LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1938, Page 2

LATE MESSAGES

LONDON, January 3.

The “Telegraph’s” Tokio correspondent says: Japan finds little comfort from the drastic reforms by the Chinese Central Government. The reported inclusion of outstanding Communist. Feaders is worrying statesmen and military officers. The general opinion is that the re-organisation has brought about, greater unity of every faction in China, on the basis of unremitting opposition (o Japan. There is no indication of a collapse of the Chinese morale. All Japan realises that when China, announces she will pursue prolonged guerilla warfare, it is no idle boast. So Japan is preparing to maintain this life-draining and money-squandering struggle indefinitely.

VANCOUVER, January 3

The Canadian Australian ship Limerick. laden with sugar from Fiji Islands, grounded in the harbour. She was refloated and towed to dry dock for inspection.

QUEBEC. January 3

Subsisting for six weeks by shooting fourteen rabbits, fifteen half-starved Provincial Government surveyors, lost in the woods, were rescued by planes. Their plight was drawn attention to by a. trapper's report, a week ago. that a food cache had not been touched. The rescued men acclaim the superintendent. Colonel Romeo Genet, as a hero, in compelling them to work to maintain strength, and avert panic.

TOKIO. January 3. According to a Japanese telegram from Shanghai, bombs were thrown into the home of Ku-Hsingni, an influential financier and member of the Citizens’ Association for the reconstruction of the Chinese area. Nobody was injured. The Japanese Consulate is strongly protesting to the Council of the Settlement there-anent, demanding guarantees of stricter control. The autonomous committee established at Nanking, issued a statement denouncing the dictatorship .of the Kuomintang, and declares that its own administration is based on the will of the people, peace in the Orient, and co-operation between Japan, China and anti-Communism, industrial development and the “abandonment of blind dependence upon European and American Powers."

HONG KONG. January 3

The British ship Haidha. is three weeks overdue from Seattle, with a cargo of sulphur. It is feared that she may have been captured by pirates.

LONDON. January 3

The “Daily Mail's” Rome correspondent states that Mussolini personally listened to the Anglo-Arabic broadcast, which was reported verbatim for the Ministry of Propaganda. The news bulletin consisted almost entirely of accounts of disorder and bloodshed world-wide, beginning with the disorders in the Egyptian Parliament, and finishing with the Spanish war. Italy was not even mentioned. “The Times’s” Jerusalem correspondent states that from the viewpoint of propaganda, a. most unfortunate effect was created by the announcement, in the course of the news bulletin, of the hanging of an Arab captured in the recent, fighting. The diffusion of European music is also' criticised, as distasteful to Orientals. Italian stations are believed to have engaged the services of distinguished Arab artists and men of letters, at high fees. The British station must be prepared to spend at least equal sums, for the same purpose. Probably it will be more practical to broadcast from Jerusalem.

LONDON. January 3

The “Daily Telegraph’s” representative at Munich says that the Nazi Party is preparing new and more restrictive anti-Jewish measures, which will apply even to Jewish war veterans. and the widows and children of Jews killed in the War. who hitherto have not been molested. A new regulation bars Jewish doctors and dentists from panel insurance practice. As most Germans obtain treatment under compulsory insurance, this means that the Jews will he deprived of their practices.

LONDON. January 3

Until the end of December, the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic. which broke out on October 16, cost the Government £236.861 as compensation for 82,636 cattle, 11,730 sheep. 6,247 pigs, and seven goats slaughtered. The figures are small in comparison to reports from Western Europe, where there were grievous losses, especially in France and Germany.

LONDON. Januarv 3

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Barcelona correspondent says: After opening a breach in the wall of the Civil Governor's office, at Teruel, Government troops stormed the building. They took a number of prisoners, including women, and found the bodies of children. who had apparently died from hunger.

HONG KONG, January 3

Three. English yachtsmens, E. Greave. J. Johnson and D. Coppin, wore fired on by unidentified marksmen. as their yacht was passing one of the 'Japanese Island bases outside Hong Kong. The yacht was damaged, but. the men were not injured. Despite the daily bombings of railways and roads by a. score of planes, the unloading of dangerous goods, and the transhipping of war material and fuel from Europe and America is being carried on briskly. The Italian liner Conte Verde to-dajr unloaded 1400 tons of aerial bombs, consigned to Canton.

LONDON, January 3

In a hall crowded to suffocation, the Zionist Federation of Britain announced the desire of Jewish Palestine to found the framework of a British Commonwealth. The Secretary emphasised that there was no Government inspiration behind the announcement, which was not previously made, lest it should embarrass Britain in dealing- with certain other Governments, but the Zionists for long years had felt the conviction that Anglo-Jewish peoples should be allied in visible form- I-Ie added that, though he was only entitled to speak for the British Zionists, he could state authoritatively that the Jews in Palestine wished to become members of and. share the burdens of the defence of the British Empire.

BARCELONA, January 3.

The Government claims to have captured the Convent of Santa Clara at Teruel. The defenders are now confined to the seminary.