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Far Eastern COLONY HEALTH
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RETURNS
Tuberculosis Claim Many Victims
CHINESE AIR FORCE
The Chinese Air Force con- No less than 72 deaths from siste of some Arteen
fighting tuberculosis are disclosed in the squadrons, plus about 200 train- Colony. health - returns for the ing machines (about 850 service- | week ended July 24: Also there able planes in all. While ·re- | were" 14 cases of typhold with five markable progress has been roade deaths; ten." cases of dysentery in the past three or four years,Į four deaths; and one fatal case of
diphtheria. much remains to be done.
SERIOUS HANDICAP
and
On Monday Ave cases of dysen- tery. three of small-pox, two each A serious handicap is the ex-of cholera (one imported) typhold. traordinary diversity of machines | diphtheria
cerebro-spinal and engines, including British, fever, and one case of measles American. Italian, Getman: and were notified to the Health au- French models of almost
every thorities. known type. Another weak point During the 48 hourse ended on in the shortage of trained me- Sunday, one case of cholera (m- chanics and the lack of re- ported), two of small-pox, and serves both in machines and per-one case each of typhoid and dy- sonnel. The fact that the Chin- sentery were notified. ese Air Force has no national air- braft industry behind it would place it in a precarious position It supplies from abroad were cut off by an enemy blockade in time o war. While the Chinese make good, though not brilliant, flyers, most of them display a contempt for mechanics as something with which,
the Chinese "corps d'elite," they should not be expect- ed to concern themselves.
Although the Chinese Air Force has been employed to good effect
in
VAMOUN
internal
WATK and
against Communist "bandits," its combat emclency against a well- armed toe remains to be proved.
GUERRILLA WARFARE”
MR. AW BOON HAW'S
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5-YEAR PLAN
1,000 Primary Schools
For China
A message from China states that Nanking has accepted the Proposal of Mr. Aw Boon Haw, of the Eng Ann Tong Medical, Hall, Singapore, to build 1,000 primary
has
schools in all parts of China.
which A five-year plan. been drawn, up, will be carried out by the Education Ministry accord-
While it is estimated that Chlanging to the wishes of the donor. Kai-shek would probably be able to mobilise half a million riflemen fairly quickly. it is doubtful whe- ther, in view of the inadequacy of Chinese communications and the
Each school building wil cost $3.500 (Chinese currency) and it will be maintained by the local
lack of largescale military plans, he could maintain so large a num- ber of, troops in the field for any considerable length of time. What
Chinese authorities.
Fifty primary schools will be built in the province of Kwang- Lung, 30 in Kwangs! and 20 in Kwelchow shortly.
Mr. Aw suggests that measures
that
ever the Chinese plan of campaign for the introduction of compulsory might be to begin with, it is pro-education should be adopted by bable that it would soon degener- the Chinese. Government so
every child above six should ate into guerrilla warfare, with a attend a primary school and every number of detached armies opera-
boy above ten should be given ting independently and harrying military training until he leaves the invader as opportunity oxered.
school But in any case these are perdäps
These boys Mr. Aw suggests, the best tactics the Chinese could would make first-class soldiers or adopt..
Volunteer police in the future.
THE MADRID FRONT
Heavy Fighting
Madrid, July 28.
It is claimed by the Insurgent Junta's spokesman" here that 108 planes belonging" to the Valencia Government have been shot down on the Madrid, front during the three weeks of beary fighting just concluded.
With the announcement of this
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"huge total of machines, shot down WEDNESDAY,
15 put forward the claim of the present superiority of the Insur- gent armies in the all-important air arm.
The majority, or the "victims of
Commencing at 10.00 AM.
the Insurgent aces were nantes Ar GODOWN No. 18, Lower or craft, 31 of which were actuallyTHE HONG KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN Co., Ltd., KOWLOON.
shot down in aerial combat.
A high omcer of France's A'r Ministry told "Reuter" to-day that Boeing aircraft were being used by | A LARGE QUANTITY OF the Government forces. These MISCELLANEOUS ' GOODS
were constructed in Russia after the American model, but they were
of interior design. They were very fast, capable of cruising at 240 miles per hour, but difficult to ma- noeuvre at high speed.
The Curtiss fighters were lower. easier to control, but their arms ment was badly placed, leaving a wide "blind spot:"
Comprising
Industrial Chemicals Iron of Ammonia, Books, Piecegoods, Beads, Washers, Paper, Sulphate
Samples, Bottle Captales, Dog Spikes, Iron Tubes, Iron Plate, Fish Platas, Iron Ware, Iron Shorts, Cobble Wire, Square Bars, Flat Bars, Round Bars, Nails, Superphosphate The Government's bombers were of Lame, Teak Ends, Teak Planks, very slow, and the slowest carried Sharks - Fins, Matches, Graphic, sever machine-guns. But they Powder, Tea, Condimenta, Acid, seldom attempted air raids unless Electrical Machinery, Yarn, Ether, accompanied by an escort of figh-Glass Ware, Chlorate of Potash, ters, he said.-
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PROTECTION OF REFUGEES London, July 26. The importance of continuing, 25. OLE of the functions of the League of Nations, the interna- tional protection of refugees was arged by a deputation which was TERMS:-O On Delivery. received this morning at the For- eign Office by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord Cran- borne who la rapporteur on re- fugees to the League Council.
The deputation which was led
by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
drew attention to the grave an- xiety felt by large sections, of Bri- tish public opinion owing to a proposal to close the Nansen In- ternational Office for refugees at
the end of 1938.
Lord Cranborne promised His Majesty's Government would give. sympathetic consideration to the deputations representations.
Mach Wireles
NO ARMS EXPORTED FROM BRITAIN
If the Japanese employed a suf- Aciently large number of troops | they could probably seize any par- ticular point they wished in China, operations on the part of Japan but they would then be faced with would probably be directed against
London, July 28. the same problems as they are three main theatres of action which now encountering in Manchuria. may, be roughly defined as fol-
Stating it was recently brought Irregular bands would harry the lows: (1) Provinces north of the to the notice of the Government and south. of the there existed a belief in the terri- and Yellow River Japanese communications
(2)
the Yangtae tory under the control of General largescale, banditry would develop. Great Wall;
It is obvious that i Japan still Valley: (3) South China, embrac- Franco as well as elsewhere that needs to maintain the equivalent ing the Fukien coast and Canton guns of recent British manufac- of five divisions in Manchuria she delta region.
ture were captured from the Bas- would need a great many more in Domination of the Yangtze re- ques at Bilbao the Foreign Secre- China, where railway communicá-gion would mean naval control of tary (Mr. Eden) told the Com- tions are less well developed, and the Yangtze and its key cities of mons to-day that instructions bad
been sent to H the question is whether at the Nanking and Hankow, the only two accordingly present time Japan has the troops points where railways terminate on Majesty's "Ambassador at Hendaye to inform General Franco's Glov- to spare.
both sides of the river. However,
these two ernment categorically that no war. the occupation of centres, despite their strategic im- material had been exported under
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stated to number 230,000, but well-mean the loss of the whole Yangtze 8p by her directly or indirectly Informed observers consider that valley. Effective control of this since the civil war began. da
Bir Henry Chilton, at the same 25,000 18 nearer the mark of the area implies the ability to use free-.
time, had informed General Fran- seventeen Japanese divisions fively not only the river but also a are already overseas-three in considerable strip of territory on co's Government that if they were able to give markings or Manchukuo and two in Korea. In either side.
dates of any British guns found in addition, there are six "rallway
Bilbao which appeared" to Bave garrisons.". Each consisting of six battalions 1,000 strong, stationed in
South China lacks basic com- been manufactured since the civil Manchukuo, and between 7,000 and munications, and there are few war began His Majesty's Govern 8,000 troops in North China. Each navigable rivers of any conse- ment would be very willing to en- deavour to investigate the circu- of the seventeen divisions has a quence. Hence the possession of duplicate cadre trom which a new Canton and the Fukien ports would stances- division could be built up in tend to cripple the Chinese defence British Wireless.
REMOVAL OF REFUGEES emergency. In Shanghai the so- forces there, which would still be
London, July 26. called "Landing party" of Japanese tree, however, to operate in the
The degree in which the removal marines, which actually is a per- hinterland and could either move
refugees from a besieged ̈*.or manent garrison of varying northward to the Yangtze through of strength, has been increased to Hunan and Xiangel or try to re-blockaded place might or might not effect the military situation more than 3,000 while about 800 cover the towns seized. marines' are distributed amongst
Within a period of two or three must depend upon the circuma
tances of the particular case. His the nine Japanese gunboats weeks, some experts believe, Japan Majesty's Government who in the operating on the Yangtze. In could assume effective military evacuation of women and children addition to these runboats the control of the China littoral and from Spain during the exdating Japanese naval forces regularly occupy a sufficient number of conflict have acted throughout stationed in Chinese watera con- strategic communication centres to from purely humanitarian motives sist of three cruisers and ten des- make unified opposition on the do not consider the evacuation of troyers. The Japanese navy would Chinese side dimcult, if not ac- civilians from Spain which they be in a position, without drawing tually imposible. Buch control, it have effected or assisted is a upon its main fleets, to blockade is estimated, could be achieved by breach of the non-intervention Hong Kong, 48th July, 1837. the principal Chinese ports and the use of nine or ten army divi- agreement, or inconsistent with so to act as the equivalent of alons, with the co-operation of the the policy of non-intervention several divisions of troops.
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troops in the Brunète area com- tinues and all objectives have been attained, while desperate Govern ment counter-attacks have been repulsed.
Kuantung army and the China which they have adopted. This squadron of the Japanese fleet. statement was made, to-day in the reinforced by vessels from Port Commons in an answer by the If major hostilities should break Arthur and Formosa. But it is Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden- out between China and Japan | extremely doubtful whether Japan | British Wirelease what would be, the probable course has suficient troops to spare for
-INSURGENT LOSSES of events? Any attempt to answer an oversens expedition of such
* London, July 27., such a question must be based magnitude. Domestic exigencies
Insurgent casualties in the re- largely on speculation, of course, combined with the necessity of cent drhting to the west pr Madrid Over 50 Government tanks have and would depend much upon maintaining an adequate garrison have totalled about 23 000 men, been destroyed in the recent fight whether a largescale invasion of azakist Russia, are likely to make sccording to the Madrid COSTES- ing and the number of Govern China by the Japanese arms or the Japanese General Staff think pondent of the Hpanish Press ment dead, which are scattered in merely a localised demonstration before embarking upon any Agency in London
the battlefield at Brimete amounta of force were envisaged... Take the „prise" chung" for a large ex-- A Balamanca communiqué states to several thousand. former contingency first. Military | penditure of milltary resources, “
advance of the Insurgent, Reuter
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