1939-03-28 — Page 27

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 28, 1939.

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HUNGARIAN-SLOVAK TRUCE PARLEYS WHITEAWAY'S

FORMAL SESSION

YESTERDAY:

OFFICIAL CHARGES Slovakia Calls More Reserves To Colours

BUDAPEST, Mar. 27.. THE HUNGARIAN-SLOVAK commission for settling the frontier dispute and delimiting the border line between Slovakia and Ruthenia, met to-day in the main hall of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry,

The meeting was merely know of any serious. Incident at of a formal nature for the Bromberg

Minor incidents Involving Germans

purpose of drawing up and Pules are constantly being re- working programme,

ported, but nothing has occurred to Justify the language of the Berlin) statements-Reuter

The first of the conferences will begin on Tuesday morning.

HUNGARIAN OFFENSIVE Meantime,

BRATISLAVA, Mar. 27. the Hungarian Government has

A reliable report from Perjes states issued the that the Hungarians have launched following official communique offensive the Michalovce und dealing with Slovak relations: Sobrance sector.

Bombing planes and artillery are

"On March 20, an Hungarian patrol being used. was fired upon two kilometres east of Merenzal. On March

to

This offensive coincides with the 20 Hun-Slovak Harlan frontier guards were attacked Budapest for peace negotiations.

delegation's departure near Nagykazmer and Alsomiholyi. The aggressors were driven

The reports state the offensive was to Slovak territory, eight of their and artillery first pounded the Slovak backwell organised. The bombing planes number being killed. wounded. Hungarian guards suffered advanced but were repulsed by the

defences after which the Infantry:

no losser,

and

on

Slovaks.

are

The attacks were repealed

It is assumed here that this was there 125 and 27 peas kiskoion, but munte man best enfurt to advance the

were also repulsed.

Hungarian occupation as far as pos "In view of the repeated Slovak sible in case the negotiations frontier viclations,

the chief or based primarily on the territory cach General statt of the Hungarian army army holds-United Press. ssued future attacks were to be repulsed in on Monday that all the most determined manner."

an order

con-

While the frontier situation tinues to be unsettled, Hungarian and Slovak broadcasting stations have begun battle the ether waves, gach accusing the other of circulating false reports, and cudeavouring to Hive the people of Slovak and Ruthenia an inaccurate impression of the situation,

It was denied over the Hungarian rudte that Ave Hungarion planes tundĮ been shot down by the Slovals, and a reward offered to

Slovaks.-Trans-Ocean.

anyone who

SINGAPORE

With footholds in Hainan, Canton and Formosa, and'in her mandated island in the Ladrone and Caroline groups, Japan rings the United States outpost in the Philippines, and straddles the route from

Singapore to Hongkong and Shanghai.

TOKYO CAMPAIGN AGAINST BRITISH

SHANGHAI, Mar. 27.

THE JAPANESE-CONTROLLED Chinese lan- guage newspapers are waging a violent anti-British campaign, such slogans as "Destroy the British Mag," "Boycott British Goods," "Confiscate British Property," and "Drive Out All Britons" being splashed in heavy type on the front pages.

An American missionary from

Dissension In Ne-controlled newspapers there Shanghai Outrage

Cabinet?

Tory Conference' . On Thursday

LONDON, Mar. 27.

are appealing to the employers of British, including the Consu- lates, to leave their posts.- Reuter,

ATTEMPT TO END

CHUNGKING, Mar. 27.

ATTEMPT TO KILL JAPANESE

Shot While Riding

In Rickshaw

The "New China Daily", the Communist organ here, editor-i CONTINUED REPORTS of ally reviews the intest anti- could prove that the Hungarian planes had been shot down by the dissension in the Cabinet are British move which is being not laken seriously in well- carried out by the Japanese in informed Parliamentary quar- the occupied zones in China.

Shanghal, Mar. 28. turs, "Reuter" learns.

An unidentified assassin to-day It says the move includes the shot and critically tlement in Shanghai and the Kowloon Making who was riding a rickshaw retrocession of the International Set- Japanese cotton mill worker, T.

wounded

kong to China, the boycott of British under Japanese control. leased territory, the return of Hong-in the Yangtzepog district which is goods, prohibition of British shipping Japanese troops immediately halted and the abolition of all British In-all trafic and began a widespread

FIVE CLASSES CALLED UP

Bratislava, Mar. 27. The Slovak National Defence Ministry to-day summoned the ve youngest reserve classes of the air force for special military service.

Members of the air force received Instructions to report at Pistyan, the Lamous health resort, while the air defence and artillery forces will as semble at Bratislava immediately.- Trans-Ocean.

claration on aggression are proceed

Consultations regarding the de-

solidly behind the Premier on this ing normally, and the Cabinet is matter,

No pledge has been given France.terests and privileges in Chino, search for the assassin.

on the subject of conscription, and The Immediate goal of the Japan- no dissension in the Cabinet on the question. is apparent.

SLOVAKIA PREPARES

Bratislava, Mar. 27.

The foremost matter for considera- Apparently preparing for a possible, on at the present is a review of the continuation and extension of the voluntary national register promised "war", the Slovak government has for the end of March. called up a wide range of Air Force pliots and personnel.--United Press. NEW MOVE ALONG SOUTHERN FRONT

BRATISLAVA, Mar. 27.

There are indications that new developments will result, and that]} a comprehensive scheme for com- pulsory physical training of youth Is a possibility.

HUNGARIAN IRREGULARS and Free Corps units are reparted to have Ministers intend to pursue every entered Slovakin to-day, across the aspect of national organisation that southern frontier at Medvez, where can be fitted into the Premier's they are attempting to occupy fron- pledge that conscription will not be tier vilinges.

Introduced during peace time.

At the same time the fighting on

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, as leader

ese anti-British movement is the been fan however, no arrests have destruction of Sino-Brilish friend-

made.

The shooting marked the first

ship, thus cutting British nasis- anti-Japanese terrorist net on the tances to China.

The eventual objective, the editorial Arst anniversary of the establish says, will be a Japanese mavement Regime.

ment of the Nanking Refermed

in the Far East Into Japanese hands. to wrest British rights and interests

planes flew over the International Earlier this morning Japanese Settlement dropping pamphlets in celebration of the Nanking regime's anniversary.

the eastern frontier is reported to be of the Party, will attend the meeting in Europe, trying to support the to reveal Makino's condition. How-

Negotiations to settle outstanding of the Central Council of the National Berlin-Rome nxis

Union of the Conservative Unions

TIE-UP WITH EUROPE Primarily, it adds, the movement hus nothing to do with the Chinese In connection with the Malino masses, though the Japanese have shooting the Japanese authorities encouraged the puppets in Peiping have not yet informed the Municipat and Nanking to lead anti-British | Police campaigns.

although the Yangisepoo sector in which the shooting took The New China Daily" said the place comes technically within the choing the anti-Democratic war cries Japanese

movement is also re Settlement. subsiding.

Japanese authorities have declined questions between Hungary and and Associations at Westminster on island and the bombing of the border United Press.

ever, there are rumours that he has After the occupation of Hainan died from a shot through the head, Slovakin began at midday-Reuter. REICH "PAINFULLY SURPRISED"

March 30, and will address the villages of Kowloon, the Japanese delegates-Reuter. Berlin, Mar. 27. Political arcles are "painfully sur-

are proceeding with the campaign for the return of the British concessions prised" at the renewed anti-Germaan incident caused by the Polish Western i

to China, League at the southern end of the: Polish Corridor" at Bromberg, ac- | cording to an inspired statement issued to the foreign press to-day, which adds that anti-German riots in Poland are increasing.

A Warsaw message says that it is authoritatively stated that nothing is

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The paper asserts that the killing of the British missionary at Ping- kiang, the bombing of the British mission at Chengchow and the kid- napping of Mr. Dyott in Tientsin are all Japanese acts in accordance with the Japanese slogan "Punishments of British"

Now it is time, the paper

con-

JAPANESE FLAG ON BROADWAY

MANSIONS

Shanghal, Mar. 28. The Japanese community to-day made a ceremony of raising the Rising Sun flog over the Broadway Mansions which Japanese interests: bought from the British owners last week-United Press,

the Stock Exchange improved slightly cludes, for Brilish authorities to to-clay, though gilt-edged holdings "replace their ink ond paper protesis tended to ease owing to lack of in- with actual action against Japan."-morning issued a communique that terest.

Olis benefited from occasional Amsterdam buying, and Kaffes, after carly dullness, Improved on Paris support.

United Press.

"CRUSH HONGKONG"

FRANCE READY TO NEGOTIATE

Latest Attitudo To Italian Claims

PARIS, Mar. 27. THE FRENCH Foreign Minister to-day sald France is rendy to negotiate any Italian diplomatic proposals for a settle- ment of the Mediterrancan pro- blems.

He said he feli Mussolini's speech leaves the door open for talks but did not provide a basla for discussion, Earller, a council of Ministers had issued a decrce increasing the fleet's peacetime strength with "nelive serves.

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As the Prime Minister outlined in his speech on Saturday, it is reported that France will not cede un inch of territory. However, the Premier also expressed his willingness to negotiate a political understanding-United Press.

Lithuania Asks For War Funds

Kaunas, Mar. 27.

chier of the Lithuaniander-in- broadcast appeal for contributions to the campaign was not directed bolst the national arms fund, stated that

night only in defence of her independ ony country, since

would

General Rashtikls,

ence-Reuter.

CZECHS AND SLOVAKS IN US.

Pittsburgh, Mar. 27. Czechs, Slovaks and people from the Carpatho-Ukraine to-day met here in the Mense Temple where the original Pittsburgh Pact was drafted in 1918.

They proposed that the Czecho- Slovak State should start a fight to iestore the nation to its former status. They elected Wendell Stephen Plutnck as President of the movement i and convoked a national convention for May 15 to establish a permanent organisation-United Press.

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Shanghai Mar. 28. Japanese naval authorities this

they had arrested one suspect in con- nection with the shooting of Mr. Makino. Meanwhile the Investiga- "Japon should have crushed Hong- tion is continuing Among foreign holdings, Chinese kong with the mailed fist."

Japanese gendarmes, sided by bonds strengthened on reports that

This was the theme of a speech S.C.M. police are intensively in- debt service negotiations had been made to the Japanese community investigating the crime, and at the Initiated.

Shanghai by a visiting politician from same time the trafe bridges to the Foreign exchanges were auleter, Tohotkal party of right-wing Agrarl- jected to intensive searches, resulting

Toklo-Selgo Nakano, head of the Japanese-controlled area aro with the Netherlands florin firmer on an interests in the Japanese Diet, bear-covering, following Mussolini's

In bad traffic Jams--United Press, speech.

Nakano vehemently advocated the use of force by Japan to prevent featureless, British ships supplying arms while Wall Street was quietly firm. munitions to Ching, and then, ro- and -Reuter Special.

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Rome, Mar. 27.

The Italian Economic Agency to

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SHANGHAI: Mar. 27,

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