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Japan Embargo Debate In U.S.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH'

TWENTY BOMBS

AT ONE SHIP

GUATEMALA

WANTS

BRITISH

FLUSHING, Feb. 1 (Reuter).—It is revealed that 20 TERRITORY

bombs were dropped by the big German aircraft which bombed and machine-gunned the unarmed British steamer, Highwave on 1 January 30.

According 10 information WASHINGTON, Feb. 1'gathered from members of the (UP).The imposition of crew, the bombs were dropped in groups of five from a height an embargo against Japan of 1,000 feet. "might be the first step Aviation cireles here puint out that a machine capable of dropping 20 towards war," declared

bomba is something new in the Ger- Senator Arthur Vandenbergman campaign against shipping.

The bunker involved was believed during

Senate to-day's

to have been a four-engined military Foreign Relations Com-version of a commercial plane. mittee debate...

At the same time he warned Japan not to ignore the possibility of such an action.

Earlier, Senator Key Pittman, Committee Chairman, charged that Japan was attempting to interfere with Congress.

Ship Fights Back

LONDON, Feb.

GRAF SPEE

COULD HAVE FOUGHT

New Revelations MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 1 (Reu- tor): A new

the light on scuttling of the Graf Spee comes from a report issued by the Uruguayan Technical Commis- sion which has renched the conclusion that essential repairs to the Graf Spee could have been on made within the three days

allowed her.

(Reuter).———

Details of the attack by a German bomber on the City of nath, a 5,000 ton finer, of the Scottish coast Tuesday were revealed to-day. ship's defence gun silanted in

The bomber was held off by

stern of the ship.

the the

Possible To Navigate The damage did not make her During the attack, however, which impossible to navigate and Captain Justed for quarter of an hour, the Langsdorff himself sald that the machine dropped slx bombs and rak-etgines were undemoged.

there

wire

Despite this, the Graf Spee pre- ferred to scuttle herself rather, than fight her way out of Montevideo,

Senator Vandenberg was the author of the resolution leading to theed the port side of the ship and the Apart from holes in the hull, the abrogation of the 1911 Pride Pret. bridge with machine-gun billets, damage sustained was mostly to the Que heavy bomb fell within 15 bakery, kitchen, and fire-fighting He described the abrogation as "a relatively pacife alternative" to the feet of the ship's side. The vessel plant. proposals for an embargo such an was shaken but those made by Seuator

Pittnusualties, which, in his opinion, "would be the longest step towards wor since 1915," Forcing Japan To Retreat Senator Vamfenberg's views were also contained in a feller to Walter Lippman. The columnist, who

described the Vandenberg resolution as belog designed to force Japan to retreal from China and as 2. pre-

of an

Himinary to the Imposition

cmbargo,

or

Whatever caur sympathies may be,

whatever our sense of deep outrage

over the conquest of China, It is our

Press Praises Control Of Retail Prices

Farsighted Policy

LONDON. Feb, 1 (Reuter); The

How Britain Directs War

Continuous Work By Select Committce

LONDON, Feb. 2 (Reuter).

GULF OF

d

BRITISH

LONDON, Feb. 1 (diritish Wireless).The South American Republic of Guatemala (45,452 [square miles; pop.: 2,245593) is demanding the cession of British territory so that it can have a ready outlet to the sea in order to export chewing-gum.

A White-paper by the Guatemalan Government "appels to the universal enselence of civilised nations and demands a strip of British Honduras, furnishing a road to the Atlantic from the El Peten district.

Chicle, the basis of chewing-gum, is exported from El Peten.

Guatemala, claims that is 1859 treaty with Britain fixed the boundary of the republie and the British colony in such a why ns, in effect, to grant Honduras a considerable strip of territory, says British United Press.

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It says that in the treaty Guatema-‡ lan statesmen disguised the pession in return for what they hoped would be a heavy cash payment to aid in the construction of a road to the sea.

Guatemala usks, in addition to the

corridor to the rea, for a payment of 50,000 plus a sum equni to four per cent, annually since H159,

February 2, 1940.

A Look Through The Telegraph

50 YEARS AGO

Pub. 2, 1890, The recent municipal - ølection ke Berlin – resulted in an overwhelming: Liberal majority. What makes the election very lmportant is the enormous increase of Socialia! votes.

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either to ask question or make) remarks. Humour has it that the com- miten were afraid of awkword qura.

action, not galle, In ne with the cunatilation; but he this on it may, the management scents to have fallen into the hands of clique, which is always unsatisfactory.

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Pornoil has long been desirous of retiring from the feadership of thei Nationalist party. The O'Shra divorce] nuit may convince him of the expediency; of carrying out his Intention without further delay. In that case there is only one possible, successor. That is William O'Brien. He is more popular in Ireland than Farnell. Parnell has practically duns his work, but It would indeed by curious if one no cold and unimpassioned should he destroyed at last by such an offence an in attributed. to him by Captain O'Shen,

The "Freeman's Journal" maye: “Par- nell has instructed his counsel to alala, for him at the earliest moment a clta- (les to appear and defend himself lu the sult for divorce brought by Captai O'Shea against his wife in which Par- well was juimed as co-respondent."

25 YEARS AGO

Fet. 2, 1015. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" canelurten from, some recent declarations of Grand- Admiral von Tirpitz to an American journalist that Germany intends to ul- Lempt a blockade of the British const, and to destroy British merchant ship- ping by means of big submarines, bi over Grenser quotes return which Germany possesses a superiority)

official responsibility as a maller of foreign policy not to force Japan to most important recent development in The machinery established for retreat from China; it is simply to Britain's internal affairs was the the supreme direction of the war protect American interests,"

salamouncement made in the House of was outlined by Mr. Neville Senator Vandenberg: in his letter to Commons by Sir John Simon that the Lippman.

Government is spending £3,000,000 Chamberlain in a written reply to Nevertheless, he added, the Unitedweek to keep down retail prices. a question in the House of

An alternative it suggests that States "may come to an embargo and The British Press unanimously Commons to-day.

Britain should return to Guatemala, Japan would be ill-advisest if she welcome this comment ranging from Ignores this hazard."

The reply stated that the Minis- the legal heir to Spain, the territory the view taken by the Latur "Dally terial Cuminitier un military cool Belize, which contains the capital Senator Vandenberg opposed the Herald", to the effect that the idea ordination established by the War and cheer administrative district of suggestions that the United States of holding down food prices of Cabinet in acie (Chairman), Mr. Guatemala would pay £400,000 us

British Honduras. undertake to police the Nine fundamentally right, to the view of Lord Chainela Power Treaty, and he contended that the Conservative "Dally Telegraph" Winston Churchill (First Lord of the compensation

of the Treaty should that it is a farsighted policy. signatories

Admiralty), Mr. Oliver

Stanley claims. assume equal responsibility.

Sir John Sinon explained that the (Secretary for War), and Sir Military Clique

Denounced

cost of living rose by 10 per cent, Kingsley Wood (Minister for Air), Senator Key Pittman, in a state- from the beginning of the War to the with three Chiefs of Staff as advisers. ment replying to the Tokyo reports end of November but that since the Terms Of Reference saying that

that Japan will consider an beginning of December the Govern embargo 'n serious aftront, denoune-ment had kept prices down and the ed the Japanese military clique as

food

indexes had been

steady all being "insensitive" to American month. treaty rights in the Far East,

Its terms of reference were "30

keer, under constant review on behalf of the War Cabinet the main factors of the strategical situation and pro- The Government policy, he said,gress of operations, and make recom-

"If the United States yields to the was to avoid inflation through wages,mendations to the War Cabinet with: present Japanese threats there will following the upward trend in the

be no end to its abandonment of cost of living.

the rights of its clitzens in the Far East," Senator Pittman de-. clared,

He added that Japan's statements] "appear to be more like threats then

legitimate complaints."

Japan's Promise To Wang

war." to the general conduct of thei

and call off other

INTERPORT

CRICKETER MARRIED

A wedding of considerable interest The three Chiefs of Staff composed among the local Indian community the Committee with the terms of took place yesterday when Miss reference, "to advise the War Cabinet Hoscens Ismail, daughter of Mr. and on any matter affecting or affected by Mrs. S. R. Ismail, became the bride the military aspect of the conduct of, of Mr. Ahmed Hussain Modar, eldest the war, and to investigate and con- ! He sald that when Congress,

sider in common all matters referred son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H, P. through the 1030 Tariff Act, em-1

to TOKYO, Feb. 1 (UP)-Admiral,

the Committee by the War Andar. powered the President to raise im-

Cabinet."

The bridegroom is very well-known port duties by 50 per cent. against Yonul answering an interpellator,

The Chiefs of Staff on the Com-all-round cricketer of the Indian R.

In local sporting circles. The leading any government discriminating aid that the Government intends to

recognise the new Chinese Central and joint Intelligence Staffs, which that club in the Senior League since mittee are served by joint planning for many years, he has represented against American trade and con- merce, "I was not considered an iished, thereby induring other Powers in continuous session. affront by the Japanese Govern- to take similar steps.

Mr. Chamberlain also referred to alons has been chosen for the Colony his school-days and on several occn- ⚫ment."

"It is strange indeed that the pro-

He further said that the Govern. the Committee's dealing with home deport team. against

Shanghai. posed delegation by Conuress to the ment will drastically oppose any third policy, civil defence economic polley His sporting activities also include

and priority questions. President discriminatory power: Power attempts to block Japan's enjoyed by the excentives of practic efforts for establishment of a new ally every government in the world order in East Asia. should be considered an affront by Japan now." Senator Pittman con- tended.

U.S. Ambassador Recalled

| Government as soon as it is estab

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The paper quotes Admiral von Tir pita's statement that submarine warfare' in more effective than attack by alr ship, though, euriously enough, he keeps silence concerning the purjork of the numerous aleships which Germnay in constructing-

The paper says that Admiral von Tirpitz's declarations are highly impart- ant and the German public knew well that Germany would have a reply ready to the question how the Germans ought to attack Engiand's nerve centre. Júnt because Admitral von Tirpitz did not healtate to express his views so franklyj to the public, says the journal, we see guarantee that he is thoroughly sure of his ground. The paper argues that

the Belgian) British naval activity on coat is due to the growing fear of "Frankfurter Zeltang" continues! German submarine action, but

tho

"We occupy Ostend and mean to hold

considers the moment has arrived we

it as a base and when our Admiralty will carry on the blockade war with

considers that Adaliral Van Tirpitz's determination and ruthlessness."

The "Deutsche Tageszeltung" aisu.

Indicating a means by which the policy declarations aro highly important as of England to starvo Germany out may be countered.

The war me at the Dijou Theatre were shown up to a good audience last tennis and lawn bowls, at both of night and, were well appreciated. The which he has turned out for his club. I picture dealing with the proposed and The ceremony was performed ac- Purope atands out smang the cleverest the actual re-adjusting of the map of cording to Moslem rites, and later

Om Pathe Freres have produced. the afternoon a reception was held

10 YEARS AGO at the Indian R.C. where the happy pair received the congratulations of their many friends.

Mr. A. G. Suffind proposed the toast few, well-chan words, and the room suitably replied.

Mr. A. K. Minu, captala of I.R.C. cricket, was best man.

Wang Denounced LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuter). The China Campaign Committco has

ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 1 issued a long statement "denouncing

(Reu- Foreign Ministers fer)The unconditionally the so-called peace terins recently discussed with the Turkey and Rumanta to-day set out Japanese authorities by Wang Ching-for Bucharest where they will meet the Foreign Ministers of Yugoslavia WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (leuter)unnouncement of General Chiang

The Committee fully supports the and Greece for the Balkan Entente.

conference. Mr. Cordell Hull, the U.S. Secretary Kai-shek on January 23 and pledges is considered to be of unusual im- This meeting, at the present time, William C. Bullitt, the American Am-form whatever, recognition by the established contact with the Prime bussador to Paris, has been seconded British Government of any "puppet" Minister of Bulgaria. home for consultation.

Mr. Bulilit is leaving on February and to obtain the support of holb the Entente but has territorial claims on Goverment under Wang Ching-wei, Bulgaria does not belong to the British people and the Government both Rumania and Greece. for the Chiang Kal-shek.

Government of General

LONDON, Feb. 1 (Router)Earths The Turkish delegato saw the

tremors were felt to-day in several Bulgarian Prime Minister when he parts of southern Europe. passed through. Son yesterday.

uf State, turday announced that Mr. itself to endeavour to prevent, in any portance and the Turkish delegate has EARTH TREMORS

3. His visit will be short. He has no special mission.

Mr. Hull added that Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, the Ambassador to London, is returning to England this month.

No Significance

RAILWAYS BACK Japan's 6-Year

TO NORMAL

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UP). The US. Minister to France, Mr. Willam Bullitt, has been recalled to. Washington to report on the situn- tion in

will leave Paris on way traße' in Britain, dislocated by Mr. Saturday

remain in bad weather is now running atnost Washington only for a short period. nonnally,

and

LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuter).-Nail-

Navy Plan

IN EUROPE

Tremors were felt in Southern Silonien undt Greece in the morning and also at Siena and Florence in the province of Tuscany, Italy,

Tremors were also felt at Bucharest. Little damage was reported fröra any of these places.

B.E.F. LEAVE IS. RESTORED

Feb. 3, 1030..

Never could Hongkong hure seomed more beautiful to Sir Cecil Clementi than it did this morning when, in glorious sunshine, he left the Colony he has come to love so dearly,

5 YEARS AGO

Feb. 2, 1935.

As from Wednesday 'next, February 6,1 All listrict in Kowloon and New Kow luon are to be placed under water re- striellons.

The repeated refusal of Japan 10 enter into o 3ct_o non-aggression, with Russia cnate a serious reflection. upon the often-avowed sincerity of the Jananese to establish friendly relations. declared M. Viachesley Molotov, Chair man of the Council of the People's Commissar.

M. Molotor drew attention to the fact that Japan had violated the Portsmouth Treaty guaranteeing sovereign rights to China over the Manchurian area.

TO ALL FEVER SUFFERERS

TOKYO, Feb. 2. (Reuter),—A six- year, Navy Re-armament Plan, en-| "There is no special significance in On the Southern Rallway, for in-tailing an expenditure of

about the decision, nor has it been prompt-stance, trains are running to schedule £505,000,000, was announced by the ed by any particular development, dimost without exception.

War Ofco and the Navy Offee. said Mr. Cordell Huil, the Secretary The only serious difficulty is ex- It is stated that the plan is neces- LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuter).The these poisons that make you feel Fever, produces polsons. It's of State, in molding the announce-perlenced on the main line between sary for the "achievement of Japan's War Ofee announces that limited

London and the North, and railway goal in China as well as to cope with leave for the British Expeditionary hot and cold in turn, that cause The U.S. Minister to London, Mr.) communication with Scotland is still future developments in the com-Force will be resumed forthwith, violent pains over the eyes and Joseph Kennedy, will return taj impossible..

plicated international situation."

provided that weather conditions do that make London this month, Mr. Cordell Hall

not deteriorate.

you. desperately added.

ment,

BRITAIN HAS

60,000 ALIENS-

Thirteen Men

To

LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuter): Str John Anderson, Minister for the Co- •

Frozen

Death in Lifeboat

ordination of Defence, informed the LONDON, Feb. 1 (Reuler)—Adrift for several days in a life- House of Commons to-day that 415 boat after their ship was torpedoed and sunk without warning aliens were interned at the outbreak | by'n U-boat in the Atlantic, 13 members of the crew of the Greek of War.

He said that 804 aliens were in-steamer, Eleni Statothos, were frozen to death and had to be terned after examination by tri thrown overboard.

bunals,

The remaining 20 of the crew Interest in life and lacked the

In reply to n question, Sir John Junded at Eire in such a weak strength to pull at the oars. Anderson said that the number of

At first, only those living, in the southern half of Britain will be grant- ed leave, but general leave will be reopened as soon as conditions become normal on the northern ilnes.

Black Bristles To Cost More CHUNGKING, Feb. 1 (UP)-The Central Trust announces an incpot by 50 yuan for every plcul of Chung- king No. 27 black bristics.

thirsty,

These poisons waste away your nerve and muscle tissues and weaken your digestive organs. That's why solid foods often maka you feel sick. But you must est to get your strength: back or to ward off another attack.

Horlicks, doctors have found, la easily retained by weakened stomachs: it is easy to digest and at the same time pours: quick now strength and vitality. Into The new price which came into your exhausted body. Get Hor-

enemy allens at large was somewhere condition that even when they out who saw the life-boat picul. The lost price of 750 yung was

They were saved by the crew of a leffect on January 31, is 800 puon per i licks to-day from your store,

In the neighbourhood of 60,000, sighted the const they had lost drifting in the bay and towed it in. fixed on December 10 fast year..

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