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FIERCE JAPANESE ONSLAUGHT
Governor
Due Here
General Chao Teng-Yu Killed
GEN. WE TEH HEAVY CHINESE LOSSES REPORTED
WU CHEN
This morning Hong Kong will be honoured by a visit of His Ex- cellency General Wu Teh-chen, Governor of the Province of Kwangtung, who will be arriving aboard the Canadian Pacific-liner. Empress of Japan.
His Excellency will be met by a large and representative gathering.
Cruttwell, Including Mr. H. J. Private Secretary to His Excellency the Officer Administering the Goy ernment, and the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, Colonial Secretary, with a guard of police under the charge
· of Mr. A. R.. 6. Major, Assistant
· Superintendent of Police.
General Wu Teh-chen
General Wu Tel-chen will also be met by Mr. Edward Bing-Shuey Lee, Secretary of the Kwangtung Provincial Planning Commission, who specially came to Hong Kong for this purpose.
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NOW IS THE TIME!
Under the above "heading, the Editor continnes his comments on the situation, in North China on Page 8.
IRISH BORDER.
Three Young Men Taken Into Custody
Dublin, July 29. Great police activity continues on both sides of the Irish border. After detectives and guards from Dublin, Dundalk" and Drogheda, armed with machine guns and re- volvers searched the Rockmarshal Mountain for five hours last night three young men in a tent near the summit were arrested and de- tamed at the barracks in Dublin
A large force pf guards from Dublin has been drafted to Dan- dalk to form a day and night patrol on the railway. Alister.
THE DOLLAR
*T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30-3/8. TT, ON LONDON: 1s, 221/320.
London Silver Marker
(From Our Own Correspondent) London," July 20. London silver prices to-day were 1/18 up as
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Peace Maintenance Commission Formed
Shanghai, July 29.
The Japanese have officially announced the capture of Wanping and they also Chinese troops north-west of Peiping have been driven across the Yungping River.
claim that all
A peace maintenance commission, consisting of three Chinese and three Japanese has been formed in Peiping.
Tientsin: There are tremendous conflagrations in the principal Chinese buildings including Nankai University, the Central Station and the Peace Preservation Corps headquarters between East Station and the International bridge.
Scores of Japanese bombers have been engaged in going up in relays dropping incendiary bombs and returning to the Japanese aerodrome to replenish their bomb supplies.
There has been a panicky exodus from the Chinese city to the Concessions. Japanese aircraft are at present heavily bombing Chinese official buildings in the Chinese city including the municipality also the Palitai area south of the city where Chinese troops are reported to be concentrated. Several villages
ages were attacked from the air after the bombing meluding a village adjoining the aerodrome can the arsenal. Fire broke out in the East Station as a result of Chinese firing which was quickly extin- guished by the Japanese. Reuter.
Tientsin: Intensive bombing ended after four hours with the Nankai University as the worst sufferer. Flames are visible for miles around, but at present all is quiet.
The British, American, and Belgian Consuls-General are endeavouring to mediate between the Chinese and the Japanese on behalf of their respective Consulates with the object of securing a cessation of hostilities. Up to the present, however, there has been no result owing to the difficulties to com- municate with the respective parties due to breaches of faith.
PEACE CONFERENCE PROCEEDING
"PEIPING: IT IS UNDERSTOOD A CHINESE-JAPANESE PEACE CONFERENCE IS PROCEEDING IN PEIPING WHICH IS RAPIDLY RETURNING TO NORMAL. THE RESISTANCE OF THE 29TH ARMY TO THE RELENTLESS JAPANESE ATTACKS CEASED SHORTLY AFTER MID-NIGHT FOLLOWING GENERAL SUNG CHEH YUAN'S DE. PARTURE. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT TWO THOUSAND WOUNDED CHINESE SOLDIERS STRUGGLED INTO PEIPING FROM NANYUAN LAST EVENING. BUILDINGS BESIDE THE YUNGTINGMEN AND CHANGYI- MEN WERE BADLY DAMAGED BY JAPANESE SHELL FIRE.
IN CONTRAST TO THE WARLIKE APPEARANCE IN PEIPING YESTERDAY THE USUAL POLICE PAT ROLS WERE THE ONLY ARMED FORCES VISIBLE IN THE STREETS IN THE MORNING. THE POPULATION IS MOVING ABOUT FREELY AND THE CITY GATES ARE REOPENED.
NANKING: CHINESE GOVERNMENT LEADERS HELD AN EMERGENCY MEETING TO-DAY AND DIS. CUSSED THE EVACUATION OF CHINESE TROOPS FROM PEIPING AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTH CHINA. THE WITHDRAWAL IS SAID TO BE DUE TO DEFACTION OF SHIH YU SAN'S MILITIAMEN WHO OUTNUMBERED GENERAL SUNG'S FORCES IN PEIPING. IT IS ALSO REPORTED THAT THE ATTITUDE OF GENERAL CHANG TZE" TSUNG IS DOUBTFUL. GENERAL SUNG HAS ARRIVED AT PAOTINGFU
AWOKE
GENERAL SUNG ORDERED TO PAOTINGFU
PEIPING: THE CITY AWOKE THIS MORNING TO FIND EVENTS HAD TAKEN A DRAMATIC TURN OVERNIGHT. THE DIN OF BATTLE HAD CEASED AND CHINESE TROOPS HAD SILENTLY EVACUATED THE CITY. THE DEFENCE WORKS ARE NOW BEING PULLED DOWN. GENERALS SUNG CHEHI YUAN, CHIN TEH CHUN AND FENG CHIHAN HAD DEPARTELITO PACTINGJU LEAVING THE GOVERNMENT IN THE HANDS OF GENERAL CHANG TSU CHUNG WHOSE 38TH DIVISION ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUPY PEIPING VERY SHORTLY. GENERAL CHANG HAS BEEN ONE OF TER MOST IMPORTANT PARTIES IN THE RECENT FINAL JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS IN PEIFING AND TIENTSIN. BEFORE LEAVING GENERAL SUNG PREPARED A COMMUNIQUE WHICH WAS ISSUED THIS MORNING. IT STATED THAT GENERAL SUNG HAD BEEN ORDERED TO FACTINGFU AND 80 HAD DELEGATED THE POWERS OF CHAIRMAN OF THE HOPEI CHAHAR POLITICAL COUNCIL AND PACIFICATION COMMISSIONER TO GENERAL CHANG GENERAL SUNG ADDED THAT GENERAL CHANG WOULD ALSO ACT AS MÁTOR OF PEIFING WHILE MR. LL WEN TTEN, CHIEF OF POLICE ATTIENTSIN HAS CONCURRENTLY ABSUMED THE MAYORALTY OF TIENTSIN. THE COMMUNIQUE ALSO STATED THAT MR. CHEN CHT YEN IS REPLACED AS CHIEF OF POLICE IN PEIPING BY GENERAL CHANG YI AND MR. CHANG WEL FAN, DIRECTOR OF THE HALWAY BY MR. CHANG SUN YUNG.
JAPANESE CONCESSION ISOLATED
TIENTSIN THE JAPANESE CONCESSION IS ISOLATED AND CHINESE ARE REPORTED TO BE PLANNING AN ATTACK ON THE JAPANESE BARRACKS AT HAIKUANSHU THE AUTHORITIES IN THE FRENCH AREA ARE PROHIBITING JAPANESE MILITARY TRAFFIC BECAUSE THE PADANTUI POSTED AT THE PO- LICE STATION OPPOSITE THE CENTRAL POST OFFICE IS FIRING AT ALL TRAFFIC OROBBING THE INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE AND ENDANGERING LIVES IN THE BUSIEST SECTION OF THE FRENCH AREA TO THE SOUTH OF THE BRIDGE, A JAPANESE DETACHMENT TO THE EAST OF THE STATION ISOLATED IN THE JAPANESE AIRFIELD WHERE A FIRE IS AT PRESENT RAGING, IS SURROUNDED. MEANWHILE IN THE FORMER GERMAN AREA THE PADANTUL SEIZED LIGHT- ERS LOADED, WITH JAPANESE MILITARY SUPPLIES FROM TANGKU INCLUDING TRUCKS.
HEAVY CHINESE CASUALTIES
SHANGHAI: IT IS OFFICIALLY REPORTED THERE WERE MORE THAN A THOUSAND CHINESE CASUALTIES IN THE FIGHTING IN NANYUAN DISTRICT YESTERDAY, THE DEAD INCLUDE GENERAL CHAD TENG XU, COMMANDER, AND MAJOR GENERAL TUNG LIN KOU. DEPUTY COMMANDER OF THE 132ND DIVISION, The Lake
TORTO PRESS MESSAGES FROM PRIPING STATE THAT JAPANESE MILITARISTS ARE DETERMINED TO CARRY OUT PUNITIVE MEASURES AGAINST THE 29TH ARDY TO THE FINISH THEY ADD THAT A PEACE MAINTENANCE COMMISSION WILL BE ORGANISED IN PEIPING TO-DAY OR TO-MORROW AT July 29 ATHE LATEST. -20-1/16 20-1/16
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Acts
THIS WEEK
July 25 (Sunday)-Three Japanese transports arrived off Taku Bar. July 26-Heavy fighting in Wan- ping area. Japanese sent ulti matum to General Sunz' Cheh- yuan, Commander of the 29th Route Army, to withdraw Chinese troops from Lukuochiso. Pelping and other areas. Lang- fang reported a heap of ruins. July 27-Reported annihilation' ef)
Chinese battalion.
July 28 Chinese fight back and capture Tungehow; also three armoured cars in the drive on Tungehow: and the Japanese airfield in Chaochitang, Japan- ese intensifying drive, in Peiping
Chun, present
KING'S MESSAGE TO PEOPLE OF..
» NORTHERN IRELAND
The King and Queen returned to London after a visit to Belfast. Crowds were waiting at Euston Station and cheered their Ma- Jesties. After boarding the Royal yacht the King sent wireless message to the Governor of North- ern Ireland in which he stated: "I and the Queen will always re- member the day we spent in Northern Ireland and will always treasure the memory of the tre mendous welcome from the cheer- ing crowds. Tell the people of Northern Ireland how grateful we are to them and how we enjoyed. our visit."
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THE WEATHER
A report issued by the Royal Observatory states that, 0.07 inch
of rain was recorded during the 24 hours ended at 10 am. yester day, bringing the rear's total since January 1 to 50.50 inches against En average of 51.79 inches.
Wednesday's maximum tempera ture was 89 dega, with nightë minimum of 79. Yesterday at 10 am. the temperature, was 81 degs The maximum temperature yest day was 85.2 degs, this reading being taken at 4 pm.
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