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1,000 VICTIMS OF RAIDON KWEIYANG
H.K.'S OLDEST INHABITANT OFF ON JOURNEY OF ADVENTURE!
Hong Kong lost its Old Inhabitant during the week-end.
Chungking, To-day.
It has now been established that over a thousand civilians were killed and injured in the city of Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichow Pro- vince, during the orgy of frightfulness during the week- by Japanese airmen during the end, when the total of their civilian victims in half-a-dozen towns exceed 2,500, including the sack of Wanhsien. {
Two squadrons descended on Kweiyang, one swift- ly following upon the other, and the centre of the city was virtual devastated in a deluge of bombs, pitilessly rained over the residential and business areas for half an hour. Huge high explosive bombs dozen blazes was still lighting up which burst with a shattering the city last night. roar, killing scores and bringing Kweiyang's old buildings crash- ing, were interspersed with incen- diary bombs which set fires blaz- ing in a dozen different spots. years and maintained himself by The fire brigade fought vail-
The man for whom the honour is claimed is an old soldier, Hai- dar Khan, whose passport veri- fies his claim to be 107 years of age, and a pensioner from the In-
dian army.
Haidar Khan has been residing in the Colony for seven or eight
keeping a small shop for the
of tobacco in Landale Street.
sale
But the urge to return to his
native Peshawar at last proved too| strong for his ties in Hong Kong, and he left unaccompanied on Fri- day to make the long journey to India, a journey likely to be much more arduous and exciting than the average trip, for Haidar Khan dis- likes the sea and does not intend to use that method of conveyance, beyond Saigon.
ACROSS COUNTRY
At 107 years of age, he proposes to make a cross-country journey to
sport between trains. It a trip across Indo-China, the jungles of Siam and and then across India via Assam.
iantly after the departure of the raiders, but they were helpless in the face of the many raging areas and the glow of half
REPUBLICAN
ARMY GRANTED SANCTUARY
Perpignan, To-day.
a
Peshawar, using railways where At a conference held in Le Per- possible and other means of tran-
involves thus between the French military through authorities and representatives of Burma, the Republican army, it was decid- ed that the militiamen would be allowed to cross the French fron- tier in close formation this morning
ITALIAN TORPEDO ACCIDENT
at 8 o'clock.
The officers had desired that the
then to proceed by sea
and Valencia
Rome, To-day. troops be given permission to re- Two Italian sailors were killed on main some time in Fran Saturday during shooting practice in the Gulf of Naples when a tor- pedo, piercing a safety net, struck the torpedo-boat Dezza.
in order to continue. fighting.
This was flatly refused by the Fronch who included General' The torpedo-boat suffered minor Fagalda and M.. Jules Henry, the damage but was able to return to French Ambassador. All militia- harbour under its own power. Trans-Ocean.
ITALIAN GENERAL WOUNDED
Rome, To-day.
men will be disarmed and brought into the French concentration camp at Argeles sur Mer or Boulou.
Before the militiamen enter France this morning, about 18.000
PEIPING TAKES OVER TOKYO EMBASSY
Tokyo, To-day. The Chinese Embassy has been taken over by the Peiping Provi-/ sional Government. The object of occupying the building is not dis- closed. Our Own Correspondent.
"ADA" FOUND IN
One huge high explosive JAPANESE
bomb crashed clean through a dug-out in which nearly a hundred people were cower- ing killing the majority in- stantly.
HANDS IN AMOY
Shanghai, To-day. The "Ada" a small coastal ship
GHASTLY SCENES Ghastly spectacles were wit- nessed when the city's rescue owned by a Hungarian, Paul Komor, corps, not yet efficiently organis- of Shanghai, which was seized by ed, fought their way into burn- the Japanese on Saturday, is now ing and devastated streets to the
rescue of the injured, whose lying in harbour off Amoy. number is estimated as at least The Netherlands Consul in Amoy 600.
is conducting neogtiations: for its release.
It is believed that between 400 and 500 were killed, but many of Other foreign ships are also in the corpses have been charred the harbour after having been seiz- beyond recognition, or are buried ed by the Japanese, according to a beneath masses of debris. Our Briton who has just returned here Own Correspondent.
from Amoy, Reuter,
civilian refugees from La Junquera and Figueras will cross the fron-] s tient
A
Yesterday afternoon, 24 planes General Bitos§î, commander of landed at Salvaza airport near Car the Italian legionary ‹ division, was dassone, where they were interned wounded in the leg by a machine by the French authorities. Other gun bullet during the advance on planes are supposed to have flown Gerona.---Trang-Oceán,
Ito Valencfa; -- Trans-Ocsan.
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