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No. 14978. AGAĦĦAAS BELAND HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1938.秦拜歳 日鄰拾月亥年剧情佰玖仟登英 PricePER MONTH, 3.
HITLER'S SPEECH CHARACTERISED
AGGRESSIVE AND PROVOCATIVE
AS
Distortion, If Not
Actual Falsification
Of Notorious Facts
Fuehrer Holding Hand In Consequence Of Anglo-French Solidarity
London, September 13.
The Yorkshire Post, which represents Influential political Interests, is most outright in its criticism of Hitler's speech which is describes as a deliberate exaggeration and exacerbation of tension from be ginning to end. The paper also characterises the speech as aggres-(: sive and provocative, and declares that it was a distortion, if not an actual falsification of notorious fact.,
In the latter connection the paper examines the nationality of Czechoslovakians and shows that the Czechoslovaks largely exceed the combined minorities.
The Yorkshire Post declares that the effect of Hitler's argument is that might is right and expresses the opinion that he has only been holding his hand in consequence of Anglo-French solidarity- (Reuter),
Sudetens Will Act On
Plebiscite
Hint
Prague, September 13.
Well-informed circles "do not doubt that the Sudeten Germany
will act on Hitler's hint of a plebiscite and Czechoslovakia will like-
ly be confronted with the question very shartly.
The general feeling is that it will be on October 15 which has
CAPTURED FROM JAPANESE
(Photo,
Above picture shows a Japanese motorboat which was cap- tured by the Chinese at Poyang Lake on September: S.C.M.P.).
CHEAPER AIR
TRAVEL
Important reductions in fares and freight rates of Imperial Airways' rontes Lo Hong Kong-see BACK. PAGE.
HELD RECORD
FOR LAND PLANE
been fixed by the Sudetens for the Party Congress at Aussie which ALTITUDE
will be the next critical day, and if no settlement is reached by then
the question of a plebiscite will certainly be raised-Reuter))
PRAGUE'S" LAST
OPPORTUNITY
Berlin, Sept. 13.
The determination of Hitler to
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ITALY AND GERMANY
Rome, Sept. 13. The Czech problem can only be
"draw conclusions if the oppression solved by a plebiscite as was fore." of Germans in Czechoslovakia shadowed in Hitler's speech accord- does not cease forthwith and they are not given the right of self determination" is stressed in all
newspapers.
to Popolo Diroma, which adds that Italian policy lies in complete adhesion to the German claims- (Reuter).
ANXIOUS MONTH :
Geneva, Sept. 13.
The Allgemeine Zeitung states that Prague is given her last op-
A slight feeling of relief is per- portunity to do what 3 necessary. ceptible as Hitler has not a spoken The Lokalan Zeiger describes an irreparable, word and has not Hitler's speech as a peace speech.
given a fatal pledge. It is hoped that a peaceful settlement will be The Boersen Zeitung declares reached though. it is realised that that the international machina- the temperature in Europe re-
tions of threats will not succeed mains at fever-heat and it is fear- in taking the initiative out ofed that the coming month is Hitler's hands-(Reuter).
fraught with anxiety.-(Reuter).
TWO SUDETENS SHOT DEAD
Czech Killed Near Carlsbad:
Serious Incidents Reported
Aussig, September 13.
An extremely serious incident resulting in the death of two Sadefen Germans occurred in the village of Schoenfliessen, near” Aussig, yesterday evening.
Shortly after the termination of Chancellor Hitler's speech the Sudeten German inhabitants of Aussig and the surrounding districts" gathered for a demonstration at the Ringplatz,
The crowd, which was estimated
at about 4,500 vented their feelings
by shouting in uniam slogans which demanded the right of self determination for the Sudeten Ger-
GUIDE TO THE NEWS
mans or proclaimed that the PAGE 2-Rotary Tin speech by - Dr1 L1-Shu-fan. Police officera
on trial at Sessions.
Sudeten Germans are members of the German nation.
When the demonstrators were returning to their homes in Aussig PAGE 4The Bervice. Civil Air and the nearby towns and villages, Guard,
a group of Budeten" Germans PAGE 5-The“ cinemas
Cross-
marching through a street of the word. Diary of local events.
Squadron Leader Adams Killed
London, Sept. 13. Squadron Leader Adams, who established the altitude record for land plane of 54,000 feet in June last year, was killed near Farnsborough when the gamber in which he was flying crashed.
was
Two other members of the crew of the bomber were fatally injured.
Squadron Leader Adams attached to the Farnsborough ex- perimental station-Reuter Bul- letin).
Students Tied BATTLE IS RAGING
Together And Burned
JAPANESE "HORRORS AT HWAIYANG
Chowkłakow
ALONG ENTIRE TAPIEH MOUNTAINS
Chinese Entrenched In Hidden Positions In
Honan, Sept. 1s The Japanese rape of Nan- king which infuriated the civilized world fast ́year, was repeated in miniature when the invading army captured HWai- Yang, Atty kilometres from the Anhwei-Homan border, on Sept. 6, according to reports from the town. More than 400 public function. aries and boy and girl students, ac- cording to the reports, were mer: cilessly tied together and summed to death
The entire remaining women weapons.
:
Difficult Terrain
Shangcheng. Honan. September 13... Fierce fighting along the entire range of the Tapish mountains, natural defence of Hankow on the Anhwet-Hupeh-Honan border is raging in increasing ferocity with heavy casualties on both sides.
The Japanese invading army, with the 18th and 13th Divisions as mainstay, are advancing in three columns on the mountain range with Hankow as their final goal. Both the divisions are supported by large numbers of field and mountain guing and mechanised
.
populace of the town, who coula Chinese defenders. firmly en- Another Japanese column, to the not escape when the invaders cap trenched in hidden positions north of Howshan, is driving tured the place, were violated among the difficult mountainous southwestward from YehHatsi near without a single exception: Count
terrain, strongly hold their ground the Honar border and is checked less numbers afterwards committed against the vigorous offensive of in the vicinity of Fuchingahan the Japanese. They hotly con- where In a recent battle the Jäp- All the male chidren were re-tested every inch of the ground anese suffered a crushing defeat moved to an unknown destination, and are determined to exact the and lost 2,000 men.
anticide.
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SEAFORTH MEN while the females were mercilessly costliest price from the invaders.
SURROUNDED
BY JAPANESE
One Detained For Several Hours
STRONG BRITISH
"NOTE"
Shanghai, Sept. 13.
The British Military authorities
massacred in cold blood--~(Central | News).
DELIA DUE
TOMORROW
The Imperial Aleways' Ilner Della is expected to' arrive at Kal Tak at 5 pm. "tomorrow,
OPERATIONS AGAINST TOWN
today sent a strongly worded Note OF KWANGCHOW
to the Japanese naval authorities regarding the incident yesterday
START SOON Shanghai, Sept. 13.
That operations against the town of Kwangchow in Honan were about to start was claim-
when Private William Mackenzie, WILL of the Seaforth Highlanders, was detained for a considerable time at the headquarters of the Japanese Nayal Landing Party in Hongtes, after being taken into custody for allegedly overstepping the bound- ary line while repairingarbed wire,
The Note sald that the: Bri- tish authorities considered the Japanese action "most - an- friendly" especially in view of the frequent entry made by Ja- panese into the British de- fence area.
ed by the Japanese spokesman
at a press conference here to- day,
Constituting the crack regimenta: of the 13th Division, the Japanese GRIM STRUGGLE
column threw their full force The southernmost Japanese against the defendees and forced- column, with Hwoshan as its base them to shift their lies after a of operation, is advancing wester- | gallant "stand at Fuchingshan. The. ward to cut the Honan border and Chinese are now holding a new is now engaged in a grim struggle line to the west of Fuchingahan. with the defenders at Heishihtu, a small town about thirteen miles]
southwest of Howshan.
The Japanese troops, cop- stituting a part of the 13th Division, have received repeat- ed setbacks in the hands of the defenders daring ine Back Sector- (days and suffered, large, num
bers of casualitjes, estimated st more than 1,000,0
At the northern extreme of the frönt, a third Japanese column is making a serious' bid to cit' the Pelping-Hankow railway by a west- | ward drive from · Kushih. VeThis cohimin is now checked to the north of Changpoling, east of Hwang-) chwan" Raptried distacks by the invaders have been repelled by the defenders with heavy losses. (Central News)
Furious Fighting
On Both
Banks Of The Yangtse River
400 JAPANESE DECIMATED AT
SZETOWPINGSHAN
Hankow, September 13.
The fury of attacks and counter-attacks dominates, both banks
18 of the Yangtze River without diminution.
A general attack would be made on the city which is a strategically Important point because it astride the Han River and the highways radiating to Loshan and Singang in the west. Sihsien in the north. and Shangcheng and Kwangshan in the south. Another Seaforth Highlander, While one column pushes to the Private Thomas Campbell, was witd
west from Kushih another am- Mackendje when: the incident be--
phibious detachment is proceeding curred but broke away from, his
to the Blooded Hwar River prepar- captors and reported to the sensoring to attack Kwangthow from CHISHAN
N.C.O..
the north. (Renter), ́Tungkwan, Bept. 13... Mackenzie was not maltreated j.....
CHINESE
RECAPTURE
The battered town of Chishan, and his release was effected after MARSEILLES
west of Sinklang in south Shansi, several hours... has been recovered by the Chinese,
The Japanese at Sindang and tommies, after being told by a It is reported that the British Hotsing, west of Chishan, attempt Japanese interpreter that they ed to launch simultaneous drives
were in Japanese territory, were on Chishan on Sept. 10 but were repelled by the Chinese. (Central News)."
Terrorist Bombs
Shanghai, Sept. 13.
After a period of compara- tive respite terrorist, bombs ́again' reverberated in Shang-
hal today.
picking up their tools to leave wher they were surrounded by Japanese |maizes: With ..., fixed bayonets
(Reuter),
N.W. FRONTIER
CLASH
Simla, Sept. 13: One Indian soldier was killed Two bombs were hurled into the and are were wounded in an
DOCKERS
On the south bank the grim struggle between the Chinese and Japanese at Hsikuling to the west of Singtre on the west shore of Poyang Fake continues with öxtreme violence.
The situation was most critical yesterday morning when the Jap- anese, allegedly using large quan- tities of poison gas, succeeded in breaking into the Chinese line. However, the arrival of Chinese reinforcements drove the invaders
back.
On the south bank, the Chinese continue to exert their efforts to "mop up" the Japanese west and southeast of the city.
4:
Four hundred. Japanese at Szeowpingahan, to the west of the city, were decimated by the Chinese in an enveloping at- tack yesterday.
the Japanese at Kushin in south- Reinforced by: about 3,000 men,
eastern Honan are attacking Fu- chinshan (Central News).
(STOUT CHINESE RESISTANCE AT HSIKULING-PAGE 99%
STRIKE MEDICAL WORK IN THE
Paris, Sept. 13.
...... The Marselles dòckers' strike was settled last Monday evening when an "agreement was signed by the parties, whereby the dock workers are to receive` an Increase of wages, The working hours have been revised and the dockersTM have agreed to work on Sundays and during the night.-(Traxisocean).
Australians
house of a Chinese broker in the engagement with tribesmen led by Defeated By
French Concession seriously injur Sher Ali, a lieutenant of Fiqur ing the broker. His son received IPL only slight injuries.
It is understood that the brokerit is reported that the tribesmen was suspected of co-operating with suffered twenty-five casualties- the Japanese-(Reuter),
(Reuter Bulletin).
village of Schoenfliessen was fired PAGE 6-Czechoslovakia plebiscije Scores Of Refugees Killed
at by the Czecha...
BULLET IN THROAT"
'hint by Herr Hitler.
PAGE Social page. Forth- coming weddings, Friml broad- casti
A. Budeten German, Helmuth Lang, who had performed special police cuty during the demonstra-1 PAGE 8-Leading article: All fion was mortally wounded and an eyes on Europe. Legislative other | Budéten German, Rudolf Council meeting. Kowloon main- Vacha, who watched the return of
In Chengchow Bombing
Chengcbow, September 13.
Scores of war refugees taking shelter in the Feng Yu Cotton Mills at Chengchow were killed when twelve Japanese planes bomb- tenance case. Indian medical *ed the city yesterday morning. A
misston.,
"the"- Budeten Germans › from the window of his house was hit by a PAGE 10All the sporting news
and notes. (Continued on Fage'9)
More than 100 missiles, light and heavy, were dropped on the Eity. Five incendiary bombs set fire to a whole row of buildings in the vicinity of Hung Ah Hotel-(Central News)
Ten Wickets
BOWES IN FORM
CHINA WAR ZONES
Volunteer Doctors Back
After Six Months
Just back from the Chinese war front, Dr. R. B. Gray, Dr. H. C. Tremewan and Dr. Donald Hanker, who have been along with other: foreign doctors, doing great' work in the succouring of war wounded in Changchow, Loyang and Hankow, were guests at the Rotary Club tiffin yesterday.
Interviewed by a representative of the Daily Press after the timin. the doctors were reticent over their own personal experiences, but had some: interesting reminiscences of war work, -in general, in' the in-
terior.
Dr. Gray and Tremewan whoi were sent by the Euro-St, Jolm and New Zealand Society, arrived in Honan at the beginning and end of March respectively The forme. was stationed for the first three months in the Italian Catholic Hospital in Loyang, Dr. Tremewat- being then at the American Baptist
London, Sept. 13 Playing in the second match of their tour, the Aux- tralians were defeated by Mr. H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI (by ten wickets.
Scores:-- Leveson-Gower's XL: 383 for 8 Hoapital declared and 45 for 0.
At the end of May Dr. Gray was Australiana: 306 and 102 (W. A transferred to Changchow and Dr. to Ichang, to the Brown 38 not out. J. H. Fingleton Tremewan
20, C. L Badcock 0, 8. J. MacCabe Church of Scotiana Mission"-Hos-
1. 8. Barnes, Bowes 5 for 42) pita Dr. Tremewan later went to (Reuter).
(Continued on Taze 9)
THE DOLLAR
FT. ON NEW YORK: 29-1/8′′, ETT. ON LONDON: 15," 2.7/50.
London Silver Market
(Our Own Correspondent).
London, Sept. 13 London silver prices today were up 1/8 for Spot and 3/15
Bept. 12 Spob...
19-7/18-19-9/16 Forward 10-3/18: 19-3/8.
for Forward Sept. 13