CHOLERA AND MALARIA NEW MENACE ALONG YANGTSE Thousands Of Japanese Troops Affected
Placed As High As 5,000 Round Kiukiang
Shanghai, To-day.
Following close on the heels of the floods which are now rapidly abating in the Yangtse Valley, an- other of nature's weapons, cholera, commonly known as “China's scourge," and malaria, are now threatening to bring hostilities to a stand- still. In well-informed quarters it is believed that the
·MINE
SHAKES MADRID
Madrid, To-day,
A mine exploded by the Repu blican troops under a building in University City shook all Madrid: and is believed to have caused 'many casualties among the Insur- gent troops in that vicinity.-Reu- ter.
GUERILLAS OVERWHELM
Japanese will be compelled to abandon com- SUPPLY
pletely their drive along the Yangtse in the battle for Hankow for at least two or three months.
JAPANESE SPOKESMAN ON WAR SITUATION
Shanghai, To-day.
There has been no change, ac- cording to Japanese war news, in
the military situation on the Yangtse front during the last few hours.
The Japanese spokesman merely reports the intense activity" of the Japanese Air Force in central·
SUPPLY CONVOY and southern China.
Hankow, To-day.
Apparently the Japanese army The Japanese lost over 100 men, command has ordered an inces- 100 trucks and large quantities of sant aerial bombardment of the The total of Japanese military victims of cholera military supplies as a result of two
attacks launched on their transport of the Yangtse in preparation for Chinese positions on both sides or malaria in the Kiukiang district alone is corps by chinese mobile mands on placed as high as five thousand, and there are the Tsienshan-Taihu highway on a resumption of a Japanese ad- reports of a serious outbreak also at Anking.
the north bank of the Yangtze vance.. River on Sunday.
The air raids on the Canton- Early that morning, the guerillas Hankow Railway are being con- learned that a fleet of 50 Japanese tinued and the Japanese claim to trucks, was moving from Taihu to have destroyed a large numbers Tsienshan and another of 30 in the of railway trucks. Opposite direction. They blew up all bridges and damaged sections of the highway.
Both the Chinese and Japanese forces alike are suffering seriously from these dread diseases, which
FLOOD AREA WIDENS
Hankow, To-day.
are also ravaging civilians behind The flood area on the north bank the lines and adding to the horrors of the Yangtze River has widened. of warfare, their own toll in lives A wide area between Huangmei, and suffering.
Wusueh, Kwangtsi and
kilometres tively 30
5,000 VICTIMS
respec- south-west
The Yingchangyao bridge, re- paired by the Chinese after be- Lying in ambush on the way, ing badly damaged, is said to have and west of Huangmei, which lies they attacked the Japanese when been struck by another shell with on the route of the Japanese ad- they arrived. More than 40 trucks the result that the traffic Exact information regarding the vance is now inundated. The water were damaged and large quantities the bridge has been interrupted.
inside and outside Kwangtsi city lemn were seized.
of provisions, munitions and petro-1
Trans-Ocean, spread of the diseases among Japanese troops is not obtainable, is knee-deep. Central News.
but a Japanese traveller. who has just returned to Shanghai from Kiukiang, "estimates that the num- ber of soldiers affected in the Kiu- kiang area is about five thousand.
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· JAPANESE AGAIN DIVERT POINT OF ATTACK
Juichang, To-day.
Blocked in their advance
In the afternoon the Chinese at- tacked another caravan
Japanese trucks load. 25 over 100
munition which was moving from Tungcheng, north of Anking, to Tsienshan. About 100 Japanese on guards were killed while 60 of the Another estimate from an ex-Juichang, - 22 miles west of trucks were seized by the Chinese. -ceedingly well-informed Source Kiukiang, in the range of hills on Central News.
places the number of Japanese the east bank of Chihu Lake, the troops in hospital owing to cholera Japanese troops are attempting to or malaria, dysentery or typhoid, throughout the whole of China to be in the region of 20,000.
· NANCHANG EPIDEMIC
land lying between the Yangtze FRENCH
Yangtze FRENCH ATLANTIC
FLIGHT
drive through the narrow strip of River and Chihu Lake. Their ob- jective is believed to be Matou, a point about 25 kilometres west of Kangkow.
Paris, To-day. Meanwhile, Reuter's correspon
It is announced that the French dent at Nanchang states that a Several Japanese warships have serious outbreak of cholera in and steamed upriver to that point and Vaisseau Paris, "which is station- giant flyingboat "Lieutenant De' around Nanchang is causing the have been heavily shelling the Chi-ed at Fort Biscarros on the Atlan- authorities, both civil and mili-nese positions since yesterday noontic Coast, will inake an attempt to tary, considerable concerò,
over"
MUI TSAI CASES
Leung Shuet Wun, 47, married woman, was this morning cautioned by Mr. Edwards at the Central Magistracy, for bringingTM- unregistered mui tsai, eight years old, into the Colony..
Another woman, Leung Yuet Sheung, was fined $30, for keeping an unregistered mui tsai, Ng Su- ling, 15, at No. 11 Ying. Wah Terrace, first floor, Inspector was presented to her four years ago. Fraser prosecuting, said the girl
Defendant had been in the Colony for three years.
At the Central Magistracy this The Chinese are offering stiff fly to New York on August 18th morning, Wong Wah, aged 28, was No less than 100 cases have been resistance and reinforcements are provided weather conditions are sentenced to four months* hard admitted to the Nanchang Cholera being rushed up. Hospital in the last fortnight, of which 21 have already died.
Additional Japanese troops are re- In an effort to combat the ported to have landed at Kangkow. epidemic, health stations are being The present total number of troops established throughout the area in there is estimated at about 3,000. order to treat all suspicious cases Fighting continues in the range
favourable.
labour, when he pleaded guilty to The flyingboat will make an inthe theft of a wallet from Chan. [termediate landing in the Azores. Tsun-nam,, at the Yaumati Ferry-
It is stated that the flight will wharf yesterday. be undertaken: solely for poses of study, and that
and to inoculate the others.
of hills on the east bank of Chihu will be made to beat One million doses of anti-cholera Lake. Saddle Hill is still in Chi-Trans-Ocean. vaccine have been issued and in nese hands, Central News, the past week more than 20,000 in |?? oculations have been made. 14
LEAGUE CO-OPERATION
A League of Nations: anti- epidemic, unit is at present operat- ing in full co-operation with the local health authorities.
Out of 7,000 Jabourers working in the camps: round Nanchang, 25 per cent. are at present suffering from.........taalaria. The campaign against malaria has beer sériously hampered by lack of supplies of quinine-Reuter.
TUNGWO DRAMA
⠀⠀ Shanghai, To-day. The Jardine 6.8.- Tungwo, which was involved in yester day's collision, was placed in quarantine to-day owing to an outbreak of cholera on board.
Apparently the radio operator suddenly developed the disease while wirelessing, the news of the accident. He carried on until all possible had been done before collapsing-Reuter.
records.
GERMAN EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT
The German Egyptian about the restitution landa which, before the belonged to the German Reichs recognition of authority of the German Consulate, as binding - in the matter of certain differences acising between persons of Ger nationality has been ratified:
Ocean. the Senate Ti
H.M.S. KENT EN ROUTE TO COLONY
Kent,
the Fifth adron and Flagship of Chin Figet is now on her way Far East, following re-
She has arrived in Singapore, and is expected in Hong Kong on or about September 5.
From here H.M.S. Kent will pro- ceed to Welhalwel, where she will take.
the. over:
Commander-in- Chlor
M:S. Cumber Janu