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FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph

FOUNDED 1881 No. 19713

ITINERARY OF

IS ANNOUNCED

LONDON, Jan. 2.

AN EXTENSIVE COAST-TO-COAST tour is to be made by the King and Queen during their visit to Canada, the itinerary of which was announced in the United Kingdom and Canada this morning.

Their Majesties leave Portsmouth aboard H.M.S. Repulse on May 8, and land in Quebec on May 15, where they will spend the night.

After a day at Montreal, they will spend three nights at

Loyalists Make Government House, Ottawa.

Strong Stand

Burgos, Jan. 3.

The Loyalist resistance at various

points on the Catalan front has in- creased, according to reports reaching here to-day, and the Loyalists have launched counter-attacks at certain

section..

However, they are reported to be evacuating territory. In front of Lerida, having, apparently, decided to withdraw in good order..

While heavily-reinforced lines are holding up the Insurgents, feverish activity is going on in the rear, In- dicating that the Loyalist leaders have given up hope of being able to hold the defence positions in the centre of the Segre front.

Their Majesties will then Cross Canada to the Paciße coast, visiting successively Kingston. Toronto,, Port Arthur. P'urt Willinn, Winnipeg Regine, Calgary, Banft, Vancouver and Victorin.

visit Jasper Park, Edmonton. Saska- On the eastward journey they will toon, Sudbury, Muskoka, the Lakes district, London, Hamilton, and the Niagara Falls.

They will be allowed periods of complete rest at Banfi. Victoria and Jasper Park.

11.

Between June 8 and June Their Majestles will visit the United tion extended by President and Mrs. States in pursuance with the invita-

Franklin Roosevelt.

tour of Canada, visiting Shepbrooke, Thereafter they will resume their Monoton, Fredericton, St. John and Halifax, from where they will leave A remarkable feature of the re- December 15; visiting St. John's on in the Repulse for Newfoundland on treat is that it is progressing in the June 15, visiting St. John's direction of the Solsona and the French frontler.

on

mountains the Repulse the same evening for

Portsmouth--Reuter. Insurgent forces fighting in the north, are hampered by fog, as well composed of experienced and well-{ as by the thaws and flooded streams, equipped soldiers, the

Prisoners report that while the are mostly 18 year-old youths- front ranks of the Loyalist forces are Trans-Occan.

Xeberves

TWO HUMAN STORIES OF

PEOPLE WE KNEW

Fine is the dividing line between joy and tragedy-how fine these two stories of people well-known in Army circles in Hongkong show....

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Daladier Receives Fervent Welcome

PREMIER

an

PARIS, Jan. 3. DALADIER was accorded enthusiastic welcome on his arrival at the Tunisian naval port of Bixerta this morning aboard the French cruiser Foch.

task already

undertaken

by

must

AS A TROOPSHIP and the GREY-HAIRED, G3-year-old M. Daladier was received by ato face all attacks end dangers. liner Amra passed into the Mrs. Walker sat up in bed representative of the Bey of France will not allow herself under Mediterranean, Mr. Charles M. in an East London hospital, Tunis, as well as by the French any pretext, to be diverted from the Toop and his daughter exchanged dipped into her small store of Resident-General, M. Labonne, Tunisians and Frenchmen. radio greetings.

money to buy powder and rouge. and He, chief steward of the troopship

the civil and military Mrs. Walker was determined to authorities. Deputations of the create a human community, animated

"On this African coll we Dilwara, well-known to thousands of cover up the ravages of a critical illnative population soldiers in Hongkong, was homewardness, so that she could look her best

were also by that universal ideal which alone bound from Hongkong. She was when her son Johnny came to see present to greet the Premier.

can save the world from slavery." outward bound to Indio.

That happy greeting the daughter

The town of Bizerta presented a The speech was continually Inter- will remember as a tragic farewell. has been specially released from his nutives and Europeans having come

Johnny, a corporal in the R.A.M.C., festive appearance, thousands of rupted with cheers-Reuter, She did not know until she arrived duties in Hongkong, 0,000 miles away, from all parts of the country to wit- la India that her father died as the so that he could hurry home to her nesa the spectacle, and the French Dliworn was entering dock in Eng bedside.

Premier was everywhere the object Johnny," she said, as she pulled her

"I must look prolly for my of hearty demonstrations. pink wrapper round her shoulders fortifications at Mettine, M. Daladier After inspecting the new naval

her face brightened.

and at the mention of his name and his suite left by road for Tunis. The entire route of about 40 miles "Johnny is as particular as I am was lined by enthusiastic French about appearance. He always likes colonists and natives. to see me looking nice."

She passed hand over her pale

land,

The ship was almost in sight of England when Air. Toop was found to have collapsed in his cabin.

on

Sea

Who

As she hurried up the gangway she was met by a ship's officer, gently broke to her the news that

her husband had died just as the ship than mynd never had very much day was a great military parade, and|

was entering.dock.

Suez Dues May

S'hai Bandits

In Police Duel

Shanghai, Jan. 3.

The incident took place in

residential quarter

Naval Engagement Dead Landed

GIBRALTAR, Jan. 3.

IT 19 REPORTED from Cadiz that 10 dead Ballors, and a number of wounded were landed there to-day by an Insurgent mine-layer.

The ship, it is stated, was damaged in the fight last week with the Loyallst cruiser, Jose Lula Diez-Reuter,

LONDON'S

WORKLESS DEMONSTRATE

Coffin Thrown Near 10, Downing Street

LONDON, Jan. 8. URTHER DEMONSTRA- TIONS by London's un- employed occurred to-day in front of the Premier's house, i No. 10 Downing Street, and in

TO

CHIANG

OXFORD, Jan. 3.

TO MARK THE New Year, a letter of homage and sympathy has been sent to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Madame Chiang, "the sharer of your continual danger," and the Chinese people.

The letter is addressed by à large group' of senior members of Oxford University, including the heads of All Souls, Balliol, Corpus, Exeter, New College, Oriel, Queen's, Wadham, the women's colleges of Lady Mar- garet, St. Hilda's, St. Hugh's, and Somerville, and the professors of International Law, Greek, Philosophy, Modern History, Economy, Moral Theology, American History, Chinese Philosophy and Religion.

Others were absent from Oxford, or they too would have signed the letter.

The letter expresses "our profound admiration for you, sir, head and front of the gallant resistance which the Chinese people are making against the invaders of your country, and the enemies of your freedom.

have been able to steel themselves

That you and your countrymen

and endurance is one of those acts to such incredible feats of courage

in history which men can never

forget.

DOIHARA SAID IN HONGKONG

Conferences With Wang Ching-wei

CHUNGKING, Jan. 3. CHINESE REPORTS

stato that Mr. Wang Ching-wei is at present protected by a corps of plain clothes Japanese special "Instructed as we are, on the one servicemen in Hongkong to pre- finnd by the savage hates of narrow vent his assassination. nationalistić cults, and on the other

The reports add that he is busy

with Japanese Consul in Hongkong. including General Doihara and the Japanese agents,

by the dignity and self-control of conferring Chinese feeling against Japan, we have no doubt whose hands bear the touch of civilisation."

it is stated that Mr. Wang is also busy communicating with Wu Pel-fu The signatories dwell on the heroic added that discussions are proceeding and Yin Tung in Peiping, and it is determination of Chiang Kai-shek-te rapidly regarding the amalgamation abandon Hankow, and

of the that of the Nanking, Hankow, and Canton,

"puppet" regimes of Peiping. mlitions of civil population who

same circles state that abandoned their homes and

Central went

Government"

will. established at Pelping, with Wang be Ching-wel as President, under whom

west with the armies of resistance.

"We look forward to the day when will be a "National and Military the democracies of the world shall Council, of which Wu Fel-fu will be stand unflinchingly at your side, and

President,

and Chiri Yun-peng

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the valour of your people will wring, Premier."-United Press. even from your enemies, that need of recognition which their own tradi- tions summon them to accord. It is our hope that when that day comes, you sir, will be head of a united people, able to prove not only the vitality of your national genius, but the sincerity of the English people." -Reuter.

Schacht To Visit Helsingfors

Berlin, Jan. 3. The Reichsbank President, Dr. Hilmar Schacht, will probably visit the Finnish capital, Helsingfors, at the beginning of February, in accept ance of an invitation by the Finnish- German Roclety.

Economic Sanctions Against Japan

Chungking, Jon do The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Shanghal has telegraphically pett- tloned its home government to apply economic sanctions against Japon in retaliation for her closing of China's pen doy, Shanghal message states.

Shortly after midday, about 100 unemployed assembled in Downing

It is said that the U.S. Chamber Street, where police, in anticipation

of Commerce at Tientsin and Tsingtao of demonstrations, had posted strong economic and currency relations, as

He will speak on international will make similar petition-Central detachments, including mounted sell as on changes in commercial

News, police.

policy.

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EMPIRE YOUTH SCHEME £1,000,000 Plan In England

He was critically ill with internal haemorrhage, and could not be moved to the ship's hospital.

While the ship's mirgeon, Dr. T. W. Jeffrys and Major Underbüll.

A shooting affray took place on Upon reaching Tunis, M. Daladier R.A.ALC, a passenger, fought for his life, a radio message was sent face that's why I had to spend a is reserved for exceptionally brilliant when a police patrol encountered six

drove directly to Bardo Palace, which Monday night on the highway at the the courtyard of the Foreign

edge of the International Settlement, Office. to Southampton, and the

little money on make-up. Transport Officer gave instructions

receptions by the Bey. "I'm just living to see Johnny It was in the Bardo Palace that when challenged.

bandits who opened with pistol fre that the ship was to go straight to again," the whispered. "I forget all the treaty establishing the French the dock, Instead of remaining at about being ill when I think of his protectorate over the country was

The police answered with a volley anchor at Southampton Water over arrival,

signed in 1881.

of UD bullets from sub-machine gunis night

"The only thing that worries me Mrs. Toop, who lives at Northlands is that there will be no home for after being warmly greeted by Bey and sawed-on shotguns, but the men Roud, Southampton, Was

Pasha, M. Daladier drove into bendits managed to escape by fleeing him to go to. the

Our Hitite fiat in the city amid enthusiastic demon- into the open country beyond the lorry arrived. Although it was im-ceed to Reval in Estonia to speak an

Shortly after 1 o'clock a motor quayside when the Dilwarn drew Shoredlich, where

Afterwards Dr. Schacht will pre- alongside her berth.

have lived for strations by the large crowd.

Settlement limits. years, is shut up now,”

mediately surrounded by the police, The Premier lold a wreath at the

international economic problems. She made an effort to smile again. war memorial and then proceeded to favourite

a demonstrators on the lorry threw

Trans-Ocean. of black coffin into the street bearing the "Johnny won't mind," she said. the palace of the Resident-General, Shanghai where a number of hold-inscription "The Unemployed Get Në "There has never been a better boy where luncheon was served.

Johnny. I was widowed by Included in the programme for to-

ups have occurred récently.

Appeasement."" the war.

Police are now using barbed-wire The polled carried the coffin back pension, and I worked my fingers to the celebrations will culminate in barricades to prevent pandlis from onto the lorry, but the demonstrators the bone for Johnny's sake.

the evening with a banquet at the entering the Settlement, and the continually attempted to throw it to "Now I feel repaid for the hard. Hotel Majestle, in the course of pollee patrols have been augmented front of the door of No, 10 Downing ships I endured,

which M. Daladler will deliver an by the White Russani règiment of the Street, until the police finally di "Although he was educated at an eagerly-awalted speech that will be Shanghal Volunteers, with armoured persed them. elementary school, he is now a quall-

broadcast-Trans-Ocean,

cars, as well as by Bilish troops.. Two

representatives of the un- Aed dental surgeon and he's only 20 ITALIAN FLAG TORN DOWN

Precautionary methods and police Minister's house where they present employed were admitted to the Prime Cairo, Jan. 3. years okl," A proposal to reduce the Suez

Mrs. Walker settled back on to her

ing of the district are made particued a letter. Tunis, Jan. 3. larly difficult by the fact that only Canal rate would meet with the appillows.

Tunisian and French demonstrators the roads of the International Settie and "We demand winter rellef," the Shouting Chamberlain Must Go." proval of Egypt, it was intimated

Johnny's a good-lociting boy," to-night broke the window of an ment are under the jurisdiction of workless demonstrators broke up and here to-day in authoritative circles, The

murmured. "He's six feet tall Italian tailor's shop, and then tore the foreign' nuthorities, while the ad- the general attitude being that all always willing to lend a hand down the Italian flag outside. Joining territory is supervised by thee the seene

in small groups.~-~- countries would beneat from

con with the housework

but what "As head of the Government, I had Japanese-sponsored Banghal City cassions by

company

a naughty little boy he was when he to come and tell you that the Mother Government, which apparently That the question of rate reduction, WIR small

Country stands by the Empire, as the doing nothing to preveri open bandi- which has been demanded particulne

Her gray

head was resting against Empire stood by her," declared M. try. Since the Japanse have oc- sidered is indicated by the action of She was dreaming the minutes away to the whole of France this evening, gambling dens have jprung up.- the Epyptian Premier in conferring until the Thursday... and Johnny, during a banquet given in his honour recently with the President of the The re-union, two days later, was et Tunis. Board of Control and the Director- a happy one. General of the company, and discus- Mrs. Walker, overjoyed at seeing France and her empire. sing with them the

possibility of the son she loved so much, seemed alterations in the composition of the to recover miraculously from her he added: "France has brought you

·M. Daladièr, spoke emotionally, as Board.

illness. are Premier is said to have dis Then, yesterday, a Reuter memage fraical brute force and lyranny. She and order, discipline? and profecilon the same thing with the Bristold us that the re-union-had-ven bag the strength : to assure your

Be Lowered

"My

Trans-Occan

London, which will be the central point of all Empire youth A £1,000,000 SCHEME to create a "City of Youth" in

LONDON, Jan. 3.

organisations, is announced.

and

It is the outcome of the Empiro L. S. Amery for the colonies Youth Rally which was held in dependencies. London at the time of the coronation. The "city" would accommodate The plan is to build a "elly" with meet the needs of visitors from the 2,000 students, and it is played to Its own theatre, library, dining and Empire and foreign countries, the separate underlying aim of the activities be-

common

with

ly by Italy, I being seriously con- the pillows. Her eyes were on space. Dalndler is a special broadcast speech cupled the elave number of Great Storm Sweeps dormitory blocks for the variou

· Entornsed him of the Italian and peacefully-away,

a real, indestructible union between

Trane-Ocean.

He said that the day had come for

Palestine Ambush

The Black Sea

Ing co-operation and service.

colonies and dominions.

The Crystal Palace is proposed

Efforts will be made immediately the sito.

o

the necemery £1,000,000. Hait this sum is needed for sentral Ankara, Jan. 3. -

The Earl of Bessborough, re-buildings, and the crust for the The storm which has been sweep-presenting Canada, la chairman of colonial and dominion dormitories ing over Turkey finally reached the the executive committee, and other It I hoped to obtain: 235,000 for Black Sea to-day, and 13 large cargo members are Lord Lloyd, representing the central builiding, is from public Vessels were driven aground as Britain Viscount – Standhavan Kue Lindagande min