THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 2, 1940.
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To-day. The Archbishop of Canter- Reuter's special correspon-bury, in a broadcast, said it dent with the French army was vital that we should be describes a French gun crew upheld in the war by invin- exercising with a huge gun cible faith in the rightness of Hong Kong Depot, firing every few minutes live our cause. shells costing £350 each.
The crew planted five shells with- in a circle 20 yards in diameter in a far away village which was bat- tered to ruins in the last war and is still serving as a practise target in the present war.
Mounted on ten bogeys, the whole weighing 150 tons, the gun can be
countryside moved about the
at a
speed of 25 miles an hour.
When fired there is comparatively little smoke but a vivid sheet of flame
that and a terrific blast, so
at a distance of 100 yards it is necessary to stand very firm to avoid being thrown to the ground.
BETTER THAN GERMANS' Yet the gun recoils only a yard and a half, thanks to great blocks which absorb the shocks.
Another gun of even greater callbre is a huge mortar design- ed to smash the strongest, posl- tions by almost vertical fire, There are still other types of guns calculated to make "old Bertha" of the last war look small, for though the French Army does not have great opinion of such "stratosphere" guns, they are determined to one better than the enemy.-Reuter.
SITUATION
ON BORDER
a
have
"unrestricted He warned against competition in atrocities with enemy."
the
As time went on and just indigna- tion rose against some of the enemy's methods there would be angry de- mands to pay them back in own coin.
their
THERE ARE LIMITS
"Some reprisals there must be, but there will be limits below which Wo must not go. The ideals for which we went to war must not be forgotten in the peace."
The Primate recalled that when Abraham Lincoln was asked "Do you think God is on our side?" he
re-
plied "I don't know, but what mat- ters is that we should be on the side of God."
"Can
The Archbishop concluded: we doubt that whatever our short- comings and sins as a nation, in contending for the eternal absolute velties of right and wrong we are acting in accordance with the of God?"-Reuter.
JAPANESE PAOTOW
Not a single Japanese sol- CLAIMS
will
Peiping, To-day.
dier now remains on Chinese territory across the New Ter-
In order to refute alleged Chinese ritories border, the entire propaganda claims, the Japanese mill- military forces from Shatau-tary authorities flew kok to Namtau having com- pleted their withdrawal on Sunday.
foreign corres- pondents to Paotow, where they spent 12 hours interviewing the local Japan- ese military authorities.
was
--The correspondents returned yester-
day and reported that Paotow once
untouched by fighting and that all is now quiet, although a small Chinese force succeeded in forcing entry at one stage of the fighting.
Chinese national flags are again, after an absence of almost four months, flying along the entire bor- der.
The Chinese Maritime Customs also proceeded across the border on Sun- day and retook possession of their for- mer offices and stations at different points on the border.
The main Chinese force was sub- sequently beaten off with severe losses due to acrial bombing, and the Chinese' are now in full retreat.-Reuter.
REPORT DENIED
No Chinese troops had returned to Shumchun on Sunday, but according to reports last night it was learned that some plainclothes soldiers had ar- rived at Namtau, Shumchun and, Sha- taukok, to make preparations for ac- the Chinese forces commodating operating along the Canton-Kowloon | Yungyun. Line.
Shlukwan, To-day.
It is officially denied that the Jap- and have occupied Yingtak
anese
Official reports state that pitched being fought in areas It is learned that His Excellency the battles are Governor visited the border on Sun- several miles from the two cities.-
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