THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1988.
WARSHIPS SHELLING KUIKIANG SUNK
Chinese Air Force Again Active On Yangtse
-MILLIONAIRE'S
ATLANTIC
FLIGHT
New York, To-day. Mr. Howard Hughes, million- aire airman and film producer, who recently arrived at New York in the course of a round-the-world flight with his crew of four, took off from the Floyd Bennett aero- drome. toward Paris at 12.20 p.m. --Reuter.
CHOLERA DEATH ON EMPRESS
LINER
SUSPECTED
Shanghai, To-day.
British Gunboat
Moves Out Of
Danger
Hankow, To-day.
WILD GALE CAUSES HAVOC AT REPULSE BAY
The severe but short gale which took the Colony unawares shortly
Chinese military headquarters claimed to-day that after 4 pm., last Saturday, pro- Chinese bombers sank two of three Japanese vided an awe-inspiring experience warships which shelled Kiukiang yesterday for bathers on the beaches on the morning, while the third moved down the river. Island and tremendous waves, H.M.S. "Cockchafer" steamed three miles up estimated at between 14 to 16 feet the river above Kiukiang in order to avoid the were seen at Repulse Bay, Island shelling and bombing.
Bay and Big Wave Bay, where rafts Chinese bombers also, it is claimed, sank one Jap-were damaged beyond repair
anese warship and badly damaged another At Repulse Bay, one swimmer when they bombed the Japanese concentration rafts by a gigantic wave, and of warships at Anking in the morning.
was flung headlong from one of the
reached the shore more through good luck than anything else, the
A party of 70 members of the north bank of the Yangtse because surf carrying him far up on the Soviet Embassy staff, including heavy rains have rendered man-beach. clerks and servants, are leaving oeuvres.by either armies impossible. All three rafts, although anchor- ed down with big concrete blocks,
The Canadian Pacific liner Em-for Chungking on a special-Trans-Ocean. press of Russia, arriving from steamer to-morrow to open the IMPORTANT CHINESE SUCCESS were turned over and battered by Hong Kong flew a yellow "Quar-Soviet Embassy there. The antine" flag and passengers Charge d'Affaires, Military At- were detained on board for six tache, Secretaries and Counsel hours yesterday while the Japan-lors are at present remaining in ese authorities investigated the Hankow. death aboard of a Filipino baby suspected of having cholera, who was buried at sea.
Reuter.
JAPANESE CHECKED
Hankow, To-day. Checked for three days, the Ja- Thirty-two of the Chinese panese made strenuous efforts to
cornered
a
Nanchang, To-day. the big waves, which carried the the Yangtze, received a serious distance of over 100 yards to the Japanese troops operating along blocks, weighing several tons, &
yesterday when in a flanking move-beach, where they may still be seen. ment, Chinese forces
They were lying in the shallows column near Lannitu,
yesterday fully exposed to view.,
· LIDO LADY'S ESCAPE The battle which caused the Ja- The "Lido Lady" had a narrow panese debacle was one of the most escape and almost turned over, but steerage passengers who had resume their advance on Kiukiang, violent of Yangtse operations. Six-for the efforts of the manager of been in contact with the baby 200 kilometres southeast of Han- teen tanks and armoured cars were the Repulse Bay Lido and a crew. were placed in a Shanghai isola-kow, yesterday.
captured in addition to large quan- of helpers, who with guy ropes, They endeavoured to' cross- the tities of ammunition.
standing up to their waists in the Poyang Lake and subjected the The Japanese troops were beaten boiling-surf, managed to keep her Shanghai, To-day. Chinese detachments between the back to Hukou.
*head-on to the waves, digg Several suspect cases of Lake and Kiukiang to severe shelling. A telegram from Fowliang de
An effort was made to tow her Cholera have been discovered on but according to Chinese military clares that the Japanese Shimada out to the typhoon buoy for safety board the Empress of Russia, of circles were not successful. Japan- regiment was cut up: the Canadian Pacific Steamship ese reports claim state that the News. Company, it was announced here town has fallen. That these re- yesterday and the steamer has ports are premature is indicated by been placed under quarantine at the fact that telephone connection Woosung.
between Hankow and Kiukiang still exists.
tion hospital. - Reuter.
“SEVERAL” - CASES
As a
result of the extreme heat, the cholera epidemic has
MANOEUVRES IMPOSSIBLE
increased, an average of 70 new Chinese bulletins speak of repeat- cases and 8 deaths being report-ed Chinese attacks on Hukou but ed daily.
do not indicate whether results are being achieved. All is quiet on the
The French concession and, the International Settlement are es- pecially hard hit by the epide-
mic, 40 new cases and 4 deaths BRITISH GLIDING
daily being recorded there alone:
RECORD
Since the middle of May, 1,700; Chinese have been affected by the disease, and 234 have died, those particularly suffering most, being naturally Chinese refugees.
London, To-day. The endurance gliding 'record Up to the present time, 100,000 persons have been examined in for two-seater gliders which was the French Concession alone and established a few days ago by two first aid officials are now examin Germans, was broken on Sunday ing on the average 80,000 per-ed in the air near Dunstable from when two English airmen remain- sons daily. ¿Traná-Ocean.
REBEL ATTACK ON JEWISH COLONY
Jerusalem, To-day.
Armed rebela, believed to have
4.09 a.m., Saturday morning until 2.20. a.m., Sunday morning, thus establishing a record of 22 hours. and 11 minutes. The German re- cord was 21 hours and 2 minutes.
Trans-Ocean.
been about 300 in number, attack GUNBOATS ARRIVE ed the Colony of Givatada, to the
south of Haifa, and three Jewish Two American gunboats arrived settlers are reported to have been yesterday. One is the U.S.S Oahu seriously injured. The rebels cut the which was formerly stationed in telephone wires prior to the attack. Nanking, and the other, the U.S.S.
It is reported that British troops Ashville, H.M.S. Ladybird left port... are going to the rescue. Router.
yesterday in the afternoon.
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