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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 8, 1939.

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JAPAN'S LATEST PROPOSALS

IF THE HONGKONG Government will co-operate in an ambitious five-year plan which is to be launched by Japan, this Colony will

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be placed in radio-telephonic communication with 97 per cent of the world's telèphèrie nubacribers;

be able to receive telephotographs of events from Ofteen different countries.

The new Japanese plan was, introduced in the Tokyo Dist yesterday.

It provides for the expendi- ture of 22,000,000 yen on inter- national communications.

Manchukuo Protests 166 Border Disputes During 1938

Hit-and-Run Driver Kills

Little Boy

A BIX-YEAR-OLD Chinese boy was killed instantly by a tuit-and-run driver at 7.30 last night in Queen's Road Wesl opposite, the Wachang Restan- rant* when_a`car ran over the- child's body. - The boy

crossing the. road at the time, and the driver ̈spreded ́ ́ his ̈ção "away: im-- mediately after the fatal Ас- cident,

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Big Shanghai Property Deal

Mr. Stanley

On Visit To Germany

Mission Explained

LONDON, Mnr. 7.

THE VISITS shortly to be paid by the President of the Board of Trade and the Secre- tary of the Department of Over. seas Trade to Berlin and by Mr. Hudson to other northern capi- tals, were mentioned at House or Commons question-time, when Mr. Oliver "Stanley em- phasised the general and ex- ploratory character of the con- versations they would have abroad.

Of his own visit he said:

"I am

Broadway Mansions going to Berlin in response to an in-

Change. Hands

In addition to the 20 existing radio-telegraphic circuits, Japan will! construct new circuits for direct communication with New York, San

TOKYO, Mar. 7.' Francisco, Canada, Peru. Columblu,

THE MANCHUKUOAN Gov- Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Czecho-Slovakia, Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, India, Hongkong, Nanking ernment has protested to the Talgino, Canton, Australia, South Soviet Union over 168 border sales in recent times has been ONE OF the biggest property Africs, Egypt, Dutch East Indles, disputes inst year, according to consummated in Shanghai, ac- Singapore and Iran.

an afficial statement issued in cording to a "Central News" Hsinking.

Fourteen new radio-telephonic eir- cuits will be added to the 13 now in

Altogether there were 100 disputes existence. These will provide direct telephony to Canada, Brazil, France, during the year, and tussia replied India, Shanghal, Hongkong, Canton, to only 51 of the protesta. Australia, Syria, South Africa, Egypt,) Dutch East Indici and Singapore.

No case has been settled, but two have been partially settled.

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vitation which I have been gind to accept to attend a dinner being given by the Reidsgruppe Industrie connection with the discussions with regarding competition between the the Federation of British Industries

two individual industries of the .countries.

hope to have the opportunity to make contracts and survey the general problems of Anglo-German The properly involved is

trade relations with those prominent famous Broadway Mansions, American-owned akyscraper which is in German economic life." a feature of Shanghal's modern sky-tion, he confirmed

Answering a supplementary ques- that his visit line.

would be concerned only with trade, and that questions of a political nature would be excluded.

The sale price is reported to be Ten additional telephoto circuits

The disputes are stated to have $5,000,000. According to the "Cen- will be provided, allowing the trans-

The President, in another answer, mission and reception of telephotos arisen over cases of illegal crossing tral News" message, the purchasers from various elties in China and of the frontier, shooting, kidnapping are members of a Japanese syndl-denied knowledge of the suggestion

interference with river trame, illegal cate.

that any proposals about Germany's short term Indebtedness would be dis- land surveys, and the destruction of

cussed during his visit. border posts.

Europe:

Six new powerful broadcasting stations are to be constructed. Five of these stations will be so powerful (afty kilowatts) that they will be capable of jamming any station in the Far East. The power of ZBW is less than Ave kilowatts.

The latest incident reported to-day is from Harbin, where ten Soviet alleged to have cavalrymen are

crossed the border north of Sulteng.

Before they were repelled, one Japan is to cominence 20-hours-a- day broadcasts in foreign languages. | cavalryman was wounded.--Reuter.

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Broadway Mansions is the highest building on the Aglan mainland. It consists of some 24 floors and over looks Soochow at the Garden Road bridge,

Since the Shanghai hosüllies the building has been situated within the Japanese sphere of defence.

He assured another questioner that the Dominion governments would be kept in touch with any developments from these informal and exploratory discussions which seemed likely to be

of interest to them.-British Wireless.

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