THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 4, 1989.
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SWATOW PREPARED
FOR THE WORST
BUT TRADE
Hoax Or
STILL GOES ON Test-Kite?
(Special To "China Mail")
Berlin, To-day. SHORT-LIVED hoax
was perpetrated yes terday in Germany by a secret wireless station.
Swatow is now only a shadow of its former self, 2 staff member of the "China Mail" discovered in a visit to the port a day or
two ago. At least 40 per cent of the shops are closed and barred, their owners being for the most part among the 35 per cent, of the town's former population which was forced to evacuate a week ago under the instructions of the military had occupied Danzig. authorities.
At the moment, Swatow is not threatened, although a small Japan- ese destroyer is anchored at the mouth of the estuary and an officer and armed escort visit all ships and inspect their papers before permitting them to continue in to Swatow. Vessels leaving Swntow are not molested.
into the
All channels leading harbour have been thoroughly min- ed, and the Chinese military au- thorities have announced their in- tention to resist any attempt on the part of the Japanese to take town.
MACHINE-GUN NESTS
are
the
25 KILLED IN
MACAO HOUSE
COLLAPSE
MACAO, TO-DAY. TWENTY-FIVE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE KILLED EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING WHEN THREE HOUSES COL- LAPSED BURYING SOME 50 OC- CUPANTS.
The Fire Brigade, ambulances and police were summoned and be- gan digging for the victims.
ATTACKED WOMAN WON'T TALK
A Chinese woman was badly in- jured by a male-companion last night in Caroline Hill Road.
It is alleged that while walking near the South China Athletic As- sociation ground, the man picked up He then
stone and struck her.
ran away.
The woman was admitted. to the
came to disclose the reason for the
at-
During a pause in the ordinary Queen Mary Hospital but declined Berlin programme, a voice through announcing; in German, tack. that at 10.35 a.m. German troops
"Further details," the voice la- conically added, "will follow."
Ningpo, To-day.
A foreign vessel, flying an Ameri- can flag, was stopped by a Japanese warship on its way from Tinghai What actually happened was that to Ningpo on Sunday and forced to thousands of people telephoned en- sail to Hsiangshan harbour. Fifty deavouring to secure confirmation. passengers aboard are detained.
Origin of the transmission has Central News. not been ascertained, Trans- Ocean.
800 CASUALTIES IN RAID ON CHUNGKING
still searching for victims of the disas- terous air-raid carried out yester- day afternoon.
The incident occurred shortly after 4 a.m, when the Indian con- With this in view, machine-gun stable on duty in the neighbour- nests have been set up at practically hood was attracted by a crashing, every cross-road and street-corner.
Chungking, To-day. rumbling noise.
Rescue
and parties
red-cross Most of these
simple affairs
He found that a house had cav-workers have been digging among made chiefly with sandbags,
but ed in and that the walls had col- the debris all night and are at several strategic points elaborate lapsed. concrete pill-boxes with a 350- degree field of fire have been built A large number of air-raid shelters could also be used in an emergency. Twelve were detained in hospi-
Wounded are pouring into In the opinion of the Swatow tal-Our Own Correspondent.
Reuter adds that altogether three hospitals and can be expected in the near future. houses collapsed, killing 27 and in-stations, and it is now The city has no anti-aircaft protec-juring 30. The recent heavy rains that some 800 people have been tion beyond that afford by machine-were probably a contributary fac- killed and injured.-Our Own Cor-
respondent. guns and, indeed, as far as could be tory. determined, the troops defending the city provincial troops and
authorities, an
attack on that port
armed only with rifles, hand-
emergency
the first-aid estimated
peace preservation corps men-are GERMAN WARSHIPS GENERAL BALBO grenades and machine-guns. The PASS GIBRALTAR
have no artillery with which to op- pose the attack of Japanese ships..
war-
last
VISITING CAIRO
Paris, To-day. News from Gibraltar states that all German warships which
Cairo, To-day. week visited Spanish and North-
General Balbo, Governor of African ports in the Mediterranean, have passed Gibraltar on the way Libya, is arriving in Cairo on May to the open Atlantic.-Trans-Océan,
8.
BOMBING DAMAGE, Frequent flights have been made over the city by Japanese aircraft and, as already reported in the "China Mail," heavy damage was inflicted on various ‘government and
The Italian Minister in Cairo military buildings during the course Swatow in H.M.S. Falmouth, it was
invited the British Ambag-- of a recent air-raid. Thanks to the learned this morning. He is mere- has absence of any real anti-aircraft fire, ly paying a visit to the port and sador, Sir Miles Lampson, the the Japanese bombers were able to will remain there until Monday, Commander-in-Chief of British fly low and take careful aim. Most when he sails in the Falmouth; forces in Egypt and Air Marshal of the buildings were partially de- his port of call after leaving Sir William Mitchell to dinner, to
Swatow is not yet determined. meet General Balbo. Reuter. molished and unfit for further use.
Although the city itself is now only a shade of its former self, Swatow Id a very busy port. A
· number of British and other mer- chant marine vessels enter and leave dally discharging heavy cargoes which include wheat and other grain, and motor lorries The water-front is a hive of activity, di
Lying at anchor in the roadstead at the moment is H. M. S. Thraclun, sloop, and the U. S. S Edsal,
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