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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938.
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voted unanimously for sight-care
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Oldent established opticians in
the Far East:
SERIOUS FIGHTING REPORTED AT BIAS BAY
Japanese Landing
Attempt At Taiping
Harbour Repulsed
CANTON OBJECTIVE OF SOUTH CHINA DRIVE
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CREAM OF MIKADO'S NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES ENGAGED
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CANTON, OCTOBER 12.
|ERIOUS FIGHTING IS PROCEEDING IN BIAS BAY, ACCORD-
ING TO CHINESE OFFICIAL SOURCES.
The bulk of the Japanese are said to have landed at Hachung whilst another unit has landed at Nimshan where fighting is par- Hicularly severe.
A Japanese attempt to land troops at Taiping Harbour, west of Bias Bay, this morning is reported to have been repulsed by the Chinese.
WHILST THE EXACT NUMBER OF JAPANESE TROOPS which -have arrived in Blas Bay for the invasion of South China has not been ascertained, Chinese official cirètes estimate that they are about $35.000. At least 80 Japanese warships, transports, steam launches. and other types of vessels have been sighted in Blas Bay.
The Kwangtung military authorities are rushing reinforcements to Blas "Bay and other points along the coast to prevent the Japanese from pashing Inland.
JAPANESE ARMY" OPERATIONS NEAR H.K
Tokyo, Oct. 12. The opinion is expressed here that Japanese milliary operations will be conducted in the immediate vicinity of Hongkong.-Transocean,
village, was surrounded and badly attenuated.. Of the 130 men con- stituting the company, only 20 managed to escape.-Central News.
Canton, Oct. 12.
Japanese forces landed in large numbers at 4.30 am to-day in Kachung, In Bias Bay. after first sheiling the shore and the islands in the vicinity, according to re-
Hable Chinese sources.
ALL READY FOR ACTION
PICTURE ABOVE-shows an anti-aircraft gun used by the
Chinese forces In Changsha. (Photo, C. ML P. 9.)
BRITISH CABINET
RE-SHUFFLE
London, Oct. 12
Reports of the forthcoming "re-shuffling" of the British Cầ- \binat were current in political circles to-day. It is rumoured that Mr. Chamberinin, who is now on holiday in Scotland, may return here next Monday. All such reports, however, are 10 far pot confirmed. *** Transocean
Government To Control Aliens
REGULATION · MADE YESTERDAY
An Extraordinary Govern- ment Gazette issued yesterday" afternoon announced the com-
Guns, Aircraft MIDDLESEX SENT Ing ints force of the following
Aid Landing
RAILWAY OBJECTIVE
OF BOMBING
Supported by naval guns and * some 30 aircraft the Japanese effected a landing at Bias Bay yesterday morning. The land- ing was effected due to the low lying country and although the Chinese retired there is a very strong position which is: -being held with considerable
strength,
Opinion seems to be strong that this new move of the Japanese is due to the difficulties of the Japanese. army in the operations at Hankow.
TO FRONTIER
To Control Possible Influx Of Refugees
*Two
companies af the Middlesex Regiment have been sent out to support the polles » on the frontier and Indian com- panies (probably from the Rajputana Rites) have been sent to help in the construc- "tion of barricades.”
This annuncement was made by the local mallary authorities. yesterday morning."
Ipwas emphasised that these, troop movements were to help to
regulation, made by the Goy- ernor-In-Council, for the enn- trol of allen combatants, re- fugees and others by virtue and In exercise of the powers con- ferred on him under Section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance of 1922:-
SINGLE COPY, 18 CIE.
PriceFER MONTH, $3.
CHINESE RECAPTURE
MAHWEILING
Japanese Detachments. Surrounded In Hills
Hankow, October 12.." CHINESE FORCES AT TEKAN ARE REPORTED to bavo launched- a counter-offensive against the Japanese and are reported to be converging on Tehan.
Omcial Chinese dispatches" claim the recapture of Mahwedding by the Chinese in addition to the hills around Yalkon.
The Japanese at. Joshi are said to be pushing eastwards' in an attempt to reach the Japanese detachments mid to be surrounded in two hills ten miles to the west of Tahan-Renter.
SINTANG TAKEN
Hankow, Oct 12 Budget Being
Introduced To-day
With the Japanese forces claim- ing the capture of Sinyang, an important point on the Paiping- Hankow Rallway about 100 miles north of Hankow at an early hour this morning, Chinese reports state that fighting is proceeding to the north, east and south or the city.
RATING ORDINANCE TO BE AMENDED
The Draft Estimates for 1939 the -will-he" introduced ; at
Legislative Council meeting af 1a.m. to-day by the Flasnels) Secretary, Hon. "Mr. Sidney" Chine.
Japanese detachments. It is ad- [mitted, reached Bankwanmiso and Changtälkwan, also situated on the | Petping-Hankow Railway, Immedi-
stely north of Binyang.
Fighting, the reports add, is also proceeding on the highway, to the east of Bingang and at Huling (a) every person belonging to station, situated to the south of Amend the Rating Ordinance, 1901, the naval, military or air forces of Binyang.
to
(1) This regulation shall apply
The first reading of a Bill to
China or Japan who seeka refuge Japanese forces on the south will be moved by the Attorney under the jurisdiction of the Bri- bank of the Yangtze, to the General, Hon. Mr. J. & Fraser.
Clause 2:adds to section 43′′ (1), tish Crown and comes or is within southwest of Yangsin, are
|(2) and (7) of the principal Or- the Colony dung the continuance tinuing their attack on Chinese dinance words enabling any loss of hostilities between those coun- positions on the north bank of the in zevenue occasioned by the de- tries and,
Fa River, in the Tiokuty of Sochow-| fault of an owns for occupier o It is stated-Reuter
(Contfaned on PLED-8.
control the influx of possible re- REVIVALIST PREACHER
fugees over the frontier and to take them to refugee camps
tories.
ENTHRALLS AUDIENCE
H
Up to a late hour last night It Brother Edwin Orr Tells Story
It is reported that the Chinese which have been constructed by: It is believed that the landing is not yet of a sufficiently large are engaging the advance forces of the Government in the New Terri-
the Japanese that landed." Fighting this morning was also scale to warrant its being regard-
wholesale Invasion of Yesterday afternoon the Japan- severe at Oatow between the Jap-ed as a anese landing party and Chinese South China, but it is thought ese bombed the town of Tamsul was reported that a fair number defenders who offered stiff resis- that the intention may be to cut and it appears obrtoux that the of people had crossed the border tance. A Japanese company, en- the Kowloon-Canton Railway and objective is the Canton-Kowloon but the evacuation could not be
Railway."
called large scale. ticed to penetrate into a nearby
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Invasion Was Expected
Following Resignation
Of General K. Ugaki
Japanese Aim To Cut
THE
:
Canton-Hankow Railway
Hankow, October 12,
HE CHINESE GENERAL PUBLIC WAS STUNNED by news of the Japanese landing on the Kwangtung coast though well-informed circles here rather expected the invasion of South China following the resignation of General Ugaki, Foreign Minister.
"According to Information available here-General-Ugaki_was...
measures which opposed to an invasion of South China, or any might prejudice the relations between Japan and foreign Powers. General Ugaki is understood to have urged cessation of hostilities following the occupation of Hankow.
With the resignation of Ceneral! trained but the Cantonese pea- Ugaki, and the adoption of a sants are now also well-equipped fighting.→ policy of stronger action in China, and organised for Chinese circles believed that Japan Reuter, might invade South China which Japan had hitherto retrained from doing due to fear of complications with Britain and France:
It is believed that Japan's in- vasion of South China aims at: firstly, to divert the attention of Chinese forces at present stubbornly holding Japanese advance on Bankow
up
the
and,.. secondly, to cut the Canton- Hankow Railway thereby stop ping supplies from reaching. China via Hongkong and also Chinese exports from leaving this country,
Tokyo Oct. 12.
full.
in territorial
Of His Early Days
AUTHOR OF MANY BOOKS
Reliable figures of the number Rumours have been rife that
of police sent out to augment the refugees have been pouring into border force were given as 30 but the Colony, from Canton but this could not be confirmedit Daily Press" representative who is thought there may have been
FRESH FROM CONQUEST OF AUSTRALIA and the Philippines. travelled on the Kowloon-Canton more. but it is again emphasised Mr. Edwin Orr, the well-known Revivalist preacher, arrived in the road yesterday saw none of this, that their work is concerned only Colony yesterday, with Mrs. Orr, by the R.M.S. Empress of Canada. although it is reported that the with handling of the expected Canton-Kowloon trains have been stream of refugees.
A sympathetic reception committee gathered protectively around Mr. Orr, pleading for patience from everybody, as their charge had, The local naval authorities state in the Philippines, in five days, overworked himself to the extent, Calm prevails throughout the that British vessels will be carry-ot, addressing 27 revival meetings in five days. Chinese side of the New Territories ing out exercises and, as is well-known, the-Canton waters and exercise areas as usual..
Brother Orr, addressing 300 troops, are a tough proposition for but no "extraordinary" movements people at the Kowloon Union the Japanese.
of
Church, spoke for close - any description have been
on two ordered.
hours.. Protesting against the Ships at present in harbour are claims of the committee. Edwin Kent, Dorsetshire, and Birmingham Orr began with the statement that THE PALESTINE (cruisers, Duchess, Delight. Daring he was "fresh as a daisy
He already knew one sentence in and Diamond (destroyers). Sea- (mew (gupboat), Odin, Otus. Gram-the Canton dialect, Brother Orr pus (submarines) and Sandwich told the congregation, and опе sentence in the Shanghai dialect. (loop).
PROBLEM
In addition the French Prima-In the former dialect he could
Disturbances Must quet and American Peary are here. explain that he was hungry, and
Be Suppressed
be
London, Oct. 12 ..Before any steps can taken to And 露 practical solution of the Palestine pro- blem the British Government will have to do everything' In ita power to 'suppress the dis- turbances which are going on 'at the present moment, declares **The Times" in a leading article this morning.
SPANISH WAR REPORTS
Rebels Recapture Positions
Barcelona, Oct; 12,
The Republican War Ministry in
in the latter dialect that he was merely "a foreign devil.”
a bulletin issued last night states "I was born in the hub of the that the Nationalist Spanish troops" universe" Brother Orr explained, on the Ebre front recaptured on in Northern Ireland" "The 15th of Monday night two positions in the
GUIDE TO THE NEWS January is my lucky day. On that sector of the Padol mountains
11
Page 2--Murder trial continues,
Heavy Empire ale trafic. Eva sion of stamp duty,... Fage &-Food page. Heart theories
revised.
Fago 4--News about the Services, King may see World Fair. London Gazette.
Crossword puzzle. Diary of local events.
Up to this evening the Japanese The paper draws a comparison public were still in the dark re-between conditions in the Near garding the point where the Jap-East and those which obtained in Page 5—Cinema notes and news anese landing in South China wa Czechoslovakia. - effected. The only clue given by Quite apart from the question the ometal communique was that as to whether Palestine is to Le troops landed on a "certain bay, divided into two states, cantonized which was generally taken to bear transformed in accordance with Mas Bay.
the federalist principles, only While an official pronouncement close co-operation with France can forecasts that it won't be long bring about a settlement in the Page Women's page. before the Japanese dominate Near East.
South China and crush the origin A federal state made up of the
of anti-Japanese activities there Syrian State, Lybanon, two
is no mistaking the anxiety with Palestinian States, "Arab and
Pare 6-Bomba, thrown at British official Munich pact criticised in Russia. British medal. för German airman Hongarian troops enter Czechoslovakia
Page: 8-Leading article: Holy Land scene of terrorum, Hello and goodbye, Hongkong School of accountancy.
which the situation is being fol- Jewish, and of Trans-jordania Page 9-Flerce fighting in-south- lowed. Behind the anxiety is con, would give the Byrian Arabs the West Bhansi. Chinese authorities, however, cern over the prospects of the ex- desired unity while at the same Fare 18-Softball notes Home are confident that the Cantonese pedition and the hope that no time avoiding the necessity" "of
will put up a stiff, fight since not | International complications ensue, netting up small and independent, only the Canton Army is well- -Renter.
States---Transocean,"
football chatter, London, Scots tested Indoor bowls league. Local yachting. Rugby trial.
tenement in refusing or neglecting to "Turnbh particulars as required by section 4 or knowingly making, a false or incorrect statement of such particulars, to be recovered summarily with interest at eight": per cent. before a magistrate.
The clause also adds a new sub- section. (B) "to sectiori 43. extend- ing the time within which pro- ceedings may be taken to six Fears from the date of the offence. Clause 3 adds a new section 43A to the principal. Ordinance,....... | enabling the Assessor on the con- viction of any person for an offence under section 43 (1) or (2), toʻ "make a new valuation of the tene- ¡ment, ghd making rates payable upon that valuation from the date of the conviction `until the next assessment.
WRONG WINNING
the'
NUMBER
Through amisprint, number of the winning ticket for the sixth men of Monday's Race Meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club, was given as 1361. This should have been 1301.
RAINS FILLING PESERVOIRS
Colony Benefits
In Fortnight
The Colony's reservoirs bays
week or two and are now well over Nationalist aeroplanes bombed 60 per cent, full the "Dally Press" was informed by M. A. B. Cartagena.—Transocean.
Purves of the Waterworks Depart- ment-yesterday.
day in 1912 I was born in 1921 I occupied by the Republicans dur- turned to religion, in 1937 I was ing the last Ebro ofensive. married."
Throughout yesterday the Na-benefited enormously in storage An enthralled audience listened tonalists unsuccessfully continued by the beavy rains of the past to Brother Orr's story of his early their attacks near Pol de Coso, days in Belfast," where, as R student at the Municipal College of Belfast, he became a terrible
CONTINUE TO ADVANCE - man about religion," practising it
Salamanca, Oct. 12. "Capacity has been increasing only to the... extent of 'going. to Church on Sundays,"
Acommunique Issued by the steadily since the beginning of the Brother Orr's adventures in Nationalist Army Headquarters month, and is still rising, but are not yet awakening his fellow-men to last night reports that Nationalist accurate figures
(Continued on Back Page)
troops continued to advance in the available," said Mr. Purves, Ebro sector yesterday occupying Regarding the removal or lessen- several. positions and inflicting ing of restrictions. Mr. Purves THE DOLLAR
stated it was too early to make heavy losses on the enemy. 'T.T. ON NEW YORK: 29-1/2
The Nationalists took about 100 any declaton till all the water from the recent rains had been prisoners. On T.T. ON LONDON: 1$." 2.7/84.
October 8the
collected. Nationalist air force bombed mill- London Silver Market
tazy objectives of Valencia and the (Our Own Correspondent); harbour and at night attacked the London, Oct. 12. ·· posts of Aguilas and Barcalons London allver prices to-day destroying the moles and ware- were up 1/8 for Spot and 1/18.houses. On October 10 Nationalist Custis, of for Forward
Oct. 11 Oct. 12 Spot
19-5/819-3/4 Forward .19-1/2. 19-9/18
NEW CASTLE FINER
The 170
planes attacked military objećtiyes was launch of Cartagena harbour where two Mrs, destroyers were hit by the bombs,... | African. Transocean.
Londen.
tan liner. Petoris Widon Castle Lins,
D-day by
side of the south Commissione in