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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
JAPANESE LOSSES
Suffered Heavily In Singtze Sector
Over Five Hundred Dead In Chinlunfeng Area
Hankow, October 11.
FURTHER DETAILS REVEALING THE HEAVY LOSSES of the Japanese 101st Division have been obtained from unimpeachable
sources.
The 149th Regiment and the 157th Regiment of the 101st Divi- ston which fought in the Singtze sector from August 19. suffered so heavily that they had to be reinforced by the 101st and the 103rd Regiments of the same division.
AFTER SANGUINARY BATTLES AT TUNGKULING, Hsikuling · and Santhuehchien, the 101st Regiment was almost entirely wiped out. Among those killed, were Major Kawarami of the 3rd Battalion, Capt. Orawa of the 10th Company, Capt. Kitakami, 1st-Lieut. Yoshi- take, 2nd-Lieut. Nagol, 2nd-Lieut. Wakao.
Twelve soldiers of the above-Alkow on their march upon Tehan
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Picture taken at the Eighth Extra Race meeting held at Happy Valley during the week-end. (Photo by Lelea).
FRONT
SPANISH WAR
PROGRESS
Loyalists Recapture
Many Hills
barcelona. Oct. 11.
A Republican War Ministry com- munique issued on Monday night reports from the Eastern front that Republican troops in the Ebro 'region recaptured two hills of the Coso on Sunday.
The enemy, supported by tanks and planes, attacked that position | throughout Monday but was com- pletely repulsed suffering heavy losses.
In the Sierra de Pandola," "Re- publicans captured two hills ́ con- tinuing their advance and pur- suing the enemy. "The Republicans made an assault in the sector of Canaletas inflicting heavy losses on the enemy Republican aeroplanes bombed enemy positions and troop
shot down
mentioned regiments were taken have launched a determined at: ROYAL VISIT TO | LONG CHASE BY concentrations and
prisoner by the Chinese, who also tack upon the Chinese troops. seized some 10 machine-guns. 200 numerically and vastly superior rifies, 10 cylinders of poison gas, 11 to them, holding the last defences smoke-screen containers and other of Tehan in the hills to the east war, supplies.
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of the town. The Chinese troops
AMERICA
The Chinese discovered more entrenched here are subjecting our Mrs. Roosevelt Would
orces to withering Are."
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than 500 Japanese dead In the Chinlunteng area. mostly victims
The communique described the of trench-mortar shells..
Chinese firecracker celebration" as Col: Ihitsuka, commander of the "gre to salute the celebration of 101st Regiment who was killed, in the fall of Hankow into Japanese action on September 3. was re-hands" citing the Chinese Victory placed by Col Fuse..
at Talerchwang which "sounded According to warrant oficer the death knell of Hsuchow."
The communique was given to
Reuter.
Kadoo Shutsuki, who has been captured by the Chinese, the 101st. the 147th. and the 149th all foreign correspondents Includ- Regiments have been reduced to ing the vialting group from Japan. less than four battalions. The 103rd Regiment, which was later
JAPANESE SURROUNDED sent up to the Singtze front, also sumered heavily, Shutsuki added.
Hankow, Oct '11.
A diary of a Japanese captive re-
It is reliably learned that 'vealed that the Japanese forces at Japanese Divisional Commander Singtze were first composed of the and 3,000 remants are still holding 149th Regiment and an artillery out in the hills ten miles to the unit. The 157th Regiment was west of Tehan but are entirely sent up there on August 27.
TRANSPORT HIT
The 101st Regiment left Tien- shengkang, near Nantungchow, in Lower Yangtze, on August 19 for the South Yangtze front On its way upriver, one of its transports was hit by Chinese share batteries, resulting in a number killed and Wounded. on August 22. Another transport was sunk three days later when she reached Hukow. Before the Japanese got ashofe on September 27. one, transport was set afre by a shell.
surrounded by Chinese troops..
Chinese aircraft proceeded to the scene this afternoon and heavily bombed the Japanese.-Reuter.
CHINESE RETAKE
TUNGCHENG
(Continued from Page 1)
chow. Hidden behind their defence works, the Japanese resisted stubbornly.
One battalion commander and
The battle continued until yes- na" company commander were terday morning, when a Chinese killed while they were leading dare-to-dle corps, led by Captati their men up the foothills at Li Tlen-yun, penetrated into the Singtze, Col. Thitsuka was killed city through the west gate. by a machine-gun bullet. Ou hand-to-hand combat ensued re- September 3. Col. Fuse rushed to suiting in the annihilation of the Singtze from Tokyo by plane to Japanese guarding the west gate. "take up his new command.
The Japanese captured Tungkuling on September 6. according to the diary. One of the companies which took part there came out with only six men alive.
On September 12, the diary re- corded the death of the comman--
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With their position becoming untenable the Japanese fled in confusion in a northerly direction. The Chinese took full control of Talan immediately after the Jap- anese retreat,--Central News.
RETAKE HONAN TOWN
Loyang, Oct. 11.
Be Most Pleased
POLICE
Marine Fined For Car Theft
three planes while the Republicans, lost one plane. Republicans ad- vanced their lines, near the town [of Guadarama on the Madrid front.
---Transocean
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..MEDIATION REJECTED
Burgos, Oct. 11. The arrival of the Secretary Washington, Oct. 11. "The practice, of stealing cars
the London Non- Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the Pre-and smashing them up has become General of sident of the United States, speak much too prevalent and fines ap- Intervention Committee in this ing at a press conference said that pear to be an insuficient deter-city on Monday coincided with the she would be most pleased if the zert," remarked Mr.K. M. A. Nationalist Spanish press rejection King and Queen visited the United Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy of all attempts at mediation in
yesterday, when he fined Theo-the-Spanish confilet States next year.
"Mediation is crime and Mrs, Roosevelt added that she Dolls Jola Perkins of the Royal had not the faintest notion what Marines, HMS. Kent, a total sum treason against those who have she would do if Their Majesties ac of $180 on charges of driving a died," it is declared.
motor car without a licence, driv- "We wish peace. though mot tually came to Washington.
"I would be told by the State ing a motor car without the per- through mediation, but ultimate Department exactly what to do and mission of the owner, and driving victory." declares another paper, a car in a manner dangerous to while still a third bears the head- also to do exactly as I am told.
the public. The offences occurred lines. To mediate is to sell out To
freemasons." on Monday, sald Mrs. Roosevelt. Reuter.
Traffic-Sergeant. A. Bethell re- In a declaration. published on vealed that he had to chase the the same day the Head of the
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FRENCH WORKERS
BACK GOVERNMENT
Paris, Oct. 11. That the bulk of French workers 15 prepared to come out 13 open support of the methods adopted by the French Govern- French Government to continue wounds. unhealed. Negotiations ment in averting war was made its present foreign policy with with the present Republican leader manifest at the second session the aim of .consolidating peace. are impossible as streams of blood of the International Committee If the Popular Front had col-separate us."--Transocean. of French Trade Unions. *»
lapsed then the Trade Union
defendant's car over a distance of Nationalist Spanish Air Force. eight miles along the Clear Water General Kindelar, stated: "Should Bay Road at a high speed before any foreigner propose negotiations an arrest was made.
to us he will receive a courteous but firm rejection. Peace without retribution would leave inflcted
Shortly before the conclusion movement would have to take
of the session on Monday, several up again its freedom of action,-. speakers joined in urging the Transocean,
POLISH PRESS DEMANDS
CESSION OF AREAS.
IN SLOVAKIA
Three Times As Large As Area Occupied By Troops
STRONG FRENCH OPPOSITION
Warsaw, October 11.
The Polish press has, with ̧‹ one accord, suddenly demanded the Following a smashing attack, cession to Poland of three areas of Slovakia, totalling, 2,400 square der of the 2nd company of the 149th Regiment, leaving Ogawa in Chinese forces took possession of kilometres of land-three times as large as the area already occupied charge. Six days later, the com- Siaochichen, south of Sinstang in by. Polish troops and with a population of 120,000. This demand has caused, a good deal of concern in diplomatic quarters here mander of the 1st company of the northern Honan on Sunday.
of these districts, namely Zips region, with the town The Japanese fled towards Sto-as in one
Chinese detachment of Kesmare as capital, half the population is made up of Germanis, slang, A following in hot pursuit has reach-while Poles are in the minority in the other two regions so that ed the southern outskirts of Sin- the Polish demands are likely to cause a good deal of trouble-- slang where, fierce fighting has Transocean." broken out-Central News.
157th Regiment also fell.
At that time, the survivors of the thitsuka Regiment were only the Ogawa and the Kikuchi companies. -Central News.
\"CHINESE ATTACK LIULIN
ROOSEVELT SENDS
MESSAGE TO
我
LIN SEN
(Continued from Page 1).
A similar message was sent by the Central Executive and Super- visory Committees of the Kudmin- tang to Generalksimo Chiang and the Chinese forces.--Central News.
NO INCIDENT IN SHANGHAI
Hankow, October 11.
· Nothing untoward happened. in the International Settle- ment and the French Conces. sion during the celebration of the Double Tenth yesterday. Handbills of a patriotic nature were distributed and posters put up by Chinese in the Internationa Settlement, but no, disturbances
were created.
WEDNESDAY," OCTOBER 12, 1938-PAGE-
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CHINESE A BULWARK
OF WORLD PEACE
Help For War Sufferers Urged In London
London, October 11,
In celebration of China's National Day and to raise funds
Chinese. eat
Those ...pre-
for refugees, about 406 people, both foreign and down to a "bowl of rice" dinner here last night. sent included Lord Listowel, Chairman of the China Cam- paign Committee, and Dr. Quo Ta-chi, Chinese Ambassador, and Lord "Ceell
There was great enthusiasm
when the Chairman read a tele- 34,689 JAPANESE
gram relating the Chinese victory scuth of the Yangtze.
Lord Cecil expressed the most profound sympathy for the noble self-sacrifice with which the Chinese were standing up to the invaders.
her
CASUALTIES
Loyang, Oct. 11 Altogether 34,639 casualties were. suffered by the Japanese in east and north Honan from July to. September, according to a military
eport.
Several
hundred engagements took place during the period, the bitterest occurring at Tsiyuan, Tsinyang and Shaoyuan in north Honan and Lanfeng, 'Minchuan, Taikang, Pohsen and Yungchéng Dr.a. east Hoon.
י.די
CHINA IN THE RIGHT Since the League of Nations · Machine-gun and ride fire was
had announced that "China heard from Nantao on Sunday night
was in the right and and early vesterday morning. The
invaders in the Wrong the cause is unknown-Central News,
duty of members
the OATH-TAKING CEREMONY
League' was therefore quite Paris, Oct. 11: moment to advance new demands
Chengtu, Oct. 11. clear, he said. CHINESE RECOVER TOWNS
Pronounced opposition to the since this not only causes uneast- An oath-taking ceremony for
Other speakers included Hankow, Oct. 11.
Polish and Hungarian aspirations ness throughout Europe but Generals Teng Hal-hou and Pan Quo Tal-chi, Mr. Peter Fleming.
Apart from casualties, the Chinese troops are reported to
At the Front, Oct. 11. to establish.. 3 common frontier prevents attention being directed Wen-hus, respectively Pacification Times" correspondent," who
Japanese suffered the damage have dispersed the Japanese at Bent on clearing off the Japan-at the expense of Carpathian to more important problems Commissioner and Deputy Pacifics-graphically described what he had
of three planes, over 30 artillery Bsinchi, to the southeast of Sin-lese cavalry at Liulin, a station Ukraine is expressed in this morn-demanding solution.-Transocean.. tion Commissioner for Bzechuer seen during his tour of the war
pieces, 4,709 tracks, 13 locomo- yang, and recaptured the town, south of Sipyang on the Peiping-ing's papers here.'
SENSATIONAL REFORTS OF and Silkong, General Wang Taan- areas in China, and Miss Rose
tiyes and a number of boats, seizing more than 100 Japanese Hankow Railway. strong Chinese "Le Petit Journal," in emphasiz-
INSURRECTION
chu. Chairman of the Ezechien Tou, a Chinese girl who has been
The war booty seized from the rifles, 100 shells and 20 war horses. junits are attacking them from the ing that this small. section, if
Warsaw, Oct. 11. - Provincial Government, and other doing medical rellet work behind enemy in July included 13 artillery Other Chinese units are said to north and the south.
cast either to Hungary or Poland.
› Bensational reports of an new members of the Provincial the Chinese lines and has just pieces, 74 military horses and large have recovered Chutangtien also..
would merely become the centre Ukrainian insurrection in Kiev Government, took place here yes- arrived in England.
quantities of food supplies; in of unrest and agitation. re- was printed in all papers in this terday.
Mias Tou movingly described August, 543' rifles, one trench mor minds Poland that she already city to-day on the basis of in- General Chang Chun, Director of the heroism of the Chinese tar, 3 trucks, 7.490 gallons of petrol. the minority groups formation received by the Ate the Generalissimo's Provisional soldiers in terrible sufferings, and many machine-guns; in Sept. that comprise 45.5 per cent. of her Agency tram Moscow.
Headquarters at Chungking, re-and the ferrible plight of the 24 machine-gung, three trucks. total population.
to the southeast of Sinyang. These troops are now pushing westward to attack the Japanese at Lulin station. Central Newa.'
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JAPANESE CLAIM
Shanghai, Oct. 11. The Japanese Navy spokesman,
The Japanese retreat is cut by,, other Chinese units guarding Tsingshantien. Shekangtien, Chutangtien and Lungehuan- „tlen to the northeast of Liulin,
A stalemate has developed in the Shawo sector where the Jap janese were hurled back in their to break
at a press conference to-day, said repeated
attempts
that the fleet was still about ten through the Chinese defence line nautical miles above Kichun and and drive. southward to invade claimed that a naval landing party Hupeh-Central News. cuptured Kwoshan on the south bank of the Yantze.
The Canton-Hankow, Railway was bombed and the bridge. des troyed and reported that Father Cazzanelli and the other five Ita Hans are safe in Kichum. caring fer 5,000 refugees -- Reuter
JAPANESE COMMUNIQUE
Shanghai.' Oct. 11.
MORAŽE, DISCIPLINE|| GOOD
Hankow, Oct. 11.
controls
In making this demand for still more territory Poland. seems to forget, declares the paper, that she herself existed for many years under forelan suzerainty. The fulfilment of these demands would, more- over, in the opinion of the paper, lead to complete dis-, membering of the Czecho slorak State...
An attack was made early on presenting the National Govern- Chinese refugees, earnestly ap-34 rifles, 47 revolvers, 204 · gas Sunday morning, it is declared, on ment, officiated at the ceremony, pealing for help for her country, maska and 44 cases of medical sup- | the military aerodrome in Kiev, and over 1,000 government officials | —Reuter.
shots and explosions being easily and guests, including Mr. Tai Chi- heard in city where panic enmed, tać, President of the Examination The insurgents, who apparently Yuan, Chang-Chia Hutukehtu, the took the military authorities at "Living Enddha” of Mongolia, were the aerodrome by surprise, at first present:
gained ground and attempted to "A message of congratulation and obtain access to the hangars where encouragement was received by the The morale and discipline of the
the aeroplanes are stored. By this | Ezechuen leaders from Generalis timea military detachment had slimo Chiang Ral-shek-Central Chinese troops on the Peiping
Le Martin" calls attention to arrived and a standing battle News. Hankow Railway front is good, according to a report of an Inspec- the difficulties that have arisen ensued during which both sides tion corps sent out by the Nation- through these new claims. suffered considerable losses.".
ernment has made a regulation
POLICE REPORTS
Mr. Strasser, at 60 Hillwood Road has reported to the police that some person stole two cameras, Jewellery and money valued at 5845.
Money and Jewellery valued at $80.50 was stolen from the quarters of Sergeant Riley, "G" Block, Ken
ples
During the period under review. the Chinese Captured four Japan. ese airmen, 24 army officers and 117 privates Cential News
REFUGEE" CAMPS
"As a result of enquiries made yesterday, it is understood that the refugee camps, which are at pre- sont under construction, will be ready for occupation some time on. al Military Council. The, corps is Hungary is naturally being sup- The insurgents finally retreated The Kwanghung, Provincial Gov: ¦ nédy Road,
or before December (1 composed of Messrs. Li, Chung- ported by Poland but in order to into the forest while the military
At present three cazips are hwang, Wang Lu-yi and Fang include Carpathian Ukraine in the detachment endeavoured to sur concerning the management of The sum of $990 in money was de construction, one at Japanese Expeditionary Chih, members of the Central Czechoslovak Government, the round and capture them
land in the war areas. Bo that stolen from the room of Mr. F. Point, one at Mate Force headquarters issued a com- Executive Committee of the Kuo-Premier, General Syrovy, has an This open attack on the capital every land available may be con- Whitecross at the YMCA yester-third at King's": "munique to-day disparaging, but mintang,
pointed a" representative in this of Boviet Ukraine has made a tinuously subjected to cultivation, } day" tot datly denying the Chinese Besides Inspecting the Chinese district to a Minister's post al- decided bupression and the Com- | heretofore the proprietor of: « report of the victory in the vicinity troops, the corps is also helping to though without portfolio.
mandant of the Klev garrisori has plece of land should find somebody of Tehan.
send away Chinese refugees and Regret is generally expressed taken additional precautions for to continue the work?: This? The communique,
says:-"The wounded soldiers along the rail-that the two countries should have į safeguarding – military objecta rulation is also applicable to land forces which passed was Une Central News.
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