WATERSIDERS’ BAN

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 191, 11 May 1938, Page 11

WATERSIDERS’ BAN

Export Of Scrap Metal To

Japan

ACTION BY AUSTRALIAN CABINET By Telegraph.—Press. Assn.—Copyright. (Received May 10, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, May 10. The Federal Government takes a serious view of the repeated refusal of the Sydney waterside workers to load tin clippings and scrap iron for Japan, and has demanded some form of undertaking that this policy will be discontinued, failing which the penal clauses of the Transport Workers’ Act will be instituted. This would mean that all men employed on the wharves would lie compelled to become licensed. WAR IN NORTH CHINA Attack By Chinese Columns Hankow, May 9. A mobile Chinese column from Chahar, which is under Japanese suzerainty, crossed the Great Wall into China proper, attacking the Japanese at Changpingchow, 22 miles north-west of Peking. Another column is attacking at Yangliuchiug, nine miles west of Tientsin. General Chiang Kai-Shek informed the Hankow correspondent of “The Times” that he expects a protracted, bitter struggle, in which there are grounds for cautious optimism. JAPAN USING GAS Complaint By China Geneva, May 9. Dr. A. Wellington Koo (China) has notified the League that the Japanese have several times used gas on the Shantung front in a desperate effort to overcome resistance. BOMBING OF SUCHOW Dead Estimated At 370 Shanghai, May 9. A Red Cross director, Dr. McClure, who lias returned from Suchow, which was bombed on May 5, estimates that 370 persons were killed, of whom 100 died at the Italian Roman Catholic Mission, which was 'a shambles of blood, misery, and terror. At Chungking a hundred Chinese were killed and injured, and 7000 homes were burnt. Thirty thousand are homeless as a result of a'fire in the poorer quarters. JAPANESE HOPE Chinese Statesman To Form Government Tokio, May 9. Confidence that a capable Chinese statesman would emerge to form an amalgamated central government was expressed by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hirota, in an interview. “China must be governed by the Chinese with Japanese recognition and Japanese assistance,” he said. “That Chinese authorities govern the occupied areas proves that Japan has no territorial ambitions.”

CANADIAN FINED BY JAPANESE

Ottawa, May 9. In connection with’the arrest by the Japanese of the Canadian engineer, Mr. Joseph Gilbertson, advice has been received from Tokio that he was released on payment of a tine of 30 yen. Tie is proceeding to Vancouver. .

A cablegram from Ottawa published on Saturday stated : The Canadian Governtnent is requesting Mr. Randolph Bruce, Canadian Minister in Tokio, to investigate the arrest at Osaka of Mr. Gilbertson, a Vancouver engineer on the freighter Heathcote, who is charged with being in possession of snapshots of Japanese warships and fortified Japanese zones.