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JAPANESE ATTACK ON HANKOW JAPANESE AIR RAID TWO BIG BATTLES
WILL BE ALONG RAILWAY AND THE LAKE DISTRICT
Not Much Importance Attached To Drive
In
Yangtse Valley
Hankow, August 14.
THE JAPANËSE DRIVE ON HANKOW.will be undertaken chiefly along the railway and the lake district while assisted by planes and warships is the opinion of General Yeh Chien-ying, Chief of Staff of the Chinese Red Army, who believe that Japanese experiences in Shansi have convinced them that millitary campaign in the moun- tains and along highways cannot be effective against well organised Chinese moblie units but the Shanghai-Nanking. Tientsin-Pukow, Pei ping-Hankow and the Pelping-Saiyuan rallway battles and also the fighting in the Taihu Lake districts indicated Japanese superiority of communication facilities in such areas.
Well-informed sources
do not Yangtse river level is lower and place much importance on the pre-when the. Japanese advance along sent drive in the Yangtse Valley. both banks of the river will not be The present Japanese attacks are endangered by flood waters.—(Reu- belleved to be merely Japanese at-ter). tempts to firstly, test the Chinese strength at the various sectors, and secondly, to confuse the Chinese Command as to the real intention of the Japanese.
As soon as the Japanese And a weak opening in the Chinese line the Japanese will direct that malt drive in the sector but the big Japanese drive will most probably take place in October when the
GUIDE TO THE NEWS
ADVANCED CHECKED
Hankow, August 14. The Japanese advance along the south bank of the Yangtse has been checked east of Jul- chang, according to a Chinese military communique. The Ja- panese, after landing reinforce- ments, occupied
Maanshan.
and Tiengchiashan “but could not advance further in the face of strong Chinese defences east of Kuicheng.".
A large-size Japanese warship
and
Four small-size vesseix
Guerillas Harassing Japanese
Chengchow, August 14. §. Twenty thousand Chinese guerillas massed on the Hopel- Jehol border are harassing the Japanese with great effect. " Fighting between the guerillas |und Japanese is taking placé over a wide area in east Hopel, com prising the cities of Miyun, Ping--| Ku. Chihsten, Tsunghua and Hsing- lang.
Assisted by thousands of pea- sants; the guerilias are also active- ly harassing the Japanese around Chinwangtae and Shanhalkwan.
Heavy casualties are said to have been sustained from the surprise attacks of the guerillas-Centra1 News)
IN CANTON CITY
Picture shows rescue workers digging in the debris following the
Night-Time
Parachute At Drop Record
TH
Landon, August 14.
A world record for a night- time parachute drop is claim- ed by a Welsh clerk, Gwynne Johns.
✅ Japanese ale raid in Canton last week.
Daring Murder
Changsha
Changsha, August 14..
Mr. Lo Chichi-fu, member of the Central Supervisory Com- mittee of the Kuomintang and principal of the Kwang Yi Middle School in Changsha, was assassinated by three un Identified afternoon.
gunmen. yesterday
Mr. Lo was on his way from his residence to the Kwang YI Middle School in a sedan elit. Emerging
With a powerful electric lamp strapped to his armi and a sealed barograph attached to the wrist. Johns stepped off from the wings on of an aeroplane 18,000 feet over Friday attempted to steam up-river the Salisbury Plain in the early s bath in a secluded part From Kangkoù but were forced to hours of this morning.
of the city, the three gunmen fred turn back castward when heavily Hurtling to the earth in 85 at him with pistols. He was hit PAGE 2-Rubber prosperts. Ser-shelled by Chinese batteries ashore. seconds before pulling the ripcord, by three bullets and instantiv xil-
ious bus crash. Traffe in chil- The situation at Juicheng is Johns released
the parachute ed One of the sedan-chair bearers dren.
now quiet. Quiet also prevailed when 4,000 feet, up. Despite his who attempted to rescue him was PAGE 3-Helping war refugees to yesterday along the Klukiang-lamp and four aerodromes special shot in the arm."
find homes. The Pope warns Railway, states another Chinese by. llluminated watchers lost sight All the gunmeri made good their Mussolini. Ten-year peace plan. communique. PAGE 4.-The Services. New tr
mail stamp.
PAGE 5-Cinema notes and new's Crossword. Diary. War refugee problem.
(Continued on Page 9)
HEAVY JAPANESE
LOSSES
Hankow, Aug. 15.
or the "daring Adventurer who after hours of search was found unhurt two miles from Netheravon aerodrome. (Reuter).
Japanese attempts to advance LOSS TO MUSIC
from Klukiang along the railway
PAGE 8. Generalissima Chiang Kai-shek's message" to the people. Air crash. PAGE T-CoLumercial Institute. leading to Nanchang were frus- Bishop Hall's sermon. Shanghastrated at a point south of Llenfa- volunteers. Any letters for vou? chiao, which has been in Japanese
DEATH OF SIR
escape.
The family of the deceased has telegraphically reported the mur- der to the National Government and the Central Supervisory.Com- mittee of the. Kuomintang, and the local authorities are ocenbing
English Team For The Fifth Test
LEYLAND, FAGG. INCLUDED
London, August 14, The English team to meet the Australians in match at the Oval on Saturday.
NOW IN
PROGRESS IN SPAIN
Bitter Engagement Is
Being Waged In
Hills South-east Of Gandesa
Saragossa, August 14.
Two big battles are in progress in the fighting which flared up in many parts of Spain in the past week.
On the Estremadura front the Nationalists are pressing forward after the capture of Cabedas del Bitey, centre of a huge area pro- ducing olive oil, cattle and cereals, and are now battling on the bor ders of Cludadreal, one of the last of the eight provinces in Spain in which they have not yet at foot.
South of the Ebro River the operations, after three weeks' of bitter warfare, resemble a con- tinuous pitched battle with the Na- tionalists exercising steady pressure! against waves of Republican coun- ter-attacks.
New Cunard® Liner
The toughest engagement on the WILL BE BIGGER front is waging in the hills to the THAN QUEEN MARY
south-east of Gandesa, which, withi sandbagged streets and shell pitted houses defled the Repub- licans' most desperate attempts to capture it.-(Reuter).
the Fifth Test TRIENNIAL which will be played to a finish, ROAD CENSUS
will be chosen from the following players:-
W. R. Hammond Gloucester) IN BRITAIN
(Capt.).
K. Fames (Essex).
M. Leyland (Yorkshire).
H. Verity (Yorkshire).
W. E. Bowes (Yorkshire).
Hutton (Yorkshire). ...
E. Paynter (Lancashire). L. E. G. Ames (Kent).
A. Farg (Kent).
D. V. P. Wright (Kent).
D. C. S. Compton (Middlesex). W. J. Edrich (Middlesex), T. W. Goddard (Gloucester). J. Hardstaff. (Nottingham)
(Reuter)
CRICKETER DEAD
Sidney, August 14. The death has occurred of Mr. J. the city for the murderers-Cen- J. Kelly, former Test match wicket. tral News).
"keeper. (Reuter). .
PAGE 8-Leading articles: Better hands for the past two weeks. LANDON RONALD JAPANESE ARMY OFFICER
"
world outlook; Japan's policy ex- Farther drive southward was held posed Letter to all students. up by the troops commanded by
London, August 14. How Britain won her Empire. General Li Han-yun, the Cantonese
The death has occurred of PAGE 10-Lawn Bowls League re-commander.
**Sir Landon Ronald,"
Kb..... sults and tables. Home soccer, Chinese troops counter-attacked
FRAM. FRC.M., Principal of International athletics. Y.M.C.A. the enemy in three routes at Nan- !
the Guildhall School.. of "Musie gala.
since 1910, In his 85th year. changpo and Tatienshan south of PAGE 12-Financial.news.
Kluklang. Over 300 Japanese were
Sir Landon, who was knighted in PAGE 13.-Radio programmes. killed or wounded," and over twelve 1922 originally appeared as solo PAGES 14 AND 15.-Shipping news prisoners were captured (Inter- planist in a musical play without
and directory.
words, L'Enfant Prodigue. He was engaged by Bir Augustus Harris as Maestro al Piano and Conductor at SOMETIMES THE BEAR DOES THE BAITING! the Covent Garden Theatre in 1891 and in 1894 he conducted grand opera there.
CHINA
national):
FORMOSA
MANCHUK
KOREA
In the same year, Sir Lan- don went to America with. Madame Melba as conductor, He appeared before Quten Victoria, in 1897, at Windsor and in 1895, at Balmoral
In 1908-9. Sir Landon went on a
London, August «13. The triennial road census taken by the Ministry of Transport,-in collaboration with the local high authort- iles, begins on Monday and continues to the end of the week.
11.
Some 12,000 enumerators, work-
London, Aug. 13. The companion ship to the Queen Mary which will be named Queen Elkabeth on her launching by. Her Majesty the Queen on the afternoon of September 27 from John Brown's Clydebank yard, will be 10 feet longer and will have a gross tonnage of probably 85,000 compared with the Queen Mary's 81.235. The new Cunard White Star liner will have 14 decks instead of 12 on her giant predecessor.and will carry 2,400 passengers-400 more than the Queen Mary, Streamline is incorporated to n greater extent in the design of the new vessel which will have only two funnels,"
"
More graceful lines are also ob- ing in relays, will keep a con-tained by a greater rake of stem sinueus "record of vehicles" and and flush main deck. A feature of pedestrians passing the census the accommodation to be provided [points which will be placed on an in the Queen Elizabeth is the high average of every 4 miles along standard of third class quarters. 27,000 miles of class one roads. The ship's 12 boilers will be the The census in 1935 'showed that|largest ever constructed and suff- In the preceeding three years tne
cient electrical energy will be number of vehicles, other than generated aboard to meet the needs pedal cycles, counted at comparof a town of nearly 200,000 people.., able points increased by over 34-(British Wireless). per cent figures for pedal cycles:
showed an increase of 85 per cent. QUEEN MARY'S
The coming census will show to: what extent the rate of increase has been maintained and will as-
STOPPED IN SETTLEMENT set the highway authorities In
Shanghai, August 14.
The Japanese announced at a press conference that a Japanese Army major was stopped by a Volunteer "troop and surrounded by armoured cars in Nanking Road in the heart of the Settlement at 3 o'clock and made to dismount, and later removed to a police station... The spokesman declared that the officer was in civilian clothes and anarmed put had identification papers which were ignored He added that investigations are at present being made with the possi- ble view of a protest to the Shangbal Municipal Connelly
Questioned regarding the in-jat Szechuen road bridge. "Actually cident the Commandant of the it had not done so.. Volunteers told Reuter's correspon- As soon as the commander of the dent that car SDF 293 was stopped; patrol reported to the Louza police by a Shanghai Volunteer Corps station and found the mistake armoured car today. Owing to almade, the car in question was misunderstanding it was thought promptly released: that the car had rushed the barrier.
European tour as conductor and CONDOR BACK
conducted the chief orchestra of:
the world. He Was BDpointed conductor of the Scottish Orches- tra in May, 1919.
IN GERMANY
The police throughout the Settle- ment kept close watch on the movements of all cars marked with
the privileged. SD numbers today
following the receipt of information that Japanese agitators are using cars with faked BDF numbers.
About a dozen cars marked with SDF containing Japanese were
Sir Landon was one of the most Wild Welcome For stopped during the day and the
Airmen
Berlin. August 14.
popular song-writers and his pub- Heations were about 300 songs. He was "Conductor of the Albert Hall Sunday Concerts, New 8pm- phony Orchestra, Symphony. Con- certs, etc., and has had immense success throughout Europe in this" from Floyd Bennett feld, New capacity.
"passengers_removed for questioning were all later released.—(Router).
The German Focke-Wulf plane CHINESE IRREGULARS Condor which took off on Saturday
York, at 2.03 p.m. landed at Tem- pelnof airport here today at exact- ly 10. o'clock thus making the re-
FIGHTING NEAR turn journey in 19 hours 57
PEIPING
REVOLT
AGAINST JAPANESE
Hankow, Aug. 14. -
A detachment of Chinese irre-- 'minutes which is 6 hours 3gulars under the command of Wu- minutes, less than the time re- Chao-yung at Bhulyehchen, in | quired for the outward trip.. ́· north Horan has issued a circular Hankow, August 14. Despite the rainy weather count- telegrin, announcing its revolt Fighting between Chinese gue-less thousands of eager spectators against the Japanese and surren- rillas and Japanese troops occurred had flocked to Tempelhor and der to the Chinese Government. in the northern suburbs of Peiping gave the courageous airmen aThe telegram states that during yesterday morning, according to a wildly enthusiastic reception, the the revolt three Japanese high Tientsin message."
police cordon being broken through officers, 16 petty oncers and 32 Gunfire - was audible for about by the cheering maltitude. — | soldiers were killed by them. three hours.--(Central News)
(Transocean).
(Central NewE).-
making adequate provision for the various classes of traffic. (British Wireless).
EXPLOSION IN HOTEL
Hankow, August 14.
An explosion like that of a bomu was heard yesterday..from the New
RECORD
London, Aug. 14 The Cunard liner Queen Mary established a new day's record of 738 miles up to noon today when she covered a total of 2,890 nifles at an average of 31.78 knots. (Reuter).
JAPANESE
CONFERENCE
IN TURKEY Istanbul. August 14
After an assurance ftom, the Asia Hotel where the bogus Shang-Japanese Embassy that the recent hal government offices are housed, conference here of Japanese according to a Shanghai message. diplomatic representatives in the However, the Japanese authori-Near and Middle East was not of ties declared that the sound came a political economic„nature, 'the from the smashing of window- Turkish Government considers the panes. (Central Newa)....
Incident as closed-Reuter).
HONG KONG-HANOI AIR SERVICE
Picture taken at Kal Tak - Airport last week when the Dewoltine
plane of Air France arrived to inaugurate the Hong Kong-
·Hanoi