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Hongkong Telegraph

FOUNDED 1931

No. 18744

SAQ WŁAD TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939.

JAPAN'S BLOCKADE OF CHINESE WATERWAYS

!

PROTESTS IN COMMONS AT

STOPPAGE OF

SHIPPING

LONDON, Feb. 6.

THE JAPANESE HAVE alleged that they are conducting military operations which would be impeded by the movement of third-party ships, replied Mr. R. A. Butler in the House of Commons to-day, when asked by Commander A. Marsden under what rule of international law the Japanese were preventing British vessels using the Pearl River.

S'HAI POLICE AMBUSHED

SHANGHAI, Feb. 7.

Asked by Mr. Arthur Henderson whether the |Government proposed to make any response to the request of the Chinese Government for assistance, Mr. Butler declared that certain Chinese proposals for

A NUMBER OF unknown economic assistance were under consideration, but he

gangsters, believed to be using high-powered rifles or mauser pistols, opened fire on a cruising police van containing foreign Settlement policemen In the western part of the "Bad Lands" just before mid- night last night,

The Chinese driver of the van was wounded,

was unable to make a detailed statement at present. YANGTSE BLOCKADE

Asked by Commander A. Marsden whether he had received any statement from the Japan Government on the question of the re-opening of the Yangtse River, Mr. Butler said that no statement had been received subsequent to their note of Novom- ber 14 last.

Further evidence of Japanese trading on the Yangtse had been communicated to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs by the British Ambassador to Tokyo on January 13.

Mr. A. V. Alexander (Lab.): Is the British Government

Japanese-acquiescing in the policy of holding up British shipping?

Mr. Butler: No.--Reuter,

The shooting took place on the Keswick Brenan roads near Tunsin road, which is the border of the occupied Chinese territory to which Settlement police have no legal access, and therefore they could not invade the area to make a search, or return the fire. United Press.

PLOT TO DYNAMITE BOW ST. STATION

London Unrest At I.R.A. Activities

JAPAN'S "RIGHTS"

SHANGHAI, Feb. 6.

REPLYING TO QUESTIONS, DUTCH AIR

firstly whether the Japanese navy claims the right to stop any vessel in the China Seas, second- ly, if the vessel's papers 45- taulish a third Power ownership, whether the Japanese navy will

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months ago.

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WHITEAWAY'S

WAR ON TWO CONTINENTS

These two maps show you what has happened in Spain and in China in two years of warfare. Lightly shaded areas were those held by the Insurgents in Spain and by th the Japanese in China at the beginning of 1938. The heavily shaded parts show what they have gained in the intervening 14 months.

In Spain, Catalonia is about to completely fall to combined assault by Insurgents and Italiana. In China, however, tho Japanese hold on their "occupied territory" is precarious, be- cause there aro а million

guerillas in the

vast artas to which they claim posses sion, and they exercise controlį only in pro- ximity to navi-j gatiblo rivers and the rail- ways.

BRITAIN'S BIG CLAIMS

FOR LOSSES IN CHINA

NEW RECORD CAPE FLIGHT

CAPETOWN, Feb. 6. Alex Henshaw, who set out from Gravesend at 3.35 a.m. on Sunday in an attempt to fly to the Cape and back in four days, arrived here to-day,

He took 391⁄2 hours for the trip, which is five and a half hours less than the record established by Flying Officer Clouston and Mrs. Kirby Green.

Henshaw. It is reported. will start on the homeward trip to-morrow morning.

COLOSSAL JAPANESE

IMPERTINENCE British Navy Told "Don't Do It Again"

TSINGTAO, Feb. 6. A STRONG PROTEST Was

to

an

proclamation issued more than six line may soon have its terminal at Kai Tak Aerodrome, making This was due to the fact that there Hongkong the hub of a great had been numerous instances where aviation wheel whose lines shoot ledged with the British consular Chinese vessels illegally few foreign Bugs, he declared.

out to Amerien, Holland, France, authoritles this afternoon by In reply to the second question, the England, and a dozen nearer Mr. D. Katoh, Japanese Consul- LONDON, Feb. 6. spokesman said they had received no countries, LONDON WAS AROUSED demands for compensation.

The Royal Netherlands Indies Air- to-night when it

Way made He admitted that the Shanghai ways (KNILM) is earnestly const- known from an official source steamer Ada, owned by a flungarian, dering extending its Batavia-Saigon that plans had been discovered, was detained at Amoy for the purpose line to Hongkong, to showing the police station in Press.

of investigating its status.--United

connect here with Pan-American airways, Bow Street was to have been

DETENTION OF ADA blown up during the night.

This news was confirmed yester Tokyo, Feb. G. day by the Phillppines representative Scotland Yard was Informed of

Detention of the ss. Ada, by the of KL.M. (Royal Dutch Air Lines) this plot by telephone late this after-Japanese Baval authorities at Amoy and KNILM, Mr. P. C. van Houten. noon, whereupon all necessary

was confirmed by the spokesman of cautionary measures were taken. the Japanese Ficet in Chim Waters Although Hongkong aviation amelals

lo-day.

pre-

Entrances to Bow Street police

are not yet Informed, one of them court were strongly guarded by de- He stated that her ownership was

this morning described it 03 tachments of

police.

being investigated under the terms "natural development," and said that They made a tour of inspection of the Japanese naval proclamation it was possible that negotiations were: through all parts of the building every blocking the China coast half hour, as it was feared that per- Chinese shipping, which was issued

against under way in London, song who had attended the trial of the on September 5, 1937-Domei,

12 Irish republicans might be able.

on leaving the building, to conceal time-bomb somewhere.

attack

on

For some time KNILM has been seeking permission 10 extend its

and that no indications had received that any British Museum was contemplated. the application. Should the applica

Nevertheless, every person enter- tion to extend the KNILM ale lines ing the building is closely scrutinised, to Manila be granted, the plan to the and strangers are followed about the extend a line to Hongkong might be

Museum during their visit.

abandoned as they could connect in The recent outrages have affected Manila with the PAA.

been lines from Java to Manila, but the Washington has taken no acton on

MUSEUM CUARDED Numerous precautionary measures

taken

are now also being

Brush Mureum.

at

All visitors are required to open the numbers travelling by their handbags and attache cases.

under-1 The police emphasised that this round, and more people are noticed was merely a precautionary measure using motor buses.-Trans-Occan,

PLEA TO AMERICANS Aid to Japan is War on China

CHUNGKING, Feb. 6.

Genéral here, with regard the alleged interference by officer of the British cruiser Birmingham in the examination of the steamer Yung-cheng by Tsingtao customs officers January 30.

on

LONDON, Feb. 6. THREE HUNDRED CLAIMS, amount- ing to £230,000 for destruction, confiscation and damage by louting have been accepted as admissible from British firms in China, and have been presented to the Japanese Government, declared Mr. R. A. Butler in the House of Commons to-day, when answer- ing Sir Charles Cayzer.

Replying to supplementary questions, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs stated that claims of this kind were usually settled at the end of the hostilities..

Asked whether it was not the case that the Japanese had declared they will pay no compensation for loss of property, Mr.

Butler replied: "I would not care to accept such a genernl statement as that."

ROAD TO BURMA Captain Peter Macdonald ask-

ed whether the Government of

Burma was giving any assistance

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War In Spain

FORMOSA

LOYALIST FORCES TO

to the improvement of the exist- SURRENDER IN FRANCE

ing road to the Chinese frontier, from which point it continued to Yunnan, and if not, whether in.

view of the development of this

trade route to the Far East, it can bring this thoroughfare up

to modern standards.

that the Government of Burma had

PARIS, Feb. 6. "THE PRESIDENT OF the Basque Federal Government, Senor Manuel Aguirre, arrived here to-day from Perpignan by train.

He looked worn out and very depressed, as, accom- panied by the former Minister of Justice, Senor Irujo, he was met at the station by an official of the Spanish all-Embassy in Paris.

Lleut-Cal, Muirhead, Under-Secret- nry for India and Burma, replied already brought the road from Lashio to the Chinese frontier, a distance of about 120 miles, up to an weather standard. Further work was in progress upon its development. TSINGTAO POSITION

Mr. Robert Morgan asked what setion the Prime Minister had taken with reference to the refusal of the Japanese authorities to allow goods to be exported from Tsingtao when the exports had been naneed through foreign bankers by means of the Chinese national currency, and whe ther such a refusal had been extended to any other ports in China.

In reply to questions by news- papermen, who asked whether the retreat of the Loyalist troops had been ordered by the Government, the ex-President said: "Yes. The order for evacualion has been given. The troops will arrive in successivo groups, and I think the retreat will be completed on Monday."

Asked If, in his opinion, any peace negotiations would have prospect of success, Senor Aguirre excitedly repiled: "We shall win. We shall

Mr. Butler, in reply, sid that there win." had been cases in recent months in He added that he had met Prezident which the Japanese authorities at Azon in Perpignan on Sunday, but

refused to Tsingtao had

permit was unaware of his intentions.-- exports, either оп the ground Trans-Ocean. mentioned by Mr. Morgan, or without assigning any reason.

The British Consul-Ceneral at Toingtoo had made frequent

that the officer of H.M.S. Birming- The Japanese protest pointed out

ham refused by force examination by the customs officials of the British steamer Yungcheng walet was charg- ed with having violated customs re- gulations, thus preventing the local offelals from excouting their dulles.

While reminding that such action by the British officer hampered the Japanese polley in Tsingtao, tho Japanese authorities asked for an ex- planation of the unwarrantable action and requested the British authorities to see that similar incidents should not occur in future.

The Japanese Consul-General call-milltary necessity as justification for ed on Mr. Marlin, the British Consal-

The matter had also been taken up by Sir Robert Craigle in Tokyo.

General in Tsingtao, at 3 pm. Monday--Domei.

BRITISH C. IN C. ABOARD IDZUMO TWO ALLIED COMPANIES

Shanghai, Feb. d. The KLM and KNILM are two Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, allied companies. The KLM, which Commander-in-Chief of the British ls the mother company, maintains China Station, and Admiral Harry E. 6 net of airlines in Europe with Yarnell, Commander-in-Chief of the Amsterdam as the home port. This American Asiatic Fleet, paid official company has a regular service be- calls this, afternoon to Vice-Admiral tween Amsterdam and Java, with Koshiro Batavin as the terminal base.

fo the Netherlands Indies and neighbouring countries.

to

This corn-

WEARY REFUGEES

CANNOT FUNCTION

IN FRANCE

Basque Government And Neutrality

PARIS, Feb. 6. FACING A VERY DELI- CATE diplomatic situation Le Perthus, Feb. 6.

following the Loyalists' rout in presentations on this matter to his sore and hungry, crossed into France vised Dr. Negrin and Sonor Long lines of weary refugees, foot- Catalonia, France to-day ad- Japanese colleague, who

pleaded in-day, the action taken.

TC-

Companys who were at

Per-

Ditches on either side of the road for a

Jose

(Continued on Page 4.)

President distance of two miles beyond pignan, and the frontier were filled with mis- Aguirre of the Basque Govern- The system of export permits wos

cellaneous

ment, that their governments arnys. recently extended to Chefoo and Wel-

Kiles, light machine-guns, and would not be permitted to func- hai-wel, where the situation was be heavy revolvers, with other weapons, ing closely watched, declared Mr.lay where they had been cast Butler-Reuter,

by the fleeing Loyalist troops.

Meanwhile, according to a Burgos message, the Insurgents continue to make progress in the coastal sector, having occupied Cologne and

REGISTER

OF MAN-POWER

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LATEST

SHANGHAI INTERPORT RUGBY TEAM

With the Insurgent forces at Andoran, on the frontier, this after- HOBART, Feb. 6. noon, it was estimated that Loyalist Mr. Joseph A. Lyons, the forces were entering France at the Commonwealth Premier, to-day rate of between five and six thousand immediately compile a voluntary announced that Australia would an hour-Router Special.

and other resources which would

MEDIATION FAILS

SHANGHAI, Feb. 7. National Register of man-power

The Shanghal Interport rugby team, London, Feb, 0. which sails for Hongkong on Bunday British be available in time of an arrange a cessation of fighting in the

and French, efforts to next has been selected as follows:

W. H. B. Biex (full back), P. J. A emergency.

Spanish war falled to-day in face of Innes, A. G. White, I. F. Aucott and the refusal by both sides to yield to I. M. Hutchison (three-quarters). the suggested terms,

G. M.

and E. Laird (halves), MUL General Franco demanded an un-W. D. Pearson, J, F. Burford, R. A. D.. conditional Loyalist surrender, while Mayne, E. F. J. Stewart, R., U. the Loyallet Government was aplis, Reynolds, G. I. Renolda, J.-B. M Dr. Juon

Negrin

and Senor Alvarez, Warned, and A. M.. Katineds, (for, 40,000 GAIN SANCTUARY

Del Vayo making a three-point offer wardat, to Cleneral France, while President en M. Kennedy has been selected. Paris, Feb. 6. Manuel Azana favoured unconditional or sin of shed vifteen. And the res It is officially stated that 40,000 surrender to prevent further blood-

lost temporarily,– Negriii-

Oikawa, Commander-in- Chief of the Japanese Fleet In China The KNILM confines Its airlines Idzumo

Waters, aboard the latter's Blogship THE CHINA-BORN American social service leader, the pany maintains services to Austra-sympathy with the Japanese Navy in The British and American Com- Rev. George Fitch, who during the time of the fall of Nanking North Borneo, Tarakan is only a marine 1-83 of the Japanese Fleet in manders-in-Chief expressed deep in, to Salgon, and ated as director of the safety zone for Chinese refugees, and few hundred miles from Zamboanga,

Tarakan, the disaster, which overtook Sub- who is at present here as secretary of the National Committee' of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., to-day addressed 400 men and women, will speed up its schedules in 1940

Bungo Straits on Thursday last It is also learned that the KLM Domel, when he said that though merchandise.

by putting into the Batavia-Amster- American manufacturers had He added that a few Americans dam service high-powered

AZANA IN SWITZERLAND DCA definitely stopped supplying still export such

with planca, materials only thus reducing the travel time between dey and night nying Japan with munitions, such raw through ignorance and for profits the two bases from 5% days to 2% President Azana of the Spanish Re-

Geneva, Feb. 8. Report: received here state that materials as cotton, iron, and war United Press. necesailles like gasolene were still

days. This

This means that in 1040 public arrived in Calonger, 20 miles Mr. Fitch recently returned to the the proposed extension of their linar south-west of Lake going to Japan in big quantities. Orient from America, when he was to Hongkong materializes, travel diately on the Franco-Swin

Geneva Immo- to China fighting two Powers, namely Japanese-controlled area in

border at Japan and America, and he hoped otherwise he would be arrested by days. Each of the DC4 has recom- his way to his brother-in-law, the have crossed into France from Spain At least China, will be reduced to approximately 4 President Azana, Ita ngress would pass a law forbidding the Japanese, who resented his modation for 40. passengers for day former Spanish. Contill-General at during the last 24 hours Reuter Dely Vayo are victorious, and the @sportation to Japan

· of such exposures of the rape of Nanking. nying, 10 paksengers for night flying, Geneva,--Trans-Ocean::

Special

."

This decision is similar to that made last year by the Imperial Government United Press.

My He said that this was tantamount wemed not to touch- Japan or anytime between London and 'Hongkong, 0 o'clock this wvoningsted; in on civilinn refugees - and Spanish troops | khed..