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BRITAIN'S GREAT PROGRAMME

FOR DEFENCE RE-ARMAMENT

CLEAN UP IN SHANGHHAI: A squad of police, representing more than one nationality. practising a baton charge in the International Settlement before being sent out to conduct a big round- up held with the object of putting a stop to Chinese acts of violence in the elty. In the second rank can be seen Bikhs carrying their long singes. This photograph, Just received, is interesting in view of events in the northern city.

Japanese Trade In Narcotics In

China Brings Query In Commons

JAPANESE SHIP SENDS OUT S.O.S. Freighter Aground In Korean Straits

LONDON, Feb. 20.

THE RAPID EXPANSION of trade in narcotics in the Japanese-occupied area in Shanghai, and other places in North China, where the Japanese were in control, was the subject of a question in the House of Commons this {afternoon.

A

that

FOREIGNERS

EVACUATING

KULING

How The Finances Will Be Raised

RESORT

LONDON, Feb. 20. OPENING A two-day debate in the House of Commons

to-day, Sir

John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer,

moved

a resolution to

"PORTIA"

Centre Court

TENNIS SHADES

In: $

of

Made of Pique. pastal shades green, blue, pink,

lemon and white.

$150 cal

WHITEAWAY'S

ea.

NEW YORK FEARS ANTI-NAZI RIOTS

NEW YORK, Feb. 20. EXTRAORDINARY POLICE precautions are being taken to-night to deal with expected disorders in connection with the big rally of the

confirm the raising of FORTY-SIX FOREIGNERS at Kaling will commence the trek down the borrowing powers for mountainside its morning. This photograph shows a previous evacuation defence purposes to

| £800,000,000.

from the sanitorium which, Japanese warn, will be bombed this week.

Dealing with the pro- Spanish Civil War

posals for borrowing more

generally, Sir John Simon INTERNEES OFFER A

was

said that it had already been decided that there sufficient justification for resorting to borrowing for the re-am ament pro- gramme.

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He thought that it was widely and generally recognised that the financial strain was greater than could be met fairly or solely

out of revenue.

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and he

The re-armament plans were de signed to reach completion in limited period of years, thought it would be incquitance that the whole of the cost should be de- bited in the few years in which it

was incurred.

READY TO PAY Nevertheless, they had themselves to be ready to bear year shown by your their proper share them- Mr. R. A. Butler said in reply aimed at the systematic demoralisa- selves. that reports received did notion of the Chinese people.

Dealing with how the present bar- indicate a substantial modifica

GRAVE POSITION

rowing powers were to be increased. Sir John Faid: "It seems one must tion of the position described in

I thought

the diagnosis Judge the validity of this enormous MOPPO, Koren, Feb, 20, the House of Commons debate which most correctly Atted

this total, firstly in association with the THE KAISHO MARU, 4,375-on December 22.

extremely grave position was some senle of total re-urmoment. Second- ton freighter of the Taido

what as follows: reports Britain re-ly, it must be judged in comparison Marine Transport Company, was that the Japanese authorities may confirm the statements made at the year by year from revenue."

He was not, however, without hope cetved from North China seem to with the provision we are making sending out $.0.S. messages this now be aware of the dangers atten meeting of the Opium Advisory morning after having struck a dant upon the increase in the drug Committee last June. reef off the eastern coast of traffic, and may now be devising

£1,500,000,00 EXCEEDED

Kyobun Island to the northeast measures to meet them-Reuter. use occupation in 1937, an attemptments which appeared earlier in

NEW PROBLEM

PARIS, Feb. 20.

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WHILE REPORTS of the growth of a revolutionary spirit among the Spanish refugees in France, who number between 300,000 and 400,000 are described exaggerated, newspapers here nevertheless observe that in many cases the attitude of refugees is distinctly disquieting.

refugees, whether military or

In numerous buildings where, civilian, are quartered, window frames have been torn out, doors wrenched from their hingea, and furniture smashed in order to provide fuel for heating.

In the neighbourhood at the vast concentration. camps at Argeles Sur Mere, St. Cyprien, and Baccares, in which 235,000 milillamen are inter- ntd, vast numbers of trees have been gardens devastated. cut down and numbers of fruit

to

Saturday

ANOTHER CHINESE AIR VICTORY Japanese Planes Shot Down

pro-Nazi "German- American Bund," which is being held in Madison Square Garden.

No less than 1,500 police have been assigned to the Garden neighbourhood, where 60,000 demonstrators are expected to act as pic- kets, or otherwise show their disapproval of the Bund's activities.

Herr Fritz Kuhn, the Bund leader, has announced his intention to have 3,000 of his uniformed storm-troopers nt hand to deal with any distur- bances inside the Garden,

Five police lorries, loaded with tear gas bombs, will be standing by, while reserve police, armed with rifles, will be stationed in the basement of the Garden.

The police spent the night combing the Garden, following an anonymous warning that bombs had been planted there. Nothing was found.-Router.

LATEST

HONGKONG TERRITORY BOMBED

Raiders Over Colony: Shum Chun Afire

Two of the raiders bombed British

British territory was bombed by Japanese planes early this morning In the course of the greatest air raid yel The "Intransigeant" reports that

LANCHOW, Feb. 21.

experienced on the border. According to preliminary reports over half of the interned militiamen THE FIRST air combat over recolved by the Telegraph"

діле havo expressed a wish to be tran-Lanchow, capital of Kansu, took Japanese planes participated in the sported to Insurgent Spain, but that place yesterday afternoon, read, the Insurgent authorities find great difficulty in coping with the Consulting in at least five Japanese territory at Lowu, which is this side stantly increasing volume of trafle, planes being shot down and four of the Shum Chan River, and, the In North China, before the Japan- Sir John Simon recalled the state-

to close the frontier. and it has been obliged, temporarily, others heavily damaged,

Kowloon-Canton Railway in the New of Seishu (Mouse) Island in During the debate on December was being made by the Chinese White Papers that

£1,500,000,000

Thirty Japanese machines in Territories, 22 Lieut.-Commander R. T. 11. Fict Central Korean Straits at 6.45 a.m.

It is stated that up Government to enforce might not be the fixed total of

A British train at Lowu, the Inst cher (Lab.) Esked what was the drastie opiwn and narcotic laws defence borrowing, and that total

evening, 62,000 atlitamen had been three squadrons of nine, twelve

territory, With a crew of 40 abroad, the ship"Vigorous action" being taken by the which it promulgated in 1935. .

La re- expenditure would exceed that figure.

sent back to Spain, vio 1tun and and nine respectively broke into station in British

poricd bave been bombed but, so was on its way from Korates British Government in accordance

Sir John said that expectation that it Hendaye.-Trans-Ocean.

the city in succession. They far as can be ascertained, was not Kyushu to

There are indications that they would be exceeded was really now o Tsingtao. The ship with a resolution regarding the drug

were engaged by carried a cargo of salt from Teinglao traffit passed

Chinese damaged. LOSS TO SHIPPING at Geneva, which were, to some extent, being success certainly unless some rapid change and unloaded it at Fusan trelterated that the situation in China ful.

pursuits. Over 80 bombs were

was semi-officially London, Feb. 20.

The "Telegraph" for the better took place in the Inter- southern tip of Koren.

Informed that the railway bridge was deteriorating under Japanese

In reply to a question in the House dropped inside and outside the cross the Shum Shun river was one Since the Japanese Occupation national field.

of Commons to-day, Mr. R of this region, these deterrents to a The Chancellor pointed that the Butler stated that a communication city,

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of the Japanese objectives.. This Licut-Commander Fletcher renrge extent have disappeared. It total defence expenditure for th

About 20 civilians were killed and bridge is part of Die British section had been received from the Spanish

Afty was as these deterrents disappeared first three years of the five-year Insurgent Government regarding the

houses ferred to the situation in Hongkong, that the position seemed to get worse, period amounted to $1,173,000,900, damage and loss sustained by British Among them were the buildings of

demolished. of the K.O.E. where the local Government was un-

Shum Chun. Is reported to be nble to cope with the drug trame. Mr. Butler proceeded to any that the total would be, about £1,250,- by Insurgent ueroplanes.

and if the civil defence was added, shipping in consequence of attacks the Kansu Provincial Hospital, the flames. He said there were over

Women's

Vocational School, the The remaining seven bombers con- hieroin dons in Ilongkong, and overment ordinances were repealed by

3,000 in February over 30 Chinese Gover 600,000.

The Insurgent Government declar- Mohammedan Primary School, the centrated on the Chinese cily and 300,000 opium and heroin pills were the Pelping Provisional Government,

"We are building up rapidly an ed its readiness to discuss claims for Committee for the Custody of the are stated to have created enormous consumed there daily, and there und in May it was announced that

increased productive capacity and compensation after termination of the Educational Sinking Fund, and the havoc. were 40,000 oplum addicts,

now we have reached a the Peiping tax administration had

Di Casualties In`Shum Chun singe in civil war, provided that the damage Kansu Higher Court. Lleut.-Commander Fletcher men decided to allow the opening of 300

production naver before touched Loned Russell Pasha's report, and oplum dens.

by this country when at peace,” said: "His allegations are in respect

Sir Joht Sir John Simon explained that in to the drug traie in areas

The Provisional Government had the anancial year of 1937-38, expen- under direct and Indirect Japanese con-

Issued certain ordinances for the diture for defence out of revenue trol.

control of the traffic, the effect of was £200,000,000, while £65,000,000 which it was not yet possible to was contributed by loan. estimate. He Majesty's Govern-

st

It left Karutsu at noon on Sunday influence. for Tsingtao.-Domel.

Steel Bomb Shelters Distribution Starts In England

SCATHING INDICTMENT

new ordinances.

LONDON, Feb. 20. THE DISTRIBUTION of steel ahelters for uso during air raids will begin on February 27.

*Allotment will first be made those districts most likely to

information he possessed, and it threatened in the event of war.

These steel shelters are two yardsment of policy to promote the de-ppeared to His Majestys Govern

mont, that since the formal repeal of

ber

be

Instru-

to

the

tho

See Back Page For Further Late News

Are

or loss resulted from deliberate A Joler report states that the believed to be fairly heavy, but no aggression by the aeroplanes, wreckage of four of the Japanese reports of casualties on the Hong- Trans-Ocean.

planes shot down has been located-kong side of the frontier have yet Central News.

been received, FRENCH RECOGNITION

HAIMEN BAY SHELLED Paris, Feb. 20.

"Kinhwa, Feb, 21. The Cabinet Counell, which was to

Two Japanese warships again

The speaker charged Japan with tent would watch the effect of the were £274,000,000 from revenue, and.

In the year Stust ending, the figures / have been held on Tuesday, has been shelied the Choklang coast near Hal-

postponed.A

men, 200 miles south of Shanghai, Political circles state that so many yesterday morning. Eighteen shells Jundoing the Lergue's good work and to

queations were discussed by Senator were fired. of fostering the illicit drug

He was bound to give the House £132,000,000 from loan: trafle

Berard with Count Jorduna that the throughout the world as

During FULL PRODUCTION

bombardment the Premier, M. Daladier, decided to Chinesa Explaining the rise in these figures, ewalt M. Berard's return to Paris to took strict precautions against any troops entrenched ashore high and afford protoction to a num-charges were true, he would like the Chinese Governments ordinances, the Chancelier of the Exchequer said report

before summoning the Cabinet of

further Japanese altempi to land. people at one time against ask the House how far they could opium pipes and smoking accessories that the first year was largely a year

Central News. danger from bombs and splinters.

bogan to be offered openly for sale of preparation for a bigger output. It is believed that discussions in The Government has ordered 20,000 call Japan a civiliaed nation.

Burgos have not yet led to a definite for War: General Davila, present Ito had never had a very great

on stalls and in the markets at Pel-Ho described the second year as a

that trade follows the fing, but he admiration for the British

result, so that recognition of General for year of rapidly Increasing produc Blogan ping.

DRUG STORES OPENED tion, and the third year as one in France by the French Government War Minister, would be appointed which there would be full plant pro- must be delayed for a few day fighting forces; Count Rodern would preferred it to the Japanese slogan

Inspector-General Of Insurgent that drugs follow the dag.

Innumerable drug ·stores were duction.

*** | Trans-Ocean, opened, untlt at the present, there

become Minister for Justice, with "Whatover criticisms there may be, Lieut.-Commander Fletcher quoted was scarcely a single store where

INSURGENTS REORGANISE

Admiral Baretesch retaining the THEIR GOVERNMENT reported facts and figures in the drugs could not be bought openly and there is no question that next year le

Ministry for naval affairs, while the House of Commont to-day, Mr. R. A

· Replying to Mr. Noel Baker in the course of a scathing Indletment of Indulged in.

marked down as the year of the most

Paris, Feb. 20.

the Ministry for Internal Affaire Japan in connection with drugs.

Practically all the newspapers-to-would be given to a Viscount Halifax had no definilo ubstantial progress in the production

civilian Butler sald that the matter of further messirts of British Anariolat support· the floure Information derived by budget figures of 1030 égarding development of all services, and and restricting his activitiis to this

Mr. R. A. Butler, replying, gave information beyond the published of defence materials of all kind day report that General Franco has Trau-Ocean.

Sle Jin Simon reviewed the decided to reorganise his Govern

STEAMERS released

for China' in pursuance of the Longue mont, placing himself at the head, the Government from various parts Manchuria, but a report on the drug

Aspegrshly, "resolution", "passed last London, Feb. 20. of the Far Est.

situation had been called from the capitulated detalls of naval position and that of gential-in-chief olevon Braniah stermere held up in

Brilleh authority today, released September was still - being-con- Reviewing the position. Mr. Butler. British representative there, tonnage already made publia: ⠀⠀ said that, from Information in

of the army, C

#He regretted be was not in a posi British ports possession of Viscount Halifax, there not appear to be so sorious. - The Big KRIT WASTE KENAPA A

The conditions in Central China did as8.900.000 FROM LOANS

It is suggested."" that

that M. Serrano The vessels were» Hetal: was no evidence that the Increase in Nanking Provisional Government had Referring to the esitustes of the Affairs, and brother-in-law of Gener-

Suner, present Minister for Internal time ago broguss the Tarvallit Gov

for a start

The first district to be served with them will probably be the south eastern counties. The poorer sections of the community will receive them free of cost-Trans-Ocean.

U.S. Manoeuvres Commence

-Ban Juan, Puerto Rico, Fab, 20,

The Navy's mimic warfare, started

a defence operations, got underway

the

-to-day with air patrola soaking the drug traffe in Chino was the outcome i recently (protauigated ordinandak Davy, army, and all fofos which will late Franco, would be become term reggae ay mama ang dal F

"anemy fleet that will try to seize Puerto Rico, "Rester.

of any deliberate plan on the part of almad-at-controlling, the trimq; Bali De Lau

the Japanese Government, or that it

| Minister: General Arzilikör Omeri rasta

Financial Aid For China

tion

Landon, Feb. 20.