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Japan's Foreign Policy Disclosed In Diet

FRANCE, RUSSIA

WARNED

FOREIGN MINISTER

BY

CLOSED

"OPEN" DOOR IN CHINA

TOKYO, Jan. 21.

FOREIGN

THE

MINISTER, Mr. H. Arita, delivered his speech on Foreign Affairs at the opening of the seventy- fourth Diet to-day, after its New Year

recess.

re-

In his speech, Mr. Arita; reiterated that Japan's foreign policy, was based upon the promotion of the interests and welfare of the peoples of Japan, China and Manchukuo.

The Japanese Foreign Minis ter issued # warning that! "proper steps" would be taken regarding the conveyance of arms through French Indo- China and other territories.

He gave an indication that o "Central Government"

new

would shortly be formed in China, and referred to the flight from Chungking of Wang Ching- wei.

PEACE PLAN

REITERATED

MR. H. ARITA

Anglo-U.S. Supremacy At Sea Stressed

TOKYO, Jan. 20.

A.R.P. In Hongkong

Women As Well As Men Volunteer

For War-Time Work

WOMEN AS WELL as

men are being

recruited in Hongkong's new force-the Air Raid

Wardens for service in wartime. About 2,000 women are required in the total force of 6,000 wardens being recruited.

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"The Great War definitely proved that women had much courage as men and we are encouraging them to register for voluntary service," said the Hongkong Air Raids Precautions Officer, Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele Perkins this morning.

"Of the three people at each } of the 2,000 Air Raid Posts in the Colony, we contemplate į having two men and one woman. Recruiting will be from the ranks of "responsible" men and į women of any age.

Air Raid Wardens, sald Wing Commander Steele-Perkns, must be well-known and persons to whom other people look up to in the many A.I.P. districts that are being form- cd.

They should be full of resource and mifiative, and be able to inspire others with confidence

of

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Ten Million Starving In North China

T

LONDON, Jan. 20.

LEAST 10,000,000

A people

in Shantung, Shansi, and Hopei are des- titute, stated Dr. H. R. Williamson, chairman of the Shantung Relief Committee, who has just returned to London from carrying out investigations in North China. He made the statement at a conference at British mis- sionary societies.

He said that there were only 20 mission hospitals in those provinces dealing with hundreds and thousands of patients, who had not even money for food.--- Reuter,

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OUTNUMBERED LOYALIST ARMY BATTLES GRIMLY

BARCELONA, Jan. 20. LOYALISTS SOLDIERS are withstanding fierce attacks from overwhelming forces of Insurgents on six sectors of the Barcelona front. The Loyalists are outnumbered two to one in man- power, and for every shell or bullet they are able to fire across No Man's Land the Insurgents are firing five.

Foggy weather is also considerably aiding the Insurgents.

Nevertheless the Loyalists have apparently succeeded in cheeking Franco's drive on five of the six sectors, and

Plans For to-day the Insurgents were able to claim only slight

Hongkong Disclosed

HONGKONG PLANS for! the next few years contem- plate many large-scale im-

advances, made in one sector at terrific cost in lives.

TENSION GROWS IN BRITAIN

INSURGENT CLAIMS

An Insurgent communique from Hendaye claims, however, that progress was continued yester- day afternoon, realising gains ag high as 7 miles at certain points.

Everywhere Loyalist resistance was broken, notably in sectors cust and west where the

provements and large build-Rising Clamour For Loyalists showed the greatest tenacity.

to

LONDON, Jan. 20.

In the northern section, Insurgent ings, according

an Intervention troops occupied and passed Tarroja. article by His Excellency

In this zone, north-east of Cervera, the Insurgents took eleven villages the Governor, Sir Geoffry

and numerous strategic positions, and COINCIDENTAL WITII the have since occupied Cervera and its Northcote, recently publish-extreme pressure being brought fortified points, which are Torrefcla. ed in the "Crown Colonist." on the British Government to Concabella, Micranncedo,

under close examination.

will work from fixed possession, it is alleged, Education and health

and the

the which were

They declare that in the hope of Mount Gral San Martin, Astort.

Torreja and Calot. On the southern front the Insurgent attack occupied 25 village positions.-- Buited Press.

His Excellency also reveals raise the arms embargo regard heights of Mical, Torreta, Tudela,

and Castelin Sierra. that the solution of the gigantic ing Loyalist Spain, certain problem of overcrowding

In the central zone, attacks by the is diplomatic quarters point out Insurgents resulted in the occupation Opium Seizure In

that the relations between the yesterday even flometres from The Government is contem- British Government and General Cuni which is 18 San Francisco

the plating advance in other parts of Franco are becoming daily more point of departure in the administrative field.

morning's position, among A WARNING that Japan

confused and more diffieult.

La Gundua, must envisage a combined

NO AGE LIMIT

ARISING OUT OF the

A new sub-department is being forcing the British Government to Sebastian, Mount Massaneta, and the and Hermitage San stand by Great Britain, the ARP organisation would naturally of a well-known Hongkong

Although there is no age limit, the detention in San Francisco set up in the Colony tu deal with grant

the problem of labour

belligerent and the Franco has

rights, General heights of Roen and Lanna. United States, France and prefer men or women over 30 years

has adopted a high-handed The promotion of the welfare of manual polley, making it impossible for the two Insurgents cut the roud be- workers, in the light of modern British Government to obtain age. All nationalities are asked to Chinese woman, in whose Soviet Russia, in which the

practice. návies of those Powers!Wardens

planations, apologies, compensation or are under

ssurances for the future from him. would play

In times of war they would was found 49 tins of pre-review with a view to their expan- a prominent rosis.

report the fall of bombs to headquar-pared opium, revenue object of protecting certain classes oi

sion, Mangures

They emphasise that an example is the continued Insurgent

BARCELONA, Jan. 20, aters and would assist first-aid 'per-

seizure of

Catalan refugees flecing Horti- Japan, he reiterated, sought part, was contained in

ships on the reas.

wards from the the sonnel and other A.R.P. services officers in Hongkong this women and girls are making rapitt

area battle neither Chinese territory nor pamphlet issued by

15 which may be called to any scene of week conducted a raid on Excellency states in the artice, during the past six weeks there has

SHIPS DETAINED Diplomatie quarters estimate that for relief workers.

creating an unprecedented problem indemnity for the cost of mili. Publicity Bureau of the disaster. In addition A.R.P. wardens tary operations. He declared Japanese Admiralty to-day.

an office in this Colony. which is entitled "The role

Quaker organisations are already The "Telegraph" is informed Hongkong in the Pacifle" that large-at insurgent ports, at any one mu- they are feeding on milk and biscuits. been an average of 15 ships detained caring for 24,000 chidren, whom that Japan would respect the The pamphlet declares that! sovereignty of China and was the four democracies are stand-

that the raid in Hongkong was rente improvements and new buildment, involving considerable loss to In addition 101, relief centres have

ings made after certain facts con-will, It is hoped, be financed from suring the cargo,

contemplated for "prepared to give practical con-

the Colony the owners and the companies in been opened. sideration to the question of the jag behind China.

tained in lettern stated to have revenue.

Even these mesures are proving Great Britain and the United

been found in the possession of

They declare that on each oc inadequate, owing to the abolition of extraterritoriality States. it decinees,

His Excellency draws altention to have recently

casion the British Government has provisions and replenishments. and the rendition of foreign | increased political and economie pres- |

the woman arrested in San the fact that Hongkong will celebrate

protested, Lemanding immediate its centenary as a British Colony in

bring Eighty children who were release of the cargoes, but Francisco, were made known to 1941, Concessions and Settlements. sure on Japan.

evacuated to Barcelona from a re- "Simultaneously, Great Britain and!

protests are mostly frnored, authorities

ikough sometimes the ship has been from death to-day when

al-fugee colony had Harrow escapes The two its lorries in which they were being

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Floods In Two Hemispheres

Mr. Arta's speelt leaves no doub: the United States are redoubling Australia Suffers

victory, restrictions

Powers. will continue termination of hostilities.

gainst Third their efforts to expand their arma-

ti jente.

after

"I we are to embark on the creation of a new order in East Asia through mutual assistance. ....it will 13- necessary 10 enforce certnit restrictions and ret

regulations in spheres having a vital bearing on the national defence and economie independence of Japan, Manchukuo and China," he drelared. "But these measures will be

NEW U.S. NAVY

"The new American naval plan

invy of 2,250,000 tons, with flirty battleships and ten aircraft carriers as a nucleus.

From New Terror

LONDON, Jan. 20. FLOODS ARE continuing in England.

Federal officials in the United States.

The person whom the Hongkong

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taken with the

· OUR DEAREST HOPE

"Her dearest hope to-day is that, when that day arrives, the troubles) of the present will have long been

(Continued on Page 4.)

American Naval Bases Near Japanese Islands

will give the Unlied States the most formidable fleet in the world—a Hundreds of acres are inun-1

dated in the Upper Thames districts, while extensive floods, "The British__ re-armament pro-are also reported in the Mid- gramme will give England a navy lands. of 2,000,000 tons by 1942. "The Soviet Union has the largest The position is somewhat easier in Mr. Arita warned Soviet Russla submarine fleet in the world. Of its Yorkshire. that Japan was prepared to take fleet, sixty submarines

THE BILL INTRODUCED in Congress to-day have been

AUSTRALIA, TOO appropriate steps when it comes to nasigned to the Far East. In addi-

provides for the construction and fortification of twelve question of protecting hertion, Soviet Russin has under con- From Australla it is reported that legitimate vesied rights and interest. struction two battleships of 15,000- serious Boods

occurring in new American naval bases.

confined to minimum require-|

ments."

+

are

The speech, in part, is as follows: tons and seven cruisers of 8,000-tons. Western Australia, simultaneously "At the time when Japan's Interna- "In attempting to build up a new with Victoria's greatest drought in 27 tional relations are becoming in-order in East Asla, we may be years.

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H.K. ROAD FATALITIES Carelessness Caused Most Accidents

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.

These include, in addition to Guam Island, Midway and Wake Although slight rain has aided fire-Island, on the California-Hong- fighters in quelling Victoria's great kong air route, Alaskan and fres-the most extensive since Black Thursday eighty years ago-falls have Floridan ports, Hawaii and been Insuficient to bring relief to the Porto Rico. drought uren.

Fordiücation of Guam Island is On the other hand, cloud-bursts estimated to cost US$6,500,000. and floods have caused extensive! No fortification will be done at damage cast of Kalgoorlie, the great Guam Island In the current fiscal gold-mining centre Western year, however, the appropriation Australia. The trans-Continental providing only for the dredging of the । ଶାନ railway has been washed away at harbour. The submarine and war- several places and several towns; plane bose will be copipleted in 1942. and mines have been Inundated. Guam, it is pointed out, is less than The washing away of roads and 1.300 miles from Japan and approx- One hundred and Afteen people there are 350 registered, were

inbridges has completely blocked all Imatoly the same distance from the were killed and 1,647 were injured as volved in 305 accidents.

road trame and unless the rains cease Philippine Island. It lies inside the a remalt of the accidents. Tho totals Two hundred and thirty-one the food shortage in some contres will Japanese mandatod area. are the highest over recorded in buses were involved In 639 acci- become desperate. ltongkong.

deals--almost three accidents to cách bari

DRIVERS OF PRIVATE cars were responsible for the ma jority of traße fatalities and accidents in Hongkong last year."

Lorry drivers, however, were mare often involved in nccl- dents.

and

Kishia Dering PACIFIC

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Marianna orkar BaIPAN

LadrorsAPANESE

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always with

the

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of

Claselt cargo-but

a day later another has transported were bombed by In- been seized.

surgent planes. Diplomatic quarters assert that the situation is all the more serious in that General Franco In assuming even more power than he would have It granted belligerent rights, but. short of sending a warship to secure the release of the ships, the authorities are at a complete loss to know what to do.

FRANCO SNUBS PROTESTS Ciling recent instances where the Burgos Government either ignored or tordily repiled to British repre-

pro-

LATEST

Soldier Killed In Palestine

Jerusalem, Jan. 20.

sentations, diplomatic quarters point) One soldier was killed and five quests for information regarding the under a military trolley which was out that firstly, despite urgent re- wounded when a land mine exploded patrolling the Jerusalem-Lydda fall- British charges against the Consul at San Sebastian, no reply Way near Ramleh to-day.

A 24-hour curfew was subsequently was received for nearly fortnight, and then It wes very

meagre imposed ut Ramich-Reuter. Secondly, regarding the British pro- test that General Franco's ships were entering territorial waters during a naval engagement off Gibraltar, when. the Jose Luis Diez attempted to e5- (Continued on Page 9).

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FRANCO FORTIFICATIONS Germans, Italians buildMaginot-line

BARCELONA, Jan. 20. THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT News Agency reported to day that General Franco is strongly fortifying the Pyrences frontier against France.

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MAP showing relation of Guam FAVOURED BY PRESIDENT

Wake · Islands to Japanese RECORD TEMPERATURES

According to the report, Italian and could be used for a large fleet of The drivers of private cars wero

Fresident Roosevelt to-day told mandato' islands.

German technicians are supervising submarines, much larger than Franco involved in 1,807 accidents, repre Hickshas appeared to be the safesi "Victoria's toll in the great bush|reportors that he favoured the BIO

the construction of a Maginot Line of could ever expect to gather-United senting an average, of one oceldent method of locomotion. Although fires totalled 67. In addition, over authorising the expenditure of menn that the project would ultimate-steel and concrete pill-boxes, sub- Prem. for every two private curs registered there are 898 rickshes in the Colony, hundred people died from heat $5,000,000 for defence Improvements ly be completed. A change in world terranean forts and tank pits.

REPORT DENIED In the Colony.

were involved in only 120 acel- prostration

at Guam.

conditions might permit abandonment The SAITIC

report Although there are only 945

Poris, Jan. 20. Record temperatures registered in Jorrics in the Oslony, this type of The Colony's 291 motor cycles suc- the capitals during the heat wave fence improvements did not neces-

He explained, however, that de of the whole project.

Gerihany has completed the construc-) Reporta emanating from · Foreign The President donlod that the tion of three naval and submarine sources that fortifications are being vehicle was responsible for 1.005; ceeded in producing 102 accidents. were 1175 at Adelalde, 117.1 in sarily mean fortification of the island, question of Guam defence: improve. buses --ni-Insurgent ports on the erected i én. Uje. Francos8paniak Nearly all accidents involving col- Sydney and 114.7 at Melbourne. The President also stressed the ments was being prosed of the Allanila coast of Bosin, in addition to frontier) against the possibilitygrot The Colony's 35 trams were tallalons between vehicles (there were Temperatures exceeding 120 degrees difference between authorlistions and ERINDIR ykes, (** pi **Mediterranean aukera banch pink wcale "eksovelt volved in #E# nocidents. '--

1,700 cases) resulted from care-were recorded in several

· country | sotia) approti PETUALAN Public cars and laxia, of which i lost, driving,

towne in the three statesvi

claims that