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No. 10233

一拜禮 號二月五英港香 MONDAY, MAY 22, 1939.

一日四初月四

Mutual Defence Pact Reached By Britain, France, Russia

COMPLETE ALLIANCE WITH U.S.S.R.-OFFICIAL

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THIS IS A reproduction of the 5-cent longkong Duly Slamp. how withdrawn from circulation, which is worth 2s. Gd, in

an unused condition purely as a result of it being used for eleven days last year for postal purposes.

Used coples of the stamp with the cancellation marks visible are worth Bs. They are being freely sold in Hongkong al $3 cach-an increase on face value of 0,000 per cent.

The duly stamps were used as postage stamps in January last year, when. suppiles of postage stamps of 5-cent denomination became exhausted,

Philatelists all over the world are now trying to add the stamp to their collections.

TURKEY WILL ALSO JOIN

LONDON, May 21.

IT HAS been officially confirmed that Great Britain has agreed to enter a defensive military alliance with Russia,

JAPANESE C. ÎN C. ARRIVES AT KULANGSU

Three-Power Protest Alleges Japanese Landing Was Pretext

KULANGSU, May 22.

THE allegation that the Japanese used "anti-terrorism'

as a

Loyalist Air Ace In Colony

Believes Franco Faces Insurrection

"I AM firmly convinced

the Spanish war is by no means finished. As soon as thus ending the two the Italian and German months' deadlock which troops have left the country, has prevented, the de- General Franco will be velopment of a Euro-faced with insurrection." pean peace front.

France will be a party to the alliance. It is also in- dicated that Turkey will be brought in.

As a result of the British decision the Soviet will probably enter into

terms:

This opinion was advanced now in Hongkong. to-day by Mr. Ramon Lavalle,

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Storm-Troops Start Trouble

WARSAW, May 21. UNIFORMED storm- troopers are alleged to

| have attacked a Polish

customs post at Piekle

EN ROUTE to Hollywood, Klara at 5 o'clock this after-

von Csorba has arrived in Hongkong

to catch the Pan-American Clipper noon, according to across the Pacifle. She has schloved latest reports. on the Continent,

considerable fame for her film work

NO MORE WATER RESTRICTION

Colony Storage- Reaches Record

WATER RESTRIC

He was not only a member of the International Brigade in Madrid in 1936, but his business 18.of a nature which permits him TIONS in Hongkong are to to possess more than the lay-be completely lifted as from men's knowledge of the real to-morrow. an conditions obtaining in Spain Whether & full supply will continue throughout the year, however, will depend on further rainfall within the next two or three months.

pretext to land troops on the International Settlement at Kulangsu, alliance on the following to-day. and thus attack the Chinese fortifications on the mainland, is contained in the joint protest filed with the Japanese Consul at Amoy by the British, United States and French consular representatives.

The situation in the SOLICITOR ASKS FOR PROTECTION Settlement meanwhile ré

mains tense, with Japanese, British, American. and

1-A irl-power arrangement to be concluded on the basis of complete |reciprocity-meaning that if any of the three countries are attacked, the others will render immediato assis- tance.

tional States,

2-Instead of assuming the addi-

burden of guarantees to other the three powers would agree,

Warns 'Don't French marines maintaining even if any-outside-countries were

He claims that Franco is already aware of disaffection within the Nationalist ranks, while behind the ostensible weakness of the subdued Ilepublicans is an angry and emblt- tered spirit which will flare into avenging setion the moment Franco had rid himself of his forelan legionaries.

all

Magistrate di

Interfere with

patrols.

attacked, lend with all their armed forces, when defending

This announcement was issued by an official of the Water Au- thority this afternoon.

Island and mainland:

The reports state that the inspectors barricaded them- selves in their office, and telephoned for help..

It is stated that the attackers had earlier attended a party, rally in Danzig territory.

The Pollah Commissioner inform- ed the Danzig Senate to-night that the Government demanded that the Senate should immediately take the necessary precautions to Free The Polish officials at Pickle.:

Polish circles say there is no doubt the other attack which was made on the customs post at Kalthof was pró- vocative, but it is not certain whether the provocation came from the Danzig Senate, the local Nazi Party organisa tion, or from within the Helch,

The circles allege that Ave Nazis. who, it is stated attacked the vice- Commissioner's car, game Marienburg in East Prussia,

Separations Demand

from

A Berlin message says that Herr Arthur Greiser of the Danzig Senate has handed a memorandum to M. Marlan Chodnelti, the Polish Minister, demanding reparations in connection alleging with the Kalthof Incident, that by the time the Vice-Com- missioner's car arrived on the scene, ns-bad

As a result of the heavy rainfall of the past three days, storage in reservoirs has increased by 198,000,000 gallons,

During the 72 hours ending the anti-Polish-demonstrations o'clock this morning, rainfall at island ceased, and that an innocent Danzig citizen named Gruebler, who was 10 inches and oh mainland reservoirs dead as he stepped out of his car on between 9.1 and 13.

being dazzled by the headlights of the vice-Commissioner's car-Reuter.

rom? It is revealed that the country which has resisted aggres in the fact that they are Spaniards, servoirs varied between 7.04 and returning from Marienburg was shot

"I HAVE been informed that rumours have been circulating

that my client may be assaulted out of Court.

"I will not make any definite allegations issue in general

or persons, but I would like Your Worship to a warning to all persons connected with this case that they cannot take the law into their own hands,

This request was made at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- ing by Mr. A. S. K. Lau at the conclusion of a maintenance and separation summons brought by So On-ting, head-mistress of n

"CAR MAD" STUDENT

Three-Power protest manded

ston and has asked for assistance.- de-United Press.

an immediate

forces and a reversion to

evacuation of the Japanese Seven Months the situation existing in the To Suppress Opium Evil

prior to Settlement Japanese landing.

Text Of Protest The joint protest follows:

was A3

1.-Outbreaks of anti-Japanese ter- rorism were not as frequent s elaimed by the Japanese and, in fact,

Chinese school in Kowloon, Two Victims Pay case 1 had occurred prior to

against her husband, Lau Kwan- yun, Principal of the Interna- tional Correspondence Fine Arts Academy.

Mr. Himsworth issued a warning

and sald:

"Any attempt to interfere with the order I have made in this Court wili be dealt with most severely,"

Judgment For Wife

Bail And Fine!

patrols.

by

been disturbed

Chiang Kai-Shek's Latest Edict

SHANGHAI, May 21.

Wounded Prída

"The dominating spirit of Spaniards," he said, "is a flerce pride "Their political distinctions ore secondary. Through frstly, Franco's use of Italian and German legion- aries, and secondly

pride of place which he has been forced to afford them in his victory parades, he has mortally wounded the feelings, not only of the Republicans, but of his own Nationalists.

"In addition, a split is already threatened among the Franco factions, The Monarchists desire the Church to have an important volce in the affairs of State; the Falangists, on the other hand, demand that the Church be excluded from State politics.

"Behind all in the subservient, but potential antagonism of the Republicans, which only awaits the right moment to emerge once again as an effective forec."

Defended Madrid

The speaker, who is an Argen-

inches.

German Version

This is the German account of the incident at Kalthof, as despatched by "Trans-Ocean":

1,000 Million Callon Increase The island storage increased from 1,800,000,000 gallons on May 12 to 2,202,000,000 gallons this morning- an increase of 420,000,000 gallons, while storage on the mainland in- creased from 1,657,000,000 galions to During Saturday night a Danzig 0,000,000 gallons—an increase of citizen named Gruchner of Kalthof 572,000,000 gallons..

was shot dead by a Polish chauffeur The

total storage-4,521,000,000 without any provocation. Gruebner calions-is the highest Colony's history and is rendered

in the had spent Saturday in Marienburg, border town inside the Reich on possible only by the fact that the frontier of Danzig, and on Satur Jubilee Reservoir is now storing day night crossed the German-Danzig water. Previous to the completion border at Kalthof.

Six Rescued From Living Tomb

The occupants of the Polish car were offelally Identified as the Polish Legation secretary, M. Perkowski, PLEASE Turn To Pago 4.

of Jubilee Reservoir. the total According to an official report capacity of Hongkong's reservoirs issued by the Danzig authorities, was only 3,000 million gations, Gruchner was forced to stop when A TIME-LIMIT of seven

he was dazzled by the headlights of the Japanese landing. On of these months has been given by cases was committed by a Formosan. General Chiang Kai-shek for the

motor ear bearing a Pollsh number- plate. Gruebner and his taxi driver As a result of the Japanese landing, total suppression. of the opium tinian, and married to a Spaniard, under hundreds of tons of sand and warning Gruebner was

Six people who were buried alive got out to investigate, and without A YOUNG student who was peace and order in the Settlement evil in China's South-Western served with the International Brigade rubble were rescued from a living with a bullet in the head, and on- shot dead described in Court as being "card

by illegal

in Madrid during September, October tomb by firemen this morning, little other in the chest. mad" appeared before Mr. Hims. curches and arrests by the Japanese provinces.

and November, 1938. 2. The

In a circular order, the Chinese worth at the Kowloon Magis-

Japanese 'claim

He was on observation pilot, and the worse for their experience.

Their that Generalissimo, pointing out that the was once piloting one of half a dozen

escape. from death Is two marines were landed in order to pro-South-West is China's "base

attributed to the of other Republican planes Which were

fact that their home tracy this morning on charges arising out of a collision tect Japanese residents and pro-national regeneration, says that the chased by 15 Italian and

was constructed of brick. German in Samaak Road on Saturday,

It was completely buried in a`tall Japanese Chinese was a pretext used opium evil must be completely eradi machines. by the Japanese to construct The youth admitted-taking a car

ruscated from this part of the country

of earth opposite 140 Kennedy Road: The incident occurred shortly after The Magistratë gave judgment for belonging to Dr. G. S. Rutherford, machine-gun .positions on Kulangsu before the end of the year.

for the purpose of attacking without the owner's permission. Chinese positions on

8 a.m. the mainland, Anyone who ignores this order, he

One of the occupants of the bulld- as a public

Ing, Cheung Tak, said: collided with a vehicle driven by Mr. across the harbour from the Selfie adds, will be regarded

ment.

enemy of the Kuomintang and the

Soviet Supremacy Sinte. An extraordinary feature of the

This was his narrowest escape, Local civit, milltary and Kuomin-although he saw plenty of action. case was that ball of $50 for the student, Ass Thor Hoyem, aged 17, 3. The need for protecũng tang authorities in the South-Western The Russian fighting machines he was provided by Mr. Garton, while residents was not felt by Japan alone provinces are urged to devise effecranked as superior to any of the a fine of $20, innleted by the and, therefore, unless conditions re-tive measures for the enforcement Itallan or German planes, while the Magistrate, was paid

by Dr. turned to mormal immediately, other of the order-Reuter. Rutherford.

Fowers concerned would have to take Hoyem was charged with driving the necessary steps to protect their without a licence and with driving respective nationals and anfeguard a car without the owner's permission, their rights and Interests on the

Traffic Inspr, Scrim said that Dr.Island. Rutherford left his car in Kalyan!

the wife...

"I do not think that the case calls for much comment," he said.

"The evidence on both sides has been most unsatisfactory but, on the evidence, I hold that complainant is entitled to maintenance at the rate of -$16 a month,

Custody Of Childron

Regarding the custody of the four children, which is a more dimcult point, I feel that their mental, moral, and material welfare would best be served by their re- maining with their father.

Whilst be was driving the ear - he

V. A. Garton,

Counter-Action

Japanese Reply

the

Troop Train Disaster

mother, and any order I may make driven by Garten. Ho cars three points raised by the representa Guerillas Explode

mother to visit them."

sustained slight damage. T

„Problem"

and

Mine In North

Chungking, May 22,

Road, Kowloon City, al 9.30 p.m. on Replying to the joint protests, the i feel that they should not be Saturday. It was taken by Hoyem Japanese Consul General, Mr. G. deprived of the company of their without permission and, whlist driven Uchida, has categorically denied the would include provision for their Mr. Both lives of Great

the United Statetain, France "Serious

Japanese action, he claimed, was Complainant was told that she need "Hoyom was taken to the police taken in self-defence. not co-habit with defendant, and the station. His bail of $50 was pald "Kulangau constitutes a danger to sum of $10 per month would be by Mr. Garton, with whose car he the Japanese as a base for anti-i More than 100 casualties were paid into the Court from June 1. had collided.

Japanese manoeuvres, and there are suffered by the Japanese soldiers and The four sons : would remain in Hoyem pleaded guilty to the indications that: the island will be-six passengers were wounded when the custody of the father, while the chores.

come a hostile camp of Chinese a trait struck a mine laid by Chinese daughter would remain with the

"This stealing of cars 'is being a threatening Amoy," a

guerillos, at Henglingchen station, on mather,

Įmulsance and rather a serious 'pro- Mr. Uchida elaimed that the the Nanking-Shanghai Rallway, ⠀⠀ - An order was also made for the blem in Hongkong," said, the Magis- searches and arrests carried out by about 14 miles north-west of Wasih.

mother to see the four sons twice a trote.

the Japanese' in the International Japancia troops cordened off the week, while the daughter was to visit “I should impose a very serious Solticment were finevitable acts of neva immediately, after the accident. her father once every week, y penalty, inut In view of your youth 1 self-defence.".

and conducted an extensive search. Mr. Lau-appeared for the wife, am going to let you off with a fine The Consul General claimed that The Japanese killed and wounded - while Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared of $20. I think I am crring on the the Japanese on Kulangau were were later conveyed to. Wusin.

for Lau. Bloo

Martaide of leniency in doing so,

PLEASE Turn To Faye 4, Central News

His and four other observation planes escupied, while the Republican fighters managed to bring down an Italian machine..

"We had just awakened when we heard a rumbling sound above us,

"The next minute the roof fell in, "We were pinned beneath the roof, "Everything went dark and the alr was filled with dust.

"It seemed a long time before we Aighting Soviet pilots were regarded heard picks and shovels digging us by all foreign observers as being im- out, but we found out afterwards that measurably the best..

we had been burled for only fifteen Never at any time, he said, did the minutes." International Belgado exceed 10,000 Sumber, but he admitted that;

Europeans Assist

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LATEST

Danzig Protection

Geneva, May 21. Danzig will remain under the protection of the League of Nations as a result of an agreement reached between Poland and the League Committee of Three Britain, France and Sweden, who have decided not to niter the situation while the pre- sent tension continues..

The League, therefore, theoretical- the remains the guarantor Danzig Constitution.

However, the Danzly_High_Com- mlesioner la not returning to Danzig, which he left in February last to report to the League. Scafetarlat- United Press, !

their losses were very severe. This The six occupants, Choung Tak was partly due to that fact that the and his wife, Wong Pak and his wife pilota were givea inferior bombers, and Lin Mul and wife, were which offered easy targets for the extricated by firemen, police fast and effective Italian and German Europeans.

Included in the rescuers were Mr. H. S. Lau and members of his house-ly hold of 140 Kennedy Road, und Mr. J. Dennis, of Messrs, Dodwell and Company.

notabl While the Republican- tanks,

during the carly stages of the war, were extremely poor in construction and wer¡ easily put out of action.

Beaten By Starvation

Robinson Rd. Blocked -The real reason for the collapse The collapse occurred as a result of the Republican defences, expool- of last night's ́ heavy rain, the ally in the south, was the success Kennedy Rond retaining wall behind of Franco's food, blockade. If the building caving ingkang starved Madrid into submission. So Another collapse is reported from far as the military defenses were | Robinson: - Road; and,š nav matronuit, be concerned, they were as impenetra- | trames along this street has been

blo as the Maginot Linseed

In 1937 Mr.Lavalise was trans

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