HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
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CABLES
MAJOR BATTLE EXPECTED ON YANGTSE
CRACK CHINESE TROOPS HOLD STRONG POSITIONS
Japanese Drive On Matow Checked; Susung Retaken
Téhan, August 29.
The concensus of military opinion seems to be that a major battle between the Chinese and Japanese troops along the Yangtze may be expected within the current week.
The scene of the important battle, it is believed, will be a short stretch of low-lying paddy fields inter-laced with a maze of water- ways between Wusuch and Tienkintsen, on the north bank of the Yangtse, 50 kilometres above Kinklang.
Chinese forces have built an elaborate system of defence works In these parts to thwart the expected Japanese onslaught. Strong units of crack troops, behind firmly entrenched positions, are held in readiness to contest every inch of the ground westward towards Wuhan.
Indications of the imminence of Tashanshan and Langklungahan. an important engagement have Both sides have been massing been made clearer since last week- troops in these districts, with the end when Japanese operations Chinese forces greatly outnumber- westward from the northern banking the Japanese. The invading of the Chihu Lake became more army has found great difficulty in active and rash. Twenty thousand transporting their supplies and Japanese troops, massing in the provisions along the narrow foot-
LAUNCHED AT KOWLOON DOCKS
The above picture was taken at the launching at the Kowloon Docks of the motor vessel Surigao, built by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company Ltd, for La,Naviera Filipina Inc. of Cebu,
P. I. (Full details on Page 3):
Julchang area, are making feverish path between the hilly regions and FRANCO INVITES RUNCIMAN TO
preparations to turn northwest-network
ward to attack Matow, a small river town directly opposite
Wusuch across the Yangtze,
From Matow, it is expected, the Japanese will once more divert their main force towards the north bank and there engage the defen- ders in a pitched engagement from Wusueh to Tienklachen.
of waterways (Central
CHINESE "REGAIN
SUSUNG
Hstikui, August 29.
A military dispatch from the front received last night re- ports the recapture by Chinese vanguards of the walled town of Susang in southwest Anh- wel, on the Hupeh border,
KING ALFONSO
TO RETURN
London, August 29, General Franco fast week invit ed King Alfonso to return to Spain, the Daily Herald reports.
The King, according to the paper, had been offered to assume, after the end of the civil war, a similar position in Spain as the King of Italy while Franco would be the. Premier with authoritarian of powers.(Transocean).
PUSH ON SOUTH BANK "At the same time, attempts are being made by the Japanese forces
Susung is approximately 10 en, the south bank to push from kilometres northeast of Hwangmel. their triangular shaped foothold and 30 kilometres and 75 kilome-
northwest respectively touching Julchang. Shaho and tres Bingtze, to gain more elbow room. Tallu and Tsienshan. two points regiments, advancing from which the Chinese regained on Shaho and Singtze westward along Saturday.
Two
the Nanchang-Klukiang railway, The Japanese garrison at Susung, are belleved to be engaged towards according to the report, offered
feeble this end.
resistance and suffered
· losses.
Scattered, the Chinese troops who evacuated heavy Juichang last
have now Japanese retreated towards Wan- week taken up new positions in the klang and Anking, hilly regions west of the walled town"
In the vicinity of Singtze, all was quiet yesterday except for Japanese transportation ments. (Central News).
move.
JAPANESE DRIVE
THWARTED
Nanchang, August 29., All attempts by the Japanese forces to break through the Chinese defence northwest of Jufchang and blast their way towards Matow on the brink of the Yangize opposite Wasuch ended in failure yes- terday.
Sanguinary fighting continued to
rage
Great significance is attached to the recapture of Susung by mili tary observers as it cuts off the retreat of the spearhead of the Japanese advance at Hwangmet and blocks the transportation of supplies, and provisions along the Susung Hwangmei highway. (Central News),
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HEÄVY FIGHTING NEAR TSIENSHAN
Luan, August 29. Following the recapture of Tsienshan. Chinese troops are hot 'on the heels of the retreating Japanese fleeing to- wards Wanklang on the brink of the Yangtze Afty kilometres above Anking.
both in the morning and
To the southwest of Tsienshan. afternoon on three columns north-ferce Aghting still raged through- west of Juichang, one along the out yesterday between Chinese river bank, the other on the vanguards and about 300 Japanese Julchang-Matow and Jyichang-driven out of Talenshan. Yangsing highway, and the third along the Julchang-Wuning high- its way
way.
Another Chinese column, pushing from Siaochlhyeh and |Maosingtsang, has recaptured The tactics of the Japanese Yehjenchal and Laolingtou. seems to be to storm the highways leading from Julchang to Yangsing and Matow: forcing the defenders to re truly westward, and driving
open a way through to Matow.
TELEGRAPHIST KILLED BY
SHARK
Shanghai. August 29.
A telegraphist of H.M.S. Folkestone, while bathing off Tsingtao, had a leg bitten off by a shark and died shortly afterwards,
The tragic incident at Tsing- tad, which is the most popular summer resort on the Chinese coast, is without precedent, since sharks have never been sighted there.--(Transocean).
GENERAL STRIKE IN SYDNEY?
Sydney, August 29. After a strike; which lasted nearly a month in the Aus- tralian aeroplane factory of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Melbourne, there is every sign that a. general strike will be proclaim- ed in the State munition works of New South Wales and Victoria today—(Transocean). MELBOURNE DISASTER
Melbourne. August 29.
CONFER AGAIN WITH HENLEIN
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Prague, August 29. That Lord Runciman will again confer with Herr Konrad Henlein and then call on Dr. Beres, the Czech President, or on Dr. Hodza. the Czech Premter: who on their part will proceed to explain the situation to the Committee of Six of the Coalition Parties is how political quarters here regard the situation up to noon today.
On the other hand it is held to be not unlikely.. that Prague will await the outcome of Tues day's meeting of the British Cabinet before making known its plans...
It is quite possible that the forthcoming pronouncement of the Czechoslovak Government will be made, for reasons of prestige, by President Benes himself.-(Trans. ocean).
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1938.—PAGE
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Strangers In A Hoklo Village
TROUBLE OVER A
BOTTLE OF COOKING OIL
ing towards Tai Hang Wo Two gardeners were walk-
Village. For that village, they had left Kowloon City on the morning of August 27, Some short while after eight o'clock they reached Po Kong Village. They sat down to rest. ···
One of the gardeners Was Wong Sie. He had seen 52. summers. His companion was Chan Kam-wah. Chan had seen 31, swamers. As already said. they sat down to rest. With them on their journey they were carrying bean curd and pig wash in two tins. In his tin Chan Kam-wah "had a bottle of cooking of and even some pork. The price of the pork amounted to 15 cents.
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In association with the Grand Hotel den Wagons Lita. Paking.
C.N.A.C. VICTIMS King Unveils
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London, Aug, 29. Undoubtedly the British Cabinet meeting would have been held this evening had it not been for the fact that the First Lord of the
DRAPED WITH FLAGS Admiralty, Mr. Duff Cooper, does
The coffins containing the dead, draped with not get back from his Baltic tour
Chinese National until Monday, and his attendance
flags and decked with wreaths, was held to be necessary. In the Both gardeners were from the were accompanied from Macao by meantime, the Prime Minister has "Flower District" from Fah Yuen Mr. C. H. Woo of the Chinese seen himself obliged to postpone
It would be safe to surmise that National Aviation Corporation. Nu his visit to Balmoral and according they were
freight was charged, this being a peace-loving
meri,
to the hint by The Times, the im-raised as they were in an atmos-mark of respect by the Hong portant state of affairs will detain phere of blooms and shrubs. him in London during the whole of the present week.
The Dally Telegraph stresses the fact that the Cabinet meeting will: be attended by the four Ministers for Defence Mr. Hote Bellshs, Mr. Duff Cooper, Sir Kingsley Wood and Sir Thomas Inskip.
The Daily Herald goes much fur-
The world, on the morning of August 27, did not reciprocate the peace and contentment of the two gardeners of Fab Yuen.
Memorial To Late Father
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London, August 29.
The King unveiled a memorial'
to his father, the late King George. V. In a Church near Balmoral at morning service yesterday.
The memorial is in the form of a marble statue of the late King
a
Kong. Canton and Macao Steam- boat Company.
Mr. P. Y. Wang, General Mana- and it has been installed in ger of the CNAC. came down riche in the Church. from Chungking and was present
The Or and Princesses Eliza- at the wharf together with Mr. 9. beth an garet Rose were pre- C. She, local manager,
sent at are unveiling.-(Reuter
HOME OF HOKLOS The two
unfortunately, men.
Mr. Wang stated that it was Bulletin). had chosen to rest in Po Kong Village the home of the Hokios true that two farmers had been rescue The Hokios must have resented shot in their attempts to
the intrusion of strangers upon some of the occupants of the Five persons were killed when an of Sir Nevile Henderson's London their native hearth; Orie of plane. The bodies of the remain-
airliner crashed when landing on
the airfleld.
Flanking the Japanese on the highway, a third column of Chinese troops turned the invaders' left wing from the southeast of Tsten shan and have put the hard REFEATED SETBACKS
pressed Japanese in a tight..spot. The pilot of the machine swerved .Repeated setbacks have been ad- Three hundred Japanese troops to dodge a beacon on the field ministered during the last few days who tried to advance towards nearby, and was wrecked.-(Reuter to the attackers by stubborn Chi- Shihlipu east of Liuan have been Bulletin). nese resistance at Candles Point. driven back.-Central News).
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Map, showing Japanese and Chinese position; on the Yangtze War Front:
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ther in conjecturing the context talks when it says that in all pro- bailty he will be asked to give an- swers to the following questions:
What was the reaction in official German quarters to Sir John Simon's speech?
What is the extent of the " subject of the speeches at the Nuremberg Congress?"
What is the extent of the manoeuvres now being held in Germany?
Incidentally, today's issues of the London newspapers repeat; with edded insistence everything that was said in the Sunday press,about the gravity of the present situa tion, whilst attaching great - portance to the interview which Lord Runelman had with Herr Konad Henlein yesterday.
LONG ACCOUNTS Never has the British press de voted so much space to the Ger man-Czech issue as at the present. moment. The newspapers, of all political complexion, are publishing long accounts describing the reac- tion of the public opinion in Ger- many and Czechslovakia although it deserves to be added that the acts of terrorism committed in during the week-end
Bohemia are. entirely ignored,
The Daily Chronicle devotes an
り
THE VICTIMS
WOMAN'S JUMP RECORD
A new
Warsaw, Aug, 29. world record was ca-
them, presently, approached the ing two victims were not yet re- two gardeners. From Chan Kam-covered, he said. wah's" tin he extracted the bottle of cooking ofli
The bodies of the following ar-tablished in the long jump by Po- Be a man a common or a gar-rived yesterday:-
land's all-round woman "athlete, den being, he would still resent Mr. Liu Chung-chuan, co-pilot such action. Chan Kam-wah re- of the plane, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney America as Stella Walsh, when at Stella Walariewicz, known in sented this show of communal Young, Mrs. Chu Yin-yuen; Mas-Lodz, on Sunday, she achieved a ownership by all of what belonged ter Henry Chung, and Mr. Woo to but one.. He arose and gave Hing-wah, steward of the plane.
distance of 8.04 metres.--(Trans- chase to this lawless Hoklo.
The bodies were removed to the Despite his 52 summers, Wong Tung Wah Yee Cheung (rest hall). Sze followed suit,
The bodies of three other vic-record, also held by Miss Walsh, The two enraged Fab Yuen-tims, Messrs. Wong Leung-po, Woola 6.25 metres, accomplished by her
¡Pei-kong and Chin Sin-luk, will be
last September. brought here today,
ers chased the thief into the hut of one. Lo Kam Lin. The thief was never seen again. The Police Constable, who later arrived on the scene. states that he saw at least 50 men in Po Kong Village Road.
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“A GREAT GENTLEMAN”
London, Aug. 29, A correspondent in The Times
ocean).
The as yet unrecognized world
The recognized world record is the 5.98 metres effort. of Kinonge Hitomi, of Japan.
today pays glowing tributes to the GUERILLAS WORK
HAVOC WITH TSINPU RAILS
Wong Sze and Chan Kam-wah late Mr. Hsu Singloh, who was kill- had already been well beaten up ed in the C.N.AC. airliner tragedy, by the Hoklos of Po Kong Village. "A great, gentleman and an uns-
BEATING-UP
werving champion of reason and At the Kowloon Court yesterday, philanthropy in the best sense.” two Hoklos were sentenced by Mr.writes the correspondent. Barnett to two months' imprison The writer dwells on the late Mr. ment each with hard labour.Hau'o sa paçity, statesmanship, They-Chan Ah-kui and Wong charming old-world courtesy and Tal-had been identified as two of long and valuable service on the the men who had participated in Shanghai Municipal Council. the beating-up of the gardeners
of Fah Yuen," "
He was a great friend of the British and was on good terms with the Japanese community, If militaristic prescriptions for Sino-Japanese accord had given
For quite some while Wong Bze and Chan Kam-wah waited in the entire page to an account of the in the hope of collecting two way to diplomatic concepts, Mr. He Fines Office at the Kowloon Court, Skoda's factories whereby it lets loose a remark that Herr Hitler has
dollars each amends from the men would have been a potent influence been more concerned with having of Po Kong Village.
for an amicable splution of Bino The two men of Po Kong Village Japanese differences(Reuter).
They ágain proved unfriendly, chose the alternative of serving
n look inside the country*
It is further interesting that in
a commentary on Mr. Churchill's another week of imprisonment
speech, the News-Chronicle main with hard labour
tains that the right and left in the
British politics are drawing closer
together as a result of their joint one can already speak to a concen-
JAPANESE OFFICER
KILLED Nanchang, August. 29. Captain Ishida, battalion, com-
support of the present policy of tration of all forces in Britain-mander of the Fukuli Regiment, the National Government so that ransocean)
was killed in action during a heat
Cherirchow, Aug!" 29. Desplie a great increase in the (number of Japanese guarding the line, Chinese guerillas in "Shantung have been working great, bavoc with the Tientsin-Pukow Railway during the last fortnight, Large numbers of bridges and repeatedly mined and damaged by tunnels along the line have been
guerilla activities, causing the suspension at any points of rail- way traffic (Central News),
ed encounter at Ox Tall Hib, on the north bank of Chihu Lake.
Large quantities of war spills, Including two heavy machine-guns, three light machine-guns and numbers of rifles, were seized. (Central News).