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No. 10670
FOUNDED 1001 「五拜禮辦四十月七英港香
FRIDAY,
JULY. - 14,
1939.
日八廿月五
Britain Must Accede To Tokyo Demands Or
Or Else
JAPANESE THREAT
TO
END NEGOTIATIONS
TOKYO, July 14.
Anglo-Japanese negotiations for a settlement of the Tientsin issue will begin on Saturday.
If the British authorities fail to respond to the basic Japanese proposals, the Japanese Government, it is understood, is prepared to break off negotiations.---Domei. · ANTI-BRITISH MOVE SPREADS
LIUHUANG, July 14.
The Japanese-sponsored anti-British movement has spread to Swatow.
Anti-British posters have appeared in large numbers
in the streets of Swatow.
QUINS BORN
MEXICO CITY, July 13.- Quintuplets were born this week to Mrs. Polita Alvaro do Carbonell, wife of a journalist in Obregon, Mexico,
The babies, three boys and two girls are doing well, but the condition of the mother is serious.-Trans-Gecan,
BASTILLE DAY IS
The Japanese are taking strict vigilance in the city. HONOURED
Only pedestrians carrying passes are allowed to go about.
Japanese reinforcements have been shipped to Swatow in transports during the past few days.-Central News.
TSINGTAO TENSION
TSINGTAO, July 14—HMIS. Lowestoft left Tsingtao on Tuesday and H.M.S. Diamond is at present. here.
No guards have been posted at the British consulate. Further anti British demonstrations are expected to-day and to-morrow-Reuter,
BERLIN, July 14.-An inter- view with the Japanese officer in Churge of the blockade at Tientsin, Colonel Hirota, is pub lished by the "Angriff" this evening.
Craigie Will Parley
This Morning's Reception
U.S. News Agency Sensation
President Roosevelt Accuses U.P. Of Falsifying Report
AMERICAN NEWSPAPERDOM has been startled by the unprecedented action of President Roosevelt in issuing a statement roundly condemning as false, a re- port by the "United Press" that he and Mr. Cordell Hull are in disagreement concerning the language to be used in a projected Presidential message to Congress re- garding neutrality.
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"United Press" correspondents "This headline is wholly false, and Ronald Vantine and Grattan Meso is the story. Groarty prepared the story 10reported to have disagreed. This is "It is a subterfuge to say they are which President Roosevelt ob-obvious, because it is a practice too jected, and which was subse- often engaged in, to invent such quently published in certain corts out of the clear blue sky,
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43 YEAR-OLD-HEAT RECORD EQUALLED
BELIEVE IT or not-and it's probably easier to be- lieve than not yesterday was the hottest July day in Hongkong for 43 years.
Hongkong's
When the mercury at 2 p.m. yesterday climbed to the perspiring mark of 94 it equalled record maximum temperature for July.
The last time this figure was]
A reception, celebrating the papers and which was also put ours to check with any responsible storming of the Bastille, and through on the "UP." ticker Source in Washington. now the occasion of a French tapes
"Usual Subterfugo" national holiday, was held at the Mr. Vantine stated aller President "The "United Press" its beca French Consul General's house, Ronsevelt bad issued his denial and guilty of falsification of actuat facts reached was July 23, 1808. 13 Peak Road, this morning, reproof: "I wrote the despatch on
If called upon to give, the source of His Excellency the Governor, Sir some of my own information their Information they will decline to Geoffry Northcote, attended by some I go! from my colleague. Merive it another usual subterfuge.
"The fact remains the story is con- Captain S. II. Batty Smith, mem-tton was obtained from Government trary to every fact, the President Legislative Councils, members of bers of the Executive and sources."
PLEASE Turn To Page 4.
Groarty. The basis my
And
Mr. Lyle Wilson, chiet Washington
the Hongkong Consular bodies correspondent of the "U.P." declared: many others of the Colony's "The men, who collaborated on the community were present.
story are both reliable and experienc-| cd reporters. I discussed the story with them and I believe they faith- fully reported information obtained in the normal process of their daily assignments.”
M. Dupuy's Speech
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Col. Hirota stated that between the commencement of the blockade and July 11, a total of 148,000 persons M. and Mme. Dupuy received ther passed out of the concession Brnigh the barriers, while 145,000 entered proposing the health of His Majesty
guests in the reception room, and iuring the same period. The con- cession had thus lost 3,000 inhabitants the King, M. Dupuy said:"
| men.
Our
"Wholly False"
CONN WINS WORLD TITLE
New York, July 13.
The nearest to this during re-j cent years was 93.1 on one July day in 1934. Usually the highest point reached during this month is 91 degrees.
JAPANESE BORDER CASUALTIES
HARDIN, July 13.
A Red Cross train of 10 coaches, -
Judglag by the 10 o'clock recording to-day, it is unlikely that yesterday's high mark will be reached. It was the upper and lower berths filled 07 degrees this morning
compared ready to leave Ilallar, departod ut with 88 at the same me yesterday. 6.30 p.m. on July 12, But with an accompanying humidity
of 73 per cent, it was still plenty hot who died of wounds and one civilion.
Hongkong before noun.
Hilly Conn, entering the ring at 12 11. 24 lbs, to-night beat Mallo Bel- tina (12 st. 5% br.) for the light in heavyweight championship of the world, when the two men met over al 15-round contest at Madison Squaro Gardens,
First Tokyo Talk 9 a.m. Saturday
The ashes of two private soldiers
TOKYO, July 14.
employes of the army who died of sleness are an board the train, ench Heat Wave-To-Continue-charge-of-one-contrade,--At-each- THE British Ambassador, by endgration, mostly Chinese workYour Excellency-Ladies-end Gen- temen-May I, first of all, address
The text of President Roosevelt's
station they stood at attention at the Sir Robert Craigie, to-day About fifty British nationals passed to Your Excellency
heartfelt statement is ns follows:
Nelther duen the Royal Observatory coach windows with the urns, in "The reading publle are entitled to:
hold out any hopes of an early break wooden boxes, suspended against accepted the Foreign Minis-the barriers daily, according to thanks for having kindly came end
a statement from the President, a presence, Hiyota, who went on to claim that thus honoured, by your ter, Mr. Hachiro Arita's Britain could not complain of mal-munity and myself on the occasion de necessary by a news story spectators.
Conn won the bout on points amid in the present heat wave. The local their chests by white strings from the members of the French con statement of warning which has been the delirious excitement of 20,000 forecast promises moderate south tochi omletels of patriotic organiza
the neck, while representatives and suggestion Lo open the treatment.
Asked how Jung the blockade of the celebration
west winds with fine to cloudy con-tions poid homage from the platform. of the Fete issued through United Press," al Conn, who is 21 years of age, won attions. Anglo-Japanese diplomatic would last, Hirota replied that the Nationale."
ready printed in one or more papers his victory after losing the first 'six negotiations regarding the duration of the blockade depended presence of Your Excellency, the service.
I am so much the happier at the and on the "Ualted Press' ticker rounds to Bellina, who was a fierce
Casualties Heavy A moderate anti-cyclone covers the on England, since the Japanese
in-fighter.
Pacife to the south and south-east of "A headline in the local Washing-
Casualty figures are not offelally Tientsin issue on Saturday. (sures were dicinted by her attitude.gh officials and all the other dis
Conn rol some beautiful lefts and Japan. The depression has derponed available; however, It is rellably England, said Hirota, must recognise tinguished guests who are gathering sident and the Sceretary of State the sixth round, and clearly outboxed near the coast of north Formosa, and still
ton "Herald" states that the Pre- rights working from long-range after, and it is moving slowly northward learned that some hundred urns are Japan's position in the Far East. here to-day, as the 14th of July bas
Hallar and beyond, awaiting were reported in Administration Bellion. In conclusion, Hiroin declared, this year a somewhat more solemn quarters to have disagreed on
has " tendency to curve north-transportation Japan when It is every effort was made to facilitate character.
Conn was a three to one favourite. westward. A trough of low premure feasible to provide the customary I was, in fact, 150 years ago to- to Congress." matters for German nationals resid-
language of the
Three brass bands ing in the concession-Trans-Ocean. day, that occurred the historic event,
Bettina's followers-Reuter,
were among extends from the depression acres escort for euch urn.
South Chinn to Tongking
The train, during the night, left the the anniversary of which France is)
uncultivated pasturelands, and the commemorating as the National Day.
Inst 10 hours of the journey towards On the 14th of July 1789, the people!
Harbla have been through rich, thickly planted, graislands-United Press.
Mr. Kuramatsu Kishi, the Secretary of the Foreign Minis-1 ter, Mr. Inchiro Arita, called on the British Ambassador at the British Embassy at 10 o'clock this morning.
Protest Rejected
It is understood that the first SHANGHAI, July 14.The British of Parls, by storming the Bastille, conversation between Foreign Minis- protest against the isolation of three the high walls of which, with their! ier Arila and Ambassador Craigle British-owned factories by the Jop-crenekted towers, stood on the south- will be held at o'clocit to-morrow anese hus been rejected by the Jap-east of the city, overthrow, by n morning at the official residence of unese military authorities who re-symbolic gesture, the last barriers of the Foreign Minister-Domei,
fused to remove the barbed wire Absolutism, represented by that old fence around the factory buildings. State Prison.
The Japanese authorities maintain that the British employees of the PLEASE Turn To Page 4.
Tientsin Issue Only
The spokesman of the Foreign Office told foreign correspondenta) this morning that the Anglo-Japanese parley would be devoted to the dis cussion of the Tientsin issue which, however, would be deall with from every possible angle.
Forcim Minister Arita, in un inter- vlew with reporters last right, admitted that the conversations at first would be conducted between him and Ambassador Craigie which, he lipid, would bring about tangible results at an early date,
He pointed out that Japan's attitude had been determined and that efforts would be muse by the authorities concerned for attaining the object in view, He could tell how Tong the conversations would continue.-Domel,
King Holds An Investiture
London, July 13,
JAPANESE “TERMS”
More Dictating At Tsingtao
SHANGHAI, Juy 14.
IT is learned that the British Consul-General at Tsingtao, ac- companied by a representative
From that date, the democratic principle was born. Liberty Was given to the people who exercised it in its sovereignty through the means of their delegates.
That liberty always exists and tha; French people are jealously clinging
to it.
But what are 150 years of free- dom, when one is addressing to a country le England- whose long custom to Liberty
10 dates back many centuries,
It is not less true that that com- munity of ideas and ideals has en- abled our two countries to under- stand and appreciate each other na well as to work in perfect collabora- tion and in a sincere atmosphere of friendship. We have had many Proofs of it in our common history, of the British Chamber of Com- this century.
and especially at the beginning ofj merce, called on the Japanese' Mary events have drawn us closer Consul General yesterday even-to each other and wo Inve been ing, and asked whether theydays. We are ready to revive those living together painful but glorious could be assured that protection unforgotten days in ease of neces would be offered by the Japanese sity. during the anti-British demons- Royal Visit To Franco
The King held an investiture to-day tration planned for to-morrow. Since last year many happy events nt St. James's Palace. Among the 281 The Japanese Consul Generul have much contributed to the better recipients of honours WOB Mr. replied in the affirmative, provided comprehension in the mind of our Maurice Child, who threw a suitcase the British; did not protest over, the people. I am referring to the visit containing explosives into the river anti-British demonstration which their Majesties the King andi! from Hammersmith Bridge, when an took place on July 10, nor present Queen of Great Britain to Paris, attempt was made to blow up the any claims in connection with IL followed within a few months by bridge la March. He was decorated It is understood that the British that of the President of the French by the King with the medal of the Embassy, has referred the matter to Republic to London, and nino Order of the British Empire-British the Foreign Offee for instructions.numerous political, commerelat and Wireless,
PLEASE Tum To Pago 4.
Reuter
10
the
neutrally message
Hongkong Funeral of Air Crash Victim
The Union Jack-covered coin of Fit, Sergt. Jack Ogden, one of two men, killed in yesterday's, Ruing accident at Stanley, being carried by old comrades to the proizalde this morning,, white, detachments from, the three Services follow. Full military honoura 'were accorded the funeral.Ming Yuen,sjikay 163
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