HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
CHINESE FORCES, PRESSING CLOSE TO
TO HWANGMEI IMMINENT RECAPTURE German People Extensive Celebrations
"OF TOWN EXPECTED Dread
Dread The Japanese Drive On Matou Brought To A Halt
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Yingshan, Hupeh. August 30.
After the recapture of Tslenskan. Talhu and Susung. The Chinese are pressing on Hwangmel, on the east Hapeh order. which is the last stronghold of the Japanese in the Tsienshan- Hwangmel sector. Recapture of the town is believed to be 1- minent."
There are now about 2,000 Japanese troops at Hwangmel. Large quantities of Japanese military equipment have been cap- tured by the Chinese during their sweeping counter-offensive on Tslenshan. Taihu and Susung÷(Central News).
WESTERN DRIVE
The
Matou.
CHECKED
POISON GAS · KILLS -
Possibility Of War
Berlin, Aug. 30.
The alarm over Czecho- slovakia has inspired the German press and has given the public a bad fit of nerves. The majority are profoundly uninterested in the future of the Sudeten Germans and dread the barest possibility of war. They are terrified that the Fatherland will be plunged into deep waters without their being in anyway consulted.
Public uneasiness coincides with the serious economic misgivings coupled with the sense of personal
TWO COMPANIES Fenglinfu, August 30. Mahwelling. Kiangst, Aug. 30 Japanese advance on Two Chinese companies guard west of Juichang. has ing high-level ground to the becn checked t Maanchuan southwest of Laghushan Tiger hardship, especially among the Saddle Spring), Pellingchuan HID in the Kuling sector are working classes, where the long (White Dragon Spring), Moshan wiped out yesterday when the hours, inadequate pay and over- (Grindstone Hill and Hungshan, Japanese again allegedly resorted time have burdened many with points on the Jutchang-Yangsin to the use of poison gas shells. deductions. "highway.
Japanese planes and artillery. Undoubtedly the authorities fully Heavy fighting has been going severely bombed the place, begin realize the discontented state of on at these points during the last ning at noen When the Chinese public feeling especially in the two days. The Japanese are sald defence works had been demolish-capital and large Industrial dis-
to have suffered no fewer than ed. 500 Japanese Infantrymen') tricts.
rushed the Chinese
Mark Queen Wilhelmina's Accession To The Throne
The Hague, Angust, 30. The festivities in honour of the 40th anniversary of Queen Wil- helmina's accession to the Throne of Holland were marked yesterday by a military parade, the largest ever held in the Netherlands
QUEEN WILHELMINA'
3.000 casualties.
positions. This may influence the handling Chinese held headquarters has They were repulsed, suffering of the Sudeten crisis though too issued orders commending the about 200' casualties.
riot built thereon. herole efforts exerted by the Whilst the Chinese were "cheek- Bitter, outbursts against Prague Chinese troops. guarding these ing up the casualties on both sides. and London continue to be the points.
the Japanese suddenly aired vol-keynote of today's midday.. papers. Sever fighting has resumed on leys of poison gas shells" and lor(Reuter). the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway. over three solid. hours the whole The Chinese are guarding Shaho place was covered by a dense.. suf- and Wanglaomen.
much should not be Republicans
Recapture Villages
L
In
the Singtze
focating smoke. il sector the When the smoke cleared up, the Chinese recaptured Tungkuling two Chinese companies guarding
LARGE-SCALE
and Tungla, two heights west of the point were founded to have FRENCH ARMY"
Singtzc. in a counter-attack, yes been all gassed. The place was
terday afternoon. Two hundred strewn with bodies of the victims. MANOEUVRES Japanese at these points were presenting a ghastly sight.—(Cen-
routed. (Central News),
Son Of General Dies In Blazing Car
J
tral News).
HUGE FIRES AT SINGTZE
Mahweiling. Klangs), Aug. 30. Huge Ares have been blazing:
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Paris, Aug. 30." The great French Army mahoeuvres 10 which 70,000 men and several air squadrons are participating began near Besancon today.
gion.
Barcelona, Aug. 30.
A bulletin issued by the Re- publican Spanish War Minis- try last night states that the Republican Spanish troops on the Ebro front repulsed the enemy attacks at Gandesa and in the Villalba Valley.
On the Estremadura front. the Republicans recaptured the villages of Gargentilla and Sevilla de La Jara, in the Puento del Vobispo sector.
The Republicans also occupied
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near
A new feature is the employment the Nationalist positions at Cabezo since Saturday Inside the city of of more than 100 Parls buses for as well as the hills. The Reds Singtze, on the west shore of Fo-the transport of troops in order to captured several positions yang Lake, to the southeast of test the efficiency of the motors of Quacalefra south of Zujar and Kuling. and also in the villages in the buses in the mountainous re- continued to advance blowing up a the outskirts.
The cause of the fires is yet un-i
munition dépot(Transocean), The manoeuvres will be con- London, August 23. known, but Judging by the magni- tinued without interruption for 36 Captain Peter Charles Tuson, oftude of the conflagration. large hours and will be followed by a the Royal Artillery, Colchester numbers of houses must have.
great review on September 2.- twenty-nine-year-old son of Briga- been gutted.(Central News).
(Transocean), dier-General H. D. Tuson, of Pel-
(BY AIR MAIL)
Was
Kingtehchen, August 30,
ham Court, Fulham-road London, JAPANESE SHIPS HIT S.W..
found dead in his blazing motor car by a lorry driver at Bentley, near Ipswich, Suffolk on August 22.
Captain Tuson was about to be married. His engagement was announced. in June, to Miss Diana Marlan Harding- Newman, only daughter of Major T. Harding-Newman, MC of the Essex Regiment
A few minutes before the lorry- driver found him Captain Tuson's car had been in collision with a. car driven by Mr. William Barkus, of Borkham, near Reading.
Two
passengers were in Mr. Barkus's car. They were Mrs. Magd Berridge and her nephew. Reginald Stopher, aged fifteen, of Mitchain. 8.W. Their car turned over after the collision.
Six Japanese warships were te- ported to have been hit in the
POLAND NEUTRAL IN EVENT OF
course of a duel between Chinese ARMED CONFLICT
batteries at Hsiangshan and Huangshan, on the south bank of the Yangtse River, and a fleet of over 20 Japanese vessels on Satur- day. (Central News).
London. August 30. 1 In the everit of an armed con mict arising out of the Czecho slovak question. Poland would maintain an attitude of neu. trality towards Germany, is the cpinion expressed by the Warsaw
STRIKE AT THE correspondent of the Daily Ex-
AUSTIN WORKS
London, Aug. 30.
A strike affecting as many a 6,000 workers broke out at the Austin works near Birmingham yesterday.
press. *
Colonel Beck. Polish Foreign Minister, the despatch goes on to say, has given the foreign dip- lomats to understand that under the circumstances prevailing at the present, Poland would pursue the policy designed to keep her
The refusal to work was prompt-out of the conflict.
Επ 30 circumstances would
Mr. Barkus and Mrs. Berridge ca by alleged underpay according Poland allow Soviet-Russian troops were taken to East Buffolk, Hospital. to this morning's papers.
MR, SUN FO TO MAKE ANOTHER TRIP ABROAD
Mr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, who return- ed unexpectedly by air trom Europe several days ago and is. af present in Hankow, will probably make another. trip abroad in the near future, according to reliable informa- tion..
Mr. Sun departed from Paris suddenly upon receipt of a telegram from
the Chinese Government, leaving Madame Sun in the French capital. It is gathered that the proposed trip will have no political bearing, its only purpose be- ing to accompany Madame Sun back to China.
Ipswich, to be treated for concus This is the fourth strike at the to march through her territory. ALLEGED
sion. Reginald Stopher who re- Austin works within two year. ceived bruises was taken to his The company is mainly manufac› uncle's home at Southwold, Suffolk. turing aeroplane parts.(Tran-
The lorry driver. Leslie Paul, of ocean).. Balham S.W., said:
"The car was blazing when I reached it, and the man was lying half out of it. He looked as if he had made, a desperate efort to free him- self.
V
(Transocean).
POLAND-CZECH AIR SERVICE
Prague, Ang, 30.
The negotiations between Po- land and Czechoslovakia for
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the establishment of a new re- gular airline service in Eastern Europe were concluded here yesterday.
. STRIKE IN DAMASCUS
Cairo, Aug. 30, I 19 reported from Damascus that the majority of the workers: employed in the local silk Indu- try went on strike today, following the refusal of the employers to "I pulled him out, but I think accede to their demands for in- he had died before then."
creased wages.
The police, were compelled to in The agreement reached grants tervene in
scenes where Poland the permission to establish strikers attempted to prevent non-ja passenger air service between strikers from entering the factories. Warsaw and Budapest, whilst Cze-
The Trade Union leaders have choslovakia will now be able to go: met to decide whether to proclaim lahead with the plans for a direct a general strike throughout Syria,jair. service connection
-(Transocean).
Prague and Riga.-(Transocean),
EXPLOSIVES FOUND IN A CAR
Jerusalem. August 30. "Police found large quantities of explosives, bombs and arms in a motor car near Nabigs Arabs, who, were in the car, were arrested."
some
between
CURRENCY
Over 14,000 representatives of all forces marched past the Queen, and the Dutch Air Force executed manoeuvres
the parade ground.
очег
In addition to Her Majesty, all members of the Royal Family, all Cabinet Members, the State Coun- CH.
the Diplomatic Corps and numerous foreign Military Attaches
were present.
Particularly colourful were the Princes from the Dutch East In- dies; who wore bright costumes studded with ecstly jewels.
During the next few days a series of important festivities are planned, including a celebration tomorrow, which is the birthday of the Queen, and a naval parade on September 3 at Scheveningen.
On September 8. the Queen will participate at a large festival at Amsterdam-Transocean).
Panay Seamen Awarded U.S. Navy Cross
PRESENTATION AT PARADE IN SHANGHAI
men
The United States Navy's highest decorallon in times of peace, the Navy Cross, was formally presented in Shang- hal last Thursday to two sea
at present attached to the Fourth Regiment United Sales Marine Corps by Colonel Charles F. B. Price, Command- ing Officer of the Fourth Mar- ines, at a parade held in the race course. The two Class Charles S. Adams, US.N., of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Radio- man Second Class Reginald Peter- son, U.S.N., of Berkeley, California, were awarded the Navy Cross by Mr. Claude A. Swanson, U. S. Secre- tary of the Navy, on June 28 for extraordinary heroism whilst they were members of the crew of the U.S.S. Panay, which was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Nanking on December 12, 1937.
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could not bear forward, from which direction most of the attacks were made.
Chemistry
F
P
MANY DEAD IN FLOODS ON KOREA BORDER
Seoul, August 20. Floods the border of Korea have caused the deaths of 37 persons and injuries to 59. The estimated total mate- rial damage is over 10,000,000
yen.
The ability of advances in chemistry either, to overthrow civilisation
to confer hitherto untold benefits upon mankind was stressed by a Nobel Prize winner at the meeting in Ottawa of the The damage caused in other pro- American Association for the vinces has not yet been estimated, Advancement of Science,
but it is feared that the deathroll Professor Harold C. Urey, who will be heavy and destruction to the Nobel Prize in 1934, crops severe.-(Reuter Bulletin sounded this warning note.
"Chemistry can and perhaps will destroy our European civilisa- tion," he said.
won
•
"I do not belleve it is too much
Mother Of
to say that a complete destruction Guerillas
of our civilisation may result," be continued "If the people of the world desire to make away with themselves chemistry will aid them. It will destroy their material possessions and will dissipate and destroy "the re-
"They remained at their post of duty until the ammunition was ex- pended and they were ordered to abandon ship. Their performance of duty on this occasion was in keeping with the highest traditions sources of "the earth. of the Naval Service."
EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL At the same time, Chiet Pharmacist's Mate Thomas & Coleman, U.S. Navy, of Phil- adelphia, Pa., attached to the
SMUGGLING Regimental Hospital, Fourth
Eminent German" Doctor On Trial
(BY AIR MAIL)
Marines, was presented with a leter of commendation from the Secretary of the Navy and was awarded the Navy Expedition- ary Medal for his conduct on the same occasion,
ABUNDANCE
people,
"Bat very different future of chemistry can be painted if people so desire. If chemistry is permitted to develop its ener- gles to peaceful pursuits, a abundance of goods valuable to man can be produced and
Arrives
Mrs. Chao, widely known as the "Mother of the Guerillas," is in Hong Kong, according to the Lib Pao, local Chinese paper. Unceremoniously and quietly, she arrived here from Hankow by train yesterday. Interviewed, she stressed the m portance of the mobilisation of man and financial power through- out the country in order to bring the war to a successful conclusion. She said that she had come to explain the guerilla, activities in
in addition it can contributeNorth China to leading Chinese re- to man's knowledge of the sidents and to solicit their support. universe and his place in it.
She intimated that she would pro- It will help to free him from ceed to the South Seas in the near superstition and error and future, according to Central News. bring his intellectual plea-
Despite a seven-day journey, sures,""
Mrs. Chao, who is nearing 70, was in good spirits.
Coleman's letter of commenda- Ition states that he was on board
Professor Urey added that much the Bocony) ss; Mei Ping during the bombing attacks and that he
of the unrest of the civilised world rendered invaluable frst aid to the in revolutions, new systems of during the last 25 years resulting wounded. Ashore be took charge government and world-wide de
capacity:
This increase was brought about But he condemned as by chemistry and allied sciences. cowardly any solution that provided for artificially decreasing man's ability to produce.
PUPPET MAYOR
OF SHANGHAI
Shanghai, August 30,
Mr. Chen Chung-fu, well known pro-Japanese politician, who is slated to become the mayor of Shanghai with the secommendation" of... Ident.-** General Kenji Dolhara, direc- tor of the Japanese Special Mission, had denied that he would accept that post.
London, August 22. After having been in custody since March, 1937, Dr. Erost Grafenberg, who is recognized in Germany and abroad as one of the most eminent of living
of the eight Panay men who were pressions, was related closely to on board the Mei Ping at the time the gigantic increase of productive gynaecologists, was brought to trial in Berlin on August 20 on of the bombing and later, despite charges of having evaded the tack of sleep and though suffering
from foreign exchange' regulations,
exposure," he walked five miles inland to Hohsien to assist. says The Times correspondent.
in bringing the wounded on board With him were charged a physl-
the U.S.S. Oahu. clan. Dr. Ladislaus Balog. two
After his return from this trip, partners in a firm of postage stamp without rest, he voluntarily walked dealers, and two other dealers:
back to Hohsien to supervise the stated, "our descendants will live The accused men are charged removal of the bodies of Charles L. with having made purchases Ensinger, late Storekeeper First and luxuries the like of which we abroad. with g.ing new. German Class on board the U.S.S. Panay, cannot imagine. If we are not politician," has arrived here in papers which publish news with
stamps or stamp collections orthodox Chinese slant.
smuggled out of Germany in pay- newspaper correspondent
and Mr. Bandro Bandri, Italian courageous they may live with less connection with plans to reinforce Chinese employees in the print-ment, with having bought foreign of newspapers in the Chinese
ing departments of these news-collections abroad and paid Oer- language have instructed their
papers are being induced to join man money for them, either to £25,000), of which Dr. Gratenberg employees to keep strankers the gang and to sabotage the foreigners abroad or in Germany, is accused of having smuggled from their premises, as they printing plants, its alleged. And with having secretly taken abroad 84,000 marks received' warnings that a gang The Shanghai Municipal Coun- large amounts of Jewish capital £7,000) in cash and large amounts (nearly of terrorists, belonging to the el is paying a close watch on the out of this country. Yellow Way Society, are" at-activities of the alleged gang-(Is
of stampa, ge The total amount, involved is The trial is expected to last tempting to blow up news- ternational).
given as 300,000 'marks" (nearly several weeks.
TWO ALLEGED THREAT TO NEWSPAPER
In a hold-up on a mal van on the Nablus road, bandits robbed the mall bags.Reuter Bulletin).
ARAB TO DIE
Jerusalem, August 30. Another Arab was sentenced to death by the military tribunai here today. He had been taken prisoner during a clash in the Karmel mountains between British troops and an Arab guerilla band.
(Transocean),
OWNERS
Shanghai, Aug. 30;
British and American owners
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"If we act with courage," he
in an abundance of necessities
than we have now."
2
Mr. Wang 1-tang, another puppet
the Pelping Federated Reserve Bank with the Shanghai customs. aurplus as the reserve. This step
China do pot accept notes of this puppet Bank(International!!
SICK OF WAR is necessary as the people in North
Shanghal, Aug, 30
A Japanese soldier committed suicide in Hongkew Park on Aug. 28 because he was sick of the war, according to a Chinese report.
that the soldier was drunk when he The Japanese authorities insisted killed himself (International),