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Arrest Of Attache

No Charges Yet Against Spear

LONDON, July 24. NO FORMAL trial has yet started of Colonel Spear, the British military attache now in Japanese hands in Peiping,

July 25, 1939.

Supplementary 127 Arrested. Expenditure In Shanghai

Government Needs

More Money

Briton Included In Chapei Round-Up

A VOTE of $278.605 for sup- plementary expenditure on works

SHANGHAI, July 24. and services in the Colony will

BODYGUARDS, acting on bo sought when the Hongkong orders from Mayor Fu Sion-En, Legislative Council Finance Beized and detained the Muni- Gommittee meets on Thursday. cipal Council's garbage workers, The preliminary investigations The biggest single item is including 28 trucks, one Briton, are still proceeding, according $120,000, which is extraordinary one Russian and 125 Chinese due to information given by his expenditure in connection with to their unloading of garbage In Japanese colleague to the officer the erection of a new camp for Chapei. In charge of the British Embassy Chinese interned soldiers. at Peiping, said, Mr. R. A. Butler in the House of Commons to-day: Mr. Butler added that Sir Robert Cruigle is maintaining the closest touch with the Japanese Government, and Viscount Halifax trusts that in view of the improved atmosphere, this question will soon be sellled.

Mr. Arthur Henderson asked if it had been made clear to the Japanese Government that the British Govern- ment held it responsible for the safety of Colonel Spear,

Mr. Buller replied in the affirma- tive-Reuter,

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Rain Storm Damage. the necessary repairs to Government A sum of $60,000 in sought so that budidings, etc., caused this year by eavy rainstorms can be effected and reasonable sum, $14,023, made available for future emergency work. The amount of $72,430 approved in the original estimates for typhoon and rainstorm damager covered $42,430 for work on damage caused by the 1037 typhoon and a sum of $30,000 only

remained available for the year's requirements. The additional vote is therefore sought.

Mara Opium Sold

current

Japanese reports sald that Fu con- tends the Municipal Counell has no

of the Municipal Council sald that right to dump garbage in Chapel without his authorisation, Members the dumping of garbage of the same place has been going on for months without interference.

The Muntelpol Council police are making efforts to have the detained men releasedUnited Press,

S. M. C. Challenged · SHANGHAI, July 23. Mr. Fu Slao-on, Japanese appointed Mayor of Greater Shanghai, has made a direct challenge to the Shanghai Municipal Council,

His bodyguards. arrested One An item of $31,000 relates to the Briton, one fusslan and 126 Chinese preparation and carriage of opium. overseers and coolies belonging, to Owing to the Sino-Japanese the Council's Public Works Depart- hostilities there has been much lessment.

Importation of leit opium to the The arrests were made In Colony and sales of Government Japanese-occupied territory, where oplum have increased to several refuse from the Settlement is being times the previous average.

dumped,

Twenty-Ave PW.D. Jorries were also scized.

Mayor Fe Sino-en contended that the Council had no right to dump re- fuse in territory under his jurisdiction without his authorisation-Reuter, Army-Navy Friction? SHANGHAI, July 25.-It is under-

It has, therefore, been necessary to pay for the preparation und carriage of much larger quantities than were

the 1939 expected when

cstimates were prepared.

The supplementary vite of $31,000 is being requested to cover commit Strong Representations ments already incurred, but if sales continue at their present scale it is To London

kely to be necessary to incur sullistood that the garbage incident is the further expenditure, in respect of result of a conflict of Interests be which a supplementary vote, it is tween the Japanese army and the

| Japanese navy. stated, will be sought it necessary,

24. During LONDON, July long- conference which was attend ed by high Foreign Onice officials and the Chinese Ambassador to London, Lord Halifax to-day gave assurances which appear to have assuaged the worst of the Chinese fears regarding the Tokyo agreement.

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The Municipal Council has recently A DRAMA THAT ONCE SEEN WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED! The amount originally voted for the

been disposing of garbage and Junk purchase of stamps being almost ex-in the low-lying Chapel areas, where hausted, a supplementery vote $4,000 is to be requested. The un- the arrests were made, at the specific expected increase in sales of postage request of the Japanese Navy- stamps during the current year hus Mr. Quo Tal-chi, after requesting resulted in a depletion of stocks of an elucidation of the situation, made

certain denominations, neccssitating! strong representations against the the purchase of additional stamps to Tokyo formula which, he charged, ensure an adequate supply for the was inconsistent with Britain's un-next 12 months. dertakings under the Nine Power The estimated cost, including Treaty, their declaration at the freight and Insurance charges, of the Brussels Conference, and several re-additional supplies to be purchased Is solutions under the League of Nations, $3.905.17.

The British commitments to which

the Chinese Ambossador alluded con- cerned respect for China's territorial |

integrity. League members' obligo- Grim Japanese

tions to ald China and to #vold weakening her resistance, the optional enforcement

of Article 16 of the Vengeance

League Covenant against Japan; orid the Brussels Conference declaration that the Nine Power signatories were i entitled to enforce such Article.

It is understood from most reliable) sources that Lord Halifax with the assurance that the Tokyo formula involves recognition of the presence of the Japanese army on Chinese soll but refrains from con- doning it.

Civilians Decapitated

In Tenghai

B.B.C. Broadcasts To Extend

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LONDON, July 25.-When ques- tioned by several members in the House of Commons as to the pro- paganda services sent out from Bri- toin by broadcast, Mr. R. A. Butler announced that the British govern- ment was considering extension of the present foreign language broad- casts to the Hungarian, Yugoslav, Rumanian and Czech languages. Trans-Ocean,

Corman Propaganda

London, July 24. replied LIUHUANG, July 25,--A

Answering a House of Commons grim sight was seen by the question the Under-Secretary for Chinese troops who re-entered Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler Tenghai, at the entrance of the said: "It is unfortunately true that Han River in east Kwangtungnature is published in the German much propagands of an anti-British Further, Lord Halifax is stated to 12 miles northeast of Swatow, on Arabic broadensts, and much in- have declared that the Nhe Power July 22,

accurate information, especially re- Treaty, the Brusseis declaration and

More than 100 headless bodies garding Palestine, but they do not the Lengue resolutions remain un affected by the Tokyo agreement, of men and women were found in appear to contain any direct inelte-

ment to violence." which involves neither recognition of the premises of the Tenghai Japan's belligerent rights nor any Middle School,

Mr. Butler added that the B.B.C. change-l-Britain's poffey in the F They are believed--to-hahad_broadcast dentals of the worst of

these allegations, which were funda Eust-United Press.

been decapitated by the Japanese mentally untrue, but he did not think during their occupation of the that a direct approach to Germany town. Ceutral Neius.

would be likely to achieve desirable results.

A colonlul office report on Palestine FORBIDDEN TO LANDatates that after two R.A.F. tenders Marcus Show Players Not had been shot at on the Beersheba- Hebron road yesterday, a military Allowed in Japan detachment went out and engaged the The Japanese Consul-General, Mr.bandits,, and it is believed that casu- A. Tajiri was unable to give any alties were inflicted on them before explanation yesterday when he was darkness intervened. asked why the members of the Mar-

cus Show, numbering about 70, were During the operations, one British forbidden to land when they arrived private was killed and four others

in Japan recently on the Empress of wounded. Further than that police Jopan. He and he had not heard of the affair.

Though the Marcus arilats did not Intend to play in Japan, they were going to make a short tour of Japan and had tentatively arranged through the N.Y.K. in Hongkong to continue their journey to Amerted on the Talyo. Maru in August.

and troops yesterday morning carried out searches in six villoges of the Hailu subdistrict, in the course of which 138 persons were identifled as belonging to terrorist organisations and arrested.British Wireless,

Czechs Outlawed

In Japan, however, for some rea- son as yet not known in Hongkong. they were forbidden to set foot officials Ilving abroad will be virtually

· PRAGUE, July 24-Former Czech shore. This necessitated A last- minute change in thefe plans and they scated under a law prepared by the

outlawed, and their property continued their Journey on the Em-

Government.-Reuter Special. press of Jupan.

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