The Archive

Thursday, 2 February 1939

  1. North-China Daily NewsWar Must Not Extend"How much more terrible it would be," declared Mr. Chamberlain, "if the area of conflict should be extended." The British Government had put £20.000 at the disposal of the International Commission for Assistance to Child…
  2. North-China Daily NewsRome Assurances UpheldReferring to the Opposition's distrust of Signor Mussolini's, and Herr Hitlers, words, Mr. Chamberlain said: "Surely the worst way to ensure ihat a man who has given his word will keep it is to tell him that you do not b…
  3. North-China Daily NewsConference Not UsefulHis interpellator had suggested the convocation of an international congress, inviting Britain, the United States, and "if necessary" Italy and Germany, to elucidate the meaning of ihe construction of a new order. Mr. Ha…
  4. North-China Daily NewsReason for SupportWashington, Feb. 1. The President's decision to grant maximum support to Great Britain and France was motivated, it is said, by the following reasons: 1. Information possessed by the President regarding the plans of tota…
  5. North-China Daily NewsAxis Divides EuropeSir Archibald Sinclair, Leader of the Liberal Opposition, said that although there was no ground for defeatism, there was a certain distrust in the Government's policy. "While on one side we are rearming," he went on to …
  6. North-China Daily NewsWestern Bridges Are RepairedThe Commissioner of Public Works S.MC., reports for December that the reconstruction of damaged Bridge No. 38 on Monument Road, in timber, was completed. The replacement of Bridges Nos. 54, 44 and 45 on Monument Road, by…
  7. North-China Daily NewsMany Deaths Caused Snowfall Heavy Over Maine; Chicago HitNew- York, Jan. 31. The storm which swept the eastern half of the United States last night, generating blizzards and gales and causing at least 52 deaths, wore itself out over New England today while a second storm was c…
  8. North-China Daily NewsFulham Meets Bury in Cup TieTwo pairs to the ball in a melee in third round F. A. Cup tie against-icon the match by 6-0 and is from of the Fulham goal during the Bury at Fulham recently. Fulham. seen playing: in striped shirts. Kho Sin-kie and W. C…
  9. North-China Daily NewsS. M. Police Annual ReportIT LI, the concluding article of the Commissioner. of Police Report covering traffic problems, licensing, inspection of vehicles and accidents follows. Part I having appeared in these columns yesterday. Notwithstanding t…
  10. North-China Daily NewsArmed Band Raid Foreign HouseA dozen robbers broke into a foreign residence at 343 Avenue Foch on Tuesday night, locked up a watchman and an amah in a room downstairs, searched for valuables everywhere while silencing their victims, two foreign wome…
  11. North-China Daily NewsThe Coy MarshalThe statement issued in Nanking on January 27, to the effect that Marshall Wu Pei-fu had decided to emerge from his retirement to accept the chairmanship of a new Pacification Commission, and in fact to become the head o…
  12. North-China Daily NewsPress Conference ExplanationsJapanese spokesmen at the press conference yesterday stated that they had been informed by the Customs that the ship's papers designated her port of call as Sienyangkang, not Shayangho and her proceeding there was a viol…
  13. North-China Daily NewsTuesday's Closing QuotationsCotton prices early advanced the firmness of Liverpool cables, trade, Liverpool and Bombay. buying. coupled with considerable exchange ing from nears to distants. Later, however, the market declined on liquidation and he…
  14. North-China Daily NewsAwards and RewardsIt may be that the relative misfortunes of Hollywood helped Elstree and Denham. Certainly the better English pictures started to attract serious American attention. Business arrangements. conduced to the showing of selec…
  15. North-China Daily NewsJapanese Monopoly In HankowHankow, Jan. 31. The agreement signed on January 28 between ihe "Central China Waterworks and Electric Ca... Hankow. Branch" and Mr. W. S. Dupree, Director of the Special Administrative District No. 3. which was formerly…
  16. North-China Daily NewsMotion for AdjournmentLondon, Feb. 1. Following the debate on foreign affairs, the House of Commons last night carried a Government motion for adjournment by 258 votes to 133.—Reuter. although he is already middle-aged:— "A few years ago I de…
  17. North-China Daily NewsBritish Rights ReservedThe British Consul-General is understood to have written to the Japanese Consul-General, saying that the British Government reserves all its rights under the Chen-O'Malley Agreement. By increasing the charge by 55 per ce…
  18. North-China Daily NewsBig French Purchases"United States is negotiating for the purchase of 600 fighting planes valued at an estimated $65,000,000. They are seriously interested in the new Curtis Wright combat planes which establish-led a world's speed record of…
  19. North-China Daily NewsWu Pei-fu Still UncertainPeiping, Jan. 31. Wu Pei-fu, the prominent vices assiduously been cived foreign cor-but failed to ear. place in Mar-under ection anese ce guard The former warlord urged the bencdis o. peace, and went on to say that he ha…
  20. North-China Daily NewsBONDS For. PowerBaltimore & Ohio R.R. Cities Serv. Erie RR. Int. Tel. & Tel. New England Gas & Elec. Unq. Peru Sthrn. Pacific R.R. Stand. Gas & Elec. the belief that the speech of Herr Hitler had relieved the tension prcvailing in Europ…
  21. North-China Daily NewsIn Kwangsi Rewards for Japanese Arms OfferedHanoi, Feb. 1. "Student troops," 18,000 strong, recruited from the class rooms of middle schools, colleges, and othe: stitutions of higher learning, are now receiving training in Kwangsi, according to liable reports reac…
  22. North-China Daily NewsVisit Purely SocialAlthough the British Naval Commander's visit apparently was burel a social one, political circles were i clined to link the visit with the recent tour of British and Netherlands fortifications by Mr. Paul V. McNutt, Unit…
  23. North-China Daily NewsFrench Club DanceSaturday will mark the first eppearance in Shanghai at the French Club of Ruth Rani and her Glamour-rettes. Those, who have enjoyed in the past the floor shows at these Saturday night dinner dances, may look forward to a…

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