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No.24950. 拾伍佰玖仟肆萬式第 日柒拾月柒年戊 HONG KONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938.
72 JAPANESE PLANES RAIN DEATH IN APPALLING RAID ON HANYANG
Terrible Toll Of Casualties:
Hundreds Of Houses Demolished
PERSONS BURIED ALIVE Soviet Budget
IN SMOULDERING RUINS
Heavy Missiles Dropped In
M
Most Haphazard Manner
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HANKOW, AUGUST 11. ORE THAN 600 PEOPLE WERE KILLED OR WOUNDED AND OVER 100 HOUSES DEMOLISHED AND RAZED IN ONE OF THE BLOODIEST" GARNAGES IN HANYANG ÀS 72 JAPANESE PLANES STAGED INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING ON THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS SHORTLY AFTER NOON TODAY."
The raiding squadrons, in relays, dropped at least 200 heavy. missiles in a most haphazard manner over Hanyang. Large num- hers of houses were set on Are by incendiaries which caused aum- erous persons to be huried alive under the smouldering rains.
Most of the bombs dropped dur ing the raid were heavy explosives,
RELIEF CENTRE weighing from 50 to 100 kilograms
The
BOMBED
each, The raiders penetrated into the limits of Wuhan from eastern Hupeh in three groups and emptied their bomb-racks before flying
Canton, August 11.
aaway. Canton Relief Centre. shelter for refugees and the poor, aged and disabled on the eastern suburbs of the city. at Shekpal Chungshan the National University was bombed by four Japanese planes this afternoon.
near
Reller the
Increase For Services
ARMAMENT EXPENDITURES DOUBLED
Moscow; August 11. The 1938-39 budget of the Soviet Union was submitted by the Commissar of Finance at the meeting of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union in the presence of M. Stalin 'last night. The most important item among the expenditure is the increase of the army and mary budget to 27 miliard roubles as compared reilliards In the budget.
with 20 previous
Armament expenditures of the Soviet Union have increased by 100 per cent since 1936 and 48
Explaining the increased arma- uch as 300 per cent since 1935.
HEAVY AIR RAID CHINESE COMMAND DETERMINED
CASUALTIES
Heavy casualties were suffered lo Canton during the Japanese
air raid on Monday when the French Roman Catholic Cathédral
was damaged to the extent of $800,000.
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Poland May Withdraw
From League
Warsaw, August 11...
ment demands. M. Sverev de- It is semi-officially stated here clared that the danger of a new that Poland intends to withdraw
:
of Nations.
Unofficial quartem are of the
opinion that the probable explan-
A large number of people living along the water front near the south gate, unable to take shelter In time. jumped into the water and most of them were drowned. Many bodies, including children who were, dragged into the water war had never been as near and her representative from the League All the missiles landed within together with their parents have a real as just now and pointed to the "Japanese provocations on the the compound of
been recovered. Centre. (Central News),
About thirty river boats which Far Eastern border."
IJkewise reroarkable the tion, is that Poland rears being had no time to take shelter in doubling of expenditures of the drawn into international compilen- places of safety were capsized or blown up, causing the death of at Home Commissariat which is trons arising out of the Czecho-:
the charge of
suppression of slovak situation-Reuter).
activities. Rescue parties, feverishly work-counter-revolutionary ing in appalling heaps of wreckage, The Home Commissariat receives have extricated from the debris 43 milliard roubles in dozens of terribly mangled bodies budget. For balancing the budget Direct and and dismembered limbs and torsos. estimates of tax receipts are con-
siderably increased. Central News).
Indirect taxation is to yield 10 to 30 per cent more than in the fiscal year 1937-(Transocean).
GUIDE TO THE NEWS
Paze 2Air Raid Frecautions ex- hibition opened. Sordid tale of cruelty. Unregistered mui tsal Education for poor children. Pure 3-Women's interests. Con-
fide in Faith Prior. Page, News about the Services
London Gazette.
Page 5-Cinema notices.
Cross-
word. Blind, singer for Singa- pore.
Page 6.-Litvinoff and Shigemitsu arrive at agreement. Protection for civilians in air raids. Day- light bank robbery.
Page 7.-National City Bank cialm
refused. Combined operations
least 100 persons.
Interport Table Tennis
HONG KONG AND MACAO
CHARITY MATCH
The finals of the Men's and
in November. Rent collector Ladies' Table Tennis League or gaoled. The weather. Cholera Kanised by the Hong Kong Table cases mounting. Day of success Tennis Association, were played off last week at the Confucian Club for Chinese air arm. Page 8.-Leading article: Japan and resulted as follows:-
will temporise. An imminent Men's League: 1. Confucian crisis confronts Japan. Har- [Club. 2: South China, 3. Silver Star bouring of young girl, Day by Club. day. Judgment in action under statute.
Page 9-"Conference between Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax. Pare 10-Terinis championship of the United Services. Heavy- weight tourney. US. baseball results. Army tennis league.
E. Geare holes in one.
Page 12-Financial page.
Women's League:-1. Silver Star Club. 2, South China, 3. Wah Heung Athletic Association.
The Table Tennis Association have arranged for an Interport charity match to be played between Hong Kong and Macao on Saturday, at the Chinese Y.M.C.A.. Bridges Street: The (Continued on Page 9)
AIR SERVICE INAUGURATED
M. Dupay, French Consul-General, speaking at the reception held ? at Kal Tak Airport on the occasion of the arrival of the 'De- woitine, plane of the Air France inaugurating the new Hong Kong-Hanol service. On the extreme right is the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Höle," Harbour Master and Director of Air Services, who re-
presented the Hong Kong Government.
the
new
HANKOW IN NO DANGER OF BEING FLOODED
Hankow, August 11. Hankow is in no langer of being flooded, according to Information from the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Bureau.
Military Operations Cease
ON CHANGKUFENG FRONT
Tokyo August 11.
All military operations on the Changkufeng front ceased at noon today in accordance with the armistice agreed upon by the Soviet Union and Japan.. (Transocean).
SOVIET AIR RAID
Tokyo, August 11 About 15 Soviet planes carried A considerable drop in the water level in the Yangtze has been re-out a bombing 'raid ́on the Japan- gistered in the past few days ese positions near Changkuteng (Central News).
JAPANESE
Another Japanese Coastal Atrocity
(Continued on Page 9) ·..
Colony Water
Restriction Begins Monday
FIFTEEN HOURS FOR ALL DISTRICTS
The Fublic Works Depart- rment announces that con mencing Monday, August 15, the hours of supply of water to all districts on Victoria Island, Kowloon, and New Kowloon will be from 6 am. to 3. p.m.
Consumers are earnestly re- quested to exercise every care in the use of water and to have defective water. Attings repaired without" delay. Today, the storage of water in the Colony's reservoirs is over
2.000,000,000 gallons short of what it was a year ago!
い
TO DEFEND WUHAN.
Japanese Advance On Hankow Makes Little Progress CANTONESE TROOPS'.. STRONG OPPOSITION
HANKOW, AUGUST 12. . RITISH OPINION HERE IS ORATIFIED BY THE FACT THAT
BTHE CHINESE HIGH COMMAND: IS DETERMINED TO..
DEFEND WUHAN (HANKOW, HANYANG AND WUCHANG) IN THE FACE OF AMPHIBIAN JAPANESE ATTACK.
Extensive British interest along the Yangtse River would be wiped out completely if Hanków were to fall into Japanese, hands as in the case of the lower Yangise which is closed to British, American. French and other foreign trade on the pretext that military opera- tion is still in progress.
Meanwhile, the Japanese advance cn, Hankow has made little pro- gress. The drive conducted in three columns. The upriver cam- paign continues to be in the hards of the Japanese navy, while Japan- ese troops are to advance on the
ALL QUIET ON SOUTH
north bank from Huangmel to YANGTSE FRONT
Kwangtai, on the Klangs-Hapeh.... frontier.
along
Mahulling, Klangsi,
August 11.
An ominous lull prevalled along the entire south" Yangtre ́ ́bank
The third column is to make a thrust from Kluktang to Nanchang thence to Changsha to cut the Canton-Hankow Rallway, which the Japanese army hopes to front throughout yesterday and move on to Wuhan, the advance this morning as both sides are will gathering forces for fresh opera- from Kiuklang southward meet with the strong opposition tions. from Canton troops commanded At Shaho, about 700 Japanese by General Hateh Yoh, well-known | troops moving“ northwestward for for his bravery, and strategy, who vantage points were driven back 13 ordering a counter-attack. by Chinese defence forces at two General Haleh's opinion is that o'clock yesterday afternoon. Wuhan should be another Verdun.
Halt a dozen Japanese planes
The Chinese forces around. Wu-
han can hold out indefinitely, while throughout, yesterday morning and the Soviet-Japanese clashes have afternoon made extensive recon- The Island storage at the end had the effect of hindering the naissance north of Mahulling and of July, 1937. was 2.324.6 million Japanese advance. The Chinese occasionally dropped bombs
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THE DOLLAR
T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30-1/4. TF. ON LONDON: 15 2.7/18.
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London Silver Market
(Our Own Correspondent) London, August 11. London silver prices today were down 1/8 as follows:-
Aug. 10. Aug. 11. Spot............19-9/16 19-7/16 Forward......19-7/16 19-5/16
SUFFER HEAVY REVERSES IN SOUTH SHANSI AREA
Canton, Aug. 11. Twenty-five fishing fonks plying along the eastern Kwangtung coast off, Hwellel were pirated by a Japanese naval ship on July 23 and mare than seventy fishing folk, in- cluding many aged women, were killed or drowned after horrible tortures at the hands of the Japanese, according to an arrival from Hwellei
Over Six Hundred Killed South Of Yienchi Lake
Tungkwan, August · 11.
A number of heavy reverses were administered by Chinese forces to the Japanese troops in the vicinity of Yuncheng and Any in south Shansi during last week, according to military despatchés re- ceived here.
In a bitter engagement on the southern border of the Ylenchi Lake in August 7, the Chinese troops succeeded in killing more than 600 Japanese, including Major Owara and Captain Sato.
Fighting at Changtsi and Kutsan) tured,
together with
twenty
was especially heavy, where num-machine-guns and large quantities erous Japanese casualties were re of ammunition (Central News), ported, while corresponding losses
were also suffered by the Chinese.
To the north of Tungkwan at Changtienchen, about 700 Japanese
1,000 JAPANESE DEAD
Tehan, Aug. 11,
The Japanese launched an attack!
All the pirated Junks, having infantry, supported by a dozen on Tatenshan and Meanshan in been systematically. ransacked of heavy artillery pleces, kept the vicinity of Shaho and accord- all their valuables, were set on fire pounding away at the Chinese post-ing to a report reaching Chinese and destroyed.
tions since last week. Their at headquarters, the attackers were Eighty-two occupants of the tacks were vigorously replied by repulsed suffering a thousand scored cammalties. The Japanese, accord- pirated ships were captured and, Chinese batteries which
ing to the report, left behind ́ 20. with the exception of thirteen heavily over the invaders.
In the last four days" con-machine-guns children, who were sent to an un-
Lushan and Kuling are still held known destination, were either tinuous duel, it is estimated, about killed or forced to walk the plank half of the 700 Japanese men have by the Chinese and there is no Only twelve escaped death by been killed or wounded. Beven of activity in that sector at present. swimming ashore (Central News), the enemy neld runs were capReuter),
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troops are now equipped with up-the Chinese positions (Central
News). to-date arms.-(International).
A. R. P. Exhibition
Upper pleture shows lady Northcote, wife of His Excelloney the Governor, at the Air Eald Precautions Exhibition which Her Ladyship opened at the Union Church Hall yesterday afternoon, Below nurses of the St. John Ambulance Brigade are soun a demonstration. The exhibition will be continued today
it will be opened to the public. (Photos, A.U.F)
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