Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
THREAT OF OVERLAND BLOCKADE HEIGHTENS
Hongkong Government And Blockade Threat
THE HONGKONG Government has no observation to make on the reported statement by a Japanese spokesman in Canton during the week-end, threatening a possible blockade of the Colony, declared a Government official this morning in response to enquiries by the "Telegraph".
It is unofficially stated that the occupation of the border by Japanese troops is not regarded as a blockade threat to Hong- kong, but a normal military action in view of the conditions prevailing in China to-day.
The alleged declaration by the Japanese spokesman in Canton was extremely blunt. He averred that if Britain con tinued to assist the Chiang Kai-shek regime the Japanese Army would be obliged to effectuale interception of the Chinese transport route, even if it entails isolation of Hongkong.
The report that the Japanese also envisage a naval block- ade of the Colony, is, however entirely discredited, and there is no indication that any move of this nature' is contemplated.
War Of Nerves
Enters Decisive, Dangerous Stage
LONDON,
Aug. 20 (British Wireless). The Sunday newspapers reveal awareness that
a common
the so-called "war of nerves" in Europe is now entering upon its decisive and most dangerous phase) and that risks that the final phase may prove a prelude to a major conflagration are so serious that they must be openly but steadfastly) faced.
They are almost equally unanimousi in the view that the hope of peace to-day resides in proclaiming for the truth that they obviously believe it to be the unfaltering resolution of the British and French peoples to take i
arms if, upon whatever
Up
pretext,
the Axis Powers again have recourse to methods of force or intimidation.
Both the "Sunday
Times" and the "Observer" remark upon the unity of the British nation behind the policy which the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary. Jinvo IC- Ice peatedly made
policy of
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Woman
III-Treats Daughter
LI Ho, a 33 year old married
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residing at Queen's Road West, was charged before Mr. J. T. Housion Central Magistracy morning with II-treating her daughter.
Mr. H. W. Fraser of the B. C. A. said at
at about 6.30 p.m. on August 18. Wang Yuk-mut, a nurse of the St. John Ambulance Brigade re- ported to the police that a girl was being 1-ireated by defen- dant. It was later found that defendant's daughter had brukkes
over her body.
all
I said she had asked her daughter to buy some pork from the market, but she re fused to do so. In a fit of temper defendant struck her with a cane.
Defendant was stated to be a refuges, and was fined $25.
“PUPPET” TROOPS MUTINY
Boing Re-organised By Chinese
BPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Japanese Cordon
Off Entire Frontier
More Troops Land
THERE WAS EVIDENCE in plenty
August 21, 1939.
H.K. Nurse Escapes From Japanese
The report that the Hongkong nurse, Miss Lam Kin-long, who has been missing
three or four days, is safe at the SL. Jolin Ambulance Brigade hospital in Namiau, waiting to be released by the Japanese, is entirely un- true, the Telegraph" was na- thoritatively informed this morn- Ing.
Actually Miss Lam, after two or three days of unpleasant ex- periences. managed Lo ERCADO from Namlau and is now in bid-
ing in an undisclosed place, waiting to be rescued by friends.
She is still on the Chinese side of the border, but is said to be safe and well. but in her own in- terests, her whereabouls cannot, for the present be divulged. There are strong hopes that she will reach the British side of the frontier to-day.
GERMAN-
SOVIET TRADE PACT
on the border yesterday that Japan's threatened blockade of Hongkong_over- land had already started, when I dis- covered, writes a special representative of the "Telegraph," that the Japanese military authorities, who had hitherto made no effort to prevent the move- ment of civilians across the border, yesterday not only applied a strict ban, (Router). It is officially but in two or three instances went so credit agreement was signed far as to shoot and kill Chinese who in Berlin yesterday between endeavoured to cross into British ter- the Soviet Union and Ger- many porviding German ritory.
MOSCOW, Aug. 20
announced that a trade and
The screams of a dying man who had been bayoneted credits to Russia of 200,000,- to death a few hundred yards from the bridge across the 000 reichsmarks for seven Shumchun river, where sentries of the Middlesex Regi
years at five per cent. in- ment were standing by, were the signal yesterday of the
terest. tightening measures adopted by the Japanese on the other side of the frontier.
Until yesterday morning
the Japanese troops had not Shanghai Shooting interfered with the move-
ments of Chinese civilians Jacross the border, providing they were carrying no parcels, principally because
the number of soldiers
operating on the border was insufficient to carry out complete blockade.
Reinforcements Landed
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JAPANESE
PRESS
The credits are for the purchase of German goods within the next two years.
The agreement also pro- vides for the sale of Russian goods to the amount of 180,000,000 reichsmarks to Germany within the next
OUTBURST two years.
Limits Of Patience Reached
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Official Announcement "Trans-Ocean" adds: The following
has announcement been made: "The negotiations
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On Saturday and again yesterday, however, further reinforcements, variously estimated at between three battalions, Including 300 and Dye cavalry, were landed at Namtan and IN a front page editorial to- of trade between the two coun- made Dacle Way
Shumchun day the "Tairiku Shimpo," com- tries have been successfully con- They are all Formosans CHUNGKING, Aug, 20 (UP).
fur menting on yesterdays shooting cluded in a trade and credit. At six o'clock this morning, readiness to be atory and con-
con-Chinese reports here claim object of cordoning off
ther
operations were started with the incident involving Sergeant agreement which was signed on TITTELA discussion structive in
the entire fidence in the peaceful intentions of that two divisions of puppet frontier. An area from Shumchun
behalf of Germany by Dr. K. Kinloch, says: "Japan has gone all Governments is restored, but of troops known as the Northwest to Shatauko was taken over by the to the extreme limits of patience and by M. E. Babarin, Deputy Schnurre of the Foreign Office determination to resist aggression. Defence Autonomous Army reinforcements, and it is known threin view of the Anglo-Japanese Director of the Soviet Trade
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ut least three Chinese yesterday were The "Sunday Times" says: "This โต a united nation. Neither friend nor mutinied last week against the was shot as he desperately endea-
The agreement provides for a com- fae need doubt that if duly calls it Japanese, are now being re-voured to cross the border by swim- exhausted now and further re-
course to
mercial credit of 200,000,000 reichs- faithful account
diplomatic will render a
of organised behind the Chinese ming the Shumchun river.
marks which Germany will grant the itself. The scus before us may be
Bias Bay Landing, lincs.
It was also reliably learned yester challenge from
negotiations to meet threatening but the course to steer is
an armed Soviet Union for the purchase of The reports sald the mutineers, day that Japanese troops effected a
German goods; the agreement more- the Shanghai erin agreed upon. Thero at least we have
over stipulates that the Soviet Union the advantage over the men of July, wombered more than two thous new landing at Blas Bay resterday Municipal Council authorities chall within the next
saud, are all adequately armed and from 15 transports and warships.
The forces were landed at Ou Tau Would only detract from the au-deliver to Germany, Russian commo- Generals Nao Chen-hsia and Chu and they pushed on toromshul, thority of the Reformed Govern-ditles to the value 180,000,000 where they divided into two columns ment and the Japanese Govern- one pushing westward towards the ment's sense of justice. Kowloon-Canton Rallway, heading
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COUPLE ABANDON 7-DAY OLD CHILD Criminal Sessions Case Heard This Morning
Of-the-apparent-alms-of-the-Nazi Gavernment as declared in the polley proclaimed in German newspapers, the "Sunday Times" says:
To Resuscitate Trado Great Britain know well that if such a
They satti several Japanese officers for Lungkong, and the other striking "The Incident has raised one of the
BERLIN, Aur. 20 (Trans-Ocean). policy were pressed to an end, that
A young married couple were charged before the Chief Justice, end could only be war-o war in together with their families who eastwards towards the East River most important political questions-It is stressed here that the new. which our country would participate were imprisoned by the mutineers and Walchow, which is an important here in a long time and calls to German-Soviet
trade and
credit Sir Atholl MocGregor in the Criminal Sessions this morning with with all its forces. We are confident have been handed over to the Chinese East River city, taken by the Japon-termined measures by the Reformed agreement will resuscitate a
esc last year and subsequently Government and Japan."
which was considerable a few years abandoning their seven-day old child, thereby endangering its life. we could win a war but we do not authorities.
but which has since dwindled. ngo want it to occur."
Meanwhile the Chinese claim the evacuated and captured by the Chin-
guerillas.
It is sold that the Soviet will buy They were Leung Fook and his same clothing, leaving his wife in "Stern Awakening" recapture of Wulipal on the north CSC,
However, Walchow has
mostly special German machines in wife, Yeung Yip. They denied the charge of the baby, who was subse Mr. J. L. Garvin in the Observer section of the Canton-Hankow rail-
been retaken by these forces.
connection with the Soviet Industrial | charge, but after hearing the evi- quently taken to the Kowloon City "seeks to define the qualities demand-way to the northeast of Yochow
programme. Germany will receive dence, the Jury returned a 0-1 ver- Police Station, of the British
morning following people in the hour yesterday
raw materials such as timber, ore, oll diel of guilty against both of them, On the wrist of the child was a vigorous Chinese attack the previous
and perhaps cotton and fodder.
Sentence on them was deferred, to plece of adhesive tape on which was "It must be
The supplementary nature of the the next Sessions, His Lordship cx the figure alx. With this alight clue, two countries is stressed by business pressing the wish to ascertain what circles who Gay Germany needs Russia's raw materials and Russia Was the state of the woman's mindspector H. & Rogers commenced will for many years require the
seven days after she had given birth inquiries and eventually found that a woman by the name of Yeung Yip industrial products of Germany.
had given birth to a ferante child at the Kowloon Hospital on bed No. 10 seven days ago.
ed
New Allegation yet
SHANGHAI, Aug. 20 (UP)-A Other Impeccable reporta slate Japanese Army spokesman to-day that the Japanese are building roads asserted that the Municipal police Arat shot in Saturday's with forced Chinese labour, were killed and large quantities of which they are paying the workers
for shooting affray. but impervious to fear. It must be prompt to reciprocate genuine good-munitions were captured. will, ready for conference or negotin- ilon on level terms, but absolute in
of 'stern awakwerving in reason night when more than 400 Japanese on the Chinese side of the border fired the
its resolve to meet rents by rejec tion, and to repel force by
force."
Ile finds that "one wholesome factor
In the immense complex of forces and influences is that this
More Worries
fn Japanese currency.
British Give Up Mines
He said the police fired, pre- sumably in revenge for the shooting of Mr. H. P. Krogh on Friday. New Tension Likely
SILANGILAI, Aug, 21 (Domei).- A serious situation is envisaged be- tween the Japanese authorities and the Shanghai Municipal Council (UP)The the result of the shooting affray on WARSAW, Aug. 20, (Trans-Ocean). "Hsin Min Pao" reports that the Bri-Jessfed Road between the British The anti-British attitude of between tish have agreed to give up the Chao-conatables and the Chinese Municipal 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 Ukrainians; on tso mines on August 21.
08-
For Poland
determined quictress among us is already
nation sured. The
ja solidly united in that mood as it ever was
in all its annals."
ns
Something of the same impression
members
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" PEIPING. Aug.
20
15
police on Saturday, in which two
of the state of mind of the country whom a number of ralds resulting in The Construction Commissioner of Chinese policemen were allegedly has struck the veteran publicist, Mr. the arrest of several hundreds of Honan province, Mr. Yue Chin-chiao killed and nine others wounded. J. A. Spender who, in an article in leading
Ukrainian arrived in Peiping to-day to announce of the "Sunday Times" writes: Last nationalist organisations, have been, the result of the negotiations. year the British people were ready to made by the police, is causing anxiety face the grim necessity, If It had been to the Poles.
unaveldable, of fighting with
their
By the release of a number of the
backs to the wall in a state of com- prisoners, the Poles are thought to parative unpreparedness. This year they have a quiet confidence based be secking afresh to find some under-
German Research Plane Here
The Japanese Army, Navy and diplomatic authorities met in an emergency conference aboard the kizumo, flagship of admiral Koshiro Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Fleet in China Waters, yes- terday afternoon.
H.K. Military Tribunals Public Meetings Next Week
to the child,
The Jury comprised Messrs. J. R. Jones (Foreman), G. S. Lovett, B. O'M Deane, S. A. Loper, J. H. Fox, T. Kregozy and E. E. Gosamkec. In the case of the woman, they coupled their
for verdict with મી rider
clemerrey,
Found In A Hut
Detectives were sent out to search for this wornan, and one of them found her and her husband in an unnumbered hut in a village in Attracted By Crying
Kowloon City. When asked "where Prosecuting, ir. J. Whyait, Crown his child was, Leing said It had Counsel, said the incident happened been dumped because it had died. on July 19 and had it not been that
al- Mr. Ong gave evidence of finding some passers-by happened to be tracted by the child's crying It would the baby, after which Dr. Hargreaves testifled to Yeung having given birth light. A private meeting of the probably not have come t Hongkong Military Tribunal,
SAM to a female child in Kowloon B p.m. on that day, Mr. On Hospital. Yeung occupied bed No. 0, formed in connection with the Kwin-yin was walking along Prince conscription scheme which is Edward Road with his wife, and and several days afterwards she took was perfectly mense efforts they have made in the ed in Parliament.complete autonomy. which la on a research flight from ence, the Japanese lenders on the this week, the "Telgraph"
The German Junkers monoplane Following the emergency conter- now being effected, will be held when he reached the junction of the baby back, saying it was sick.
Leven Road and
and Argyle Street his at-The child, however,
well. WAS tention was
attracted
the crying by Berlin to Tokyo and back, arrived spot" were understood to be ready to officially informed this morning. of a child, coming from a vacant Whispering Campaign
Inspector Rogers and Detective action designed to LONDON, Aug. 21 (Reuter). The French diplomacy remains unchanged in Ilongkang on its return flight at take definite
It is expected that as from next piece of ground. With the aid of Chan Lap deposed to having found alleged anu-Japanese week, the public sittings of the tri torch obtained from a passing cyclist, accused in an unnumbered hut. Germans have Inspired a whispering and they are determined to fuift to 10.60 this morning, having made an eliminate "bop" from Taihoku elements.
bunal will begin.
Mr. Ong and his wife searched the campaign says "The Times" diploma- the hilt their obligations to restrain uneventful
It left the Formosan airport at tic correspondent, which is intended aggression.
In the meantime, it is stated, the ground and found the baby under- A message from Nanking says that The purpose of Sir Nevile Hender- o'clock this morning.
of to create suspicion and doubt among
the "con-neath a piece of black cloth. The plane will resume its fight the Reformed Government leaders medical examination to son's recent Interview with Herr E. the smaller Powers who look
The child was naked and Mr. Ong, Britain and France for a firm policy. von Weirsacker, Director of the at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning and also held an emergency conference scripts" is being carried out with full
the situation speed and is making satisfactory pro who lived in Prince Edward Road, rushed back to his house to obtain The best answer is the plain fact Foreign Department, was to re-affirm will proceed from Hongkong to on Sunday to discuss
Bangkok.
arising from the Jessfield incident. that the guiding principle of Anglo- this principle.
with the discontented minority which only recently demond.
on their own knowledge of the im-standing
intervening months.
gress.
Both accused gave evidence, say- ing that they believed the child was dead when it was abandoned.
'The 'Jury took almost an hour to arrive at their verdirt,
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