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SA WAZA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1939. ATAT
CHAMBERLAIN'S GESTURE IS
LANCASHIRE'S APPLAUDED IN L'DON
"WORST YEAR”
LONDON, Feb. 7, AST YEAR was the worst for Lancashire cotton and piece-goods exports for 90 years, and the worst for yarn exports, apart from the war. years, since the cotton famine in the carly 60's.
This description is contain- cd in the report of the Joint Committee of the Cotton Trade Organisations.
The output of cotton yarn fall by 22 per cent., piece- goods by 25 per cent, and yarn exports by 28 per cent. compared with 1937.
The fall in the output of plece-goods for the home -market was almost as great. British trade in place-goods increased in only four markets, notably Hongkong, where this was largely due to the diver. sion of trade from Chinese ports.
Exports to China and Hong- kong. taken together, rose by 18 per cent.--Reuter,
BRITISH
SOLIDARITY WITH FRANCE ON FIRM BASIS
THE
LONDON, Feb. 7.
"HE EXCEPTIONALLY EARLY adjournment of the House of Com- mons yesterday prevented crystalisation of parliamentary opinion regarding Mr. Chamberlain's declaration of British solidarity with France.
To-day, opinion was readily available, and it was obvious from the comments of representative men of all sections of the House of Commons that the declaration received general approval.
In effect, the various opinions expressed is that in view of the doubts which appear still to exist in some countries regarding the attitude of the British Government in the circumstances envisaged in yesterday's question, Mr. Chamberlain's announcement had to be made without further delay, and in the opinion of some, it was months overdue.
ENVELOPES LIKE THESE are common in England. Included in the air mall of a incal resident last wirk was an envelope on which were the words "Stop the War in China: Refuse to Buy Japanese Goods."---- Staff Photographer.
PALESTINE TALKS OPEN
WITH FELICITATIONS
LONDON, Feb. 7.
A FELICITOUS SPEECH in reply to Mr. Neville Cham berlain was made by Prince Stif Ulislam Al Hussein at the
opening of the Palestine talks to-day.
Britic
The Prince thanked the Government for the part it had played in the servies of truth an peace,
He said he was unable to speak Mr. Chamberlain's language, but there was a more sublime vehicle, namely sincerity, in their hearts.
M.P.'s Told Of China Affairs
London, Feb. 7.
The superb spirit in which Mr. Chamberlain had solved intricate
Dr. Chang Peng-chun to-day ad- problems in recent international dressed a largely-attended meeting of the China Sub-Committee of the
affairs, and which was manifested in Mr. Chamberlain's address, was one on which they largely depended for Foreign Affairs Committee of the
CONCERN OF ALL MUSLIMS
Commons.
a colulen of the Palestine questions. Conservative Party in the House of
Dr. Chang dealt fully with the prospects of China in the new phase of the war, which he said, was about to begin.
Those problems had become the general concern of every
Arab heart, and of every Muslim in the world.
He added that hitherto, China had been fighting on the defensive. The Japanese had falled everywhere to round up and exterminate the Chin- ese armice, and China now hat far more men under arms than at the beginning of the war. They had also been tempered by fighting.
The representative of Yemen said they admire the sublime spirit which Inspired Mr. Chamberlain's wonder ful solutions of modern problems, and in the name of humanity, truth and justice, Yemen wished him every success in his wise policy.
Mr. Chamberlain pald
tribute the restraint which had been abown by the Jewish community during u
a period of extreme difficulty and danger in Palesting.
out that Jupar had lost in Ho to- peated that the aims and objects were not represented at the
n
to
force,
|DEMOCRACY'S LINE-UP
The view is taken by nearly all parliamentarians that the statement is a proper complement to the more definite clarification of American opinion which has been visible lately.
The Labour opposition go even furtlier, and urge that a step should be taken to secure closer relations between all the democratic nations, especially with the United States.
Widespread satisfaction expressed that this gesture has been made to France now, and the strengthening of relations with France is consequently | treated as an inevitable result.
In Government back-bench quar- ters, which recently have been highly critical of the Government's policy, there is an unqualified chorus of opproval,
OPPOSITION APPLAUDS
The best evidence that the state- ment had a substantially good par- liamentary effect is found in the decision of the opposition not to pursus the matter for the present.
Recently they had been pursuing every Government declaration with the greatest energy.-Renter.
Disgruntled Railway
CHUNGKING CIVILIANS EVACUATE
Protection Against. Terror Air Raids
CHUNGKING, Feb. 7.
IN VIEW OF the possible indiscriminate bombing of Chungking like that of Kwei- Yang and Wanhsien, the forcible evacuation of civilians is con- tinuing.
Wives and chikiren of govern-
civilians.
Workers' Sabotagement officials are classed
New York, Feb. 7.
of the one
BLS
The police have assisted all houses
to
A group of rallway workers, faced and shops to place a number of cand- with discharge, threw
entrances city's underground systems in con-bags in the front
extinguish flames. plete chaos at the height of the being constructed in all open grounds Dug-outs are morning rush to-day.
The men
and many private gardens. cords, prevented giving the all-clear The population of signals, and abandoned loaded trains which was 600,000 after the fall of Chunking, at the stations,
Hankow, wilt suon be reduced 300,000.
lect
communication
Thousands of suburban traveliers going to work were delayed by the demonstration.
LEAVE AT DAYBREAK
to
In one Instance, several uniformed i employees "kidnapped" an empty A thousand women, children and train and drove across the points at pld men are regularly taking refuge an important junction, blocking all traffic-Reuter,
British Credits To China
London, Feb. 7, Asked in the House of Commons to-day whether he was in a position
the suburbs every day. They leave the city at daybreak for the varlous mountainside spring resorts and rivers for safety, and return in the evening for lindor.
Erc
Buses, horses, donkeys, sedan chairs, sampons and rlekshas seen making good money every day transporting the refugees. back and forth.
All houseH and hotels In the to make a further statement about famous hot-spring resorts and nearby Describing the character of the facilitate trade with China, and whe
the granting of additional credits to towns are filled to capacity.
New "Alr the coming
Defence residential offensive planned in months, Dr. Chang dealt with the ther stens are to be taken within the houses are being built for the rich. international position, and pointed scope of the Exvort Credit Bill, of In addition to the new powera sought rather than gained by entering therein, Mr. I. S. Hudson said he was not in a position to make a further China, morning'
statement. talks. They had reached a deadlock Dr. Chong's speech appeared to
The scope of the Exports Guarantee regarding make a deep impression, and he was depends on the circumstances of with the Mufl. Party representation. The Nashashibl de warmly aplauded at the conclusion. the particular ease. Router. legates will remain and will ste Mr.Reuter. Malcolm MacDonald frequently as consultants.
STATEMENT ON DEADLOCK An official statement on the dead- lock states that the efforts · created by one of the Arab délegation wire being continued. Meanwhile the meeting between the British pre- presentatives and the Arabs, in which sho Araba are to outling their case, been postponed in a farilike hort to denne, the Arab
Guerillas Stop-
Rail Traffic
Peiping, Feb. 7.
FOREIGNERS UNPERTURBED Chinese business circles particularly are worrying, but the foreign com- munity here, estimated at 400, appear to be unperturbed.
Representatives of the Soviet “Asia Motion Picture Trust”, are as busy na usual postering the) streets with big advertisements, while the Chungking
Henshaw On Return omces of the United Aircraft and Du
Flight From Cape
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Capetown, Feb. 7. :
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Pont are carrying on business tisun, not even, thinking it netezaary to take precautionary measures. Alex Henshaw, who took off from Chinese; Government officing and The same spirit appears among Gravesend on Sunday in an attempt military leaders, thoat of whom have Railway traffic between Felping to fly to Capetown and back in four experienced bomblog. and Tertain has been interrupted by days left of 10 pm GMT to-day Shanghal, Nankai, Hankow, and on the blowing-up of a bridge near the on the return flight to England, a maty other trenton has scene of a train wrock which occurred Honkawaida munked the outward
Propresti last months MEILE WAT body flim
Damage is reported to be warlinäz; £295
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**COLN ELLSWORTH
8,000 Miles
Of Polar Land Is Discovered
HOBART, Feb. 7. A FULL REPORT OF THE discoveries in Artarctica by Lincoln Ellsworth, famous American explorer, and Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian, has now been made.
Eighty thousand miles of country never seen before by human cyes have been added to the world's sur- face, and have been claimed by Ellsworth on behalf of the United States.
From the fringe of the Antarctic Bilworth flow south to a point where, he could ste as far as latitude 74.30 south from his position on longitude 79 cast. His nititude in flight was nearly 12,000ft, and visibility Was perfect. He could see at least 150 melles on each side of the 'plane.
In all this area not a mountain range nor a speck of baro land showed
"After leaving the hills of the coastal belt that thrust their dark, snowfree tops through the barriers' edge of the whole area as far south as we could see, slopes gradually rose upward to an altitude of approxi- mately 11,500ft, and continued on to the Pole, Ellsworth reported.
to
"It took our ship five hours reach the spot from which we took off. The ship was constantly endan- gered by leebergs, which threatened to topple over and sink us. Ugly rocks poked up aleat, sometimes others were a few inches below the
from surface and only visible
the masthead.
LIMITED RUNWAYS "Finally we found some flal ice
but offering a short run-way,
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REICH COMPLETES BIG DEFENCES ON WEST FRONT
BERLIN, Feb. 7.
RECENT INVESTIGATIONS by German military authorities have revealed that 20 per cent. of the German iren and steel industry and 10 per cent. of the coal mines lie within range of French artillery. Moreover, about five million Germans live in this exposed frontier section.
One of the paragraphs in the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that all of the German fortifien- tions should be destroyed, and that a demilitarised zone in which no German soldier was allowed to set foot should be established along the entire western frontier to a depth of 25 miles east of the Rhine.
EFFORT TO END WAR IN SPAIN
“Mediterrancan
With the re-occupation of the Munich” Sequel Feared
Rhineland in 1930 the process of rectifying this defenceless condition was begun, but the progress during
SYSTEM OF FORTS
LONDON, Feb. 7. BRITAIN AND FRANCE are
the next two years was entirely in- adequate for protecting the Reich exerting all their strength to against invasion or guaranteeing on prevent the collapse of the adequate defence.
Spanish Loyalists turning into a strategic disaster for the Sinco no modern military com- British and French empires. mander would think of sending his With the badly shaken Loyalists infantry to storm positions that had taking refuge in France, the British not previously been reduced io ruins and French authorities are convinced through destructive artillery fire, that the moment is approaching when tanks and bombing planes, the first Signor Mussellai will demand satis- and foremost task was to secure the faction from France, western frontier against these wea- pons.
The requirements were threefold: 1. The individual forts and bastions had to be so heavily armoured that they would withstand ebd- less pounding from the cuemy artillery.
No doubt cxists here, and in Paris, that Herr Htler will support Itallun claims, and will also push her own colonial demands with the object of precipitating -a "Mediterrancan Munich".
The democracies therefore, are making their greatest effort since the beginning of the war to prevent Italy
2. Adequate barriers and obstacles from consolidating her hold in Spain, had to be erected to prevent the Majorca, and Spanish-Morocco, from tanks of the aggressor, including where she would menuer French and the large ones and also the so-British imperial communications. called amphibian tanks, from reaching the actual ring lines. 3. The entire system had to be securert against nir attacks through concealment.
CONTINUOUS LINE
GET RID OF ITALIANS Franco-British elforts Included Arsily, the decision not to grant recognition or financial ald to General Franco until he gets rid of the Italo-Germau forces; secondly, to
In conformity with the most me-altempt to prevent the strategically located Minorca Istond from failing dem experience and theory..in the. construction of defence fortifications, into the hands of Italy; thirdly, a the German Maginot Line in not a joint demand to General Franco to.
troops away from the continuous, connected series but com- keep Italian troo posed of
frontier, which General A number of individual forts French or bastions of which each is an in- Franco is heeding dependent, self-sufficient unit.
The democracies are doing their Nor in this system, confined to nutmost to secure peace, and to narrow line of along the frou-deprive Italy of her test excuse for tier, but compriser a wide, forified maintaining troops in Spain. zone between 30 and 45 miles in Franco-British peace efforts depth.
blocked by General Franco's
Through this extraordinary depth It is planned that should the enemy Bucceed, against all expectation, in toremost und taking the
reactions, he would be subject to i
LATEST
arc in-
ment of Poland Recognises
General Franco
the concentrated fire of the balleries to the rear and would be even more liable to destruction since the ad- have to vance from this paint would take place in smaller, divided
ided groups. The chess-board arrangement of the bastions and forts would compet the enemy to break up his forces, and in the further advance he would con- stantly stumble upon the new fire- spewing forts which had lain hidden from view and had remained silent until the most auspicious moment of attack was at hand.
ANTI-TANK MEASURES The first condition for any advance Is that the advancing toples should sucered in breaking down every obstacle in order to pave the way for the other forces. In order to pre- vent this, a line of tank barriers de- aigned according to the latest data has been laid along the entire fron- tler.
The most outstanding among thead Is the "hump barrier,” which is, 20;
Warsaw, Feb. 7, Poland has given General Franco de facto recognition, which is belleved to be a preliminary to de jure recogni- tion, with the departure of a trade. representative for Burgos to negailate in agreement.---United Press.
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constructed that its concrete teeth islence upon on unconditional sur- will hold up the progress of the tank, render, and Dr. Negrin's insistence and should an attempt be made to of the fulfilment of his three con- climb over, the tank will be held dillons for peace--United Press. up long enough for the concealed ar
NEGRIN RETURNING | Ullery to do its work.
Another obstacle undisputed in its
London,-Feb. 7. effectiveness is the series of pits up Dr. Juan Negrin, the Loyalist to 130 feet wide, very deen, and Promler, who crossed the French Alled with running water.
frontier with other members of his Special barriers have been erected Cabinet, will return to Spain shortly for amphibian tanke, it being assum to continue the fight against General
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ed In form one of the most formidable official of the Spanish.
London. weapons of the future.
Tanks as well as advancing infan-
He added that Dr. Negrin and há
anary circles that they will Franco's. forces, ar· in
iry will meet with a most effective Ministers would probably establimb burrier in the securely anchored the Government al Valencia, Father barbed-wire entanglements, which ann Madrid, in order to "codunun cover many miles in irregularly resistance to the end placed sories.
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