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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 18, 1939.

OVERNIGHT BRITAIN WILL INTERVENE IF

NEWS PAGE FORCE

American

Warning

To Japan

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UF)-Senator Wiliam Kug to-day warned that Japan's adherence to the Axis military alliance would “allenste all pos- sible sympathy that considerable sections of American opinion might have."

Te sald It is necessary to re- cognise that it is inevitable for Japan to co-operate with Lic Axls, but added that a definite military commitment would present a "new situation,"

Fate Of The Four

Tientsin Suspects

APPEAL AGAINST JUDGMENT

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Ichang Bombing

"BLANKET" DENIAL BY JAPANESE

Shanghai, Aug. 17.

A blanket denial of the Japanese bombings on August 0 on Ichang which allegedly set fire to British ships, and during which bombs al- Jegedly

sedly exploded on British proper- ty, was issued by the Japanese Army to-day through Mr. Yoshlaki Miura, the Japanese Consul-General, reply- ing to the British notes of August 6 and August 7 concerning the damage allegedly sustained by British pro- perty and vessels,

IS USED IN DANZIG

To Japanese

"The Times" Re-Affirms New Approach

Country's Desire For

A Peaceful Settlement

The determination of Great Britain and her allies to Intervene in the event of attempts by other parties to settle the question of Danzig's return to the Reich by force, has been re-affirmed by The Times which is regarded as a semi-official mouthpiece of the British Government especially now that Parliament is in recess.

London, Aug. 17, they stress that it could only take The Times in a leader to-day re-place with full participation not unly jaЛrmed that any attempt to selle of Poland but also of the Soviet The Japanese Senior Contander the Danzig question by force would Union-Trans-Qocan,

above Ichang for about 10 immediately send Britain and other stayed minutes after bombing to observe the effects of the attack but didnt-aggression nations to war.

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observe

pro-

erve any vessels which were Sunultaneously

the newspaper inoored nearby catch fire as the re-ald there was no European sult of the bombardment,

blem which could not be solved by negotiations, including the question of Colonies."

"Therefore, if any British vessels were burnt or gutted, it is presumed that the ship was set on fire at some other moment owing to some other I bitterly denounced what it call- cause which would have nothing to fed the mentrous betrayal of Ger- do with the Japanese bombard-many's word at Munich.

Lombs

"the"

British Pledge

London, Aug. 17.

that Britain has decided to Intensify their Polish dented guaranice to assist Poland if commitments by giving an unprece-

they object to economic penetration by any foreign Power."

It has been learned

This pledge will coincide with a formal alliance which, it is hoped, will be signed in London next week

It asserted that disarmament must and which will operate in the case of

ment of the

convenient

Frontier Closed

Prague, Aug. 17.

Demand

London, Aug. 17. British experts kro consider- Ing A new approach to the Japanese demand for suppress- ion of the Chinese dollar bialde the Tientsin Concession and at least implicit support for Japan- ese-sponsored money in North China.

to

The British are weighing the advisability of proposing Tokyo the appointment of s neutral specialist to investigate on the spot and report to the Interested Governments, espeel- ally Japan, Britain, the Uniled States and China. The specialist might be an American or, if this unacceptable to Japan, possibly Swede The plan 15 still in its Infancy and may be frustrated prematurely.--United Press,

Japan And Axis

Important

Conference

Postponed

be

that

Determination of definite measures, according to well-informed quarters, further will be postponed until

Ishiwatn.--Domei.

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ment," the Japanese note stated.

Admiting the possibility that dud

be part of any European agreement, a nation, such as Germany, attempt might have landed in the Shanghal, Aug. 17.

Particular dignificance attached, ing to impose economic domination open area south-east of the Asiatic

attached 14 this editorini, Acting on instruction

Petroleum Company Installation, the because The Times frequently in Poland thereby threatening her don, Mr. II. A. Recks and J. R. mde expresses regret for such ov-|

F-independence and compelling her to Jones, reprezentatives of Elk and currence as well as the possibility of fleets and even anticipates the Goy- forcibly resist. Hays, have Lelegraphed their agents juring the crew of the British ves-crument's pulley, and secondly, be- in Tientsin to get in touch with the sel

cause Parlkument is in recess, hence the ease of indireet aggression and it The alliance will also operate in four Chinese prisoners with a view

The Times eotald be a "However, if it were true, all this to obtaining authority to represent would be attributed to the fact that sounding-hourd for an authoritative struc a German invasion of Lithu

is assumed that Warsaw would con- them.

Besides appealing against the jede furees were allowed to be situated

millary structures of the Chinese statement on British policy.

arin, possibly even Hungary, as Į Despite previous reports ment of Assistant Judge Grant Junes,

Thirdly, it is important because of threat to Polish independence.

there will

3 session 10- they intend to lodge a fresh applica quite close to the British property in reports that the Di azi High Comfnounced that Britain will refuse to to-day that the Five-Minister Cun- Meanwhile authorities have an-morrow, it was authoritatively learned tion for a writ of habras cores to disregard of the repeated requests by missioner tas returned to Danzig the Full Court-Reuter,

Japanese authorities ariel rident must have happened unavoid conversations with

the deeply depressed as a result of hi participate in any International conference will not yet meet to deter

Hiler-United

feree unless Poland and Russla are mine measures for materialisation of Summary Of Judgment ably," the note dechired, asking that Press

invited-United Press,

Japan's policy towards the European Shanghai, Aug. 17. proof would be presented that

situation. The following is the get of the British vessels were set on Are #s

Suggestions Denied judgment given by Assistant Judge.

result

of the bombardment.

London. Aug. 17. Grant Jones:

The August 6 attack was launched Counsel has

Suggestions for a four Power con- The frontier between Poland on not submitted the against the

& nerference over Danzig, have bech much the one hand and Bohemia, Moravia developments in the situation. names of the prisoners and I doubt cumulated at Potaho, 4 kilometres canvassed in the foreign Press in the and Slovakia on the other has been. It is revealed that following the whether a writ could be issued in south-east of chang

session of the and also the past few days. It can be stated that closed by the Polish authorities since ergency incomplete a form as is here con- wharves south-east of Ichang- no plan for such a conference as re- yesterday, according to the Maerisch Cabinet on August 8,

the Foreign templated.

Domel.

for- A writ of habras corpus

commended in these reports has been Schlesische Landes Zeitung,

Arita, Minister, Mr. Inchiro which not No Compensation Likely confined to British subjects but, ap-

officially brought

mulated a tentative plan for develop- to the notice of appears in Maerisch-Ostrnu. Shanghai, Aug. 17. London, where the inclination is to plies to all persons under the pro-

The paper states that the Polish been shown to the Premier, Baron ing the Europe policy' which has fcction of the Crown, whether alien calmer meant that no compensation campaign

Asked whether the Japanese disregard the reports as incidents in a authorities justify this measure by Hiranuma, the War Minister, General friends or allen enemies. It is not for the loss of the ships would be maintain tension and divert atten- exists between. Poland and the pro- Yonat and the Finance Minister, Mr.

of rumour designed to

to the

argument that no convention Hagaki, the Navy Minister, Admiral essential for the application for the writ to proceed directly

Japanese army spokesman tion from the incontrovertible facts Lectorate regarding frontler traille. from the Pat prisoner. Denial of arcess

to the replied, "This cannot definitely be of the situation. German pressure on Concerning the Czech inhabitants prisoner with consequent absence of stated, but it is to be assumed that Poland, the mobilization of the Ger- of Olsa district which was ceded by Instructions from him constitutes

110_such claims will be entertained." an Army and German encourage the former Czecho-Slovak Gover- aReuter. condition precedent to the application

Danzig Senate in its nient to Poland in the antumn of Russo-Japanese ciprocal demands, figure no less prominently 1938, the paper asserts that these friend.

among these factors than do the re- capable of bearing arms have been

undertakings Peace Front Powers.

among the invited to form a Czech Legion, whose duty it would be to fight on the Polish side in the event of war. Yesterday's preliminary conversa-Trans-Ocean. tion in Danzig between the Polish Commissioner General and the Presi- Paris, Aug. 10.

dent of the Senate, following which, A message protesting against the M. Chodacki went to Warsaw, to con- British decision to hand over the four suit his Government, also takes Its Counsel (Mr. H. A. Recks and Mr. Chinese suspects in Tlenisin, was place in the events of which, as dis- J. R. Jones) did intend to suggest at sent to Lord Hallfax, the Britisi tinct from rumeurs, note is taken the hearing of the application that Foreign

Minister,

the here. the prisoners were so coerced as to International

to-day by the be incapable of making an affidavit, which opened here yesterday

Students'

Conference but there is no allegation

is The Times notes that it would, of to that

attended effect in their joint affidavit by which

by students of 35 countries, course, be beyond the province of The the application is supported. An insist that the British

message says the students these officials, who holds posts within afidavit is absolutely

Government the framework of the present Danzig necessary should not hand over the either from the party who claims the prisoners to a phantom government. cations, for it

system, to discuss officially any sug- Chinese writ or from some other person so Such action would be contrary to status of the Free City. That larger

As the Japanese firmly rejected the Press that "information from foreign a modification of the 13 to satisfy the Court that he is so British justice, for it would signify assu

Soviet offers, a Soviet woman who coerced as to be unable to make it.recognition by

it remarks, raised by Herr

The situation however, is still so served for a while under the Japanese colleagues at Wuchang sald that des There is before me no such amdavit, League of Nations of an aggresor ed

Hitler, could only usefully be discuss- a member of the

Rome, Aug. 17.

strained that it is impossible to open offelal, suddenly resigned, saying cholera in the Wuhan area, particu- plte Japanese efforts to control General Quiero de Llano, Chief of negotiations for an amleoble settle that she must remove to a different by the plenipotentiories but merely an affidavit by counsel Power and would have grave interna- countries concerned-in the first in-taly, has embarked at Barcelona for

of the the Spanish Military Mission

to ment.

place: for applicants, made of their own in- tional consequences."-Reuter.

demic was rampant,

in the outlying districts, a new stance Poland and Germany.

A Nicht Nichi Shimbun correspon- She invited her former Japanese It is stated that Wuchong has been dent considers that all pending employer to a farewell banquet late by questions must be referred the Italian Press in commenting upon settlement to the arbitrament of the party without suspicion and gave the numerous coses there. Most Chinese for in the night. The latter attended the completely quarantined. There are the impending visit of the Mission, sword.

Soviet woman owing to

Signor the fact that

parting gift. A are not permitted to pass in or out Mussolint and General Franco

If the Soviet Union concentrates Soviet militiaman and a member of of the city, while foreigners are sub- resolved to give a pronounced milits energies in the Far East, the

the local Soviet labour union imme- jected to a completo "bath" of dis-

called correspondent alleges that the Soviet

diately afterwards

the infectant,

They said that even the Japanese Japanese and forced him to sign a two parts, thus endangering the

of the inroads of diseases.

Meanwhile they understand that a The Japanese clerk was committed serious outbreak of scarlet fever has

on his behalf, even by a relation or formation, knowledge and belief as The rule here sought on behalf of to the facts on which the application four Chinese is by persons who, in is founded, my opinion, are inere strangers or The application must be dismissed. volunteers. The present applicants -Reuter,

Students Protest

have not been shown to have any authority to appear on behalf of those prisoners the right to represent them.

New Aircraft Carrier

Launches

Herself

LONDON, Aug. 17.

In no circumstances can useful dis-

cussions be imagined at which Poland is not fully and formally represented --British Wireless.

Democracies Ready

Rome.

Spanish Mission To Italy

Great significance is attached

arc

Friction

Amicable Settlement Impossible

Tokyo, Aug. 17. Quiet prevails on the border be tween Manchukuo and Outer Mon- Kolla,

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protest with the Soviet

formal Government.

Local Soviet authorities allegedly exerted constant pressure on a Japanese clerk of the North Sakhallen Coal Mining Company, urging him to espionage in favour of the Soviet

from Union, according to reports North Salchallen.

Д

on

WUHAN CHOLERA EPIDEMIC

Chungking. Aug 17. Foreign sources

Informed United

the history of the place, Worst

ury character to the future diplomatic Union will eventually be split into deposition alleging that he attempted Army was "in a bad way" as a result

Britain's latest aircraft carrier, the £4,000,000 For- now await Hitler's next move with Staff talks than by exchange of views that he is mystified at the Moscow for trial in a local Soviet court and occurred in the Central China Col midable, was involved in an alarming incident, resulting

in the death of one woman ́and injuries to 20 people, at

her launch at Belfast to-day.

Sir Kingsley Wood, Air Minister, accompanied by Lady Wood, had

Scramble For Safety

calm.

Diplomalle circles believe that Hiller's "war of nerves"! have reach-

diplomatic

Incidentally, the correspondent saya attitude concerning the Soviet aerial bombardment of Fularki and Halunarshan, two open towns in the Interior of Manchukuo.

Fularki,

sentenced to penal servitude for five lege of Hsichow in Yunnan. It is years, on a charge of rape, on July 26. said that most of the 200 pupils, who were removed from Wuchang last While the Japanese Embassy lodged year, are now suffering from effects a protest with the Soviet Government of the disease.

Moscow on an important station on at the International Railway in western Japanese defendant appealed to the at present, which makes the outbreak August 13, the There are no doctors at the college Manchukuo, was bombed by Soviet Bisher court against the sentence. more serious United Press. fllers once, but Halunarshan, the His public trial at the higher court western terminus of the Manchukuota scheduled for August 20, Railway, was visited bombers several times.

Paris, Aug. 17. After further exchanges of views relations between the two countries. between M. Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, and Lord Halifax, British conditions better and more effective,

It is argued that under present foundation of the Socialist Republic, to attack the Soviet woman.. Foreign Minister, London and Paris results can be achieved by direct regard to Danzig with unruffled through the ordinary channels.Trans-Ocean.

Commissioner For Morocco

ed a maximum, but huve failed him

Burgos, Aug. 17. just arrived at the launching plat-

General Carlos Asensio has been in his purpose to repeat the Septem- form, when pleces of timber were)

Belfast, Aug. 17, Five persons were injured and a opinion, and therefore Berlin must

her coup by intimidating public appointed High Commissioner for seen to be breaking away from the major

Morocco,-United Presa. disaster narrowly cradle supporting the vessel on the when the 23,000-ton aircraft carrier

averted enter into direct talks with Poland slips.

Formidable broke

of effecting a away before the as the only means Hundreds of shipwrights below the launching, ceremony

and Iaunched settlement on

Issue,

Paris, Aug. 17. vessel ready to play their part in the herself.

apart from war,

The Spanish Government has in- launch ran

The Soviet Government, through the Soviet higher court refuses to for their lives, while

Dozens of workanen scrambled for

formed, the French authorities pieces of timber from the broken safely as the vessel tore

Paris and London are not over the French prisoners of

that its official news agency, categorically acquit the Japanese. the huge favourable to cradle crashed around them. All got cradle to pieces and moved down the national conference, but suggest that against whom no charges are being

and dealed attacks on the open towns.--- an eventual inter- French civilian prisoners in Spain Damei. clear without serious injury.

slipway unsupported. threatening to rules for such Pieces of timber and fron nuts and topple over on thousands close under first be settled with the fullest con- letin

conference must made will be released-Reuter Bul- bolts fell among the thousands of her sides. The vessel, however, sent of Poland.-United Press. spectators

accommodated in the safely reached the water. special enclosures at Harland- und Wolff's shipyard.

Lady Kingsley Wood, who arrived

as the Formidable broke away, lnd Tugs standing by to take charge just enough time to smash a battle of the Formidable after, the launch of British Empire wine against the when they saw the ship entering the bows.--United Press.

water had to proceed at full steam

abend in order to escape.

Officials

realised what was hap

pening when the vessel began to move and on their instructions Lady Wood broke a bottle of champagne on the vessel's side and named her the Formidable.

Miraculous Escape

the free city

·Rome Conversation

London, Aug. 17.' The British Ambassador in Rome. Sir Percy Loraine, was instructed by the British Government to-day have an immediate conversation with Count Ciano, and it is presumed that

to

Releasing Prisonars

4var

HOLD UP IN STREET

Three Men Rob Stroller Of Watch and Money

London, Aug. 17.

Leung Wah-shun, 18, Wan Loi, 23, aircraft carriers under constructioning as to the purpose of the con-wrist watch and a pocket knife from The third of the seven British noon. No information is forthcom-charged with stealing $1.15, a metal a inveting will take place this after-and Wong Kim-chau, 18, were was launched at Belfast to-day.

So Chun-on, 41, on August 14, when they appeared before Mr. Q. A, A. Although nothing is known here Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- about the decisions taken in tetracy yesterday,

The Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, and Lady. Wood flew to Belfast

A religious ceremony was carried for the launching,

water.

For started to enter

versation.

by Sovlet

It is understood that the Japanese; will take further vigorous action it

Tenso Border Situation

Warsaw, Aug. 17. Fresh fighting of a severe nature has occurred at the Mongol-Man- churlan border, according to reports) from Moscow.

A Japanese clerk of certnin Japanese shipping

at company Vladivostok also fell victim to a similar Soviet plot several years ago. -Domei,

Fishing Rights Issão

Tokyo, Aug. 17. Commenting on the Soviet pressure

The situation In the Far East is brought to bear upon Japanese Ashery extremely tense. The trans-Siberian Interests In Northern walers, the rallway is

BO overburdened with spokesman of the Navy Ministry to military transport work that passen-day said that Soviet pressure was Trans-Ocean,

er traffic has had to be suspended.-

increasing with the advent of the fshing season.

Japanese Imprisoned

The spokesman pointed out as a "ludicrous instance of Soviet mea- Tokyo, Aug. 17.

aures the recent Sovlet assertion that out after the vessel was safely in the The aircraft carrier, named the course of Count Ciano's recent con-

Yet another case of the alleged the haul stipulated by the contract An official of Harland and Wolff water

the ferences at Salzburg and Berchtes- Sergeant Baldwin said complainant dents in North Sakhalien is reported, Ashes, and can together.

Soviet plot to aflet Japanese resi- should be determined by weighing the as Lady Kingsley Wood gaden, the question of a possible in-was walking along a path above the this time involving a Japanese com- stated that the vessel took to the had reached the stand and managed ternational conference on Danzig co.- Kowloon Mortuary when the three mercial clerk who refused to act as a water safely before schedule time, to break a bottle of wine over her tinues to be discussed in British poll-men forced him to submit to a search secret agent for Soviet authorities agree to the Soviet proposal it fish Ridiculing the Soviet argument, the and before

the ship left the ways bows. The Formidable broke away tical circles.

spokesman said that Japanese would Lady Wood was able to perform the from the cradle holding the vessel

and robbed him.

despite their constant pressure. launching ceremony. There was no and slipped into the sea on her keel,

Defendants admitted the charge

were caught together with cars. He Informed quarters deny all know-and were sentenced to nine months" The matter danger that the vessel would collapse She miraculously took to the water ledge that such a conference is de- hard labour, with a recommendation diplomatic issue as the Japanese Am-mentioned, his clothes would not be has now become a added that when a man's weight is sideways--Reuter Special,

without mishap-Reuter Bulletin. sired anywhere, but at the same tin--for banishment,

bassador at Moscow has lodged a included-Domel,

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