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Fierce Fighting In Mukden Region.
CHINESE SUCCESSES
"Pelping, Aug. 20. Reports reaching here state that. a young girl, graduate of the Liang“ Kiang Girls School at Shanghai, Is conspicuously active among the Volunteers in the renewed attack en Chinchow, "southwestern Liao ning early yesterday. Miss Yo Jul-fang, leading a small detach- ment of 70 Volunteers, suddenly ap peared at the West Gate of Chin- chow city to the consternation of the Japanese guarda. Six of the latter were instantly killed before.
the city-gates were closed. Another detachment attempted to bomb the Japanese Aerodrome,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1932.
Bandit Chief Leads Warriors South
Red Army Moves On Kiangsi Capital
GENERAL MA ACTIVE
SINO JAPANESE FIGHTING AROUND
· SHENYANG.
Fighting is continuing on several fronta, most notably around Shenyang between Japanese and Chinese Volunteers, which City is still besieged by the Volunteers, and between Japanese and Chin- ese in Hellungkiang. Meanwhile, bandit forces marching. South into Klangai, are threatening the place of that area.
A
Falling to capture Shwangyang- chiao, the Volunteers in southern Liaoning made a descent on the f Japanese units at Kaokiao "station,
Nanchang, August 20. kinng. In recent encounters with southwest of Chinchow on the It is reported that the notorious the Japanese at Hailun, the north- Mukden-Shanhalkwan Railway on Chu Te is leading 60,000 Reds from ern terminus of the Hulan-Hatlun the night of August 14. The the Taiho region, south of Ki-an, to- Railway, General Ma'a units auffer- Japanese units were compelled towards Nanchang, provincial capitalfed severe losses. retreat leaving the station to the of Kiangel.
Four brigades under the direct: Chinese. Communications between
The 18th Army under General command of General Ma are station- Chinchow and Haingcheng were Chen Cheng has therefore been ed in the vicinity of Mulan, the severed.
transferred back to Ki-an from northern bank of the Sungari River Fierce fighting is continuing be-Kanchew tu check their advance. in southern Heilungkiang, and have tween the Chinese Volunteers and The 90th Division (the "Ironsides") established contact with the Kirin the Japanese units in the vicinity under General Wu Chi-web has re-Self-Defence Army under Generals of Shenyang (Mukden). Penki.onceived orders to rush to Wantsui Li Tu and Ting Chao on the other the Antung-Mukden Railway is be and effect junction with General side of the River. ing attacked by the Chinese. Volun- Chen's units. Kanchow is being Shenyang Besieged. teers in eastern Linoning assailed garrisoned by the 2nd Kwangtung
Pelping, August. 20. Liaoyang on the South Manchurian Division under General Yeh Chao. Shenyang (Mukden) is still being Railway yesterday, cutting off the Over 2,600 bandits under: Chi besieged by the Chinese Volunteers. telegraph and telephone wires and Chen-tung (formerly the rebel units Communication between the puppet destroying the railway tracks. One of the 26th Rante Army under Fengtien provincial government and train was derailed.-Ko Min.
General Sun Lien-chung) have sur-the- various district governments phase, the period since June, 1931,
rendered to the Kwangtung forces have been cut off. As all available has been characterized by increas- GENERAL MEETING at Tayu, in the extreme south of foodstufis in the "walled city have ing doubt of ability to obtain fur OF ROSS INSTITUTE. Kiangsi
been seized by the Japanese units, ther payments and by a growing
The bandits under Kung Hthe inhabitants are in desperate. chung who have led to eastern straits. The number of poor has sentiment in favour of a final set-Chairman Comments On Hapeh from northern Klangsi, are been increased to 111,423 persons, Anti-Malarial Work. entrenching themselves, at Mufow constituting one-half of the total
and Kiukungshan. After population. clearing the remnant outlaws at Traffic on the South Manchurian In the long controversy over lump payment of the $714,000,000
DEFICIT ON YEAR.
Woning and Hsiushui, northern Railway is still suspended. Repairs German reparations historians will included in the agreement at The Report of the Seventh Kiangsi, the 50th Division under to the damaged tracks of the Ying- branch failway recognize four phases. The first Lausanne, Germany will have paid Ordinary General Meeting of the General Yo Sen attached to the 4th kow-Kowpangtse began in April, 1921, when the a sum, varying widely according Ross Institute and Hospital for Army under General Tan Tao-yuan have been effected by the Japanese.
3,000 Volunteers under the Chao Allied Governments assessed Ger- to which estimates are used, that
Tropical Diseases, held on July 12, is heading for Lungkang to es-
co-operating with tablish contract with the Hupeh Ta-chung are has just been received. many's debt at 132 billion gold falls far short of the demand origi- The Hospital, which is now units for a combined movement those under Cheng Kuei-liningat- marka -($31,680,000,000), and call-nally presented in 1821. But for working
tacking Chinchow, it is learnt. General Ma Directs.
Severe fighting is taging around ed on her to make annual payments this, stubborn economic facts overture of £9,000 for the year 1981.
Peiping, August 20. Chinchow and Tahushan Large- of $470,000,000, plus a variable an- which politicians have, had small The balance sheet for the year It is learned that General Ms Japanese reinforcements are report- of the ed to have been dispatched to nuity equal to 26 per cent. of the control are primarily responsible showed a loss of £1,900, as against Char-shan, Chairman value of German exports: it con- One of the shrewdest of French-a credit balance of £1,300 for the Heilungkdang Provincial Govern Tahushan and Chinchow via the previous year. An even greater ment, is now, directing operations Yingchow-Kowpangtse Railway on tinued through the disappointing man, Aristide Briand, said eleven deficit la anticipated this year; un from Tachingshan, eastern Hellung Saturday.—Kuo Min. Summer of 1923, while Germany years ago, in a prophetic comment less a substantial increase in con- fell behind in payments, her paper which carried little conviction attributions is experienced. currency lost its value through the time:"
The China Mail.“
Hong Kong. Thursday, Aug. 25, 1932.
Reparations Record.
tlement.
1.
It will be seen that even with the
+1
inflation, and France "and Belgium We must not lose sight of the embarked upon their occupation of fact that in order to pay us Ger- the Ruhr.
How much was paid many must every year create wealth In reparations during this first abroad for herself by developing period is still a subject of dispute. her exports and reducing her im- The German Government claimed in ports to strictly necessary things. 1923 that it had paid $10,693,000,- She can only do that to the detri- 000, chiefly through "deliveries in ment of the commerce and Indus- kind"; the Reparation Commission try of the Allies. That is a strange credited it with only $1,905,000,000; and regrettable consequence of
facts. an unofficial study made by the In- stitute of Economies in Washing- ton placed the figure at $6,138,000,- 0002.
at Marseilles.
shan
under the strictest against these bandits. economies, reports a total expendi-
During his speech, the Chair- GENEVA TO HEAR OF Leod, Bart, commented on the man, Sir Charles Campbell Me ANTI-BANDIT WAR.
godd work which had been done in
Japanese Statement the field of research of malaria. He also took the opportunity of
Misleading. welcoming." Lord Queensborough who had consented to act as Hon. Treasurer.
News In Brief.
New arrivals at the Peak Hotel since the last list was published
are Mr. W. Orr, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Womack and Mrs. Worley.
The Theosophical Society, Queen's Road Central, to-day at 6
·NANKING'S STAND,
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RUSSIAN OFFICER'S
FUNERAL.
Many Floral Tributes From Friends.
The funeral of Mr. D. V.-Mail- hailaky, PC. E. 12, of the Rus sian Anti-piracy Guards, took place. at Hill Road Cemetery yesterday afternoon at 4 p.m.
Spar
G
eanta
Nanking, Aug. 10. It is learnt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that a report on the bandit-suppression campaign in The cortege left Hill Road Mor- China has been compiled and for tuary and a large number of warded to the League of Nations mourners followed. The Rev. L. N through the Chinese Delegation at Watkins officiated... Geneva,
Among those present at the Personal Pars.
In this connection it will be re-grave-side were Mr. Le Bart Spare called that the Japanese Govern- row, A. S. P., representing the In- News was received in Ipoh last The second phase was coincident Commander E. A.Drummond week of the tragic death of Mr. ment last month submitted a spector General of Police, Inspec with the period covered by the Avaa among the recent arrivals Osborne Beckett, District Officer at lengthy report to the League of tors C. Fallon and Portallion, Ser Dawes Plan. This agreement, coming to the Colony on board the Batang Padang, and till recently Nations concerning the bandit geant Riddell, and all ranks of the
situation- In this country......
Russian contingent Chief A. D. O. Kinta, 8.8. Ranchi.
The present report of the Chin- Many floral tributes were sent drawn up in 1924 for the purpose
ese Government is to rectify the Including wreaths from the Bus- of restoring confidence In Germany Arriving on the s. Ranchi, Miss
Mr. B. Paul will speak on Vibra misleading information of the risas contingent, Mr. La to the Colony tons at the usual weekly public Japanese and five clear picture row, Chief Inspector and rehabilitating her currency, did not attempt to set the total yesterday morning. She embarked lecture of the Hong Kong Lodge of the real-bandit Faituation in and Mr. F-J-Portallion amount of German obligations, but required annual payments starting Mr. A. T. Aird, who embarked at $238,000,000 in 1924-25 and riset Penang, arrived in Hong Kong ing to $896,000,000 in 1928-29, the on the P. and liner .. Ranchi
yesterday morning. so-called "standard year.“ Un- der this agreement Germany paid Pay. Lieut. Commander Best and 8 total of $1,897,000,000 between Pay. Lieut. E. F. Burkitt were 1924 and 1929, when the Dawes among the arrivals from the a.a
Ranchi coming from London. Plan was superseded by the Young |Plan and a third phase began." The" capital value of Germany's payments for the period 1929-1966 was now set at $8,221,000,000, the equivalent of an average annuity [61 $473,706,000. The first payment
under the rev
CHINESE GUNBOATS:
BUILDING
Ho Shuet-ch, 20, a female re- sident at Tai Ming Boarding house,
took an overdose of opium from which she died subsequently in the Government Civil Hospital, Suf- cide is alleged.
NOULENS ANGERED NANKING COURT
Refused To Sign Records
Collins and Riddell, Police Officers. of the Pass Office, and the Cẽ Sergeants" Messin
CAPT. BOUSFIELD PASSES AWAY.
Well Known Figure In Ship Circles.
Senor Fernando Rein Loring, the
Nanking, Aug 18" Spanish aviator who made the first Three, hours were spent on The death has occurred of Cap solo flight from Madrid to Manila, wrangling over the Court record of tain Daniel Bousfield, master of t by way of Bangkok and Hong Koss, previous sessions of the trial, at 5.5. Tai Leo, well-known local passed through Singapore by the the fifth hearing of the Noulens figure and along the China Coast President Hayes on his way home. case this morning, and generally, Deceased passed away When the records of the sessions in the Government Civil Hospital, jumpad held on Aug. 10,11 and 12 were where he entered little more than
Noulens, took exception at three weeks ago: He was 72 the end of every para vraph andsin of age, and had dulged in len gumente This for a considerable ni
be Launched
A Chinese women who October 10 into the har
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