CHINA, MAIL JU
1988
FOREIGNERS AT KULING SAFE: INTEND TO STAY Message To Consul Establishes Present Safety
Hostilities Now
Only Short Distance Away
Hankow, To-day.
With the present centre of the hostilities but a short distance away Kuling remains very quiet, with the foreign residents there happy and well, ac- cording to Mr. Paul Jesselyn, the American. Consul-General at Hankow who put through a telephone call to Kuling yesterday morning. The Lushan Administration continues to function efficiently, Mr. Jesselyn was informed, al- though in event of the hostilities approaching closer to that centre, it is thought that the Chinese must move away.
Mr. Jesselyn's telephone call!
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elicited the first reliable informa- tion to be obtained from Kuling, for the past fortnight.
Telephone .communication be-t tween Hankow and. Kuling has not yet been interrupted, but it is most! difficult for private individuals to make calls.
58 AMERICANS
LONELY WIFE
ASKS TO BE
DEPORTED
RED ARMY- ATTACK ON RELIGIOUS
Moscow, To-day.
The Red Army newspaper "Red Star" demands, the intensification of anti-religious propaganda and declares that 30,000 religious or- ganizations still exist. The paper. charges the clergy of all deno minations and creeds with con- ducting espionage, specifica ly mentioning the Catholic priests, who it alleges, work under the or- ders of the Polish General Staff "with the blessing" of the Pope, the bitterest enemy of the Soviet toilers.
Sectarian leaders in Volga, Ger- man, are described as "Hitlerite Agents."-Router.
NEW "PUPPET"
In Nanking, special schools are soon to be opened to train dis- trict officials."
Shanghai, To-day. The town of Pengpu on the Tientsin Pukow Railway is to be the seat of a new "Government" installed by the Japanese in the province of Anhwei, declared Liang Hu-chi, "President of the new Government," which has ap- pointed Nyi Tao-cheng, Governor of Anhwei province. Dublin, Friday. Margaret Watson, New York wife who betrayed her crippled husband after a tiff and caused him to be deported to Scotland, is striv- the ing to be deported herself as only way of reaching the man she she cannot still loves. Unaided afford the fare to cross the Atlantic. Weakened by infantile paralysis and dreading a lonely future, the Shanghai, To-day. According to vernacular mes-husband, Mr. Robert Watson, forty- sages, Japanese gunboats in the three, told me of the "tiff when vicinity of Kiukiang have start- the California, which brought him the way to ed a furious attack on all Chinese over, called here on
Glasgow to-day.. shore positions.
There are 58 American subjects, mostly missionaries, in Kuling, in' addition to a number of other na- tionals, details of whom are not yet available.
Following the Matang hostilities these foreigners expressed their remaining on "the
intention of hill."-Reuter.
NAVAL ATTACKS.
Japanese aircraft are support-
"I love Margaret," he said, “and I forgive her
NAMOA HEAVILY SHELLED
Canton, To-day. Throughout yesterday Japanese gunboats ceaselessly poured shell after shell into Namoa Island.
Late last night, according to mess- ages this morning, firing was still audible in Swatow.
It is believed that the Japanese will attempt to occupy the Island once again very shortly although the Chinese troops have in the past week been considerably increased.
Our Own Correspondent,
CHINESE WOMEN SERVE IN POLICE FORCE
Shanghai,, July 16. Confucius said woman's place is in the kitchen, but 54 courage- ous Chinese women of Greater Shanghai will have no truck with such outmoded philosophy.
Following the example of their sisters in the big cities of west- emerged from the kitchen and ern lands, the valiant 54 have found their place in a more diffi- cult but more exciting sphere- the police force.
The policewomen serving with the Police Bureau of the Greater These schools will be conducted Shanghai Municipal Administra- by the Home Minister of the new tion, the "Nippo" said yesterday, "Nanking Government," Chen are distributed as follows: four Chun...
are detectives, four are guards in
A large part of Anhwei pro- the Police Bureau Jail, fourteen vince is still in Chinese hands, are stationed in Pootung, two in that part south of the Yangtse Yangssu, one in Nantão, eight in being occupied by Chinese forces. Chapel, six in Kaochiad and fift
* Teen in West, Shanghai,
-Trans-Ocean.
ing the vessels and dog-fights be-she still loves me. over there WHEREVER YOU GO
tween the Japanese machines and for telling the police over there the Chinese planes are. occurring that I was not an American citizen
and that I had no identity papers. daily very near Kiukiang.
"I last saw her running along
him
Hundreds of Japanese troops, wounded in the Kiukiang region the quayside at New York, as the are pouring into Shanghai. ship sailed, screaming, Let Many are being treated on board come back to me; I shall never see Japanese s.lips, which have been him again." converted into floating hospitals
on the Yangtse.
The Chinese are violently counter-attacking at Pengtse and Hukou. Our Own Corres- pondent.
SUBMERGED ROCK
DISCOVERED IN
GULF OF PECHILI
Shanghai, July 18. A submerged rock, in the shape of a pinnacle 80 feet across at
LEFT WITH SIX CHILDREN
"She is now left, with our chil- dren, Amy, aged seven, and Flor- ence, aged four, and the four chil- dren she had by a former husband. "I first went to Canada on my mother's knee when. I was eighteen months old, and held good jobs there until I became ill. Then I got across the border, to the U.S. nearly ten years ago, and looked for work.
Our
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its baseand its peak seven feet tiff my wife and I had
few weeks ago. I was sen- We had below the surface of the sea atsitive, and she was fed up low water has just been discov. run through the money that I had on relief. ered in the Gulf of Pechili, near saved, and we were living Chinwangtao.
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The tiff, was an ordinary one, and like many a man I went out that The rock is described by mar- iners as the highest of a sub-night. I was had up on a disorder- merged clump of rock in Shallowly conduct charge.
"My wife was questioned. The Bay, two miles northeast of Rocky Point. Its position is ag- whole thing came out. As I had certained to be Latitude 89 de no papers it was deportation for grees 50 minutes 10 seconds me.
North and Longtitude 119 – de- “Do you blame her? I don't. grees 88 minutes 20 seconds Eas
her and I love my children.
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