T
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN AD, KOWLOON- DAILY AT 2, 3015,
€ 9.30 ·TEL. 506
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
The Picture Made Behind Closed Doors
Revealed
WEDNESDAY
Warner Bros.
་
Picture
In Amazing, Nerve-shattering
THE MYSTERY OF THE
WAX
MUSEUM
ALLIN GORGEOUL A. H
TECHNICOLOR
PAUL MUNI
Detail!
C6 THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA "
HOT DOGS. 20 cts. ASSORTED SANDWICHES`. CHICKEN IN ASPIC, 11 OZS?.
20 cts. 80 cts. Express Service Telephone 21311. We deliver or send your boy to VIVA PRODUCTS, 12a, Des Voeux Road., Ctl.
+
TO-NIGHT'S DINNER
1. Vermicelli Soup.
2. Boiled Fish & Egg Sauce.
3. Ragout-of Veal.
4. Pig's Tongue Cutlet.
6. Roast Chicken.
6. Apple Pie!
*7.
Cheese & Biscuit.
Tea or Coffee.'
ST. FRANCIS HOTEL
QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL.
Price 90 cts.
NOW ON SALE
The 19th Issue of the
CHINA YEAR BOOK
(1998 Edition)
EDITED BY H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C.B.E.
The new edition of the CHINA YEAR BOOK will add another volume to the series (dating from 1912) which constitutes a very remarkable contemporary history of China. It arms its reader with all material necessary for forming correct judgments on the Far Eastern situation and embodies all important documents and statistics of the year.
Among the subjects dealt with by foreign and Chinese experts are the following:-
Sino-Japanese Hostilities (Documented)
Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan
Public Health and the Leprosy Problem
Finance and Currency (including War measures)
Chinese Art
Chinese Army and Navy
Catholic and Protestant Missions
The Kuomintang and the Government
Modern Chinese Industries: Labour.
Royal octavo, 620 pages, cloth bound, $18 net.
Obtainable at all booksellers or from the publishers: THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEWS & HERALD LTD.
P.O. Box 707, Shanghai
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 17, 1938.
Japanese Using Tanks In
South China
Shanghai, To-day. The Japanese forces on the South China front are said to include tanks, landed under consider- able difficulties.
Although the ground is rather difficult, the rivers are low enough to permit a passage of artillery and the tanks. Greater difficulties will only arise when the Japanese advance further west when the territory is very hilly and the water- ways are deeper.
In order to prevent the Chinese putting serious obstacles in the way of the Japanese advance, squadrons of Japanese aeroplanes are heavily bombing all roads and railway lines of South China, also all the places where Chinese troops gathered and all forms of trans- port.
NEW YANGTSE THREAT
Shanghai, To-day. Asked whether the Japanese ac on the Yangtse front, the Japat tion in South China had had any ese land, water and air forces have influence on the Hankow opera- made-heavy attacks on the Chinese tions, the Japanese spokesman second line of defence within which answered that already a weakening lie Shiweiyao and Tayeh. By blow- of the Chinese résistance around Hankow had been noticed as the Chinese in the Weyuankee Bay and ing up the boom placed by the
Chinese command, had withdrawn
the opening a free passage for troops from Hankow to move them
to the scene of action in South shipping, the Japanese were able to
China.
subject the Chinese lines of defence
Considerable troop movements between Shiweiyao and Hwangshi^~^. were going on, he said, in direction kang to the heaviest fire. Japanese of Changsha and Yochow.-Trans- mine sweepers are already within Ocean.
8 kilometres of Shiweiyao while the land forces are still about 18 kilometres away, below Shiweiyao, the Japanese having landed further
RUMANIAN NOTE ON HUNGARY'S CLAIM
Bucharest, To-day.
troops Trans-Ocean.
CAMERAMAN'S LOSS
In agreement with Yugoslavia, Kiu Suen-sze, 26, was brought Rumania will inform the Hungarian before Mr. H. R. Butters this morn- Government and the four Powersing, charged with the stealing of that signed the agreement in one telephoto lens with camera Munich that she considers the Hun-view finder and one movie camera, garian demands against Czecho-total value $1,250, from
Cheung slovakia exceed the limits of what Kai-chueng, cameraman, at No. 24 was agreed-upon-in-Munich, Buch- Canal Road West, and with illegal- arest newspapers report.
pawning.
Rumania considers the demands Mr. M. A. D'Silva was for the de- put forward by Hungary can only fence, and Det.-Sergeant J. Bentley be explained by the inordinate am-for the Police, bition of Magyar "Chauvinism. Trans-Ocean.
F
A remand of 24 hours granted.
was
Hundreds of people lost their lives in the dreadful American hurricand,rocently. This picture gives an idea of the damage caused In the space of a few minutes, taken at Westhampton, fashionable Long Island resort, which is now a mass of desolato wreckage house ripped in two.
mass