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HoxALONG, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939
Japan's New Offensive
THE
Government has
HE HISTORY of the war between China and Japan has been one of alternating military and political offen- sives. Before the first shots were fired at Marco Polo Bridge, Japan had been trying for years to secure by di plomatic means the assent of Nanking to
her demands, After the agony of the Shang hai war and the fall of the Order dated 25th capital-military operations **(2) Every British subject September, 1939, His Excellency were again in abeyance while resident in the Colony who at the Governor has designated the peace proposals were being the date on which this Regula following as currencies to which made. There was a lull after tion comes into operation is, or the above Regulations applies:- Hsuchow-and still another, after that date becomes, entitled United States dollars, Canadianwhich has now lasted for a year, after the capture of io assign, or to procure the as dollars, belgas, Swiss francs, Hankow. But each time the signment, of any right to receive French franes, guilders, Argentine Chinese outside the Colony or the United pesos, Swedish kroner and Nor made it clear that it will not Kingdom, in respect of any wegian kroner.
peacefully accept terms which credit or balance at a bank, pay-
it had taken up arms to op- ment of any amount in a foreign
pose. In other words China battles she has lost do not
by the Governor for the purposes
itles so as to include companies than the many local successes of this Regulation gives him incorporated in the British Em of the Japanese add up to a notice to the contrary, do all pire and special attention is victory....
THE drawn to the fact that all British
NEW JAPANESE things necessary for the" purpose
in Northeast of assigning that right to the subjects are included, whether of gunan is more than just the Government or to a person so European or Chinese race.
resumption of military opera- designated.
British subjects holding, or tions. It is a sign that "The sum payable as con having any title to, foreign cur. Tokyo's latest and sideration for any assignment rency or foreign exchange should seriously elaborated bid. for a made in accordance with this report particulars at once to the political victory has failed. Once again, guile and bribery paragraph shall be such as may Financial Secretary (addressing have proved insufficient to be determined by or on behalf of letters "Financial Secretary (Ex make China abandon resis- change)", Colonial Secretary's tance, once again blood and the Governor..
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Office). Arrangements will be iron preceding pre
assigned to the visions of this Regulation shall made for such currency, or ex not impose upon any person an change to be taken over by the obligation in respect of any cur Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank on behalf of Government at rates rency or right to receive payment of any amount, H
tion applies, shall, unless the above Regulation and of Regula. has not been beaten.
the
EDITORIAL
Changsha Chungking high-
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939,
way between Changsha and DRAMATIC EVIDENCE OF ARREST Changten.
THIS DONE, the JapaneseN SHAUKIWAN MURDER TRIAL
hope to forse the Chinese army to give battle with all avenues of retreat closed and its back to the Tungting Lake.
THE CHINESE are replying by counter-attacking on a wide front, striking at the line of communications of the Nanchang army by recaptur- ing Kacan, in Klangst. They have had much experience of Japanese pincer movements and know their weaknesses- the chief of which is that they are always carried out by insufficient forces-8 reflec- tion both of Japan's poverty- born niggardliness and her underestimation of. enemy. The same trick was tried at Nanking, at Hsuchow, and at Hankow. In each case, the Japanese pincers closed on nothing, the Chi- nese inevitably breaking out. In the Ministry of Information.
of their thin cordons.
her
IT IS DOUBTFUL whether China will deploy her careful- ly groomed mechanised units and her new crack divisions in the strategically unpro-
table battlefield of Northern Hunan so that no decisive. battles need be expected until the Japanese penetrate, fur- ther inland. But if they should try to carry out a con- verging advance up and down the railway towards Shiu- wan, or Southwestward and
Northwestward in the direc-
Lord Camrose." Chief Assistant
DRAMATIC INCIDENT
AT SEA
BRITISH SHIP AND U-BOAT
OFFICERS PLACED
ON PAROLE · LONDON, Sept. 25, (Reuter)
Story Of Fatal Attack
On Ship's
Ship's Caulker
IN THE CRIMINAL "SESSIONS YESTERDAY, BEFORE. THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR ATHOLL MACGREGOR, A CHINESE DETEC- TIVE RELATED, HOW, WITHIN A FEW HOURS OF A BRUTAL ATTACK MADE ON A SHIP'S CAULKER in Shankiwan' on the night. of July 22, he went on board a sampan and arrested five men who were suspected of being connected with the crime. Four of thera were in the dock,
still "some paces
The detective also told the Court of how he found some heroin pills and a pipe and a lamp on the sampan, and that on taking the men to the Police Station he found the jacket of one of them to have blood stains. The owner of the jacket was the first defendant. The accused men were Wong first defendant closed in on him Yin, 22, boller" maker, Tang Lol, and struck him on the side, and | 25, blacksmith, Chan Lam, 19, paint the second defendant also struck scraper, and Wong Kee-shan, 23. him. The third and fourth de- grocer. They were charged with fendants were the murder of Li 8o, 30, ship's away. caulker. at Shaukiwan on the
LYING AGAINST COUNTER night of July 22.
Li So Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, wounds and staggered up the bill put his hands to his assisted by Inspector L R. Whant while the attackers turned round prosecuted. Mr. H. C. Macnamara, and ran down in the opposite instructed by Mr. C. D'Almada, redirection to that in which they presented the first and second ac- had been running. Witness on cused, while the other two were getting to the Foot Chan teahouse defended by the Hon. Mr. Leo found Li So lying against the D'Almada, Jnr., instructed by Mr counter, and he (witness) helped F. H. Loseby,
The following was the Jury. Messrs. V. A. Itenson (Foreman). M. A. Prata, H. J. A. Hearne, W.
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to dress his wounds, until the po lice arrived,
Witness was only 14 paces away
Mok, Cheung Tin-lee. U Tat-chee from Li So when he saw the first and Hoot Yip-beng.
blow being inflicted and he was Mr. Whyatt related how Li, who positive in his identification of was seated on a nullah, was chas the four accused,
Under cross-examination
he
He ex-
Governor or a person designated tion 3A regarding foreign secur- add up to defeat any more are vast, her armies are im- until they could be landed and on the left side of the head while faces when they turned to run.
(a) he satisfies the Governor or a person designated by the Governor for the pur
OFFENSIVE
are
most HER POLITICAL bluff too has also been is a singularly poor partner.
Progress Of
thankless task of "beating Deaf And China to her knees." As be- fore, the effort is bound to fall..
terned. was the dramatic ex-
were taken on board a U-boat
will have to take the quences."
TURNED ADRIFT
+4
SEEN BY MANY
"
'a side view of their faces,
ed through the main street of tion of Kwellin, they will have
Shaukiwan, and attacked not far maintained, that he was not more to pay dearly in time, men and treasure for every mile
from a barber's shop in which he than 14 paces away at the time of The choice between giving their had tried, unsuccessfully to seek the attack, and that he was able they gain.
JAPAN'S RESOURCES are word to keep off the seas for the shelter from his pursuers. "Accord to recognise the assaltants. The
rest of the war or of remaining ing to the prosecution story, the time was after 10 p.m. most limited. China's spaces prisoners in a German subotarine first accused, who was closest to plained that although he was fol- bim in the chase, struck deceased lowing them, he recognise the proving, and time is with her. In the space-time warfare in perience of the Captain and of second defendant struck him on and also that, earlier he had got which she is engaging she cers of a British. ship, when they the side of the body.
The assailants then turned and Lai Hing, hawker, had known holds plenty of honours while
ran in the direction from which arst and second defendants by Japan, who entered the game
One of the officers to-day said they came. La staggered to a tea- sight and recognised them as two with a strong hand, is run- that the German Commander told house, where he had been earlier of the men who were chasing Li ning pitifully short of mil-them: "If you break parole you in the evening, and received tem- So that night. They were closest itary trumps.
conse-porary treatment until the police to the deceased during the chase.
defendant
was carrying came and took him to the Queen First
something wrapped in paper. He Mary Hospital.
"did not see the actual assault but The omeers were taken on board
he saw four of the six men turn. the submarine....to Interview the The attack was said to have and run in the opposite-direction. commander after which they re-been witnessed by a number of It all happened so quickly that he turned to their boat, the crew were people. among them being Yam could not be sure whether third given cigarettes and Beer
and Yung. Lai Hing. The former, who and fourth defendants were among they were turned adrift.
had been with 'deceased at the the assailants. Thirty-three hours later they teahouse earlier in the evening, Evidence corroborating, in out-
as given the story
by were picked up by a Belgian vessel said he recognised all the accused line, and have now reached safety. as members of the gang. that at Crown Counsel, was given by Au Wah Street, The ship concerned in the in-tacked Lt. Lai Hing, on the other Yung, of 34. Kum cident was the Ellerman Wilson hand. was only able to identify ground floor and Yik Keung who THE SCENE of Japan's new
steamer Truro (974 tons).
the first defendant.
happened to be in the vicinity at drive is Northeast Hunan,
Dr. R.S. Begbie, first witness the time. Neither of them, how- called. testified to Anding blood ever, was able to identify any of where her troops appeared a
men at the identification few days after the evacuation
NEW YORK, Sept, 25 (Reuter-stains on a jacket and a pair of the of Hankow. At that time, the
The American lmer, Américan trousers which were produced in parade. Farmer, arrived at New York yes- Court..
Ho Yan So, keeper of the Fook position seemed so hopeless
Dr. P. F. S. Court, of the Queen Chan terday with 28 survivors of the
teahousé gave formal that Changsha, a hundred Rs. 33,000 of Lord Nuffield's
described the evidence, in support of what pre- miles to the South was first gift in a Reserve Fund British ship which was torpedoed Mary Hospital,
wounds on Li's head and left sidevious witnesses had said had evacuated and (prematurely) for the shool, and this has been
of body and said that death was taken place at the shop. in Ceylon 3 per cent
One of the survivors said that due to haemorrhage from deep destroyed by the Chinese. I invested
POLICE EVIDENCE" To-day, two Japanese armies Government Stock, while the in- shortly after the ship sank, an wound through the left kidney. He An Indian policeman testified to
derived will be applied RAF. bomber appeared from are operating in the region. come
was of the opinion that the head hearing a police whistle at about wound could have been caused by 10.20 Orie, stationed around Yo-regularly for the purposes of the nowhere as if by magle.
on the night of July 22 The bomber swooped down and a blunt instrument and the wound which took him towards Shauki- chow, has its rear base at school by the Board of Governors,
The second gift of Rs. 35,000 is dropped a bomb which apparently in the kidney by a knite or sharp wan where, attracted by the big Hankow. The other is ad-
instrument
crowd outside the Fook Chan tea- cent. Government Stock, and the One of the crew of the Ameri Mr. Douglas, surveyor, P.W.D. house, he went there and found vancing from the direction of to be invested in Ceylon 3 per destroyed the U-boat, Nanchang In accordance
Board has executed a deed of trust can Farmer said there was 50-50 then gave evidence of plans of the deceased bleeding from with the practice of CO-vesting this sum of Rs. 35,000 in chance that the submarine had scene of the alleged crime. ordinated warfare worked out the Bishop of Colombo na sole been sunk. during the Yangtze cam-Trustee, the income derived to be paigns, Japanese naval units applied for the benent of the are stationed in the Tungting school. 728 Lake to co-operate with the
troops.
based on the official rates laid down in London.
Individual holdings in travellers cheques or notes of amounts not exceeding the equivalent of H.K. $500 need not be reported.
NOTICE
poses of this Regulation that all the persons in. terested in that currency, other than persons in terested therein merely *s trustees or merely by virtue of any mortgage, As from 25th September, 1939, pledge or charge created our Office will be situated at before the third day of Marina House, Ground Floor, September, nineteen hun Queen's Road. Telephone Num. dred and thirty-nine, butįber 22100. including any persons beneficially interested in
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'MONTH'S HOLIDAY FOR ALL NURSES'
BRITISH WAR ORGANISATION FUND, Hong Kong Branch.
EXPEDITION
RETURNS
Museum to explore the swamps of
THE ULTIMATE AIM of Japanese operations in this
Blind School
The annual report of the Deaf and Blind School, Mt. Lavinia, men- tions how the two donations of Rs. 35,000 each by Lord Nuffield in 1936 and 1937 are being used.
It has been decided to use
U.S. SURVIVORS
..H
in the Atlantic
The Multitone Hearing Ald MR. EDEN THANKS
AUSTRALIA LONDON, Sept. 25 (Reuter)-Mr.
i
wounds.
the
Bai Miu, follow ship's caulker Tong Mul, -(female) sampan... residing at 30, Tai Foo Street: owner, related how five men en- ground floor, said he knew deceas-gaged her sampan to row them to ed to be a good tempered man of arether sampan-a large one on quiet disposition.
which people lived which was owned by Kum Choy.
INVITED TO TEA
area is to win complete, con- children's section of the school, i Dominions, has sent a message to /on night of July 22 he met de- hired one of her two boats for the
trol of the Canton-Hankow
Mr. Walter Elliot, the Minister of Health, has listed seven reforms to Improve conditions for nurses in
This specimen was killed in the hospitals
Jungle. The photographs which The list is part of a circular were taken by the expedition are has sent to local authorities urg- to be shortly hung up in the ing more consideration for nurses. elephant section of the Museum, from
The suggestions, he points out. report of the Inter-Departmental were made in the recent interim
Southwestern. Hunan
4
ary Force.
Mr. Eden says: "Your High Commissioner in London has communicated to us you offer of Sept. 20 to provide an Air Expeditionary Force. I assure on behalf of His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom that this most gen- erous offer is deeply appre- clated here.”
This part of the evidence wan, and invited him to tea. They men. were there about half an hour. was corroborated by Det. Lum: Yam Yung passed the teashop and Chee-ming, who related how, act- they asked him to join. Yam also ing on information received, he knew LI So. After Yam Yung had boarded Kum Choy's sumpan and gone (he was with them for about took the five men to the Police five minutes) LI So also departed, Station where the first defen- but witness remained behind. dant's coat was found to be cover- About 25 minutes later he sawed with what looked like blood. deceased, with his clothes covered The hearing will be resumed at with blood, outside the teahouse. 10 am. to-day,
Yam Yung, barber, also of Main Street, Shaukiwan, said he knew
which was installed last year, has proved to be of immense value in
Chung Bum Chai, painter, of 64. Wong Kum Choy, owner of the of the deat, the teaching particularly the semi-deaf, in the Anthong Eden, Secretary for the Main Street, Shaukiwan, said that passenger boat sald how five men Marked progress has been made in Mr, R. G. Menzies, the Australian ceased, whom he had known about night to sleep in and how the po- The expedition sent out by the railway, the Northern army speech and lip reading by the chil- Premier, in reply to the Dominion four months, at the Fook Chan lice came in the early hours of Acting Director of the Colombo driving south to meet another dren who have used the Instru", offer to provide an Air Expedition-teahouse 56, Main Street, Shauki- the morning and arrested the
force pushing up from Can-ment regularly. Mannampitiya for the new species ton. In view of the difficul- There have been sixteen deaf and of elephant that is alleged is to be ties the Japanese have al-twenty-three blind girls in the found in Ceylon has returned.ready encountered in Kwang-girls Industrial section. .at bringing with it photographs of a tung and the mountainous Broomhill specimen of the elephant they had been after.
nature of the terrain on the
A former blind pupil of the Hunan Kwangtung Border, school has been trained as a Wear. the tactics adopted will probing Mistress and la in charge of ably be to outflank the whole the knitting in this section. line by an converging attack, INDUSTRIAL SECTION
Eight girls left Broomhill in April and the Gulf of Tongking
Li So for six or seven months. He "ENEMY TERRITORY” issue of the "Spolla Zelanica" the Nanning route) upon Kwellin, homes and the three other will growing of pineapples, tapioca, the night of July 22 witness saw information, states a "Clovernment available at present, but the next (probably along the Fakhol-
organ of the Colombo Museum, capital of Kwangsi.
THIS, HOWEVER, is in the Mt. Lavinia School. Seven other arrowroot, etc. Every effort is also
being made to extend
unattainable, future. "The their own homes supplied with
four of the chasing party. He did of Bohemia and Moravia, Blovakia" immediate geographical ob work by Broomhili.
The property at Kotte has been not recognize, the other two. First and the Free City of Danzig are In the Senior Boys' Industrial.
defendant was carrying some territory in the occupation of more care given to the nurses'fective of the invaders 18 nection at Botte, the first batch of taken on a short lease from the thing thin and long wrapped in Power with whom His Majesty is
Changsha. The strategic ob-
carpenters from the Junior School Church Missionary Society, and the paper. It was about one foot long at war and are therefore "Enemy jective is to isolate the
at Mt. Lavinia, arrived in October, question of securing a permanent and three inches wide. Second territory for all pur Chinese forces in Northeast 1937, under the leadership of the home is now being considered. defendant also had something the Trading with the energy legis In a written reply in the House Hunan, on the banks of the carpentry instructor and started The report mentions that the Rt. which lopied, like a hammer iation with regard to find duals, of Commons, he said that trained Sinhalang River, by cutting the building of their new school. Rev. C. D. Horsley, Blahop of Col- 11.80 attempted to enter the however, nap 6. Anual leave should be four nurses of the Civil Nuraing Reserve the Canton-Hankow railway In addition to the normal work ombo, has assumed the Chairman-Chow Lee barber shop, which was Moravia and Blovaks weeks, and
in war time will receive és a between Yochow and the in weaving, rattan and carpentry ship of the Board of Governors of first closing, but falled to gain ad be treated, at present, year and board and lodging..
capital and the in this section experiments have the School:
mittance. Very shortly after the nationals.
Committee on Nursing Services,
They are:
非
No details of the discovery · are.
will contain an account, of the ex-
last. Five of these will continue their, needlework in their own been successfully tried out in the also know the four defendants.
become Assistant Matrons at the
While walking on the street on
It is hereby notined for general
1 the six men chasing Li So. He re- Gazette Extraordinary" published
1. Accommodation in the nurses' pedition and full details of the distant, and almost certainly girls are already employed agricultural. side of the school's cognised the four, defendants as yesterday. that the protectorates
home should be comfortable;
discovery,
2. Permission to live away from
the hospital should be given more Creely
3. Nurses should not have to do health domestic work;
should go.
The reforms, Mr. Elliot adds, are restrictions(desirable, also to attract more
girls to the service.
4. Unreasonable,
5. "Duty" list should be posted a fortnight in advance;, ..
7. Food should be better, and
Hunan
1
activities.
Bohemia, are not to
as enemy