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The

SECOND EDITIO

Hongkong Telegraph.

'FOUNDED 1881

No. 15702

五拜禮 號六十月二十英港香

FRIDAY, DECEMBER

16, 1938. 日五廿月十

35,000

RUMOURS OF UNREST IN TOR MANCHUKUO STIR CHINA FOR

In Sending

Jockey Club Defence Action For

THE

Libel

•HE CASE for the Jockey Club, defendants in the libel action brought by Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield before Mr. Justico R. E. Lindsell, was opened by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. this morning before a special jury.

Plaintiff's case was concluded yesterday.

Mr. Brayfield claims unlimited damages for being posted at the Club as a defaulter in respect of an account for $9.10 for excess fodder for his ponies Salvage Master and Shipmaster.

Mr. Potter said this morning | to pay until substantial proof is made that plaintiff was unreasonable to me that my ponies consumed this

excess fodder'. and obstructive throughout and'

sub-

only "He admits thin the if he had done the reasonable stential proof that can be produced thing nine months ago, the mat- is the statement of his own trainer ter might easily have been which, to my mind, puts an end to cleared up then.

The jury comprised Mesers. . Fleming (Fereman) Rt. M. McLay, C.

this case for all practical purposes.

UNHAPPY MISTAKE

"When that letter was written he

Champkin, T. B. Wilson, Lu Yuk- knew that the only substantial prout tong, 1. II. Gence and L. Dunbar.

Mr. Eldon Poller, K.C., and Mr. Hould be afforded by the trainer and

G. Shelton, K.C., instructed by Mr. he writes later That In my opinion, G. G. N. Tinson, of Messrs, Johnson, ut substantial proof

Stokes and Muter, appeared for the Jockey Club. Mr. 11. C. Macnamara, Instructed by Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, re presented Mr. Brayfield.

MAR

"Why did he not, as a reasonable

who owed

owed a debt to the Jockey Club and especially in his capacity as an owner-member, no to the Jockey Club and my, 'Gentlemen, there is unhappy mistake here,

some

ponics

In opening the case for the de- I have been supplying my fence, Mr. Polter said five or six with special extra feed provided by witnesses would be called for the myself and there connot bc nny Jockey Club.

more excess fodder'.

He said: "I propose to discuss the policy and conduct of the Jockey Club since they have a very relative bearing on the issue.

The Club is an institution which gives a great deal of pleasure and recreation and possibly same profit

MR. T. H. G. BRAYFIELD.

NATIONAL REGISTER EXPLAINED

House Of Lords Debate

"Would not that be the reasonable attitude? Is i not nn extra- ordinary thing that that vital fact which could have been investigated nine months ago has been locked in his breast as for as the plaintiff is concerned until he came to Court? great number of people of all

"If he had said that at the time, nationalities.

"It is in no reuse a profit-making it could have been investigated then concern: its very Articles of Memor when it would have been much easier

than nine

months later. Plaintiff andum ferbid that single penny of might well have been able to profits be distributed to members. his point to your satisfaction then.

used to

London, Dec. 15. "These prafts are

foster "He might have said to Tau the racing and subscribing very largely trainer: You know

have been Replying on behalf of the Govern- Is true that the Club

did ment to a debate in the House of 10 charity. It is tru

giving this extra feed, is a company incorporated in law

Earl of Birkenhead said the register but that is merely for the purpose you give this extra fodder?' but he Lords on the National Register the

did nothing at all.

was being prepared in such a way of legal convenience. It is really an

that it could be quickly completed association of people who either race

unduly in an emergency without Er are interested in raring.

disturbing industry.

"As you know, the Club is govern ed and controlled end, to a great extent managed, by local gentlemenf who gratuitiously give their time and! services.

Their one job, I sulmit, is to see) that the Club is carried on in the best interests of the nerinbers,

why

prove

League For The

re-

10,000 Soldiers

Fo

2

OR SEVERAL MONTHS, THERE HAVE BEEN RUMOURSİ THAT ALL IS NOT WELL IN MANCHU- KUO.

SHIP

REICH

KIEL, Dec. 15. MERMANY 18 to construct a new 35,000 ton battleship an the next addition to her navy.

The battleship Gneisenau, which was recently completed. and the Scharnhorst which is still under construction, have both a displacement of 26.000 tons, so that the new ship will be the largest In the German navy.

The construction programme includes also two light cruisers of 7,000 tons displacement and six additional cruisers totalling 35.400 tons.

new

The cubmarines construction programme includes 28 umile in addition to 43 sub- marlaes now completed and in norvico-Trans-Ocean.

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JAPAN FACING COMMUNISM IF FAILS IN WAR

LONDON, Dec. 15.

IF JAPAN PUSHES the war in China and still fails, the reaction which "dogs the steps of all extremes" will produce a “Red” Japan.

If Italy pushes her Mediterranean ambitions too far, her foreign policy will fail her industrial, commercial and financial sections, and the setback may easily create an anti- Fascist revolution..

These opinions were expressed in an editorial to-day by the "Birmingham Post.”

The newspaper asks how far aggression pays the ordinary man even in aggressor nations.

Britain, America Are Warned By China

SHANGHAI, Dec. 16.

"The point will occur to many readers who have noted the simultaneous disclosures made in the Budgets of Japan and Italy.

Expenditure in both countries is due to a policy which sets force before agreement.

Italian and Japanese tax-payers are being asked to make sacrifices

GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHÉK has warn-which would be unnecessary if Rome

pledges to Geneva.

ed Great Britain and the United States that unless some-and Tokyo observed loyaly their thing concrete is done towards assisting China, assistance will be sought elsewhere...

Rumours of discord be- tween the Japanese and Manchukuo officials. rumours of uprisings. ever-increasing hordes of bandits... fights between Japanese troops and irregu- lars......mutiny of Man- chukuo troops.

No official reports of discontent-with the leader means that China con- Japanese

overlords ever templates an appeal to Soviet

Russia. come out of Manchukuo. One of the strictest censor- ships in the world exercised there.

The Left-Wing element in It is assumed that the Chinese

is G.H.Q. STAFF

The foreigner is not allowed CHANGES IN

access to many parts of thei country.

increasing HONGKONG

To-day comes evidence that Japan is ex- periencing difficulties in Man-i chukuo that she will not admit. Japanese troops, sorely needed in China, are being sent north.

According to Coniral News" over 10,000 Japanese troops have passed through Tientsin en route to Man-

These two Budgets underline the moral already written in plain letters the citizen is asked to make

sacrifices for big future gains in the big sueri

reasonable, Chinese Government has gained con- compatible with any

Surely non-aggressor Powern, led ciderable round lately, and it is peaceful and political world system. expected that: unless the democracies adopt a different attitude, China will by Great Britain and the United be forced to turn to Soviet Russia States, may reasonably consider the

their

present economic for nid.

strength nsn political asset, to be Although this does not mean why used nelively, and not as a ilability trend towards Communism, Soviet to be defended passively-Reuter, Russia anay hope for this end, and will endeavour to gain increasing in- Aluence in exchange for any aid she! may offer.

ex-

in

It is learned that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's views were pressed to the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald LONDON, Dec. 16.

Kerr Clarke-Kerr. A.

thelr G. during

recent meating LIEUT.-COLONEL

Chungising. Neville of the Royal Artillery, It is also learned that Mr. Nelson and Lieut.-Colonel G. E. Grims Johnson, the American Ambassador. dale of the Royal Engineers, was likewise informed of the situa

by Generalissimo Chlung. chukue during the past few days. have both been appointed G.3.0.2 km

speculation

been to British troops to China,nited Press," aroused among foreign and Chinese replacing Colonel Irwin anil circles in Tientale regarding this Colonel Burkhardt on March 15, abnormal mavements of soldier 1939 and March 21, 1909 respec- the report continues,

Much

Chincac guerillas have been quick | tively.-Reuter,

to take advantage of the denuding Cal. N. M. S. Irwin arrived in of the countryside of Japanese Hongkong on April 9, 1937 from the garrisons, and they have become in- Imperial Defence College. creasingly active along the Tientsin- the Great War he commanded five Pukow Railway.

A Japanese e troop train was de- railed near

Cheniciantun when it

crashed over an embankment Two Americas

LIMA, Dec. 15.

a

OBSTRUCTIVE CONDUCT AN AMERICAN League of

Nations, supported by "I submit that they are at least! entitled to expect the loyal co- operation and help of their fellow system of moral, instead of members and not to expect obstruc-Jeconomic or military sanctions,

at the Pan tive and unreasonuble conduct which was proposed

do infinite harm.

enn do na good to anyone and may American Conference to-day by "I shall state as firmly and strongly delegates of Colombia and Santo as I can and I hope in no nggerated language that the conduct

ex: Domingo.",

of the plantiff in respect of this mat-

}

Pleading u.gency, Sen. Lopez

tor has fallen for, below the standard Domesa, Colombia's Foreign Minister, which the Stewards and the memsaid that they had "never heard such bere enn reasonably - requira..

"In that regard I would remirit | unmistakably imperialistic words as you at the outset that Mr. Braydeld's were now coming from Europe.". letter of March 19 said I decline Reuter.

Canada's Position

War

In

All interests would be fully presented on local committees. It was intended that men engaged in skilled key industries, who were. men, should not be taken from their occupations if that could be avoided. Men who undertook to serve in

national services such as fire brigades

would certainly be retained in those the early services at least during

stages of the emergency.

Giving figures with regard to ARP. the Earl of Birkenhead said that on October 31 last, the number of air raid wardens required was 420,000 men and 300,000 women. British Wireless..

Japan's

after rails.

guerillas had removed the. Over a hundred Japanese soldiers were killed, the report states.

Cabinet Minister Resigns In U.S.

Washington, Dec. 15.

The United States Secretary of

Commerce, Mr. Daniel C. Roper, has resigned, according to an announce- Iment made to-day--Trans-Ocean,

Parleys With Soviet Break Down

MOSCOW, Dec. 15.

A DEADLOCK has been reached in the negotiations waters, for Japanese fishing rights in Soviet territorial

Involving Britain according to a semi-official repart issued here, which

regarding railway payments, and

COL. IRWIN.

During

Crisis Grows In Hankow

Shanghai, Doc. 16. The alluation in French Conces- ulon in Hankow has grown' much more acule, so it was learned yester- day evening from a private source.

The

authorities Japanese taken extraordlitary measures cause about 150,000 Chinese have| taken refuge in the French Con- cession.

bave bc-

All food supplies to the Conces klon have been cut off.

One man who attempted to bring foodstuffs from the riverside into the

Concession was shot.

Prices of food have already risen considerably because of the position.

On the other hand, the waler sap ply which had been cut off by the Japanese has been provided for by the pumping of

of water from

the Yangise into the Concession, where it is filtered.

This Intolerable position. It la de- clared, must lead to catastrophe un- Iras the dispute is settled quickly- Trans-Decan.

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Last Christmas

Leaves In 3 Planes

IN EXPECTATION that the last Christmas mail to OTTAWA, Dec. 15. states that negotiations had continued between M.

England and Australia would be a record one, three Imperial Airways planes were lined up for departure in RESOLUTION seeking to clarify Canada's Litvinoff and Mr. Togo, the Japanese Ambassador.

Mr. Togo asked whather, ing this did not cause the Soviet Gov-

the dim dawn light at Kai Tak Aerodrome this morning. position in the event of Britain becoming involved in the event of the Japanese Government to withdraw its dea that

It was found, however, that, Both Engilah and Australian malls war, will be introduced by Mr. J. S. Woodsworthy, leader ernment considering favourably in the course of furthe negotiations separate battalions in succession, and

will arrive on Sunday afternoon at the question of overdue pay would be necessary to return to was awarded the D.S.O. with two the mail amounted to slightly will be brought from Bangkok. They bars, the Military Cross, the French the Co-Operative Commonwealth Party (which is ment for the Chinese Eastern this question.

Bubsequently MY TOLG

opposed War Cross and was five times men- less than a ton, which is well s o'clock and not to-morrow

scheduled. The next mail from Socialistically inclined) when Parliament reassembles in Railway, the Soviet Govern the basis for a temporary agreement tloned in despatches. He served on below the recorde

ment would agree to sign with mentioned in the Soviet proposal of the North-West Frontier in the The three planes Dardanus, Delia, Hongkong will leave on "-Tuneday, and Delphinus have a full loading being due in England on Boxing Day January.

out changes, the draft of the November 28, and inated on the 1030-31 operations.

For one days late" for -- Christmas Col. V. I. Burkhardt arrived in capacity of 24 ions; in fact, on The resolution reads: "That Government to introduce, in the Fisheries Convention they had prolongation of the temporary agree

ment now in operation, and added the Farliament hereby declares pentestion such legislation as refused to approve in 1986-87. men loves uponible to con Hongkong on April 25, 1986. He was recent trip two of thore, two of them ather are of the Com- may be necesary to give full erect Litvinoff replied in the clude new convention the previous previously, in 1923, d8042 in China; tons of mall. Therefore, two of them the three neverthe negative.ql the world that and fores to this declaration

convention must bebewed and after three years being appointed oild have handled in-day's mail/en/now on Imperial

comfortably, but not "pret, and Bris Major in North Chinaghin atlón - The fabiation refers to legislation: Mr. Togo then stated that he was M. LatviDOR WOgla}{

#1- Bangkok to being inward will again be evi con service in Yeance, Bolum men thould they be nimiciedad dre la macted my Boating Africa In 1934, prepared to start negotiations on a proposed that at The Wale tatores addition to China, Col. Burkhardi has de departed so that they could be h

beticon. Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Zuure to call for the men of Uhayen Which it says, aye the Government temporary agreement for one year in the Japenese FON full internal control over exercise of conformity with the prosporal made temporary agreement coul

Bovlet the stands of the Argan Seson Jan the Royal prerogative on behalf or by the devlet Government on Novens citsded only on the the South Africa. Kruter.

DUR ** Litvinon særeed, but said stafpient, of Nov

that a

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