1939-06-30 — Page 19

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June 30, 1939.

Germany Will FIRST PICTURES OF LANDING AT SWATOW

Give Answer

British Memorandum On Naval Treaty

BERLIN, June 29. GERMANY will answer the British naval memorandum, "in due course."

The reply will almost certainly be through diplomatic channels

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the document is largely technical and is not considered suitable for answering ing à speech by Herr Hitler,

Political circles are of the spinion that it Herr Hitler speaks on Saturday at Bremen, it will not be DI

political speech,

Sir Nevile Henderson, the Brith Ambassador, is going to London for the

L week's leave on Tuesday, but answer la not expected to be ready by then.

In the montime, political circle:

way that mutual mistrust has got to

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pitch where Germany cannot be- lleve Britain's professions of con- ellation, and until Britain alters her policy, Germany will not talk- Heuter.

Creation Of Statistical Bureau In Colony

1f Hongkong exports two cases of rubber shoes to Ecundor on a Greek ship it is ikely to interest very few

Wang To Head

New Puppets?

people, if any, but many people in Government Formed

the Colony would be interested in the wider Implication that our trade with the Américas in rubber manil- factures generally or in foreign ships generally is increasing.

This is an argument used by Mr. D. Kelvin-Stark in a memorandum he has just issued concerning studies ho conducted with a view to the establishment of a statistical depart- ment in the Colony. The memoran- dum was laid on the table of the Legislative Council yesterday.

Among recommendations made by Mr. Kelvin-Stark, who is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, are.

In Nanking

PEIPING, June 29.

re-

A NEW Government to place that functioning at Nan- king but not the Peiping Government, which will continue on a semi-independent basis-i reported in informed Chinese quarters to have been decided upon during Wang Ching-wei's visit.

1) That the new statistical de- It is stated that the new nd- partment should be of gradualministration, of which Wang Ching- growth;

(2) that a monthly statisticul gazette be published embracing all government statistics and containing. In addition such simplification of the data as may be possible;

(3) that an advisory committee on statistics be formed; and

(4) that the Straits Settlements Staustles Department be taken as n model of what the local department might ultimately become.

Regarding his suggestion that the development of the department should be gradual, he states-"It might, for example, in the first instance confine itself to a minimum of activities connected with imports and exports, general trade, financial and shipping returns. The next step

wei will be chairman, is to be established at Nanking under the title of the Chun Min, or the All Peoples' Government,

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It will be the Government of vecupled China south of the Lungual railway. Its flag will be the Whae sun on a blue ground of the Kuomin- fang, with the old Republican Öve-' barred flag in the corner.

The report adds that elements of

Chiang the Kusmintang opposed to Kai-shek would be allowed to carry on activities within the Chun Min's

army territory, and the Japanese would train Chinese soldiers for the new Government.-Reuter.

would-be-to-tuke-over-birth-and-POLES TAKE OATH,.

end

death registrations, health hospitol, sanitary and water statistics, The final step might be to take over labour, unemployment, social, police, prison, and judicial returns.

To Benefit Others

WILL DEFEND DANZIG TO LAST

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"I hope that it will be possible, fzig ts strengthening its peace force even at an early date, for the statis-within legal limits, employing only tical department to offer its resources Danzig citizens.

for the beneßt of other departments. The reason for this move is ascribed For example, If, say, the Education to the "impudent and irresponsible

obtain Department desires to

behaviour" of Polish officials ard others in the Corridor.

Rumours of German troop redistri- butions are, as usual, Impossible to verify.--Router,

survey of the gehool children, show- ing the social strata from which News from Danzig through ofletal they come, their physlent condition, sources suggests that something Is their ability, physical and mental, certainly in progress there, and the etc.. I would be possible for the situation, if anything, has changed for whole of the work of enumerating, the worse, alfting, counting, and analysis to be done by the statistical office staff. In other words, the existence of a statistical office would, I think, muke it possible for the various depart- ments at Government (or even fog the University or the Chambers of Minister visited Lord Halifax at the Commerce) to undertake Colony-wide surveys on a fauy ambitious seale on any subject of administrative im- portance at small cost to the Govern- ment.

"It has, of course, always been open to any department in the past PLEASE Turn To Page 5.

THE "JUDAS KISS"

Mufti's Murderers Receive. Long Prison Sentences

Poland Secks Credits LONDON, June 29.-The Polish

Foreign Ofice at 3 p.m. lo-day.

They discussed the Polish Fiancial Mission's dimeulties in negotiating British loan and credit purchases of raw materials and armaments.

It is also believed that they ex-

changed views on the Danzig stun- tion United Press,

Sports Moot Cancelled LONDON, Juno 29.-The Essex County Cycling and Athletic As- sociation has adopted a resolution saying that it is advisable "under existing circumstances" to cancel their Anglo-German meeting on August 20.—United Press,

Polish Stand

JAPAN- ESE

Mar-

inas com- ing ashore

at Swatow on on the morning of June 21 after landing 'in specially construct- ed bargos from the -armada of transports shown in the photo- graph on Page 1. The occu- pation of

the treaty

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BEFORE JAPANESE transports and warships could enter Swatow harbour it was necessary to swoop the channel clear of Chinese mines. This photograph shows one of the mines being

exploded in mid-channel,

Y.M.C.A. SCHEDULE

Roosevelt at the White House to-day,

TOKYO NEGOTIATIONS and gave the president the latest in- formation from abroad, presumably

The European Y.M.C.A. schedule TORPEDOED BY ARMY with special reference to the China for next week 19:

Previously, Mr. Hull had an un- usually long meeting with the Soviet Ambassador, who is going to Moscow

Alglers, June 20. Akasha and the man who gave the "Judas kiss," were sentenced to-day to penal servitude for fe for the murder of the Muft of Algiers.

The third accused was sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, Two would cling to its foothold on the prominent Moslem leaders were Baltic because it is as vital to us as on leave-Reuter, found not guilty of complicity in the sun and air."

GYDNIA, June 20.-Poland cole brated Sea Day with naval and mill-and Danzig situations. tary demonstrations, while the Presi dent promised the nation that Poland

ed through Gydnia and Danzig,

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were

Sunday Discussion Group, 9 p.m. Rev., Kenneth Dow on "Some Thoughts, on the Old Testament.” |chow, treaty port in south Cheklang,.

Monday-Final First Ald Class, 11 carly Wednesday morning a.m. Whist Drive, 8.30 p.m.

Tuesday. Bridge, 10 a.m. Badmin ton nnd Mixed Swimming, 8.30 and

Arms Pouring In WARSAW, Jun 29.Ammunition 6 p.m.

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crime. A further accused died in The President, in his nationwide | prison while awaiting trial-Reuter | broadcast, described the Pollsh Special

Corridor and the Polish mea-coast ns and men The trial was the sequel to the the fundamental bases of the nation's Danzig from East Prussia, according murder of the Mufti :19, an open | entire political and economic

Wednesday.Mah Jong, 10 am. in- to semi-official reports received from First Aid Examination, 10.30 n.m. atreat. He was stabbed in the back dependence, because three quarters Danzig.to-night.

First Aid Clasa (Men Only) 0 p.m. as he bent forward. to receive the of Poland's entire foreign trade pass- kiss of the supposed supplicant.

Sixteen gunn were disembarked last Thursday Military Whist Drive, He emphasised that Poland desired Bight in the bay cast of Danzigt, and 0.30 p.m. Admission 60 ets,

were taken aboard trawlers lo Bis- Friday-Keep Fit Class, 10.30 am. ties, are feverishly erecting concrete 0.30 and 0 p.m. gun emplacements,

Saturday,Launch Pienic, 230 Access is prohibited to a hill, which p.m. is surrounded by a cordon of police and storm tropers. The barracks on the hill have been transformed into

ammunition dump.

Jews Arrested In Ship Off Haifa

JERUSALEM,

29-Const, June patrols to-day arrested

near Half 720. Jews who went nshore from the British steamer Astir, and attempted to land legally, obja

The illégalomigrants were placed under police control á Hnifa- Trans-Occat.

abortive,

not only peace, but to co-operate | chofsberg, where the Danzig author!- Badminton and Mixed Swimming/bullets and forced to beat a

with all nations.

However, he said, Poland was living in times of armament races.

He

the urged

necessity' of strengthening the nation's tiny feet, which was massed to-day as a symbol of warning that the Poles are deler mined to keep their outlet to the Bultle-United Preas.

Washington Watches WASHINGTON, - June 20-Mr. Cordell Hull lunched with President

Under cover of darkness, a plátoon of Japanese blue jackets, tried. 10 land at Kwantow, about eight inlles from Wenchow at the mouth of the Ou River, at one o'clock in the morning. They were greeted by a fusillade of. Chinese machine-gùn)

linsty retreat..

About 8 o'clock in the morning, small units of Japanese marinca again attempted to land at Chung- BERLIN, June 20-The German of the Ou River immediately north- tang and Lingmen, on the north bank Several hundred storm troopers are Focke Wolf Condor plane which east of Wenchow, but were also re- reported to have arrived at Danzig, landed in Rio de Janeiro at 11.20 pulsed by the Chinese. Nazis, who arrived from East Prussiä lamm. locul Une to-day, covered the

Over 20 Japlinere warships are

of

to from a Frei Korps are being housed | distance of 7,000 miles in 34 hours 40 in Danzig's pre-war underground Iminutes. It few at an average speed now concentrated off the const

fortifientions.Reuter,

of 200 miles per hour-Trans-Ocean.' Wenchow-Central News.

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