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Monday,

Credits To China

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 21,

1939.

DENIED IN OFFICIAL QUARTERS

London, Aug. 19.

The reported signature to the Bri tish Export

Credits

Guarantee to

China has been officially denied.

LATE NEWS

Kiating Destroyed

Speculation Increases

LONDON,

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH' Financial circles are of the opinion

Aug. 21 (UP)—Well that Britain prefers to delay her CHLUNGKING, Aug. 21 (UP).-The Informed quarters here believe that

Hitler's

ut speech

the signature to the credit agreement to China National Aviation Corporation Herr avoid Intensifying the Japanese anti-reports that at least three quarters Tannenbern next Sunday will be a British campalen.

of Kinting has been destroyed by fire. climax to the German press campaign

The business section is completely against Poland. It is

In this connection it has been re- demolished fires which raged un-

by controllably

ported that the Leftist quarters in all day yesterday.

have warned the British Chinese authorities here said that France

Thursday last

last a Japanese radlo Government Immediately to conclude broadcast mistakenly announced the military alliance with Ilussin Chiang Kai-shek had removed because Poland and Hungary are danger of attack from his headquarters to Kinting. It is immediate therefore assumed that the massed Germany. bombing was made in an effort to kill the Generalissimo, who is sill in Chunking.

reported

that during the

the Tokyo conversations

Japanese Foreign Minister unsuccessfully tried to persuade Britain to include in the Tokyo formula A pledge to withhold further financial assistance to China. However, banking circles profess to see Indications that Britain desires) to play her signature to the credit agreement as a trump card in case the Anglo-Japanese negotiations collapse.

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that

The French Govenment, belleves that Britain's procrastination is being interpreted in Berlin as a sign that Britain is prepared to come to terms with Hitler regarding Danzig.

Italy's idea

It is understood that the American Methodist hospital at Kiating is safe, Informed circles say the agreement although the fringe of the fire swept would be used to supply British

These circles belleve that Italy up to its machinery to China and it is assum-

doors Many missionaries' homes on the would welcome a Four Power Con- et that machinery Includes war sup- edge of the city near the river are ference to settle the Danzig problem plles like equipment for aircraft and either threatened or have alrendy to be followed by a general conter- munitions faciorles.

been burned,

ence to resolve the outstanding ques- United States unkers here have; The American West Chinu Advisory tions with the object of pulting an heard that the Bank of England Commnillée have provided air trans-end to the recurring crises. viewed the credit arrangement with portation for the New Life movement However, it is known that the some misgiving on financial grounds to send two doctors and two nurses British Government would insist on It is also rumoured that Sir Robert to Klating. Craigle told the British Foreign Omce

that credits to China would have a

gravely adverse effect on the Japan- ese atlitude towards Britain.

Floods In Tokyo

Poland bel

being represented while, in

the present circumstances, the Soviet Union could hardly be excluded.

Some diplomatic sources believe that idler will fully realise Britain's

to Poland before he makes his Tan-

The Chinese are getting impatient, TOKYO, Aug. 21 (Domel)-About determination to fulfil its guarantee but the British Cabinet, regarding 6,000 houses in the low-lying parts of the danger of a European var os Tokyo have been louded as the re-nenbergt speech. It is also belleved their first problem, seems clue antsult of the heavy downpours of rain to risk any aggravation of the Anglo-since Friday. The rain stopped early Japanese lension which would force this morning. them to cope with greater perils n'

the Orient--United Press,

May Donounce Pact

London, Aug. 19.

Quarters close to the Japanese

Japanese Occupy Hainan Town

SHANGHAI, Aug. 21 (Domel).--A Embassy to-day reported indications Japanese anval landing party effected of Britain's Intention to denome landing at Ngemon, a port city at i the Anglo-Japanese Commercial the northwestern tip of Hainan Ia- Treaty if Japan intensifies the anti-fland, at dawn on August 17 and British activities in China.-United mopped up remnant Chinese troops press.

In the virinity, according to an nouncement by the Japanese Fleet Headquarters.

NURSE LOCATED

AT NAMTAU

The St. John Ambulance Ascoclu- that eceived word yesterday

tion Miss Lam Kin-hung, one n? its nurses, who was reported missing on the Chinese side of the border after was safe. the Japanese occupation, She is at Namian Hospital,

where she is carrying on despite the ob- structive attitude of the Japanese.

Anxiety was felt for Mins Lam when no

no word

Was heard of her for 24 hours, and on Saturday morning, the cu-operation of the

the Japanese Consul in Hongkong was sought in the search for the missing girl. She was known to have been working at the Brigade's headquarters at Lofou

in before the Japanese took and on Wednesday, sacked the building converting it into military headquar

ters.

The news of Miss Lam received yesterday stated that she had four patients in her care at Nam- tau. The Japanese had taken over the hospital and had removed all firewood, food, and mosquito nets, the buildings ignoring protests that

Nevertheless, were British property. Miss Lam was still on duty, attend- ing to her patients as well as pDS- sible.

Though serving under her moiden name, Miss Lam is married to Mr. Ho Yuk-yee, who made a frantic search for her after she was report- ed missing. He eventually learnt und their four-year- that his wife

Carne

old son were sale at Nomtnu, but only after negotiations with the Japanese Commander was Mr. Ho's child allowed to return to British This permission was not Lerritory. extended to Miss Lam, but she expected to be allowed to return Hongkong if she now wishes.

to

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that litler's advisers have pointed out that Poland could be the vietint of a lightning stroke, before the Bri- tish and French soldiers and war material could be rushed to her nid, through Germany's western fortiflea- |ions.

American Policy

Re Japan

LATIN COUNTRIES WATCHING

Washington, Aug. 19. Lutin American diplomats are watching developments in the United States relations with Japan as a pos- able index to the role the Western Hemisphere will play in the general- ly anticipated sharpening world crisis.

Some informed circles believe that the United States final attitude with regards to Japan is largely condl- tional upon the United States actions and in a possible European crisis the Latin American, countries Ken- erally have nccepted the axion that the nations in the Western Hemis- phere are most likely to react on a parallel basis.

It has been learned that foreign {diplomats are keeping in close touch with developments in the Orient alnce they are traditionally depen- dent upon the United States taking the lead in relations with the Orient.

Latin American countries believe there is no question of the United States taking immediate naval pre-

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CARGO SHIP'S VISIT Awazisan Maru World's Biggest Freighter

Tokyo, Aug. 20. The 12,000-ton vessel Awarison Successful experiments in a Gov-Maru, which is claimed by Mitsul ernment laboratory in Osaka heigh-Bussan Kaisha to be the world's big- ten the prospect of developing a new gest freighter, salled from Hongkong synthetic rubber industry in the on Saturday after spending a day in port. She is on a service between the country on a large scale,,

The announcement claims that Straits Settlements, the Philippines, goods made from the newly-created and Japancar and American ports and synthetic rubber are far superior to came here from Singapore, those made from natural rubber.

The Awazisan Maru was built fo Synthetic rubber goods manufac- the MIX. Dockyard in Tamu and tured at the laboratory include has a maximum speed of 21 knots gloves, pillows, tyres and gasmasks and a service speed of 19 knots. It Significance is attached to the pro- is claimed she can do the run from jected industry in view of the shor Singapore to Kobe in six days and tage of natural rubber In Japan. from Yokohama to San Francisco in

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10. She has six cabins with accom- modation for 12 passengers.

DANGEROUS CARGOES

URBAN COUNCIL POST New Anchorage Established

At Tsun Wan Deputy Health Director To

Be Vice-Chairman. - Alterations in the dangerous goods anchorages were announced in the

In the draft of a bill published in Government Gazette on Saturday. The regulations extend the eastern the Government Gazette on Saturday anchorage to the mainland on the it is proposed to substitute the eastern section and provide for new Deputy Director of Health Services for the Director of Medical Services anchorage in Tsun Wan Bay.

Urban This section is bounded by the Vice-Chairman of the mainland on the north and east; a Council and professional adviser to line drawn due cast from the southern the Comell in medical matters. extremity of Cap Island to the main-t

Director of land, on the south; and a line drawn, The post of Deputy due north. from the north-western Health Services is a new one and its, extremity of Cap Island to mainland first incumbent has not yet been an- on the west.

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