THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 4, 1938.
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CHOLERA BREAKS OUT IN FLOOD AREA
Missionaries Report Hundreds Of Deaths
-SOVIET-
TO BUILD BIG NAVY
Moscow, To-day.
That the Soviet must build a Navy to surpass Britain's was the keynote of a speech by President Kalinin at Leningrad, Kalinin ex- horted Soviet shipbuilders overtake the foremost capitalist sea Powers because. "if you live among wolves you must bay like a wolf."
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It is revealed that Soviet is launching the largest naval pro- gramme in the country's history. -Reuter.
SWATOW GIVEN HOLIDAY FROM RAIDERS
Foreign Flying Trip Over The Entire Area
Peiping, To-day.
Foreigners flying over the flooded sections of Ho-
CHINESE
FRUSTRATE
SHANSI ATTACK
|WHEN A PITCHED BATTLE OUT OF A WHOLE REGIMENT RESULTED IN THE WIPING OF THE SHIMOHARA DIVI
KIANGHSIEN, SHANSI,
TO-DAY! JAPANESE EFFORTS TO nan, state that the Yellow River waters are still REGAIN LOST GROUND IN flowing at a tremendous rate through the SERIOUS SETBACK TO THE SOUTH SHANSI RECEIVED A breaches in the dykes that the Japanese are EAST OF YUANKU ON THE now making no further attempt to repair. HONAN SHANSI BORDER. It seems inevitable that the flood dykes converge finally and are be will run until the river subsides in ginning to form a new riverbed which October.
is between 400 and 2,000 metres The water has reached Kaifeng's wide.
SION YESTERDAY. protecting dykes on all sides, but They regard it as probable that violence raged throughout yes- Heavy fighting of unparalleled the city is not in danger at the this new bed will become the perma-terday for twenty continuous present time. :
hent course of the Yellow River which hours from early morning till will meet the Hwai River at Pengpu midnight along an extended line and then distribute its waters part-touching Putsang, Kweiping, ly in the the Hwai Lake and partly Chiafang, Paowangchwang and into the Imperial Canal and Yang other points. tze River. Trans-Ocean.
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Cholera has broken out among the refugees to the.. north-west of Kaifeng and for- eign missionaries are reporting hundreds of deaths.
The missionaries also criticise the Japanese troops in Kaifeng for excesses. Reuter.
PLANE TRIP
Peiping, To-day.
Several foreign journalists made
KWEICHOW FLOODS
Kweiyang,
| Over a dozen times the forces were locked in a grim bayonet and hand-to-hand struggle.
The Chinese finally broke through/ the Japanese linea at Chiafang and Paoyuchwang and practically wiped out the 117th Regiment under, Lte- General Shimohara.
SWATOW, TO-DAY. SWATOW WAS GIVEN A "REST" YESTERDAY. NO JAPANESE PLANES AP PEARED THROUGHOUT THE
a flight yesterday across the Yellow
Owing to the onrush of mountain DAY AND THE SHELLING OF
River bridge at Tsinanfu, which freshets, five districts in Kweichow,
In the afternoon, the Japanese THE COAST BY JAPANESE has been reconstructed by
the namely
Yungkiang, Chingping, forces, reinforced, and assisted by SHIPS WAS CONFINED TO Japanese, and then, following the Tankiang, Hsiakiang and, Patsai, a dozen heavy artillery, and many AREAS SOUTH, AND OPPO-course of the Yellow River, reached have been flooded, causing tremen-planes, directed a terrific bombard-
dous property the inundatel area and the town SITE NAMOA ISLAND.
damage. Centralment on the Chinese positions at News.
Nanyangchuan and Shwangmiao. From Kaifeng, the journalists re-
Fighting was still raging last even- The American Consul and Coming... munity are At Home a
at the Ameri- It is estimated during the furious:
on Nanyangchuan alone, can Club between 11.30 a.m. and 1 barrage p.m. to-day in celebration of In- the Japanese let loose at least over
1,000 shella-Central News. dependence Day, July Fouth.
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Three Japanese transports ar- of Kaifeng. rived off Namoa Island yesterday turned to Peiping by plane via and landed large quantities of war materials and food, besides Changte late last night.
considerable amount of con- The journalists declared on their return here that below Kaifeng struction material for the aero- drome and barracks which Jap- there is practically no traffic on the anese sappers are now engaged river. The water appears to be ex- in building..
An aircraft-carrier cruising just outside
bour.
traordinarily low. More than nine- tenths of the water of the Yellow is now Riyer is pouring through two large the har-breached in the dykes.
The largest breach is at.Tutan and Refugees are still pouring out the next largest, further west, at by the hundreds. Our Own Chinshuichen. · Correspondent.
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JAPANESE CLAIM Major-General Tessima, who com- manded the Japanese vaguard Chungmou, halfway between feng and Chengchow, declared that he succeeded in reaching Kaifeng from Chungmou without losing
CREATES HAVOCingle man or gun when the floods
IN COLOMBO
Colombo, To-day.
necessitated the withdrawal of his troops.
Japanese declare that the stories- of a huge number of drowned peo- ple were grossly exaggerated but
Fierce monsoon storms left a they agree that material damage in trail of death and destruction the inundated districts is very con- throughout Ceylon yesterday siderable. with swoollen rivers carrying There appears to be a danger of a away houses and property. cholera epidemic, however. Accord-
A schooner with 36 persons ing to a report received at Kaifeng, aboard was swept out to sea at a serious outbreak of cholera has Colombo, but all were finally occurred at Tungchangchen, Bouth saved by Customs launches in a of the Hoangho dyke in the inundat dramatic struggle against the ed area. The area affected. has a elements. Reuter.
population of about 5,000. There is hardly a family in this district which has not lost a member by death. Canton, To-day.
NEW RIVER BEDT Another batch of 66 war waifs has been taken in by the local Child The foreign journalists, who fol- Welfare Association. They will lowed floods by plane for some 60 shortly sent to the association's kilometres in a southern direction relief camp at - Kowloon. -Central observed that the two streams issu News
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