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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
JAPANESE AT HUKOW CANNOT RETREAT
Thrown Into Precarious Position By Chinese
WAR
SITUATION REVIEWED
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Bankow, July 15. With their retreat cut by the Chinese the Japanese troops at Hukow have been thrown into a precarious position, declared Chinese spokesman when reviewing the war situation at a press con- ference yesterday.
The Chinese, according to the spokesman, are holding a strong defence line between Hsiangshan and Hukow. They have been launching repeated counter-attacks on the Japanese in the Pengtseh area to prevent them from reaching their comrades beleaguered at Hakow.
bank of Poyang Lake. Chinese shore batteries replied with effect. The Japanese so far have not been able to steal a landing.
(Central News).
CHINESE PRESSING
ON TAIAN
DAY AND NIGHT ON A
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MODERN AIRWAY
BY ROBERT BRENARD
AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE
OF THE FLYING MAIL'
Of a great rallway terminus it is said that it never Tests
sleeps.
The same applies, nowadays," to ranisation.
."
any great air transport or-
In the headquarters offices, a night staff follows the one which has been on duty throughout the day; while down at the airport the day-flying air expresses are followed by big mall and freight- planes operating on the night routes."
Air transport has become a day, night shifts in the big sheds down At every hour at the air port,
Japanese warships concentrated at Yangcheng, west of Tsinzcheng, to the southwest of Hukow, the la south-eastern Shansi, yesterday spokesman revealed, have been started to withdraw in the direc-and-night affair. Intermittently shelling the 'Chinese tion of Tsingcheng. A strong of the twenty-four, positions at Kutangchen, on the Ch sese column is pursuing them. along the far-flung routes of Im-organised
somewhere One" of the most highly- aspects of modern perla Airways, an alrliner is in air transport is to be found flight with its passengers, malis in its system of aircraft main- and freight. Hotseh, Shantung. July 15.
tanance and overhaul. As cach A signal victory was won by the
At all hours of the day or night big airliner finishes its day's fy- Military reports received here
messages Chinese in the Slangkow area on state that strong Chinese troops perial
are reaching the Im-ing. It comes into the sheds for a July 12. Reinforced by fresh and militiamen are pressing. on London, recording the movement engineers and mechanics. Every Airways headquarters in routine overhaul by highly-skilled troops, the Japanese attacked the Taian. important town on the Chinese at Hslangshan. a strategic Tientsin-Pukow Railway. 72 kloof routes; while a day-and-night and all the work done by the en- of aircraft over nearly 30,000 milles part of the machine is examined; hi in the vicinity, with great metres south of Talan. ferocity. For a time the situation
The Chinese have defeated
staff is always on duty in the gineers is supervised by Inspectors Victoria, ready headquarters booking - opice at licenced by the Alr Ministry. phone inquiries from the public is checked and counter-checked; to answer tele- ; Every item of work on a machine and to reserve accommodation on any risk of. error. bettig eliminated any forthcoming service as requir- so far as it is humanly possible to ed.
do 30. And no aircraft enters Often the night staff receive again upon a regular spell of ay- urgent inquiry as to the booking until it has received its daily Ing of 3 specially-chartered air- certificate, of airworthiness, sign- Chinese guerillas. (Central Newsands he wants to fly to a point the Engineering Department.
craft. It may be a surgeon who ed by one of the Inspectors of
was extremely critical. But in a unit of 3,000 Japanese in a san- counter-attack the Chinese crush-guinary engagement at Shankow ed the Japanese and regained in the suburbs and are pursuing complete control of the Hang- them toward Talan. shan area.
Trafic on the northern section Between 300 and 400 Japanese of Tientsin-Pukow Rallway has were slain and five machine-guns, again been disrupted after the 80 rifles and 200 cases of ammuni-destruction of a steel bridge at tlon were captured by the Chinese. Chuchlafu, south of Talan, by
KIANGSU TOWN REGAINED
In north Kiangsu the Chinese have reoccunded Fowning. Yen- cheng and Tingkichen, north of Tunrtal, and are now striking at Jokio and Haian. A complete collapse of the Japanese defence lines in that part of the province was predicted by the spokesman.
GUERILLAS ACTIVE
Hankow, July 15. Chinese ruerillas have recently extended their activities to the immediate outskirts of Tientsin. message from that city revealed.
some considerable distance of to The day's work of the airway traf- perform ar urgent operation. It department, particularly during may be someone who has been the summer months, begins at an summoned In haste to the bedside early hour. There are morning of a sick relative. Or it may be a air expresses to all parts of business man who has been called Europe. Catching one of these
MAIN FEATURES
A few days ago, they disarmed to an urgent conference in a dis-early-morning policemen of the bogus govern-tant city. The spokesman admitted that merit outside the west gate and Taiyuan and Shanyuanchen In seized two trucks north Honan have been captured by the Japanese in their westward drive into Shansi. Chinese coun- ter-attacks on Tsiyuan, however.
have exacted a heavy tall of 1.000
Japanese ves.-(Central News).
JAPANESE IN SHANSI WITHDRAWING
Tungwan, July 15. Unable to withstand repeated | Chinese on-slaughts, the Japanese
JAPANESE DROP PAMPHLETS OVER KIUKIANG
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'planes, business men can be in cities such as Osic or Stockholm by tea-time that Meanwhile, the message added.
Here, the experts will tell you, same day. Tourists leaving Croy Chinese mobile bands in eastern is one of the outstanding features don by morning services can reach Hopel, who have hitherto confined frequent booking, at short notice.
of present-day "air travel this almost any part of Switzerland their operations around Yutien,
that same day. By a new express Tsunhwa. Hinglung and Kihsien, who are in haste, for distances of possible to fly through from Lon- of airtaxis to carry passengers service instituted recently, it is
from hundreds to thousands of don to Venice in less than seven miles:
hours: this comparing with ap- Apart from doctors; surgeons, proximately 25 hours by surfese and business men, jockeys en-transport. gage taxiplanes to fly them
EMPIRE ROUTES over to take part in races on the In addition to the big motor- Continent; holiday-folk charter a coaches carrying passengers from special saloon-plane for a week- the Airway Terminus at Victoria
nave extended their activities to Luanhalen, on the Pelping-Liaon ing Railway, and districts along. the Luan River,(Central News). ARMS TAKEN UP RIVER, Tunki, Anhwel, July 13. Larre quantities of Japanese arms and ammunition have been shipped to Wahu ready to be sent
further up river to the fighting areas on the Yangisë.
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end dash to various European down to the Croydon airport for cities: flim stars engage their own continental fights. other passen-
car from
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Africa, India, Malaya, China and Australia,
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The speed
accelerated air services, as nów operating on these Empire routes. is opening, up a new era in business and pleasure travel. It has become possible, for example, during the course of a long week-end, to pay a visit by flying-boat to Egypt. Leaving London on Thursday evening, passengers are in Cairo for lunch on Saturday. Leaving again for England on Monday, they are back in London in fine time for dinner on Tuesday even-
ing.
Another example of this mo- dern air speed, 'so far 18 tourists are concerned, is to be found in the fact that anyone. with three weeks to spare for a vacation can now fly out to Cen- tral Africa, devote 14 days to sur- Tace-transport expeditions to see wild life in its natural surround; ings, and return agata to England, all within an overall time of 21 days.
A business man. In haste can now make an air dash out to
In view of the activities of Chi-private plane when travelling to gers are leaving London for long India and back within a period of nese guerillas 5.000 Japanese re- make a personal appearance at distance air journeys across the inforcements have arrived
the first night of some important Empire routes, These Empire pas- Shanghai, July 15.
Changhing. Wukang. Kintan, Li- production.
sengers travel by Puliman According to the British mayat yang and Lishul. The Japanese might as well as day in the traffic Waterloo to Southampton: and.
Apart from those who work by specials on the railway anthorities, Japanese planes today garrison units at Wusth dropped leaflets over Kinkiang Changchow.
départment of a big modern air- Nanking-
on arriving at the docks, they go urging the populace not to leave Shanghat Railway, have also been way organisation, there are the aboard big Imperial flying-boats the town but to stay behind and Increased.--(Central).
engineering staffs who also work for swift air voyages to Egypt. Welcome the incoming Japanese
with while flags. !?..
The pamphlets also gave assur- ance of safety, to residents, of Klu- klang providing no shots were fired.
(Reuter).
News).
the on
and
HEAVY JAPANESE CASUALTIES
The
AT HANTAN
abont Chinese
Chengchow, July 15. Japanese suffered 1,000 casualties when guerillas attacked the station at Hantan, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, 442 kilometres south of Peiping, on Wednesday night.
The steel rallway bridge north
út the station was dynamited and
20 ITALIANS
LOSE LIVES IN
AIR DISASTER are by
Rome, July 15. All of the 20 passengers in the Dl-fated Italian air-liner, lost on Wednesday, were Italians.
The victims included the Mar-
CABINET CASTIGATED FOR REFUSAL TO ENDORSE CHINA LOAN
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London, July 15.
a large quantity of Japanese army "A loan for China-a thing that the Chinese people need if provisions near the station set on they are to buy anti-aircraft guns for their defence--has been turn- the guerillas.(Centra) ed down because the Cabinet is afraid of offending the Japanese Just as defence of British ships bombed by Franco was refused "for fear of annoying 'Mussolini" declares an editorial in the Dally Herald today.
Newsy.
SEEK TO BAN
quis Pesdivilla Marina, Gentleman CHINESE COMING
in-Waiting to the King of Italy.
The
cause of the disaster TO HONG HONG
alternatively stated to have been a broken air screw and, à fre aboard. (Reuter).
"Hankow, July 15. Mr. Lo Wen-kan, former Ministër of Foreign Affairs and a member of the People's Political Council,
JAPAMESE AIRCRAFT has introduced a resolution, before
The paper adds that it is the matter of a loan to China. Re- wish of British people to help as solutions demanding this
far as they can the innocent vic- nust be passed and posted by which ought
tims of aggression, and it is that lovers of peace, wherever they are
to gover Cabinet rathered, to Downing Street. polley and not the fear of harsh. words from war-makers.
It is up to the British people to convince the Government of that fact, says the journal.
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APPEAL TO PEACE LOVERS
"We owe it to the people of Can- ton to make China a'loan," con- cludes the Daily Herald, "for it is only by such a loan that China can get air defence to protect her population from Japanese bom-
CARRIER TORPEDOED the Connell, forbidding officials ""Let us begin at once with this bers."—(Reuter),
Shanghai, July 15.
and people from going to Hong;
Kong as a place of refuge.
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THE ODYSSEY OF A
CHINESE DAILY
The China Times, a Chinese morning daily which used to be one of the vernacular "Big Four" in Shanghai until the fall of that elty last November, has found for itself after a remarkable Odyssey a new home in Changking, China's wartime capital, 1,200 miles west of Shanghai on the Yangtse.
Foreseeing what was bound to happen, the China Times manage- „ ment as early, as last October more than one month before the Já- panese threw a ring of bayonets around Shanghal, decided to move part of its expensive mechanical equipment elsewhere.
As it was impossible to move any
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a week; or, if he has to go fur- ther afield, he can make an air voyage from England out to Aus- tralia. spend a week out there, and then return again to England -all within a period of 28 days.
In visiting the various depart ments of a present-day airway or for climatic, changes encountered bulky cargo by railway from ganisation, it is specially interest Another would-be traveller will Shanghai which was then fully en- ing to watch the work that is being up to ask questions as to the aged by troop movements, four- ing done in the Inquiry Office. Empire flights. Yet another will for the purpose. Instead of pass aerial catering provided on trans-masted Chinese funks were sectired Here, at their telephones. sit ex have some query as to the restric. ing the lower stretch. of the Yang-
perts who have an absolutely en-
cyclopaedic knowledge of every astions imposed by certain countries te which was controlled by the pect of modern air transport on the carrying of cameras by Japanese Navy, these junks, wound
aerial passengcro. ·
their way through a labyrinth of To all
Inland waterways and such
Anally queries the
reached the famous Grand Canal, with their which extends from the east of Inter Peiping in the north to Hangehow
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operation. AII sorts of queries come to them over the telephone, and they have to be prepared to experts" are ready suggest solutions for all kinds of answers; and, in the problems in which the time-factor vals between the ringing of the in the south. is urgent.
telephone bells, they and time to It took these junks four weeks Here is an
art dealer, who tell you many interesting things to reach Chinklang, where the wants to send out some valu-about present-day air travel. able vases by air to a client over-! One outstanding fact. for example, above the Chinese boom. Balling canal crosses the Yangtae, just seas. Here is a breeder of pedi is the growing use of passenger air up the river, they arrived "at Nan- gree dogs who wants to send out the growing use of passenger air king about three weeks before the some valuable animals by airway transport by business men. Busi Japanese entered it in the middle to take part in a special show on ness passengers now predominate of December. Joan
the Continent. Here is a fashion on both the European and Empire house in London which has aalr-lines. They
At Nanking the heavy machinery, cut-number all Including one 18-page cylindrical special order from a client. In other classes of travellers. Big press was disassembled and pack- Africa, and which wants to send London firms now make a habit of ed in wooden boxes, and with 15 out a consignment of goods by the sending their buyers by air when rolls of Canadian newsprint, son- next flying-boat service.
these experts make visits to continued the slow voyage westward. MANY QUERIES
tinental cities. Big engineering. Constant queries are received by firms use the air-lines regularly
NEW BIRTH the Inquiry Department officials when their technical men make
The China Times, preferring als». from holiday-makers planning journey's across Europe or the Empension to Japanese control, ceased special excursions. Some of these pire; so, too, do motor-car
to appear in Shanghai on Novem- people want to make an air dash gantsations and petrol-distribut-ber 25, three days after the fall of round Europe, dying from city to ing companies. Directors and ex. the city. On April 27, 1938. "Ave city" according to schedule. Others ecutives representing big indus-months later, it reappeared, this the torpedoing and sinking of a Ja- Popular Front movement, also
London, July 15, want to vary their trips by leav-trial groups now make long jour-time in Chungking, retaining fis panese aircraft carrier by a Chin-brought up another resolution re-that the Cabinet had decided against guaranteeing an arms loan"
Uproar in the House of Commons followed the announcement" ing the air occasionally for ex-neys by air across the Empire familiar format, and its usual pro- ese coastal motor boat in South quiring the families of ofielais to to China. the Opposition being extremely bitter in criticism, while
cursions by motor-coach or river airlines. China waters about two weeks ago move to the interior anri, to not
gressiver and patriotic policjeż. steamier, -International)."
One recent case which the
The China Times is by no means migrate to Hong Kong-Central
z woman demonstrated in the Stranger'' Gallery.
All questions arising as to experts mention is that of a the only paper to leave Shangbai Mr. G. Le M. Mander, then exquiry Office experts can answer tobacco concern.
auch matters as these the In-director of an important. British Both the Shun Pac and the Ta pressed the opinion that in view promptly and fully, their know business trip from England out to in Hankow, leaving the Bin Wan He made a Kung Pao are now being published of the occurrences in the Far East, ledge including every essential de-India, China had at least as good a claim tall us to the operation of an and New Zealand; and during this Four" in the doomed Chinese Malaya, China, Australia, the sole survivor of tam "Big to a loan as Turkey.
aerial network which now extends expedition, he travelled more than metropolis on the eastem seaboard, for over 60,000 miles across Europe. 18,000-miles by air. Another re- enabling air-bookings to be made cent traveller by the trom London to more than 200 routes was an export manager in sengers appreciate, particularly,
Empire Lance air "trávél. towns and cities throughout the the
Buch pas-
Continent.
British textile trade. who the snug smoking-cabins where made a 20,000 miles tour by air. they can assemble for a chat; also with as to air travel across the various territories..
Many queries have to be dealt paying personal visits to clients in the spacious promenade saloons long-distance Empire routes. A
where they can stretch their legs What appeals specially to busi- and watch through special outlook to some point overseas will, for speed of the Imperial flying-boate views of fand and sea, while they passenger who has booked a fightness air passengers is not only the windows wonderful panorama example. ring up to ask what ir, ues on Empire routes, but also are also enthusiastic in their clothing it will be wise for him to the high factor of personal com- praise of take with him, so as to be ready fort now enjoyed in long-dis- aerial catering system
the emelency of
According to the evening edition
Mr. Wang Chi-sze, another mein-
of the China Press, a foreigner saw ber of the Council, known for his
Japanese Night Raid On Canton
Stage Second
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Canton, July 15 (10.30 p.m.), Taking advantage of the bright moonlight, an undisclosed number of Japanese bombers raided the vicinity of Canton tonight. The alarm was sounded at 8.30 p.m.
As soon as the city was blackened out powerful searchlights began. to pierce the darkened skies in an attempt to locate the invaders.
A number of explosions were heard and it is believed that the bombs were dropped somewhere outside of the city suburbs: (Central News).
UPROAR IN COMMONS
The woman appeared to be at tacking the Government's policy. accusing Mr. Chamberlain of being a pro-Fascist..
In answer to a question by the Labour member. Mr. Arthur Hen- Sir John Simon answered that derson; as to whether the British one had to weigh all the circum- Government would, as far as stances in every individual case possible, full the obligations un- and in the present, these were of dertaken in the League of Nations an important and serious nature. resolutions of October 1837 and One must not overlook the fact January 1938, namely to render that the loan to Turkey was made China every possible help. Bir to a country not entangled in John Simon anwered. that the hostilities. League of Nations resolutions had This answer from the Chancellor not been forgotten.
of the Exchequer aroused a storm STORM OF PROTEST of protest from Labour Party The Opposition Liberal member,members-(Transocean).
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