HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
BATTLE RAGING.
RAGING FOR TIENCHIACHEN
JAPANESE USE HEAVIEST AMAZING EVIDENCE IN GUN CONCENTRATIONS S. C.A. PROSECUTION
Chinese Positions Intact Girl Tells Of Being Forced
(With the Chinese Forces at Tien chlachen, Sept. 26). FIGHTING FOR TIENCHIACHEN, STRATEGIC POINT ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE YANGTZE RIVER, HAS BEEN RAGING WITH UNPRECEDENTED VIOLENCE FOR THE PAST 48 HOURS.
The Japanese brought out their heavlest run concentrations to bear on the strong Chinese defence positions in the outskirts of Tlenchlachen, which have remained intact despite numerous charges and terrific bembardment from the str.
on with
Tienchiachen.
the
at
Simultaneous with a frontal attack Japanese at Wusueh combined forces
their comrades Hwangklanghu and stormed the Chinese positions at Chuichlashan and Klunlughan. The Chinese replied effectively with heavy guns from their points of vantage on the high hills-Central News
To Practise Prostitution
UNEMPLOYED MAN, THREE MOMEN
FACE SERIOUS CHARGES
"At the house where first and second defendants were living I was asked, to practise prostitution. I was not willing, but they forced me to comply with their wishes. They beat me if I did not obey them. I finally did. I received money and I handed it to them.""
This stariling statement was made at the Central Court yester- day by a 19-year-old girl when she gave evidence before Mr. H. R. Butters.
Hankow, Sept. 28. On Saturday night a Chinese Tenchiacheng. a strategie fort unit staged a surprise rald on the
Following information. the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs on the north bank of the Yangtze Japanese flank at Hsiaochikow
carried out surprise" raida which ́fesulted in the detention of a man River, is being subjected to terrific near Shaoyuanchen, throwing the
and three women. aerial and artillery bombardment | invaders Into great confusion.
:" as the Japanese forces are launch More than 300 casualties were They were:-
were visited and documents of a ing a determined assault from infilcted and 20 Japanese soldiers Chin Tung-kanı, unemployed: similar nature were seized. three directions.
captured alive. Twelve machine-Chu Po-chu, married woman: Ng!
woman: and
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» GIRL'S EVIDENCË
.. Japanese columns from Kwang-guns. over to rifles and many Slu-ying. married ts) are pushing southwestward in important documents were also Chau. Lo-sam, widow, who were
In the witness box, Chin Fel-fel, the direction of Tenchiacheng 'seized by the Chinese.-Central | jointly charged yesterday. with; aged 19, said that she had been while a column from Wuruch -is, News.
trafficking in women and girls and adopted by a woman in Shanghai moving towards the west and
harbouring women and girls sold who later went to live with a man attacking Chinese positions in the
for prostitution.
named. Sham. Witness stated that vicinity of Tsuchiashian and Chiu-
Chin Tung-kan was additionally her parents died about nine years liushan. ♫
Was sold to "Chu Po-chu,
Chinese military dispatches to- day state that Chinese defence works suffered considerbale dam- age as the result of severe Japanese nerial bombings-Reuter IMPORTANT BASE RECAPTURED
Tehan. Sept. 26. About thirty Japanese guard were completely wiped out on the moming of Septeciber 24 when a strong Chinese guerilla unit at- tacked Yuchingshan, an important helght northwest of "Singtze, and recaptured the hill with ense, according to a communique lisved: yesterday. Central News.
BITTER - FIGHTING AT FUCHINKOW
Yangang, Sept. 26.
While a terrifc engagement
proceeding at Tienchiachen on the
JAPANESE BEATEN NEAR
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Hwalyin, Kiangsu, Sept. 26.
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from Jukao, northwest of Nantung.ings of prostitutes; and the three she
Two hundred Japanese soldiers charged with living on the earn-age and when she was adopted STRICT MILITARY |
on the north bank of the Yangtze women were also accused of exer- second defendant. River in northern Kiangsu, faun- cising control over prostitutes. ched an attack on the Chinese positions
at Machinchwang on September 23. after a sanguinary battle. the invaders were beater back with heavy losses.-Central News.
THREE JAPANESE TRANSPORTS
DAMAGED -.
The unfortunate girls were Chin Fel-fel. Chin Ol-tun, Chau Lei-lel and Chau Ma-lee, all of whom were about 20 years of age.
"I first met Chin Tung-kan. Arst defendant, in a house in Shanghai. There were three per- sons in the house including Chu Po-chu and Chau Lo-sam. I was
locked in a room and the others Mr. J. B. Prentls, Assistant talked outside. Then they Crown Solleitor, was in charge of brought me to a hotel. Chu Po- the prosecution, assisted by Deter-chu and Chau Lo-sam were there. tive Sub-Inspector J. O'Donovan. "That night I saw Chu Pó-chu's Mr. J. M., D'Almada Remedios father who wrote on red paper pleaded not guilty to all charges and asked me to impress by anger on behalf of all defendants.
print on it. Nothing was told to me when I signed the document," The third defendant. Ng Sia-said witness, who added that she ying, was remanded till Thursday. Arst met Chan Ma-lee, another Mr. Prentis. after relating the girl, in the same hotel just before circumstances under which the leaving Shanghai.
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CENSORSHIP IN PRAGUE
Reservists Pouring Into City Daily
Prague, Sept. 26. Strict military censorship has been imposed in Prague and many foreign correspon- dents have left the capital for Hungary and Poland.."
Kwelchih, "Anhwel, Sept. 26.
Three Japanese transports in the Yangtze River were badly damaged by Chinese shells yesterday.-Central News
-AIR ATTACK ON SINTANG
Sinyang, Sept. 26. Completing a week of air bom-four girls had come to the Colony. bardments, the Japanese again raided Sinyang yesterday. drop-said that they had been parry Ma-lee, Chau Lee-lee and myself."tributed to the inhabitants while
ing on prostitution
north bank, Fucbihkow, a point ping scores of bombs within the
directly below. Tienchiachen on town and on the railway station.
the south bank across the river. Is-Central News. hotly contested by the opposing forces.
Numerous charges and counter
SUNGFOW BOMBING
Hankow, Sept. 26. More than 300 civilians, includ-
Then we went to Swatow. Chau
for some continued
time in the Colony. When their "business dropped two of the girls later became guides in an escort bureau.
BUY BACK FREEDOM On August 4, Chau Ma-lee falled
In Pargue. hundreds of reser- vists are pouring into the city daily. Gas masks have been dia-
trenches have been dug så air
witness. "That Was raid shelters and black-outs have about April 1936. When I got to Swatow I lived with Chu Po-chu, been made at night to test the air together with Chau Ma-lee. Chauf Lee-lee, Chau Lo-aan. fourth de- fendant, and Chin Tang-kan,
"I WAS NOT WILLING " At this house where first and
defences.
People in the city are in а grim and resolute mood and both the civilians and the military authorities do not seem willing to maké further concessions
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Shansi Soldiers' Gifts From Japanese
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Hankow, September 28.
Writing from the Shansi front, a Central News correspondent-- staten he was surprised to find one day that the Chinese troopi had put on new woollen uniforms and overcoats. Some of them also had raincoats and brand new' fountain pens pinned to their pockets.
The
Where could they have secured all these new outfits? Chinese Government could not have afforded to supply them, nor i would the Chinese people, as available funds would preferably be used for the purchase of arms and ammunition.
charges were made throughouting many women and children. yesterday, with both sides suffer- were led or malmed yesterday to return home from the escort ing heavy casualties.
at Sungrow, southeast of Huangan bureau. Chin Tung-lan and Chau second defendants were living I It is understood that all women Another invading column, con-in northeast Hupeh. when | Lo-sam went to the bureau. to was asked to practise prostitution. between 17 and 60 are liable for sisting of several hundred mount Japanese boaibers staged four locate her and later in the day Ma- I was not willing, but arst and compulsory labour services. ed men, .advanced from the wanton
aerial attacks On the lee telephoned to the manageress second defendants forced me to
The Government denied the vicinity of Fuch hkow and town.
of the bureau. Chau Lo-sam comply with their wishes They German press
report that Dr. attacked Yangsin and Kiutingho, The Japanese alrmen also went to the phone and learned beat me if I would not practise. Kundt and other Sudeten leaders but was checked by Chinese ad-strafed the people with machine from Ma-lee that she was not finally did. I received money have been arrested. vance guards.
gun fire, exacting a heavy toll-going back and that she intended and I handed it over to them. German reports declare that Central News,
to pay the sum of $500 in Shang "This went on for more than a | 40,000 fugitives crossed into Ger- Approaching one of the soldiers, bank of the Tsin River, the Chi- hai currency to Lo-sam to buy year. During this time Chin Ol- many during the week-end
the he asked him where he had obnese captured 300 truckloads of back her freedom.
Lo-sam. de-tun arrived. Several months after reason given being Czech military manded $500 in Hongkong cur-her arrival we came to Hongkong.action. In the frontier-Reuter rency and invited Ma-lee to come when Chin Ol-fun was in Swa- Bulletin. to discuss the matter.
tow, second defendant forced her
Fighting in the outskirts of Yangain is limited to skirmishes· which so far have not yet deve loped into major engagements- Central News,
CHINESE CLAIM RECAPTURE
OF LOSHAN
CHINESE TIGHTEN SIEGE-
OF MENHSIEN Chengchow, Sept. 26. The Chinese have further tightened the siege of Menghsien, stronghold of the Japanese on the north bank of the Yellow River in northern Honan, the recapinre of which is believed to be imminent The beleaguered Japanese are attempting to break through the Chinese cordon to retreat north
Sinyang. Sept. 26. · Chinese efforts to check the Japanese advance in south- east Honan, designed to cut the Peiping-Hankow Railway. gained a signal success yester- day by the treapture of Lo- shan, a strategic town 30 miles East of Sinyang, on the Sin- yang-Hwanchian highway. The Japanese in their retreat of Menghsien yesterday, and was again used polson gas, and for nearly completely wiped out.
his tained
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brand new outât. uniforms, overcoats, raincoats and These are the gifts DX our other military equipment. enemy!" was the reply of the Sach Japanese military equip- soldier, beaming with smiles. and ment seized is said to form he could tell exactly where and large portion of the supplies for the Chinese during the present For instance, when the Chinese season-Central News. recaptured Howma In May, they seized from the Japanese store-
After 10 p.m. on August 25 the to be a prostitute. She refused. GERMAN DEMANDS How they were obtained.
party met "and the manageress Second defendant beat her. took them to see Miss P. Harrop. Eventually she gave in and be- | Lady Assistant at the SCIA., and {came a prostitute."
following investigations. Chin Witness continued that second Tung-kan and Chau Lo-sam were defendant and her two children detained. ·
came to Hongkong first. Three or Eleven documents were found in four days after Chin Tung-kan ward. A party which succeeded in the house where the two persons and Chau Lo-sam and the four forcing its way out was intercepted were living. Some of the docu-girls followed. When they arrived here they resided at 1. Chun Shing by the Chinese at a point northments related to the sale of girls.
Street. After remaining in the Soon afterwards the houses Colony for about 12 days the party where the other defendants lived went back to Swatow, and a few. days later returned to the same: address in Hongkong.
time the Chinese advance wavere. According to the latest estimate. but the timely arrival of rein the total number of Japanese in forcements finally succeeded in northern Honan is about 10,000, the complete routtry of the most of whom are statloned west invaders at Palimiao, three miles of the Felping-Hankow Railway. west of Loshan-
A Japanese troop train. 15 Fierce fighting has also taken blown up on September 22 east place at Tuchwans. about six of Tsiaotso, mining town cast of miles southeast I Loshan. Po A. on the Taokou-Chinghua Central News.
Railway, in northern Honan. Many
DESPERATE 'BATTLE IN
NORTH HONAN Pinglu, Shansi, Sept. 26.
A desperate battle has been
raging near Shaoyuanchen,
west
of Talyuan in northern Honan, during the past few days..
POPULACE
WITH
GAS
FOREIGN
EXCHANGE
MARKET Then
Japanese soldiers were killed Demand For Dollars
Central News.
15,000 TRANSPORT WORKERS "ON» STRIKE
Fifteen thousand
Continues
CHANGED HOUSE"
to Staunton
(Continued from Page 1). which would mear. sheer destruc-
tion of the Czech State.
Mr. Attlee adds. The Labour movement urges the British Gov ernment to leave no doubt in the - mind of the German Gov- erument that Britain unite
the and
Mr. Atties. kka, Whatever
houses there army provisions and the German alimatum, it is now
other military supplies enough for
the use of two divisions for threr to Hitler to overcome the dead-
lock. months.
Again, during an engagement in August at Tungwuling. on the west
Transocean.
GERMANY CANNOT
UNDERSTAND
Ferlin, Sept. 26. German newspapers contend that will Standard" states that he' is in a Herr Hitler's memorandum merely with position to affirm that the French carries into effect and does not French Government has definitely decided zo bevond the Anglo-French plan. Soviet to declare war on Germany on the One paper declares: "Is the to resist any same day on which German troops historic meeting between Harr cross the Czechoslovak frontier. Hitter and Mr. Chamberlain to be Transocean.
lost in the wrangles in the Bri- tish Parliament and the French Councils"
on
Goverments attack Czechoslova- the risks in-
"We lived there for over 10 days when we moved to Third Street where we started Our business.
we moved Street," said witness.
"Chin Ol-fun and myself were volved, Great Britain must make where we were forced to practise Reuter. removed to Third Street again Its stand against aggression."-
prostitution by first and second defendants. They beat me if I refused.
London Sept. 28.
"That Was a few months after In contrast with Saturday's our arrival at Hongkong." reaction in the foreign exchange Witness said that she was again market. events over the week-end taken back to Swatow, and later failed to produce inordinate acti-
was brought back to Hongkong The demand for dollars and resided at Staunton Street. from all sides continued though "When I returned to Staunton
New York, Sept. 26. FITTED
transportvity. workers went on stake to-day de- MASKS manding a forty-hour week and no
reduction in wages.
Drive In London Boroughs
London, Sept. 26.
A big drive was made in the London boroughs to at the popu lace with gas maska at the fitting į station."
ITALIANS READY
GRAVELY IMPERILLED
London, Sept. 26. The "Daily Express” saYE that peace is gravely imperilled by the methods of German diplomacy and the increasing demands put forward by Ber- Un.
Another asserts that "Hitler, at the meeting at Godesberg, adhered ta the right of self-determination. and supported the Polish and | Hungarian, demands
-Rome, Sept. 26.
The paper adds, "Wxx over "The German Themorandum has
evacuation of part of Czechoslo- not gone beyond the Franco-i
Concerning the discussions bevakia would be madness. We Mussolini, continuing his speech finisters, the paper observes that France showing such British proposals" pasérted Bignor tween the French and British cannot understand Britain and campaign at Verona in support of neither London nor Paris will bring against the Polish and Emraṛlan Retr Hitler's standpoint in the further pressure to bear on Prague minority demands."-Reuter Bul-
Czech question
on a lesser scale with the equal-Street we acted as guides in an
After declaring there were still order to induce the Czech Gov-latin.
erndient to accept the German some days to reach a pacific solu-memorandum sation fund intervening.
escort bureau, but practised pro- tion, Duce added that at the The strikers announce that Nevertheless rate, further apprestitution occasionally, being forced same time one must envisage the
The Prague Government, accord- transport of medical and other clated in terms of sterling. The by second defendant to do so." stage in which Italy is involved ing to the paper, had alrends given it to be understood in London and supplies for the Atlantic coast dís. | franc-was also on offer but com- concluded witness.
directly and then they would not Paris that should such pressure be tricts hit by the recent hurricane paratively little business was re- After further evidence, the have any hestitation that the extended on the new Czech Gov- will not be held up-Reuter Bul-ported which is explained by the hearing was adjourned till this "Italian people are fully armed ernment, it would withdraw the as-
fact that the Bank of France was afternoon.
letin,
EURASIA SERVICE
RESUMED
prepared to deal in any rate between 1781 and 179.
There were many willing to sell francs forward" without in, most!
RAILS REMOVED BY ARABS
Jerusalem, Sept. 28.
People are urged, through Dos- Sters and circulars, to equlp them- The nightly service of the cases Anding a counterpart.
selves with zas masks, and many Eurasia Aviation Corporation was Other quarters in the city are Raliway traffic between Palestine thousands were fitted during the resumed on Sunday night at 8.30, ¡quietly awaiting further develop- and Egypt has been temporarily week-end. Fitting" will continue The plane took off without a single ments with business generally re-suspended as the rails were re to be made at centres opening passenger aboard – but.... with duced to very small proportions, moyed by Arabs in southern Pa this morning-Reuter Bulletin | large-quantity of 'mail
lestine. Reuter Bulletin.
----Reuter.
spiritually and materially, ready for anything."
Mussolini concluded, with a bit ter attack on the Versailles Treaty. -Reuter.
Ji
DE FRANCE AND WAR
sent to the Anglo-French plan given by the Hodza Cabinet.
UP TO HITLER
The "Daily Mail" veheniently criticises Hitler's latest proposals: London, Bept. 26. The paper writes that only a ne- In connection with the echver-gative reply could be expected from sation between the British and Prague.
Armness
NO OFFICIAL · COMMENT
Moscow, Sept. 26. » Noguéial comment is made here in regard 30 Herr Hitler's memorandum-Renter Bulletin.
READY TO NEGOTIATE
Warsaw, Sept. 20.
It is understood that the Prest- dent of Poland has received a persozial note from Dr. Benes regarding, the Polish Note demand- ing that Polish minority be accord- ed the same treatment as the Sudetens. :“
It is reported that the letter... emphasised the the Czechať"are. French statesmen the diplomatie Owing to the refusal of the ready to negotiate on the Polish correspondent of the "Evening Prague Government to consider minority question Renter Bulletin.