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APPEAL FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN
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OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
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Governor Wu Te-Chen,
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CANTON CITY CALM DESPITE
JAPANESE THREAT
EVACUATION PROCEEDS
BY RIVER ROUTE·
Canton, October 20
Notwithstanding the Japanese threat to capture Canton by ad- vancing from the East River districts, the authorities here remaid unusually calm and have the situation well la hand. A tour of the city revealed that about 85 per cent of the shops and business, firmos have suspended business and most of the shopkeepers and employees have gone to the interior. Owing to the official order for disperse- ment of the popülacë, only about 300,000 people, or roughly one-
ont fifth of the population, remain.
a small number of Since the closing of Bocca Tigris, usual. Only river traffic between Canton and women" and -children have evacu- Hongkong has been suspended, andated. Some of the shops boarded
when to reach the British Colony or up
the Japanese first since: Macao the evacuees have to take landed at Bias Bay, but a much longer route by way of Monday business has returned to Shekki. Chungshan County, and normal
Macao, thence by steamers to The correspondent found the liongkong. Towboats and other terrain at Namtau, where a Japan- river craft are packed to capacity. Jese landing was falsely reported,
Several vernacular newspapers) be extremely hilly. He was con are making preparations to shift viriced that even if a landing were to Kwellin, Kwangst or Kwang-effected the Japanese would find chouwan, and those that are still fit very difficult to drive inland. in publication have to be content to issue one edition only and to
of reduce their number
pages owing to lack of staff and difficul- tles in obtaining news, as there is only one news agency functioning in the city.
DAILY RECREATION The police force and the gen- darmes are being called out en bloc to maintain law and order and to conduct the people to dug- outs in case of air raids.
CHEKWAN SHELLING
At Chekwan, southeast of Namtau, the correspondent saw three Japanese Warships anchored off the coast. From a native there, he learned that the vessels shelled Chekwan on October 8,`killing several elvig Bilans and slightly damaging a' temple. But, since then, they have not taken any new ac tions.
Since the Bias Bay landing on
Much against general expecta- October 12, the Po On authorities tion, many people are still fre- have taken precautionary mea- quenting restaurants. tea-houses, theatres and cinema palaces. War Sures for protection of the town, or no war, they are apparently not reports Central News. They have dynamited many important" high- to be deprived of their daily re-
way bridges which might be creation.--International News.
utilised by the Japanese should WHEREABOUTS OF JAPANESE
they effect a landing in Po On and VAGUE
also blew up a whart to forestall possible landing operations,
The whereabouts of the main Japanese forces continues to
Most of 500,000 men in Po On
be obscure. Reports from Chi-have joined the self-defence corps
niese sources fail to reveal the point reached by the Japanese main body.
According to. Central News, efforts of Japanese cavalry patrols to penetrate the Chinese outposts, north of the East River, were re- pulsed. A vanguard, a battalion strong. is reported to have been engaged, and repelled by Chinese troops at Yangchun, about 50 kilometres southeast of Lung- moon.
According to the same sources. 83 Japanese planes were reported to have been engaged in bombing)
in Kwangtung yesterday."
and received rigid military train- ing. They are xpected to give a good account of themselves in the event of a Japanese attack on their district.
GENERAL HONIO COMMANDS
Canton, Oct. 20 At a press conference yes- terday' oveğinz.
Chinese spokesman said that Gener- al Honjo, of Mükden fame, is commander-in-chief of
the
2
Јаралезе Expeditionary Forces in South China, while General Matsul is second in command.
He further stated that the
Heavy fighting was reported Japanese Invaders, comprised the yesterday morning and continued 11th, and 114th Division,
to the afternoon between Japan-ling 42,000 men. ese troops and Chinese between Poklo" and "Tsengshing.
REFUGEE RELIEF
total-
The spokesman reiterated that the main Japanese push west- ward from Walchow had still not
Meanwhile, the Kwangtung au- started, and he denied reports thorities are taking steps to re-that the Japanese had already lieve the large number of refugees occupied Tsengching
as a result of the Japanese in-lung.
zones
and
Shek-
troops
the
vasion of the province: Nine re- -He added that guerlika fugee Felle?
have been were at present forming In established by the Kwangtung districts north east and south- Rellef Commission. A sum of west of Tamshui, which he "claim- $20,000 has been allotted to each ed were continually harassing zone for relief purposes.
the Japanese communication. The evacuation of civilians from
GOVERNOR AND PRESSMEN Canton is "proceeding apace. Governor Wu Teh-chen en- Owing to inadequacy of Com-tertained a small group of press- munication facilities, much diff-men at his residence yesterday culty is being encountered. It is afternoon. Governor Wu looked understood that the Bureau of tired, but happy, his cheerful ap- Social Welfare is negotiating with pearance seeming to belie re- the steamship companies
ports of the rapid Japanese ad- facilitate evacuation.
vance.
Foreign missionary circles in Canton are reported to be approaching the authorities concerned for the, establish- ment of a refugee zone in the city.
to
TAMSHUI A DEAD CITY Tamshui la now a dead city"re- ports Mr. Chu Wun-ming, head of the Walyeung Youth Service Corps. who has arrived in Hongkong...
According to Mr. Chu, Lungkong, midway between Tamshui and Pingwu, is still in Chinese hands and the situation there remains calm.
Mr. Chu revealed that the militia corps at Tumshul put up stiff re- sistance against the Japanese in- vaders. About 50 of them sacri. Eced their lives in the defence of their native town, states Central News.
PEACE IN PO ON Peace and quiet-still reigns. in Po On, on the Pearl River Della, writes a correspondent "of the "Wah Ter Yät Po”, who- visited the district yesterday. Alarming reports of Japanese troops landing in To On a few days (to are entirely ground- less, the correspondent said, us no trace of Japanese can be found there and in the neigh- bouring areas,
It is confirmed here that the Chinese destroyed the already damaged. Snekjung bridge, in- dicating that the Japanese are at least in this vicinity, if not ac- tually in possession of the town- Reuter.
CONFUSION IN CRISIS
Irregularities In A.R.P. Work
London, Oct. 28 The confusion in ‘air. rald precaution work during the recent crisis is described--m reports to the city councils of Birmingham and Bristol. In Birmingham half the " gas masks Issued to the inhabitants were found not to it.
Arrangements for the evacua- tion of the populace had not in-
·cluded facilities to cater for their food after they had left the city, and less than half the A.R.F. wardens were untrained,
In Bristol, the distribution of gas masks had to be stopped, hall way because a number of essen- tial parts were missing from a He found the people, calm and consignment of masks 1 from, the carrying on their finess as Home Office-Reuter,
JAPANESE
STOCKINGS
BANNED
London, Oct. 20.
A han on the raportation Into England of Japanese woollen, and cotton stockings has been imposed. It is of2 cially announced.
The order, which will re- main in fores until the end of the year, becomes effecti.a immediately.—Transocean.
FR. JACQUINOT IN CHUNGKING
Chungking. Oct, 26. Father Jacquinot, founder of the refugen zone at Nantao, Shanghai, arrived here from Hankow by plane yesterday..
Shortly after arrival, he ferred with Mr. Chu Ying-kwang,
con-
Vice-Chairman of the National Re-
Lef Commission, and other mem- bers of the Commission, on the establishment of a refugee zone in Hankow and the relief of refugees in Shanghai and Kwang- tung.
It is understood that he will re- turn to Hankow in a few days as much work awaits "him there.- Central News..
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