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February 1, 1939.

SUPREME CHILEAN, EARTHQUAKE

DEFENCE Total Death Roll Will ALHAMBRA

COUNCIL

Full Scope For New

Chinese Organ

CHUNGKING, Jan. 31.

Reach Fifty Thousand

SANTIAGO, Jan. 31.

EARTHQUAKE ORPHANS received first attention as Chilean Chamber Deputies met in an extraordinary session to-day to formulate the gigantic rehabilitation

A HIGH MEMBER of the Kuomintang Central Execii- tive Committee told the "United Press" that the establishment | task. of a Supreme National Defence

Council forms the liaison organ The Radicals and Conserva- between the Kuomintang and tives united in a resolution pro-

the Central Government, re-viding for the State directly to CIVIL WAR

sembling A Central Political assume the rearing and educa-

"Tho new Council is both

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Council, but with wider powers. tion of the homeless children, THREAT BY deciding and directing organ, with making them the responsibility

of the Government until they NEW REBEL scope covering political, military and party affairs, responsible only to the Central Executive Commilice, and nimed to

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final operate all activities for

The spokesman said that member- ship would include the political, military

party, and cultural leaders of the nation, and was not limited to members of the Kuomintang.

As a result the Communists Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, as well nu leaders of the Young China Party, and the Chinese National Socialist Party have been invited to join the Counell.

were able to become self-support- ing.

Conditions ure still chaotic in the six sievastated provinces, where, It is teared, the devil roll will reach 50,- 000,

The single piece of encouraging news came from Coronel, which an- other destructive 'quake struck on

Persons returningį Monday morning.

Marshal Wu's Defection To Pro-Japanese Forcos

PEIPING, Jan. 31. MARSHAL WU PEI-FU to-

from Coronel said that none was day received foreign correspon- | killed in the new tremors, although dents in his house, which was 20 were wounded. The harvest hus already been ruined, and more build-strongly guarded by Chinese

ew and Japanese guards, collapsed as a result of the new ings It is noteworthy that. It provides 'quake. that all the Courell's decisions and Schor Aguirre-Crdrn, the Chilean orders must be obeyed by all poll-President, has issued a manifesto to tical parties and all military organs, the nation, exhorting it to take heart shown on al and that only the Central Executive "from the solidarity Committee can object to them siden," and it said that new prosper United Press.

ous cities would arise over to-day's

Caning And Prison

Old Offender Snatches Woman's Handbag

Mrs. L. Moore, of Camille Apart ments, Belfron Road. Kowloon, was complainant in a handbag snatching case before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, when Lau Sang, 25, unemployed, pleaded not guilty to the charge. After evi- dence, he was sentenced to 12 strokes of the cane and one year's imprison-

ment.

Mrs. Muore said that about noon on Monday she was walking along Chatham Road and turning into Austin Road, when she fell her hand- bag snatched, and turning round shie saw defendant running away. She pursued him, but he got on to a blcycle, and was about to ride away. when Mrs. Moure, who had caught up by this time, got hold of the rear wheel and held it.

Defendant threw the bag away and rode on, but was arrested by an In- dian policeman who was attracted by

Moore's shouts.

ruins.

MEN CONSCRIPTED In the stricken cities, where many dead are still unburied, emergency urders have been issued forbidding any able-bodied men to leave it they could still be used for relief work, and all classes of men between 10 and 45 years of age have been colled to the colours within the earthquake

zones.

He failed to make his position clear, when he urged the bone- fits of peace.

He went on to any that he had been asked by his Chinese and Japanese friends to come out and lead the peace movement, "but to succeed,

have reat power bust

om the ability to enforce peace."

No doubt, if t come

oul, this movement will be a satisfactory re- ward."

Judging by the somewhat un- favourable Japanese reactions to his remarks, Wa Pel-fu has not yei been won over.

Reliable sources state that his de- Emergency warehouses are hand-mands include the formation ling food distribution.

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large Chinese army completely ander

At Concepcion, the authorities said his command, and the return of rem

ex-power in China to Chinesa hands. that sanitary conditions were tremely bad.

Indred, one tralotion of Wu Pel- vaccinations against fu's statement this morning definitely

the letter suggestion.- small-pox and typhoid have been includes ordered for all entering or leaving Reuter, Santiago, Valparaiso and other cities TO DESTROY OPPOSING FORCES

Peking, Jan. 31. where refugees are congregating.

Asked by a newspapermau as to the The United States Ambassador, Mr. Norman Armour, returning by plane practical measures for launching the from Concepcion and Chillon, said peace movement, Marshal Wu Pei-[1 the damage to

to both cities was "in-declared that the troops who would describable--no one seeing the ruins support the principles of national salvation and pence would-be gathered It."

can comprehend digging bodies but that those who would oppose to

Rescuers are from the wreckage.-United Press.

them would be dratoryed..

AID FROM JAPAN

Replying to the question of what would be the must effective way of Tokyo, Jan. 31. Japanese steamship lines including realizing peace, Marshal Wu sald that the Nippin Yusen Kaisya and the consisted in the overthrow of Kawasaid Kaisya, engaged in Latin-Chiang Kai-shek and the suppression

to of Communists, Amerien services, have offered

of relief He hoped that he could go to his make free transportation goods to Chile for the earthquake new field-headquarters at Kaifeng as soon as possible, but was unable to Vietins,

that the more troops he commanded. the better he could deal with the situation;

Queried regarding the future of the Chungking Government, Marshal Wu public sentiments would said that

abandon it and it would be forced to collapse. While refusing to express any opin- fon with regard to the projected new

that admitted

principles co-operation between Japan and China were sufficiently explained in the statements issacd by Prince Konoye and Tokyo, Jan. 31..

Mr. Wang Ching-wel. Meanwhile, it is believed that A member of the Selyukai Party In the Dict lo-dny

Baron Marshul Wu will go afield about April urged iliranum, the Japanese Premier, to or May to assume personal command revise the Cabinet, which at present. of the Pacification campaign from his

at Kaifeng- he alleged, was

The handbag, which was recovered, relief fund is mounting with indicate any definite date. He said!

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contributions, while the donated Tokyo municipality has was valued at $50,

Evidence

of arrest was given by

10,000 yon. Indian Police constable Noor Khan. A seismograph has been contributed Defendant denied that he had to the meteorological observatory at snatched the bag, but claimed that Santiago. sl .Its request,-United he had

accidentally bumped into Press. Mrs. Moore while he was riding on the_bicycle. He said "sorry" to her understand and tried to catch hold of had tried to snatch the bag, but be

but apparently she not

him. He ran away not because he

couse he thought Mrs. Moore hit him.

would Defendant had three previous con- one in 1927 and another in

en when he was rentenced to serve a term of two years on a charge of harbouring a child. In 1935 he was sentenced to three years for a similar offence.

Remarking that defendant was a Jiar and that he did not believe one word of his story, the Magistrate im- posed sentence.

AIR SERVICES Arrivals and Departures Of Planes

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For London, Australia, Briush Countries and Europe: Imperial Air- waya 7 a.m Feb. 3.

Imperial Air- ways a.m. Feb. 7.

For Chungking, Stan, etc: Eurasia and C.N.A.C. service indefinite,

For U.S.A., via Manila, Honolulu, Gum: Clipper 8.30 a.m. Feb. 9.

For France via Hanol: Air France, 6.30 am, Feb. 4.

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From London, Australia und Bri- tish Countries: Imperial Airways 5 p.m. Feb. 1; Imperial Airways 5 p.m. Feb. 4.

From Chungking, Yunnanfu, Kwei- lin: C.N.A.C. Eurasia Services Inde- Onite,

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HATRY LEAVES GAOL After Spending Nine Years In Maidstone

The

Diet Member Says Central Gou the helples to guide

Premier Unpopular

ented unpopularity joying unpreced-Beld-headquarter

The speaker

drer attributed this un- popularity to the fact thut the Hiranuma Cabinet was "only an ex- tension of the Konoye Cabinet, which had already forfeited Japan's esteem; and had falled to formulate a pro- gramme

designed to win national

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New York, Jan, 31. Hiranuma replled that It is revealed that Mr. Herbert

following Prince Konoye's Houver in a speech before the Foreign

Cabinet policy towards China, this Relations Council in Chicago on did not mean the new Cabinet would Wednesday will discuss Mr. Franklin follow Konoye's other policies. Roosevelt's foreign policy.--United United Press.

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