THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 8, 1988.
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SINYANG SITUATION ADMITTED TO BE CRITICAL Allegations Of Use Of Gas Bombs By Planes
Counter-Offensive DISRAELI'S
On Yangtse Continues.
Hankow, To-day.
The situation at Sinyang is admitted to be critical
t
as the Japanese are slowly advancing on the city. Gun-fire can very clearly be heard. The Chinese report that taking advantage of the bright moonlight the Japanese planes raided the Chinese defence lines and also dropped bombs on Sinyang.
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A late message received early this morning state that furious hand-to-
STUDY TO DISAPPEAR
"Ghost Room" of
Cabinet Secrets DOOR-PLATES SIR M. HANKEY'S MEMENTO
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BUDAPEST
ADMITS DESIGN ON RUTHENIA
was rece
Budapest, To-day.
The semi-official "Pester LloydTM ms that Count Csaky, who despatched by the Hungarian Government to Warsaw, room" that holds the secrets of all had several conversations with the the vital political decisions, home Polish Foreign Minister, Colonel and foreign, made by Britain in Beck, in order that both countries go hand in hand in a the past 20 years, writes a corres- should pondent.
DO 3. Gjoint effort to secure a common It is the private ante-room at 2, frontier between Poland and Hun- Whitehall-gardens, used by Sir gary
Maurice Hankey, who resigned re- It would seen that the Hungarian cently from the secretaryships of Government has now abandoned the Cabinet and the Committee of hope of obtaining the consent of Imperial Defence, which he had the Slovaks to incorporation of held respectively from 1919 and their territory with Hungary, but 1912.
the paper expresses the belief that
and nighting, occurred throughout CARBON FOR GAS The room is one of the "Disraeli the Carpathian Buthenians will sup
yesterday afternoon.
The Chinese carried out violent| infantry attacks at dawn to-day in the area, and, according to verna- cular reports, met with considerable success.
decline to
MASKS
Production From Lump Coal
suite," the contents of which are to port the Hungarian policy. be sold at auction. "Dizzy" himself
The paper stresses that estab-' used the large study and the ante- room from 1875 to 1878. The de-lishment of a common frontier be molition of Nos. 1-6, Whitehall-gar-tween Poland and Hungary is not a-mere diplomatic whim but a re- dens is to start on October 1.
Chinese officials here
In the small ante-room I examin- turn to the state of affairs that ed one of the most intriguing of had existed for centuries to the mutual satisfaction of both coun- comment on the report that the
the objects that will be sold, a
tries. Peiping-Hankow Line was cut some
Active carton of a high quality large piece of furniture containing miles south of Sinyang by the Ja- panese. They, however, admit that required in large quantities for gas sorting trays to hold the minutes the line. was badly wrecked by Ja-masks can now be produced in Eng-of the meetings of the Cabinet and land from graded lump coal. the Committee of Imperial De- panese bombs a few days ago.
Hitherto a large proportion, made fence. Messages from Nanchang claim
by other methods, has been import- further successes. The Chinese are
ed. be- still counter-attacking fiercely tween Wuning and Juichang. Our Own Correspondent.
GAS BOMBS
HOPE OF PLACATING
· RUMANIA.
The paper adds that the solid bloc formed by Poland, Hungary 75 Pigeon-Holes
and Rumania would serve as a Wall panels and paintings, sculp-barrier against "the world revolu-
The new process has been detured mantelpieces and ornate cell-tion planned by Moscow." veloped following an investigation ings are to come under the ham- Political circles here interpret carried out at the request of the
mer, but to anyone with a sense of War Office by the Fuel Research or-imagination these pale into insigni- Hankow, To-day.ganisation of the Department of ficance compared with the sorting Scientific and Industrial Research trays which have held all the se- and the Chemical Defence Research crets of Empire. Department.
An urgent message received this morning states that the Japanese are using gas-bombs in the Sinyang re- gion, from aircraft.
Gun fire is becoming more dis- tinct in Sinyang add the messages -Our Own Correspondent.
this somewhat cryptic utterance as indicating the hope that the Ru- manian Government may be in- duced to forgo opposition to the scheme.
There are 75 pigeon-holes in this piece of polished mahogany, each Regarding the resolution passed An account of the investigation containing the official slips which by the Slovak delegates at the con- The ference in Sillein demanding auto- the is given in a report issued by the accompanied the minutes. Department of Scientific and Indus-names of the recipients of the min-nomy for Slovakia within trial Research, and published by jutes still appear in large lettering Czecho-Slovak State, all papers de- the Stationery Office.
at the back of each pigeon hole.clare that the resolution cannot No. 1 is "The Secretary of the affect the right of Hungarians in Active carbon is also used for a Committee" Sir Maurice himself. Slovakia to return to their mother- number of industrial purpose, main- No. 2 is "The King," No.. 3 "The land. The success of the Japanese cross-ly for the purification of solution Duke of Gloucester," No. 4 "The The "Fester Lloyd" expresses ing of the Fu River at Huatang, in and the recovery of solvents in Prime Minister." No. 5 "The Chan- the desire that a settlement may the vicinity of Paishihcheng, and
manufacturing processes.
cellor of the Exchequer" No. 6 soon be reached since Hungary the withdrawal of the Chinese to
"The Lord President of the Coun-needs peace on her northern new positions near Chingshantien, The manufacture of active carbon cil,” and No. 7 "The Lord Chancel-frontier.—Trans-Ocean. and Lankanpu, east of Sinyang, are from coal has been carried out in lor."
JAPANESE DRIVE
Hankow, To-day.
the latest developments in the Ja-England mainly by one firm. The Other names, which I noted at panese drive on Hankow.
process involves the very fine grin- random were those of Sir H.
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Object of the Japanese crossing ding of the coal, briquetting at high Knatchbull-Hugessen, Sir F. Leith-M. J. Paris, and the huge mirrors, of the Fu River is to attack Yang-pressure without a binder, carbóni-Ross, Col. Ismay, Sir Herbert Cree- are going in one lot-No. 126: · hsin, generally considered the key sing at a relatively low temperature dy, Sir Rupert Howarth, Major Looking from the windows of the point of the Chinese second defence and activating the resulting coke Dykes, Mr. Rendell, Mr. Longhurst study, which give on to the Thames, line in the battle for Hankow. with steam.
and Sir Robert Vausittart.
one sees in the garden below "Nell Sir Maurice Hankey was given Gwynn's seat." This crumbling The method now evolved dispenses the opportunity of purchasing any wooden structure is said to be with the necessity for grinding and object he pleased from the rooms where Charles II. courted Nell. It After many attempts to cross the briquetting, and thus reduces the as a memento before the main sale, will be preserved amid the demoli- river at various points, a small de-cost of the finished product. begins. He chose the finger-plates tion and rebuilding. tachment of Japanese troops finally
on the doors, and these have al- - Even the 100-year-old paving succeeded in crossing at Huatang. Testh made of the suitability ready been removed.
stones bordering the roadway out- Attempts to cross at other points, of
Museum's Choice
side Nos, 1-6, Whitehall-gardens, been gold. They are Toing to however, are said to have been re-dustrial"
The Victoria and Albert Museum
exhibitor at © Fair - wants was tions of stair railing
Englyushe
the carbons:
for
were, use
research is suggested.
In-
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pulsed by Chinese ́artillery and stated, encouraging, and further have selected iron grates and sec
machine-gun fire.
The Chinese are ... now
troops to the Huatang
an effort to clear, the
of the Fu River of also to prevent further
Inforcements cro
It
rushing found that the finely-divided carbon. It is understood that
in would efficiently decolourise liquids, tives of provincial art
such as trade, glycerine, and edible, museums will be present oils, such as palm kernel oil, in The entire contents. some Instances being superior to the rooms, including, the sou
mantelnie
commonly
terested
in
fal visit to great states-