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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

August 18, 1939.

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American

Warning

To Japan

WASHINGTON, Aur. 16 (UP), Senator William King to-day warned Hiat Japan's adherence to the Axis military alllance would "alienate all poss alble sympathy thal considerable sretions of American opinion might have."

He said it is necessary to re- cognise that it is inevitable for Japan to co-operate with the Axis, but added that a definite military commitment would present a "new situation."

Fate Of The Four

Tiontsin Suspects

APPEAL AGAINST JUDGMENT

Ichang Bombing

IS USED IN DANZIG

"BLANKET" "The Times" Re-Affirms

Country's Desire For

DENIAL BY JAPANESE

Shanghai, Aug. 17.

A blanket denial of the Japanese bombings on August 6 on Tchang which allegedly set fire to British ships, and during which bombs al- ickedly

ely exploded

British proper- ty, was issued by the Japanese Army to-day through Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, the Japanese Consul-General, reply- ing to the British noten of August 0

and August 7

7 concerning the damage allegedly sustained by British pro- perty and vencals.

A Peaceful Settlement

The determination of Great Britain and her allies to intervene in the event of attempts by other parlies 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-ofcial mouthpiece of the British Government especially now that Parliament is in recess.

London, Aug. 17. The Times in a leader to-day re- afrined that any attempt to settle the Danzig question by force would immediately send Britain and other anti-aggression nations to war.

they stress that it could only take place with full participation not only of the Soviet of Poland but also Union.-Trant-Octan.

The Japanese Senior Commander slayed above lelang for about 10 minutes after bombing to observe

British Pledge the effects of the attack but did not observe any vessels which were Simultaneously the newspaper

London, Aug. 17. It has been learned that Britain moored nearby catch fire as the re-said there was no European pro- sult of the bombardment,

blem which could not be solved by bas decided to Intensify their Poilsi negotiations, including the question Commitments by giving an unprece- dented quarunter to assist Poland if of Colonies.

they object to economic penetration

"Therefore, if any British vessels were burnt or gutted, it is presumed that the ship was set on fire at some olher moment, owing to some other It bitterly denounced what it call-by any foreign Power," cause which would have nothing to ed the montrons betrayal do with the Japanese bombard-many's word at Munich. ment," the Japanese note stated.

Admiting the possibility that duri bombs might have landed in the Shanghai, Aug. 17. open area suuth-east of the Aslatie,

of Ger-

I

This pledge will coincide

with t 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 be part of any European agreement. nation, such as Germany, attempt- Particular significance is attacheding to impose economic domination

re- | independence and compelling her to

Actitur on instructions from Lon- Petroleum Company Installation, the because The Times frequently"

attached to this editorial. Brstly on Poland thereby threatening her

don,

them.

Mr.

New Approach To Japanese Demand

London, Aug. 17. British experts are consider-- Ing A now approach ́ to the Japanese demand for suppress- Jon of the Chinese dollar Inside the Tientsin Concession and af least implicit support for Japan- esc-sponsored money in North China

The British are welching tho advisablity of proposing to Tokyo the appointment of a neutral speciallst to Investigate on the spot and report to the interested Governments, espeel- ally Japan, Britain, the United States and China. The specialist might be an American or, if this unacceptable to Japan, possibly a Swede. The plan still in Hw Infancy and may be frustrated prematurely.United Press,

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Conference 司公空航亞歐

Postponed

, A. Reeks and J. R. note expresses regret for such acnects and even anticipates the Gov forcibly resist. Jones, representatives of Elis andicurrence as well as the possibility of Hays, have telegraphed their agents juring the crew of the British yes crnment's policy, and secondly, be-

The alliance will also operate in cause Parliament is in recess, hence in Tientsin to get in touch with the rel.

the case of indirect aggression and it The Times could be a four Chinese prisoners with a viewi

convenient to obtaining authority to represent

sounding-board for an authoritative assumed that Warsaw would con-

strue a German invasion of Lithu statement on British policy.

aniu. possibly even Hungary, as a Despite previous report's that

there will

a session to- reports that the Danzig High Conounced that Britain will refuse to to-day that the Five-Minister Con-

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

Meanwhile authorities have an-morrow, It was authoritatively learned missioner has returned to

Danzig deeply depressed as a result of his participate in any international conference will not yet meet to deter- ference unless Poland and Russia are mine measures for materialisation of Hitler-United

invited.-United Press.

Japan's policy towards the European Prees

situation.

Besides appealing painst the junk ment of Assistant Judge Grant Jones, they intend to lodge a fresh pict tion for a writ of habeas corpus to the Full Court,-Reuter.

conversations with

Suggestions Denied

Frontier Closed

will

be

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

in the situailun. developments in

I is revealed that following the

session of the emergency

Inner

""However, if it were true, all this would be attributed to the fact that of the Chinese litary structures forces were allowed to be situated quite close to the British property in deart of the repeated requests by Japanese authorities

and the in- cident must have happened unavold- Summary Of Judgment

ably the note declared, asking that Shanghai, Aug. 17.

would be proof

that presented The following is the gist of the British versels were set on Are asi Judgment given by Assistant Judge the result of the bombardment.

London, Aug. 17.

Prague, Aug. 177 Grant Jones:

The August & attack was launched Suggestions for a four Power con-

The frontier between Poland oa Counsel has no! submitted the against the military supplies ne ference over Danzig have been much the one hand-and Bohemia, Moravia names of the prisoners and I doubt cumulated at Paolaho. 4 kilometres canvassed in the foreign Press in the and Slovakia on the other has been whether a writ could be issued in so south-east of Telang and also the past few days. It can be stated that closed by the Polish authoritarisch Cabinet on August 8, the Foreign incomplete a form as is here con- wharves south-east of chang no plan for such a conference as re- yesterday, according to the Maris Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, for- templated.

Dumel,

commmended in these reports has been Schlesische Landes Zeitung, which A writ of habeas corpus is

mulated a tentative plan for develop- not No Compensation Likely officially brought to the notice of appears in Maerisch-Ostrau,

the Europe polley which ha confined to British subjects but ap-

is to The paper states that the Polish been shown to the Fremier, Baron plies to all persons under the pro-

the reports as Ineldents in authorities Justify thin measure by Hiranuma, the War Minister, General tection of the Crown, whether alien

campaign of rumour designed to the

no convention Itagaki, the Navy Minister, Admiral friends or alten enemies, it is not

maintain tension and divert allen-exists, between Puland and the pro-Yonat and the Finance Minister, Mr.

en argument essential for the application for the

tion from the incontrovertible facts tectorate regarding frontler traße. writ to proceed directly

Ishiwata-Domel. from the

Concerning the Czech inhabitants pressure on of the situation. German prisoner. Denial of access to the prisoner with consequent absence of

Poland, the mobilization of the Ger- of Olsa district which was ceded by man Army and German encourage- the former Czecho-Slovak Govern- Instructions from him constitutes a

ment of the Danzig Senate in its ment to Poland In the antumn of Russo-Japanese condition precedent the application

asserts that those demands, Agure no less prominently 1938, the ring arms have been) on his behalf, even by a relation or

among these factors than do the reinvited to form a

capable of friend,

ciprocal undertakings among

Czech Legion, Peace Front Powers.

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 Presl- dent of the Senate, following which

four

Shanghai, Aug. 17

Asked whether the Japanese dinon, where the inglination

eliner meant that no compensation for the loss of the ships would be paid a Japanese army spokesman replied. "This cannot definitely be stated, but it is to be assumed that

10 such claims will be entertained."

·Renter,

-Reuter,

Students Protost

formation, knowledge and belief as rule here sought on behalf of to the facts on which the application Chinese Is by persons who, in in founded. my opinion, are mere strangers or The application must be dismissed. volunteers. The present applicants have not been shown to have any authority to appear on behalf of those prisoners or the right to represent

M. Chodacki went to Warsaw to con- sult his Government, also takes its Counser (Mr. H. A. Reeks and Mr. Chinese suspects in Tientsin, was place in the events of which, as dis- J. R. Jones) did intend to suggest at sont to Lord Halifax, the British tinct from rumours, note is taken the hearing of the application that Foreign Minister, to-day by

the here. the prisonera were so coerced as to International Students

them.

Paris, Aug. 10. A message protesting against the British decision to hand over the four

be incapable of making an affidavit, which opened here yesterday and is course, be beyond but there is no allegation to that attended by students of 35 countries. effect in their joint affidavit by which

Conference The Times notes that it would, of

tont

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Soviet

Local Soviet authorities allegedly exerted constant pressure on В Japanese clerk of the North Sakhalien Coal Mining Company, urging him to espionage, in favour of the Soviet Union, according to reports from North Sakhallen.

WUHAN CHOLERA EPIDEMIC

the province of

Tokyo, Aug. 17, The message says the students these officials, who holds posts within

Quiet prevails on the border be- the application is supported. An insist that the British Government the framework of the present Danzig amdavit Is absolutely

Chungkinh, A. 13. tween Manchukuo and Outer Mon-

Foreign sources necessary should not hand over the Chinese system, to discuss onlcially any sug-

informed United either from the party who claims the prisoners to a phantom government. status of the Free City. That larger

golia..

As the Japanese firmly rejected the Prees that "information from foreign gestions for a modification of the writ or from some other person to Such action would be contrary to sta

Soviet offers, a Soviet woman who colleagues at Wuchang sald that des The situation however, is still so served for a while under the Japanese plie as to satisfy the Court that he is so British justice, for it would signify a issue, it remarks, raised by Herr

Japanese strained that it is impossible to open omefal, suddenly

efforts to control resigned, saying cholera in the Wuhan area, particu-, coerced as to be unable to make it, recognition by a member of the kitler, could only usefully be discuss- General Quiero de Llano, Chiet of negotiations for an amicable settle-that she must remove to a different larly in the outlying districts, a new There is before me no such affidavit, League of Nations of an aggressored by the plenipotentiaries of the the Spanish Military Mission to but merely an affidavit by counsel Power and would have grave interna- countries concerned--in the first in- Italy, has embarked at Barcelona for

place,

epidemie was rampant, the worst in for applicants, made of their own in- tional consequences."--Reuter,

stance Poland and Germany.

A Nichi Nichi Shimbun correspon- Romc.

She invited her former Japanese the history of the place." dent considers that all pending employer to a farewell banquet Inte It is stated that Wuchẳng has been Great signideance is attached by questions must be referred

for in the night. The latter attended the completely quarantined. There the Italian Press in commenting upon settlement to the arbitrament of the party without suspicion and gave the numerous cases there. Most Chinese the impending visit of the Mission, sword.

Soviet woman a parting gift. A are not permitted to pass in or out owing to the fact that Signor

K the Soviet Union concentrates Soviet militioman and a member of of the city, while foreigners are sub Mussolini and General Franco are resolved to give a pronounced milit-its energies in the Far East, the the local Soviet labour union imme-fected to a complete "bath" of dis

dlately afterwards called on correspondent alleges that the Soviet Japanese and forced him to sign a

tho infectant. ary 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 They said that even the Japaneso relations between the two countries.

two parts, thus endangering the

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

Paris, Aug. 17. After further exchanges of views -between M. Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, and Lord Halifax, British Foreign Minister, London and Paris regard to Danzig with unruffled

It is argued that under present foundation of the Socialist Republie to attack the Soviet woman. conditions better and more effective results can be achieved by direct through the ordinary diplomatic channels-Trans-Ocean,

Commissioner For Morocco

are

Britain's latest aircraft carrier, the £4,000,000 For- now nwalt Hitler's next move with Staff talks than by exchange of views that he is mystifled 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

Belfast, Aug. 17.

disaster narrowly

calm.

Diplomatic circles believe that Hitler's "war of nerves" have reach- ed a maximum, but have falted him

Burgos, Aug. 17.

Releasing Prisoners'

for

of the inroads of diseases.

Meanwhile they understand that a Incidentally, the correspondent says

The Japanese clerk was committed serious outbreak of scarlet fever has

of Hsichow In Yunnan. It is attitude concerning the Soviet aerial sentenced to penal servitude for five lege bombardment of Fularki

charge of rape, on July 26. said in most of the 200 pupils, who and years, on Halunarshan, twa open towns in the

were removed from. Wuchong Jast While the Japanese Embassy lodged year, are now suffering from effects Interior of Manchukuo.

a protest with the Soviet Government of the disease. Fularki,

at Moscow an important station on

on August 13, the There are no doctors at the collega the International Railway in western Japanese defendant appealed to the at present, which makes the outbreak Manchukuo, was bombed by Soviet His publie trial at the higher court

higher court against the sentence. more serious.--United Press. fliers once, but Ialunarshan, the western terminus of the Manchukuo is scheduled for August 20. Railway, WAR visited by Soviet bombers several times.

The Soviet Government,

Just arrived at the launching plat-

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

ber coup by intimidating public appointed High Commissioner Five persons were injured and seen to be breaking away from the major

opinion, and therefore Beriin mus Morocco-United Press. averted cradle supporting the vessel on the when the 23,000-ton aircraft carrier enter into direct talks, with Poland of effecting a slips.

Formidable brake away before the as the only means Hundreds

the free city issue,

Paris, Aug. 17. of shipwrights below the launching ceremony and launched! settement on

apart from war,

The Spanish Government has In- vessel ready to play their part in the herself.

formed the French authorities that its official news agency, categorically through launch ran for their lives, while Dozens of workmen scrambled for Paris and London are not over the French prisoners of war and denied attacks on the open towns.-- pieces of timber from the broken safety as the vessel tore the huge favourable to an eventual inter- French civilian prisoners in Spain Domei. cradle crashed around them. All got cradle to pieces and moved down the national conference, but suggest that against whom no charges are being clear without serious injury.

slipway unsupported, threatening to rules for such conference must made will be released.---Reuter Bul- Tense Border Situation Pieces of timber and iron nuts and topple over an thousands close under first be settled with the fullest con- tetin. bolls fell among the thousands of spectators

Warsaw, Aug. 17. accommodated in the safely reached the water.

Fresh fighting of a severe nature special enclosures at Harland and;

Lady Kingsley Wood, who arrived

has occurred at the Mongol-Man- Wolff's shipyard.

as the Formidable broke away, had Tugs

by to take charge just enough time to smash a bottle standing torte unge of British Empire wine against the they saw the ship entering the bows.-United Press. water had to proceed at full steam

when

ahead in order to escape.

on

her sides. Th

The vessel, however, sent of Poland.-United Press.

versation.

HOLD UP IN STREET

Three Men Rob Stroller Of Watch and Money

churlan border, according to reports from Moscow.

The situation in the Far East is extremely tense, The trans-Siberian rallway is so overburdened with military transport work that passen- ger traffic has had to be suspended Trans-Ocean.

Japanese Imprisoned

It is understood that the Japanesa will take further vigorous aetion if acquit the Japanese, the Soviet higher court refuses to

A Japanese clerk of a certain Japanese shipping company at Vladivostok

fell victim to a similar Soviet ploi several years ago. -Domel.

also

Fishing Rights Issuo

Tokyo, Aug. 17. Commenting on the Soviet pressure brought to bear upon Japanese flabery Interests in Northern waters, the spokesman of the Navy Ministry to- day said that Soviet pressure was fahing season. Increasing with the advent of the

Rome Conversation

London, Aug. 17. The British Ambassador in Rome. Sir Percy Loraine, was instructed by: the British Government to-day to Miraculous Escape

have an immediate conversation with Omeials realised what was hap-

Count Clano, and it is presumed that Leung Wah-shun, 18, Wan Lol, 23, London, Aug. 17. the vessel began

Wong Kim-chau, 18, were pening when

a meeting will take place this after- and to The third of the move and on their instructions Lady aircraft carriers under construction ing as to the purpose of the con- wrist watch and a pocket knife from seven British noon. No information is forthcom- charged with stealing $1.15, a metal Wood broke a bottle of champagne was launched at Belfast to-day.

The spokesman pointed out as a the vessel's side.and named her

The Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley

So Chun-on, 41, on August 14, when

"ludicrous instance of Soviet mea- the Formidoble.

Wood, and Lady Wood flew to Belfast

they appeared before Mr. Q. A. A Although nothing A religious ceremony was carried for the launching."

is known here Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis-

Tokyo, Aug. 17.-

sures the recent Soviet assertion that about the decisions taken in the tracy yesterday.

Yot another case of the alleged the haul stipulated by the contract cut after the vessel was safely in the

The aircraft carrier, named the course of Count Cinno's recent con- water.

Formidable, started

Soviet plot to afflict Japanese real-should be determined by weighing the to enter the ferences at Salzburg and Berchtes- Sergeant Baldwin sald complainant dents in North Sakhallen is reported, ashes and can together," official of Harland and Wolff water just 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 whit to score mercial clerk who refused to act as a spokesman said that Japanese would Ridiculing the Soviet argument, the water safely before schedule time, to break a bottle of wine over her tinues to be discussed in British poli-men forced him to cubmit to a search secret agent for Soviet authorities agree to the Soviet proposal if Reh and before

the ship left the waya baws. The Formidable broke away tical circles.

despite their constant pressure. Defendants admitted the charge

were caught together with cans. He Lady Wood was able to perform the from the cradle holding the vessel

Informed quarters deny all know- and were sentenced to nine months launching ceremony. There was no and slipped into the sea on her keel.

The mutter has now become a

added that when a man's weight is 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 sideways.-Reuler Special,

without mishap.--Reuter Bulletin.

bassador sired anywhere, but at the same time for banishment.

at Moscow has lodged a included-Domel..

robbed him.

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