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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

TOKYO AND LONDON FAR EAST

BOTH WANT REPLIES

LONDON, Feb. 13.

NO REPLY has yet been received to the British Note of January 14, addressed to the Japanese Government, stated Mr.

R. A. Butler in the House of Commons to-day.

This Note slated that the Briff sh Government was unable to accept

or recognis changes brought about by force-Reuter,

TOKYO, Feb. 13.

No reply has yet been received by the Japanese Government from the Britkh authorifles, regarding the Japanese representation on the ex- amination and arrest of Japanese

nationals by local police In Singapore,

The British authorities promised to reply

to the Japanese representation upon completion of

tion of inquiries.

Japanese residences and business offices were raided by police для Japanese residents and

travellers arrested on kusplelon, of espionago in the Straits Bettlementa.-Domel,

MANY DEAD

IN NICARAGUA DISASTER

Worst Train Smash In History

MANAGUA, Feb. 13.

TWELVE WERE KILLED

and 20 injured in the worst

URM

安

February 14,′ 1939.

FIGURES

IN COMMONS DEBATE

MILES

Myitkyina

Muse LASHION

PEARL RIVER RE-OPENING

100 200

Hsiakwan

Yungchang

Mandalay

To Rangoon

YUNNANFU

Hy

Lao-kai FRENCH INDO-CHINA

Arrows indicate the new China-Burma read

railway accident in the history China In The Commons

of Nicaragua to-day, when a passenger train collided with an engine at Leon station.

The tank of the engine, containing diesel oil, immediately caught on fire, and both drivers, as well as several injured passengers were incinerated, the flames preventing rescue work.

The passengers, who were sight- seers, were returning from the new where extension of the railway President Somoza laid the first rail yesterday,

The Presidential train passed

through Leon station only half an hour before the accident.-Reuter.

S. AFRICA SMASH

Capetown. Feb. 13.

TRANSPORT ALONG NEW BURMA ROAD

LONDON, Feb. 13.

REPRESENTATIONS

THIS IS THE satisfaction members of the

QUANTY:

GILMAN

KING GEORGE IV

House of Commons got as replies to a large Old Scotch Whisky

number of questions on the situation in China yesterday,

The situation at Tientsin would continue to be closely watched;

Britain proposed to continue to take all possible steps to secure a re-opening of the Pearl River;

Unvarying excellence for

50 years has gained world-

wide prestige for this

The question of railways was under re-examination; It was not proposed to approach the Japanese Govern-whisky of quality. Try it, ment regarding S.M.C, control of Yangisepo and Hongkew;

Renewed representations were being made regarding the and prove our assertion closure of the Yangtse;

The question of currency in North China would be borne

in mind;

Arrangements were under consideration for the inaugura- tion of air services between China and Burma;

Government requested notice of questions about Hainan

Island.

LONDON, Feb. 13.

A SERIES OF QUESTIONS regarding China was asked in the House of Commons to-day.

YANCTE SHIPPING

Replying to Mr. I. C. Hannah with regard to relation between Replying to Ummander A, Mara- the British Concession in Tien- den, Mr. Butler said that the British tsin and the Japanese authori- Consulate-General in Shanghai re- ties there, Mr. R. A. Butler tion to the effect that little headway ported that it had received informa~ referred to the representations had been made with the proposed made to the local Japanese formation of the Yangtse River authorities and the Japanesedoubtful whether the new company Steamship Company, and it appeared ASKED IN THE House of Commons to-day what Government with regard to the had yet acquired any tonnage

In other respects, the situation with transport facilitics there were between Burma and China,nosed on the ground of precau- regard to navigation on the Yangtse and what steps were being taken to improve the present tions against anti-Japanese acti- was unchanged.

vities. means of communication, and to open up new ones, Colonel Muirhead. Under-Secretary of State for India, referred to the Burma sector of the new highway from

Five people were killed and manyLashio to Kunming. injured in a train wreck at the Dál Josaphai station near Paarl, while en

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route to Port Elizabeth from Cape- nection the portion which at pre-facilities.

sent was only practicable in dry

lown to-day.

The train was derailed and over-

He also mentioned in this con- her the Government had measures view for increasing transport

Col. Muirhead asked for notice of the question.

turned, several couches being: tele-weather, between Bhamo and the scoped. Reuter.

Another Puppet Attacked

Shasi, Feb. 14.

It is reliably learned here that Chi Kuo-chen, Chairman of the bogus Peace Maintenance Commission of the Wuhan aren, was attacked and severely wounded in Hankow re- cently.

The incident has been kept in strict secrecy by the Japanese and puppet ometals-Central News.

new road. In addition, there WA6 the traditional Caravan route between Bhamo and Teng- yueh.

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Reciprocal arrangements had re- cently been concluded with the Chin- ese Government for the establish- ment of an air route between Burma and Kunming

Arrangements were under con- sideration for the inauguration of the services.

Mr. Gibson (Lab) asked, in view

Was

Asked by a Conservative mem- ber whether Chinese penetration of j Burma along these routes causing serious apprehension Amongst the peoples of Burma, Col Muirhead replied that he had no

Information-Reuter.

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BELFAST, Feb. 13. THE THEFT of 60 pounds of gelignite from a brickfield in a Beifast suburb on Sataurday night, after its discovery to-day, led to an extensive search by North Ireland police.

They belleve that the thieves were members of the Irish Republican Army, and need the explosive for making bombs,

restrictions on movements im-

ANOTHER APPROACH Renewed representations had been nindo by His Majesty's Ambassador to Tokro. Sir Robert Craigle to the Japanese Govera- meni on January 14.

He added that the situation would continue to

closely watched. Replying to questions by Mr. A. C. Morcing, Mr. Duller pointed out that the Government had made represen-

Mr. Hannah asked a question with talion to both governments, which, at different times, were responsible regard to the Japanese authorities' for the closure of the Pearl River. refusal to authorise the Federal They proposed to continue to Reserve Bank and Japanese banks in take all posiible steps to secure the sell foreign exchange against Federal re-opening of the river,

Reserve Bank currency, and he suggested that representations bo UNDER EXAMINATION

made to the Japanese Government the negotiations with regard to the "futility of asking. With regard to with the Japanese Government with for recommition of a currency which regard to British interests in the is not permitted to be a medium of Shanghai-Nanking, Shanghal-Hang- exchange."

chow, and Pelping-Mukden railways, Mr. Butter replied that the Govern- Mr. Butler Laid that the positionment did not feel such representations remained as he stated in the answer would serve any useful purpose at he gave on December 21.

this juncture.

to be effecilve.

Japanese Government was already The question was under re- examination with a view to dreld-aware of their view that the establish- ing what further action was likely North China was calculated to be in- ment of inconvertible currency in

Mr. Morcing urged Mr. Buller to The matter, however, would be Jurious to all Powers adng there. press the matter, and said that on borne in mind-Reuter, December 21, the matter had already been under consideration for months.

Mr. Butler replied: "Certainly."

Replying further to Mr. Morcing, Mr. Butler said the question of the resumption control by the Shanghai Municipal Council over the districts of Yangisepoo and Hongkow was now being discussed between the Council and local Japanese authorities,

Safety First, Then Death

Montreal.

The last thought of Joseph Damp- housse, 54-year-old street-car motor- man, before he died was for his passengers. Damphousse was stricken Pending the result of these discus-il as he was driving o tramcar. He sions it was not proposed to approach | linmediately asked the passengers to the Japanese Government regarding disembark, and then drove the ear

to the barns, where he collapsed.

Police are working on the theory the question. that the thieves have accomplices within the brickworks, because no other explanation is available for the disappearance of the gelignite from la locked safe.-Trans-Ocan,

Franco-Reich Trade] Parleys Commence

Berlin, Feb. 13. Franco-German trade talks begin here to-day.

One of the chief subjects for nego- tiation will be the exchange of conl for French ore.

It is possible that Germany will

40 Dead, 400 Injured In Cawnpore Rioting

CAWNPORE, Feb. 13.

THE NUMBER of casualties since the outbreak of the rioting yesterday is unofcially, estimated at 40 killed and 400 injured.

Six hundred have been arrested.

The military have also been order-

A curfew has been enforced, and led to break open the doors of houses

the military have been ordered

to

open her markets to French agricul-shoot rioters or anyone moving about it necessary, and to arrest persons túral products-Reuter Special.

without a permit after sunset.

shouting communal slogans.

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