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MAGAZINE EXPLOSION

DISASTER

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tind smoking city of the dead, where the most terrific powder deposit ex- plosion since the war suddenly des troyed this small town, as earthquake had hit it.

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IN SHANGHAI?

SHANGHAI, July 11. It is unconfirmably reported that a number of German soldiers, dressed in the uniform of a Japanese naval landing party, were seen marching recently along the North Szechuen Road, and that several have been seen outside the landing party hend Quarters.

WHAT THE WORLD

THINKS OF PREMIER'S SPEECH

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are in said that a change in connection Other reports state they

and With Danzig could not be effected by war. velerans of the Spanish

Japanese local settlement. that they arrived in freighter. Reiter,

EXHIBITION OF ART Variety of Pictures At Hung Chang School

Before the homeless went to Salu-

being held An art exhibition is manca and other towns for shelter, one old woman, crying for her lost daughter, said to me, "Lake most from to-day to Saturday under the people of the town, I was preparing spices of the Hung Chang Middie School at 01 Wyndham Street, near lunch and had not water boiling un

the Central Police Station. The ex- Kas stoves ur churcual Gres. That is

Ores broke out. Iubition will be opened from 10 why

Muny thought it was an earthquake. The explosion knocked me to the floor and the ceiling and roof collapsed un top of me."

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Other refugees told me that they had been in bed resting because it The explosion knocked WIN Sunday. some of them to the ceiling whlel then crushed to the floor with them.

Passing through Avila, on my way here, I was told that even Avili heurd the explosion. The four mills and rubber shoe factorles, forming the main industry of the town, were both burning this afternoon.

As I approached. Pesaranda by mator car slong the main highway,, I saw columns of black and white smoke, then eatne upon debrts which And been flung skyward and scatter- ed for miles around the elly; broken coffee pots, bits of bedding, parts of a train. and human and animal remains.

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It is emphasised that this is the Arst time that the British Government In Parliament has declared Danzig to be an international problem.

That declaration, nevertheless, was restrained in tune, which is explained in Government quarters by the fact that the Government is al pains to avoid slamming the door to possible later negotiations. WARSAW

Circles in close touch with the Government declared that Mr. Cham- berjain's statement in the House of Commons had caused "great satisfac- Ton" in Poland.

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July 11, 1939.

Last Tribute | AUGSBESSES,

To Swanson

State Funeral

U.S. Navy Chief

WASHINGTON, July 10. The antion paid its final respects to Mr. Claude Swanson to-day, at a solemn State Funeral held in the Senate Chamber and attended by President Roosevelt and the highest officials of the civil and armed services.

Simultaneously, memorial services were held on United States worships throughout the world.

Sallors and Marines mounted guard over the fing-draped casket whilo President Roosevelt, his Cabinet Ministers and Justices of the Supreme Court sat in a semi-circle around it.

All foreign diplomatic representa- tives oftended and swelled the num- ber of Boral tributes to the veteran statesmen.

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The Guard of Honour escorted the casket from the Senate Chamber the accompaniment of a 19 gun salute. The coriege, with muffled drums and arms reversed, escorted the remains Wan to the Union Station, where it entrained for burial at Richmond. Virginia.-United Press.

PREMIER CLARIFIES BRITISH ATTITUDE (Continued from Page 0.)

1 ask the House carefully to note freely these dates. It has been stated in Germany that it was Ills Majesty's guarantees which en- couraged the Polish Government to have action which I take the described. But our guarantee was not given until March 31.

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"By March 20 no mention even had been made to the Government.

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The exhibits Include oil painting, lian plctures, charcoal painting and

It was added that while the de- neuell drawing. Some of the pictures #re by Mr. Ju Long-lu and Mr. Tscagclaration had introduced Shing-en, well known artists, Mr. It is well-known in Judiclul eireles, while Mr. Tseng is a graduate of Im- perial Art School of Tokyo,

There are also drawings by teachers and students of

Hung Chang School.

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element into the situation, it had crystallised the attitude of the British Government,

There was also à fecting that 'o- land would have been forced to react to the recent developments in the Free City, and thus appear in the role of an aggressor unless the British Government had unequivocally claret its support of Poland,

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it is thought that the speech, which is described in unofficial circles as firm and clear, has gone a long way towards preventing a conillet over Danzig by defining Great Britalu's attitude so firmly.

BERLIN

Mr. Chamberlain's Danzig state- ment contains nothing surprising and Hothing new, is the opinion in offlelal

circles.

It is declared that the speech does not change the present situation.

A political spokesman declared that the Powers which gave Danzig the status of Free City were now art issue endeavouring to make it menacing peace,

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Referring to Mr. Chamberlain's statement that Britain's guarantee bud nothing to do with Poland's attitude, the spokesman said he could not ex- peel them to believe that Poland and -Britain -did_not_discuss the matter

leng before March 31.

LONDON

Mr. Chamberlain's declaration is welcomed by all domestic political circles as putting Danzig on the parliamentary map as an international Issue of the first magnitude.

"Recent

Recent Fears

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In

inevitably have given rise to

Danzig fears

that it was intended to settle the future status by unilateral action. organised by surreptitious methods, thus presenting Poland and the other Powers with a fait accompli

"In such circumstances, any action the by Poland to restore taken situation would, it is suggested, be represented as an act of aggression on her part, and if her action was supported by other Powers, they would be aceused of abetting her in the use of force.

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"If the sequence of events should, In fact, be such as is contemplated will Members his hypothesis. realise that the issue could not be considered a purely local matter, involving the rights and liberties of Danzigers, which, ineldentally, are in no way threatened, but would at once raise graver issues affecting Polish nutional existence and Independence, "We have guaranted to give our arsiriance to Poland in the case of clear threat to her independence to which she considers i vital resist with all her national forces, and we are firmly resolved to carry out this undertaking..

Capablo Of-Improvement.

"I have said that while the present rettlement is neither basically unjust nor logical, it may be capable of improvement. It may be that in a rearer atmosphere a possible im- provement could be discussed, In- deed, Colinel Buck himself said on May 6 that if the Reich were guided by two conditions, namely peaceful intentions and peacefu} methods of all conversations are procedure, possible.

It made a markedly less favourable Russian impression on responsible eireles, however. They argue that the Premier has falled cumpletely to elarify whether, in the case of Geritan

"In his speech before the Reichstag initury action or Internal manoeuvre inside Danzig, Poland alone will be on April 28, Herr Hitler said that it the judge of whether Poland's in- the Polish Government wished

came to fresh contracturai engage- dependence is threatened, or whether Britain claims to have a voice in ments governing relutions with Ger- the decision.

many, he could but welcome the idea. This alleged ambiguity is likely to He added that any future arrange- strengthen Moscow's suspicions ini ment would have to be based on na absolutely clear obligation equally their negotiations with Britain.

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The Polish Ambassador and binding to both parties. General Koc, who returned to London from Warsaw on Sunday evening, to- day resumed negotiations with the

"His Majesty's Government realises Treasury through Sir Leith Ross re- Harding substantial credit loans to that recent developments in the Free Poland from Britain, principally for City have disturbed confidence and rendered it dificult at the present to find an atmosphere in which reason- abir counsels can prevail.

armamenty.

The Ambassador has arranged to visit Lord Halifax at the British

"Faced with this situation, the calm, Foreign Omce at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, when he will be able to convey his Polish Government remains

of and His Majesty's Government hopes latest Information on the basis

that the Free City, with her ancient lis four

consultations.

traditions, may again prove, as she different Warsaw.

done before, that has nationalities can work together when hele real interests coincide.

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It is surmised that he has brought his Government's observations on the recent Bellish draft for a permanent Anglo-Polish aillance-United Press.

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Only one bid was forthcoming in! each case when two Crown Land lots were offered for sala. at the Lands Office yesterday afternoon and cach was sold at the upset price.

A lot of 7,030 sq. fl. in Chatte Penk Road, Shamshulpo, with an annual)

"Meanwhile, I trust that all con- cerned will declare and show their determination not to allow any inel- dents in connection with Danzig to as might assure such a character constitute a menace to the peace of Europe."Reuter.

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LONDON, July 10.

Mr. A. H. M. Ramsay asked

rental of $100, was offered for a term in the House of Commons to-day of 76 years, commencing from July whether the League of Nations 1, 1000, with option of renewal for

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a further term of 24 years, Mr. Lau had over been notified of acts Koon-kau, c/o Messrs. Hazeland & of aggression by Soviet armies Gonella, Queen's Road Central, was in China, culminating in the im. the buyer, the upset price being position of the Soviet system in

A lot of 1,063 sq. ft. in Yee Wee Sinklang and Szechwan, Street, East Point, with an annual Mr. R. A. Butler replied that there rental of $24, was offered for a term had been a wide extension of Soviel of 75 years with option of renewal Influence In Sinklang during the last for a further like term. Mr. Wong few years, but the system of govern- Kwong-tool, c/o Mr. Y. S. NA. 1ment had not been Sovietised in either nor had province, Queen's Road Central, 1st floor, was either the buyer, the upset price being province been the object of aggression

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