1939-02-17 — Page 29

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 17, 1939.

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Chinese Climax Drive Strike-Ridden Jamaica Facing With Great Victory Crisis: General Stoppage Ordered

Important Yangtse Centre Recaptured: Japanese Cut Off!

CHINESE SUCCESSES IN central China were climaxed to-day by the recapture of Hukow, the strategic city at the junction of the Yangtse River and Lake Poyang.

The re-capture of this city is of most momentous importance.

It at once isolates Japanete gamboats operating in Lake Po-5 yan. which empties into the

Yangtae at the city.

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PRISIEN LOST

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AJO MILL'S

TO BRITISITANCES,

4.700 MILES

TO S.AMERICAN MAJALAND ASURITES

MUSLIM AID

A, e Arenli Chairman

Of New Society

Mr. A of Amadi, J., was elected hamers et the Bareng Malus tuta Aid Monty shoch wa dye tendos.

Many when pr ntat ne martian

d in britt mer the poped ends and typdalwal of the Sonriety. It w weld at that Hather wontering and anally lift the ruk.

The Japanu e med et glas Garni Coat and a Lanvy fourage

Tibe to She de pintard theme themeting held to let a committe:

LAKE POYANG ISOLATED

In dior to lats de muss daatne

eve cemmar çatiness be blevo

and the sea, the reuptut

ald Krukiang

Japaber war up on athan

of shallow dit, ie, W. uing Balo. Toying for then

tion

atoret e Riul every More to do railway, will blo have In 19 gauntlet of thins fire

in a

through the narrow battle-ncet en trance to the river.

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tange.

Dream Costs £20,000,000

S dream of Anschluss with Austria has cost Hitler £20,000,- 0C0-so far it was revealed in German trade figures issued recently.

They showed an unfavourable foreign trade balance for Greater Germany in 1938 of £36,000,000.

And without Austria Germany would have been only £16,000,-

The city was recaptured yester-i 000 down.

SUNDAY

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ETHEL MERMAN

•

JACK HALEY

JEAN HERSHOLT. HELEN WESTLEY JOHN CARRADINE • PAUL HURST WALLY VERNON + RUTH TERRY DOUGLAS FOWLEY EDDIE COLLINS

CHICK CHANDLER Directed by Henry King Associate Producer Macry Joe Brown Screen Play by Kathryn Scole and Long Tram Adoptation by Eichard Sherman Fastwing o pageant, at irving Bark songs bxcluding 26 Javorites of yesteryear and 7 unath hih al tomorrow "NOW IT CAN BE JOLD" and "MY WALKING STICK" Darry! F. Zanuck in Charge of Production

The Admission Prices of the 2.30 show during the showing of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" will be increased to same as the evening.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 16. THE GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA has announced that there could be no settlement of the Jamaica labour dispute until orders for a general strike were unconditionally withdrawn.

ninding extortionate recompene for The lands eded for the settlement reht me.

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Jamaica is facing the tensest situation in its history as British colony because of #1

The arrival here of the Wert igalas stendily deepening economie Royal Commission card ihe simultion | crisis.

temporards, while grievances were other islands and the realintien that. poured out, but thrie departure to the i many months ramt elapse before the report la tabled in Heit. in are count of the commanity. the desperate and deep.ining certions i

Thr of the mi, ley Sir Waiter Citrin, Deme Reciel Chowb and Mr. Hubert D. Hordern In- formed me at the fortsaw bloedy 2444 futur ira!

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There are 15,000 unemployed in Kingston alone, yet, despite Government warnings, workless people from the country are marching into the city daily, swelling the street mobs and overcrowding the slums.

atatite a not available on the trouble in us

m v 6:1 unemployed, Jamalea. thear the sind, but the total

Added to wetidly by repatriates!

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS pem dia, who have a knowledge: of revolutionary the pels.

The Celonial Oiler four expertj Major Ordle Brown, told thetter ! Atenwan the relief works pro-investigation that he con, idèrt d the fed, and men are being telurged. Mr. Bir tumante, who is now a rick, Question-Is a sailor's life a healthy -How far has Britain had con- proma petering out for lack of conditions Lorible and dangerous.

LEADING CITIZENS' ADVICE that he has tout the Governor

the leaders will be No sooner is

unable toj trike settled Control the workers

Th longer, Ansiper--A Blue Buck on the health than another bugs, and the failure! They are getting out of hand. to dad a martial tribunal to settle;

At night crowds of works demon-i

of the Navy shows that life at en is disputes is adding to the troublestate under the Red Flag and sant!

by means on heathy as is con- Leading citizens are openly advocat the "Bustamante Anthem

sionly thought. There were 40,273 int force and bloodshed

The cruzar York has been omiting

eusen of thess or injury the pear inevitable solution.

the island and the militia and special

rerler. The total force Reuter and Our Own Correspondent.i constables

wumbergel 92,245 and so the Tutio have en mobilised. of illness was 4364 cases in every

1,000 men.

as the

The banana combines are fighting back at the strikers by loading ships foutside Kingston and by organising a tion to rush to new strike areas. labour force under military protec They are also refusing to pay plan- ters until bananas are safely aboard! ship, and many cargoes are rotting, on the wharves.

The sugar manufacturers bave met to discuss increased demands from labourers and the higher prices

which sugar farmers are asking for their eane in consequence of higher wage costs,

ISLAND WIDE STRIKE

Mr. Bustamante, the Labour leader, threatens an Island-wide sugar strike, unless the labourers' demands are met. Meanwhile the sugar manufac- turers have received the dismal news that their International Council does rot recommend Increased quofan,

The Governor, Sir Arthur Richards, has announced himself as a man of deeds not words, but Hitle has been done to meet the dangerous situation except the temporary relief! works.

The Government is now toying) with the itica of establishing labour camps near the swamps and reelsim- i lands,

The £500,000 Jure settlement scheme promised after the riots of Plast summer is not progressing and It is rumoured that the committee members are at loggerheads with the chairman sent out from England. Furthermore landowners are de

Lone Naval Officer Goes To Kuling

Shanghai, Feb. 17. Messages have mi last bien received regarding the fate of the Europ entrapped in Kuling,

Nan

A message which reached chang and Chungking before bring picked up by the U.S.S. Ohao, which is at Khiktang, stated that foreigners Kuling and recelye: the Japanese

| suggestion brondcast from Shangha wireless station to evacuate the town. Some of them were willing to leave, provided the neecsary arrangements could be made.

The Chinese military authorities in added!, have cancelled 17 carller arrangement enabling fee foreigners to go from Kiuklang lo King, and Jave intimated that they will allow only one foreigner to get through from Kluklung

Atling the message

Lleut-Commander Jeffs, In

com-

mand

of the Ohao, will therefore set out alone to-day for Kuling in the hape of being able to arrange for the evacuation of the Europeans.

Nothing is mentioned in the mes sage as to how many foreigners desire to leave, or whether the nine Germans Ilving there wish to leave the town.-Trans-Occan,

The Empress of Canada, оп completion of annual overhaul, left, Talkoo Dock at 11.30 a.m.,and berthed at the Kowloon Wharf at 12.30 p.m. to-day.

She will leave here for Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu at noon on Tuesday.

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TO-MORROW at

QUEEN'S

tral of Aden, the naval station at the Red Sea entrance?

A-100 years. The centenary was celebrated there last month with allitury parades and a distribution of fund to the needy. In the 17th century focal aufiana drove the Turks out of Aden. In 1830 the natural fort was annexed by Britain and placed under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Bombay.

SUNDAY at

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