,000 strikers punishment, have fled applications kong the refugees, who were absolutely destitute, landed for a short while have been noted of their dismissal for unemployment relief.

He passed his

his final examination In Approximately 1,100 demonstrators help!

M. Daladler from the Jewish community-Ren- in the correctional courts at Crogen, for December 8 after the Radical-Superintendent of

have been sentenced to imprisonment Socialist. M. Albert Chicery had told ports in April of that year. In 1931 him that the Radicals were now con- he was appointed Assistant Secretary vinced that the Cabinet would re-for Chincso Affairs, and on December ceive an overwhelming vote in favour 2, 1931 he passed his law examina- of the budget reform decrees.-tlon. United Press,

and appealed

ter.

for monetary

Recruits Sought for New Chinese Student Army

SHANGHAI, Dec. 2.

shocked by the swift severity of the was overnment service in 1928.

Assistant

has called Parliament 1930, and was Ex-

TROOPS OCCUPY ARMS FACTORIES

Upon returning from leave in 1933, he was appointed Chief Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and In June of the same year became

the Deputy Registrar, at. Supreme

ASSAILANT ARRESTED

24 DIE IN UTAH BUS COLLISION

High-School Students Killed In Tragedy

SALT LAKE CITY,

Dec. 1.

Bucharest, Dec. 2. A BUS CARRYING, it is estl- There have been two further developments affecting Iron Guardist mated, 40 high-school students Jews, following those already report-collided with a fast freight train at a railway crossing to-day, at yesterday.

An- least 24 students being killed. The Governor of Czernovitz nounced that Jews who have lost

ed

been killed..

.

During this morning's evidence, Mr. Percy Munday, an official of the Foreign Office, said that the name of Mr. Chou Tin-shu had never been submitted to the Foreign Ofice as an official of the Chinese Embassy.

Mr. E. Clayton, for the prosecu- the Court he did not in- tion, told the tend calling evidence from the Chinese Embassy.

"I suppose they have pleaded prl- vilege so that they will not have to (Continued on Page 4.)

LATE NEWS

Foreigners Not Allowed In Canton

Canton, Dec, 2.

For the first time since the occupa- lion, the Japanese this morning are forbidding the city to foreigners, owing to the "rounding up of looters and gangsters."

Rifle and machine-gun fire was very audible in Shameen this morn- ing, while one foreigner was caught in the city, unaware of the Japanese order.

He said that Hterally hundreds of Chinese had been arrested and tied up at street corners.

The foreigner was escorted back to Shameen by Japanese sentries Reuter.

G.O.C. TO LEAVE NEXT WEEK

ה!

His Excellency the Géneral Officer

British Commanding

Troops China, Major General A. W. Bartholomew, and Mrs. Bartholomew are departing from Hongkong for England by the P. & O. liner Canton

next week.

Major General Bartholomew it will be recalled, is being relieved In Hongkong by Maj. General A. E.

their citizenship in the revision of The Denver-Rio Grande railway the naturalisation laws earlier this year, are forbidden to occupy public division office reported that 26 had or private posts in any enterprise,

The police are being supplied with The accident occurred during poor lists of such Jews, numbering about visibility, the bus starting to cross Graselt. Paris, Dec. 1.

1,000. The Government has revoked the Court

It is announced that one of the the railway track without realising Prio rto their departure on Satur- In 1934 he was appointed Second alleged assailants whe mandate of M. Jouhaux, Secretory-

asassinated that the train was near United | day next week, Maj. General -and "STUDENT ARMY" of one and a half divisions of men is

General of the Confederation of Police Magistrale, and the following

Mrs. Bartholomew will spend thres o being formed by the Chinese high command, it is reported. French Trade Unions, as regent of year held the emce of First Clerk the Rector of Cluj University, has Preza.

been the Bano of France, and the man- and

In the middle of a deep

four days at Government House In Magistrate,Hongkong.

arrested

A Reuter message says that 20 guests of His Excellency the Governor Instructions have already been issumed the title of Commander-in dates at M. Pietre Bemard, und M. February 1936 he was appointed forest. sent to all Chinese: universities and | Chief of the new... army, and the Emile Jarrigon, other trade union Police Magistralo, Kówloon, und last

It is stated that he, with two others children were killed and 12 injured and Lady Norincote, schools, and the headquarters of the Minister of Education and another secretaries, as members of the Na- your he went Home on leave, during who are still at large, drew unlucky in the crash. The injured have been army Are mid to be in Chenglu, In| high educational oficial will act as tional Raliway Board.

numbers when members of the Iron sent to hospital in a serious; condi- which time he passed his final ex- the Szechuan_province.

Guards allegedly drow lots n fort- officere under his command.--Trans- Troops have pocupled the Schneider; amination in law. Mi Marshall Chiang Kai-shek has'Ocean.

(Continued on Page 4.)

Mr. Macfadyers is 34 years of age.

(Continued on Page 4.)

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