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Barrier of Death Stretches For Thirty Miles
TIENTSIN CONCESSIONS NOW ELECTRIFIED ZONE
A WALL of pulsating and invisible` death, fed from the giant generators of the Tientsin Electric Power Station, now
GERMAN TROOPS surrounds the British and French Con-
RUMBLE EAST
LONDON, June 19.
DESPITE GERMAN denials, reports of heavy German troop movements through Slovakia are persisting.
Large numbers of tanks, transport vehicles and armoured cars are rumbling through Prague, the former capital of Czecho-Slovakia, in constant procession, ac- cording to reports from Correspondents there.
One report this morning claimed that nearly ten divisions of crack German troops were now concentrated on the Slovak- Polish frontier........
Meanwhile, the German prez which adopted the same attitude with reference to reports of troop.concen- trations just before the invasion of Bohemia and Moravia-s bitterly attacking "alarmist reports."
Categorical denials of troop move- ments, and of Germany's alleged in- tention of partitioning Slovakia be- fween herself and Hungary, were Elven in inspired statements this, morning which declared that the re- ports In-foreign-nowspapers were "part of a well-considered plan which fts into the general framework of] the encirclement polley."
Following the calling-up of 25,000 students to help with the harvest, members of the Hitler Youth Corps! have now been mobilised to assist in this important task-Reuter.
Broke The Bank: Shock Killed Him
A
BUCHAREST, June 19.
Bucharest, businessman walked into the Casino at Sinaia to-day, and accomplish- ed what is practically the im- possible-he "broke the bank" to the tune of several million lei.
But he will never enjoy his good fortune, for as soon as the management had handed over his winnings, he collapsed from an attack of apoplexy, owing to the excitement of winning, and died.--Trans-Ocean,
SINGAPORE PARLEYS
cessions in Britain's Mafeking of the Far East.
Sharply at 10 o'clock last night, the Japanese authorities fulfilled their warning issued by proclamation nine hours earlier, and threw in the switches that sent 240 volts of death through thirty miles of barbed wire surrounding the two Concessions.
SWIFT DEATH COMES
Although the Chinese populace in the Japanese Concessions and native cities were warned by posters and loud-speakers that the barbed-wire entanglements were electrified many, apparently, did not realise the signifi-
cance of the latest move.
BLOCKADE COMPLETED
Electrification of the barrier of barbed wire has effectively completed the isolation of the two Concessions. It is virtually impossible now for any person to leave or enter the Concession without submitting to indignities at the hands of the Japanese.
Beven
Yesterday only three hundred- persons passed the barriers, compared with the normal flow of over 100,000.
Practically every factory in the two Concessions is now idle, and tens of thousands of Chinese who formerly commuted to work from areas adiacent to the
Hongkong's Position British and French districts are;
In War-Time
SINGAPORE, June 20.
as a result, but of employment.
Meanwhile, Japanese-inspired agi- tation amongst the masses outside the Concessions is proceeding with un- sbated vigour and Japanese report
•
Com- Colonel Cassevillo,
mandant of the French forces in China, who arrived in Tiontsin yesterday to tako charge of the situation in the French Concession there.
CRISIS IN THE COMMONS
Halifax Sees Envoy, Makes New Proposal
LONDON, June 20.
HOPES ROSE here for a settlement of the ADMIRALS, Generals, Com-claims somewhat gleefully, this morn- Commons Questions -- modores and Staff Officers of Ing that anti-British sentiment has Anglo-Japanese conflict after Lord Halifax LONDON, June 19-In the House Great Britain and France will taken a distinct turn for the worse.
A joint committee of pro-Japanese to-day submitted new proposals to the Japanese of Commons to-day the Under Secre- draw up their chairs to à round-bodies has been set up tury for Foreign Affaira, Mr. R. A. table at Military Headquarters various plans for continuing anti-Ambassador to London. Butler, answering a question by Mr. in Singapore to-morrow for a British
sald: "I understand there have conference on subjects vitally Chinese. been no recent developments of affecting the future of the ter- special significance In Slovakia." Iritories of the two Democracies
Mr. Butler-pointed-out-that- under in the Far East.
Arthur Henderson, the Labour Mem-.
ber
the German-Slovak. Treaty of March The United States and Netherlands 23, German armed forces have the will not be represented at the con- right to enter Slovakia and to build ference, but will maintain fortifications.
Mr. Henderson had asked whether contact with the conferees.
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to prepare
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Hongkong Agitation
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No Statement
Japanese Have No Right To Manhandle Britons
-----COMMONS ASSURANCE
LONDON, June 19.
THE GOVERNMENT does not recognise the right of the Japanese authorities to arrest or detain any British subject under any circumstances. The Japanese Government has been left in no doubt as to the Govern- ment's attitude in the matter.
This declaration was made by i Mr. Butler in the House of Commons to-day, in the course of a reply to Mr. Alan Graham. Mr. Graham had referred to the statement of a Japanese official spokesman in Shanghat that the Japanese reserve the right to take aummary action against any foreigner who, in thick opinion, endangers the safety of the Japanese forces in the occupied arcus.
Mr. Butler said that Viscount Halifax had seen press reports of the statement-Router.
Now Threat. Arisas TIENTSIN, June 20.--The British Municipal Council is confronted with a very serious situation as a result of a Japanese threat, which is made not only against the Chinese police, but also the Chinese clerical staff of the Council, many of whom are seriously considering resigning.
The threats include death to their families as one of the possible con- sequences of disregarding the warn- Ing.
It is learned that the Japanese have taken a census of the members of families of all municipal employees
Japan And Britain
Outspoken Interview By.C. In C.
PEIPING, June 20. THE JAPANESE authori- tles have no intention of recovering the foreign Con- cessions--yet.
They will proceed, however, in accordance with a firm policy until such time as Great Britain recognises the new situation in the Far East and decides to co-operate with Japan in "constructing a new order" in East Asia. This was part of a state-
Hving in the Japanese-controlled area, ment-issued to Japanese-
-Rewer.
newspapermen to-day by General Sugiyama, Supreme Cominander of the Japanese in Expeditionary Forces North China.
Italian Newspapers "Soft Peddle" Nows ROME, June, 19.-Most of the Italian newspapers "soft pedal" their handling
the situation in the Far East
Of the Rome press, only the "Lavoro
General Sugiyama told news- Fascista" features the news from papermen that the most im- Tientsin with a heading on the front portant problem facing the page rending: "An
old empire Japanese Army at present was
cracka"-Reuter,
Tiontsin Shipping SHANGHAI, June 20. Jardines and Butterfied & Swires are resuming their regular sailing schedules Tientsin to-day.
to
The Yolshing and Chengtu have
the Tientsin Concession issue,
The Japanese Commander-in-Chief charged Britain with pursuing a policy of assistance towards the Chungking Government by permitting the British Concession IB Tientsin
entsin to be used as pro fol. Peri-Japonese ter
only had
n
cargoes including four and beans-rorists been provided with shelter in
The new proposals did not mention the possibility of reprisals, but emphasised British eagerness for an The return of all foreign Conces-amicable adjustment of the dispute. sions and Settlements to China-forms Lord Halifax suggested that the British and Japanese-arrived at Tientsin carrying normal
prominent part of the programme. authorities in Tientsin should re-open negotiations while the
In this respect, not even Hong- kong is exempt from the plans of British Ambassador to Tokyo has been instructed to urge the the new organisation, which the same solution on the Japanese Foreign Minister.—United Prese.
extend to entre occupied area. A noticeable feature of anti- foreign agitation during the past 24 U.S. CONCERN- hours has been the sudden inclusion of France in the tirades spread by
There was a mass order to
French Concession in the outside Hankow-the only remaining Foreign Concession in the Wuhan elties-dur- ing which agitators stirred up the mob to demand that the "Frenchmen should be thrown into the Yangise."
the Prime Minister had any informa One of the major subjecta to tion as to what extent Slovakla is discussed at the conference will be a under German military occupation plan for the unification of British and and also whether he could give any French forces in the Far East, under information as to the present internal a single command at Singapore. situation-United Press.
от
The conference will also consider agitators and pamphlets, monstration
methods to be adopted in combat Japan's local navai superior
Danzig, Next? BERLIN, June 19.-Dr. Josef Ity, Gobbela' week-end speeches Danzig are regarded in German poli- tical circles as the "beginning of n final spurt for the reincorporation of Danzig in the Reich,"
There has been hitherto, however, no indication of the manner in which
The position of Hongkong, which adralitedly can enally be blockaded and isolated in the event of war, will also be the subject dis. cussion.
of
Other subjects expected to come
It le Pontemplated this will be accom-before the conference are: plished.
In the meantime the Moscow talks,
the Tientsin blockade, and the Danzig
problem are represented in the press: na considerably embarrassing Britain and her encirclement partners."—– Reuter Speelal.
The
Ilnes
attitude of
The protection of shipping and
PactRe-United Press.
America Offers Its Services
1,700 Britons in. Tientsin LONDON, June 10-It is estimated that the approximate number of Bri- LONDON, June 10-A conversatish subjects in the British Concession tion between Mr. Shigemitsu, the at Tientsin is 1,700.-British Wireless, Japanese Ambassador and Viscount! Halifax at the Foreign Office this
evening lasted for an hour.
Both sides were reticent regarding)!
the result of the talk-Reuter,
SOLDIERS IN COURT
·Four British soldiers faced a charge.
of State, to-day Barriers, he added, were rigorously H. Q. Company with taking the
int
_and_
the Concession, be declared, but activites
disturb altemping to Federal Reserve currency and "peace and order in North China" had been tolerated within the Concession.
"The measures we have taken in examining, and searching all persons Concesion entering or leaving the
are calculated to remove the causes of these evils," the General declared -Domel
LATEST
Premior's Statement LONDON, June 19. The barrier of impersonating the police in the restrictions at Tientsin continue, sald Kowloon Magistracy to-day. Mr. Neville Chamberlain when Private Stephen Vincent Ward (27) the Far of "A" Company, the Middlesex Re- making a statement on Anglo-French Action
Eastern situation. In the House of giment, Private Arthur David Smith Commons to-day.
(21) also of the "A" Company, Considerable interest is attached to WASHINGTON, June 19.
All British subjects held up at the privato Louis Remer (22) both of
Private
Aldred Jenkins (21) and the visit to the Japanese Commander MR. CORDELL HULL, the in Tientsin of Colonel Casseville,
the More
Middlesex Re- and in some cases were | nominally Commanding the French Forces in Secretary
searched,
giment, were charged nentral Powers in the Pacific, such North China, who arrived in Tientsin formally expressed the United subjected to indigniles. as the United States, Slam and the from Shanghai yesterday, to take States concern over the "broader into the Concession were delayed by pol.ce for an unlawful purpose to
The entry of perishable foodstuffs designation or the character Netherlands East Indies;
charge of operations in the French aspects" of the developments in rigid search, and their entry con- enter premises at No. 14
Sumchun Concession.
to be
Street, ground floor, on June 17, be spasmodic Col. Casseville was accompanied on Tientsin, and revealed that the unued of communication in the
of
$55.40. Normal supplies were reported to also with the larceny his vist
s visit to the Japanese Commander good offices of the Consul in
Private Ward was also o charged with by Capt. Catallano Gonzaga, Com-Tientsin had been offered for the be reaching the markets adjoining the
French Concession.
assuunting Tsul Sat (42), a P.W.D. mander of the Italian naval forces in purposes of mediation.. China
No special arrangements appeared coole, at the same address. The text of "Mr, Hull's statement to be called for as yet, but further The other complainants ure Kwok It is belloved that the, discussion
Information on the subject was being Chan (24) and Wan Shing (42), both centred around the dangers that read: raight
ariso' to all foreigners: In "This Government is not concerned China if Japan persisted in the pre- with the original incident in Tient ought from the authorities on the shop fokis, and Cheung Kam (30), a
Chamberlain mentioned that MILAN, June 10-Eighteen mem-
sent attempts to stir up mob pas-relating to the requested, delivery o
four accused Chinese.... bers of an international gang eng-
"It is concerned, however, with the the morning.. of June 10, two British coasting steamers went up- British Warships aged in foreign currency, smuggling
British naval authorities in Hong-nature and significance of the subse river to Tlantain without stoppage] were arrested in Genoa to-day...
Most of those, arrested are of The elevator was partly crushed, kong this morning stated that noquent developments in their broader or
British tugs and lighters
they have
across the be ascertained until the debris is North China were contemplated at present acts and utterances in other had been stopped and searched." *muggled
parts of China,
Protests had been addressed by the Italian frontier to other countries, cleared up. United Press.
therefore, is Consul-General in Tientsin and the The only British warship at Tien-observing with special interest all Amhararlar
Tien-This Clovernment, the foreign currencies to the total valuo
to Tokyo had · keen thin is H.M.S. Lowestoft, while H.M. related developments in China as instructed to take up the matter with the Moscow Agricultural Fair, which opened to-day. Decay 15 at Chinwangtae. A Is they occur frus day to day.” the Japanese Government.... uruni at this time of the year, how
It is declared that the dental work performed by a veterinary Demands Extended The general position was not clone surgeon on three cows represents an Important advance in
national it appeared that the original develonce, and that the experience of the surgeon wna of PLEASE Turn. To Page 47te interest.”—Trans-Ocean, r
Big Gang Rounded Up In Genoa
Mine Disaster
ST. CHARLES, Va., June 10- Falling sinte in the main entry of the Kemmerer Coal Mines crashed into an elevator carrying 30 miners to 'he surface.
sions.
of
"Greck¬-or-French nationality, and and the number of casumities cannot movements” of British warships in Peels, coupled with other, past and | speakin' but he said that genera'ivi
of $12,600,000 to the
When the luggage, at one member
prosent.
LONDON, June 18-Fire broke of the gang war bearched at the out at the Imperial Airways, marine ever; a considerable part of the China - No Evacuation. rallway station, one of the handbags base at Hythe to-day. It is believed squadron, including (HIS! Laulo Mr. Hull explaud that the Ameri- SCR) Lound to contain Pound and it the flamen reached one of the and the submarines and destroyers can,me Dellerinotes in” the value of about flyingboats before they were 2 SKIREED FASE: Turns on NY 225
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RUSSIAN COWS NOW HAVE FALSE TEETH!
PARIS, Juno 19.—Cows with, false teeth were the sensation at
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