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JAPANESE CONCENTRATION AT HANGCHOW
HANKOW, TO-DAY.
GERMAN VICTIMS OF CHOLERA ONE CONFIRMED
Two members of the crew of the 8.8. Assuan (Jebsen and Company) are now lying in the Infectious THE CHINESE FORCES Diseases Hospital. One of them HAVE COMPLETELY" RE- M. I. Scheffer, who was admitted OCCUPIED CHUNGMOU ON on Friday, has since been definite- *THE LUNGHAI RAILWAY ly diagnosed as a cholera case. AND YUSHIH, ACCORDING Helmut Eggert, who was taken off TO A CHINESE SPOKESMAN, the ship yesterday, is suspected to WHO SAID THAT THE TOWNS be suffering from cholera, though WERE RECAPTURED ON the bacteriologist has not yet sub- JUNE 22.
mitted his report.
The Chinese forces are now at- The Assuan arrived in Hong tacking Yunchen in south-west-Kong a fortnight ago and has been ern Shansi, Linfeng and Fen-in Dock and in Kowloon Bay.. Scheffer and Eggert are said to
yang.
The spokesman stated that the have been bathing in the waters of Japanese have five divisions to the harbour, and the development the west of Nanking, one divi- of these cases explains the warn sion at Nanking, another ating message of the D.M.S. publish- Wuhu, one brigade at Anking ed elsewhere in this issue. and another at Hsiangkou.
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One division has arrived Pukow from Pengpu and another has arrived at Shanghai from Japan.
CONFIRMATION OF JAPANESE FAILURE
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It is not yet known whether these divisions will be used for ports, the Yangtsze offensive, added stroyed the railway bridge at the spokesman, or whether they Sheklung on the line from Canton to will be sent to Hangchow.
Kowloon. If these reports are true, traffic HANGCHOW DIVISION it means that the railway It is reported that the Japan-between Canton and Hong Kong is ese have one division in the vici-interrupted so that the Chinese are nity of Linfeng, another near deprived of using one of the most Taiyuan, and one division in Sui- important routes, via which they yuan, in addition to 4,000 Man-hitherto received war material from chukuo and Mongol cavalry. jabroad, although the route by water The spokesman added. that from Hong Kong to Canton still re- it had been reported to military mains open to them.-Trans-Ocean. intelligence that the eighteenth (The Japanese reports are Japanese division was at present true. The raids damaged the line concentrated at Hangchow. at Sheklung, but repairs have Reuter.
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GUERILLAS BLOW UP BRIDGES
Siaoshan, To-day. Chinese guerillas systematic- ally damaged the Soochow Kashing Railway and tore down three kilometres of telephone wire on Sunday. They dynamit- ed seven bridges on the highway between Soochow and Kashing.- Central News.
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Swatow, Yesterday.
In addition to the suffer- ing and tension caused by frequent visits by Japanese planes and expectations of a Japanese landing on the main- land, Swatow has had 600 cases of cholera in one week from June 12th, to June 19th. with 200 deaths.
The Hong Kong Relief So- ciety has contributed 20,000 does of vaccine to help relieve the situation:
The Health Authorities are anxiously watching the situa- tion, especially as the city's waterworks have been hit by Japanese raiders and the water,
For supply has been cut off. tunatel, however, owing to official warning, about 50 per cent of the city's normal po- pulation has left the majority proceeding into the interior, 'whilst steamers bound for Hong are packed with refugees who can afford the fare.
The station of the Chaochow-. fu Railway is the principal ob- jective of Japanese aerial visi- tations.. The track of this line. has been hit several times. There seems to be some strate- gis value attached to this Rail- way, which links Swatow with
fu, about 30 miles
Meanwhile, the populace is still in the dark as to whether or not Swatow would be defen- ded if the Japanese landed on the mainland. The city itself has hardly any defence works, only machine-guns here and there, which fact encourages raiding machines to fly extremely low.
Practically all shops are clos ed. Shipping business, however, is still fairly normal, but the loading and discharging of ves- sels cease: at sun-dovn. Reu- ter.
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