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SUCCESSES NORTH OF SEVERE FIGHTING IN
SHANSI: JAPANESE WITHDRAW IN HUPEH
SHIUHING. Jan. 18 (Central) → Nganchanngau, on the Canton-Bankow Railway, 33 miles north of Canton, reverted to Chinese, control on Tuesday. The Chinese launched а determined attack and after suffering 500 casualties, the Japanese withdrew from the town.
Hard-pressed by the Chinese, more Japanese troops at Kuntien, also on the Railway, 25 miles north of Canton, have withdrawn eastward. Fungchuen, a village at the western end of Kuntien, was recaptured by the. Chinese on Tuesday.
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A Chinese column is re- Wanchuan, The Chinese bave ported to be heading for penetrated into Chalchlatten The Kongtsun. ten miles north of Japanese are comered at the north
and east gates Canton.
MAGISTRATE COMMENDED The Kwangtung Provincial Gov
IN NORTH HUPER FANCHENG. HUPER. Jan 18 (Central)-Hard pressed by the Chinese, Japanese forces north-east
ernment has issued an order com- mending Mr. Chot Hes, magistrate of Tsungfa, whose militia aicted. Suthsien. about 34 miles west
a heavy blow upon the Japanese
at Shulmeitung, on Dec. 25.
According to a Shinkwan mes- sage, a comfort delegation dispatch
Yingshan in North Hupeh, have started a withdrawal.
The Chinese following in pursul are attempting to bottle them up
ed by the Canton-Hankow Railway, at Kuenshan and Maanshan. officers and workers has arrived at Over 3,000 Japanese at Bruchia- the wartime provincial capital. Itjen, north of Sulhsien, counter- presented a dag to General Yu attacked with the support or over
RICE SHORTAGE Han-mou on Tuesday and another tanks and planes on Tuesday.
IN PEIPING
to General La Han-sun on Wednes- They were driven back. day.
The Japanese at Yangtzsuchen, SHANSI FIGHTING
north-cast of Chungking incentral LOYANG, Jan. (Central)Hupeh are reported to have twice
18 Chinese forces have been attacking resorted to the use of gas. A drive CHINESE OFFICIAL'S, south-east of Linien towards Fenghsingchen on Tuesday
WIFE KILLED South Shansi, during the last tew was repelled.
days. Japanese
reinforcements
ATTACK REPULSED
PELPING J, 18 (Reuter)-Be- from Yicheng in the south have KWEILIN, Jan 18 (Central)— Heved to be a direct outcome of been driven back.
The Japanese attack at Tsingshan the present acute fond situation in In South-east Shansi fighting is and Yuantow, north of Tangyang. Peiping, the wife
Chow Chuang-still centred around Changch n and on the south bank of the Yangtze sheng. President of the Peking Hukwan. Supported by artillery River, in Antwel has been re- Chinese Chamber of Commerce. was killed by gunmen when she and planes, the Japanese have pulsed with many casualties.
was leaving hospital after visiting her daughter.
The gunmen first wounded the chauffeur and a Chinese' atten- dant and then fired three shots at Mrs.
third Chow the
bullet. plercing the stomach, proving fatal. The gunmen escaped,"
It is understood that Chow him- self was the real objective of the gunmen but he was out at the time. The cause of the crime is
not revealed by investigators but
launched unsuccessful attacks.
In South-west Shansi, the Chi nese are attacking Chinshan and
EXPLOSIONS
IN LONDON FACTORY
LONDON, Jan, 18 (Reuter)—Two Tac- it is understood tha; it may have big explosions occurred in a been due to dissatisfaction overtory on the northern outskirts of "the present food situation for London
great
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Two Violent Shocks
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LONDON, Jan. 18 (Reuter)- Two violent earthquake shocks were fait in South Anatolia, today. An Ankara message states that 50 were killed and 160 injured.
400 HOUSES COLLAPSE
INTENSE COLD
HOLDING
INVOLVEMENT IN
FRAUD REPORTED
Man Who Torpedoed German Alliance
SPECIAL TO THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
TOKYO, Jan. 18 (Havas)-The suddenness of the ap- pointment of ADMIRAL MITSUMASA YONAI to the Premiership when the general public and press were con- vinced that either PRINCE FUMIMARO KONOYE or GEN. S. HATA would succeed GEN. ABE was unprecedented' in Japanese political history.
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The announcement made a deep sensation in all cir- cles, particularly Army ones, which were convinced that the Emperor would call Gen. Hata as the normal successor to Gen. Abe. This conviction became almost a certainty when Gen. Hata, was summoned to the Palace on Sunday evening when the decision to appoint Admiral Yonal had already been reached.
It was later revealed that: Mr. Kurahel Yuasa, Lord- |
Keeper of the Frivy Seal, in- sisted on this "camouflaging" | and wantonly left the Japan- ese press to announce that
UP OPERATIONS Gen. Hata was the most likely
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candidate.
The Throne's tactics in placing the public and the Army before a falt "accompl" was motivated by the desire to quash, in advance
WESTERN FRONT AND FINLAND · LONDON, Jan. 18 (Recier)-The any rumours that Admiral Yonas intense cold is holding up opera-] was strongly opposed by the Army tions on
the western Front as mainly because the Navy, and the well as in Finland,
Admiral, himself, had been strongly
The weather is so cold on
the opposed" by the projected military
SHANSI "REVOLT” EXPOSED
See Leader On Page Six.
Pearl River Opening-So?
JAPANESE REVERSES SOMEWHERE IN HOPEI, Jan, 18
ISTANBUL, Jan. 18 (Reuter) Karelian Isthinus that fighting is alliance with Germany and Italy THE INTIMATION (Central)—More than 10 truck_
Over 400 houses are reported. to restricted to spasmodic artillery as advocated by the Army. onus of Japanese troops moving i
have collapsed but it is not pos- duela. from Changpa to Lochiaying, north sible to verify the actual casual-
170.
On the Salla Front three Soviet
of Ankuo, in West Hopel, were ties and damage. For the past 24 columns are taking part in an at- routed by the Chinese a few days thours eight more shocks were felt tempt to push back the Flans in the previously devastated areas but only one is making · alight in northern Anatolia but hitherto progress. there are no reports of casualties
About 200 Japanese, meluding the commander, Matsui, were slain and over 10 taken prisoner, while five trucks were destroyed.
HIGHWAY ATTACKED
KWEILIN, Jan. 18 (Central
or damage.
The Admiral had even been described as the man who tor-
PROBLEMATICAL
TOKYO, Jan. 18 (Reuter-In- pedo: the alliance before Hilt-
timation that the Pearl River too fer himself scuttled It. Nevertheless, with typical dis- would be opened to international cipline, the Japanese Army and Yangtse was given by a Japanese shipping shortly along with the General Hata accepted the E-naval spokesman. He emphasised peror's command and the latter
that the Japanese Goverment accepted to retain his post as War has no intention of making a bar Minister under Adml. Yonal,
gaining point of the Yangtsë question
FRONTIER FROZEN UP The German frontier, bordering A serious landslide, of 1,000 feet Holland and Belglum is thorough extent. occurred in the recently ly frozen up and there is te flooded Esmidt area where two or no anxiety among the popula- * BITTER EPISODE The Japanese troops at Kowping bridges were seriously damaged. tion, according to dispatches from
The only sign of this episode
No date has yet been set for the near Taltong, on the Nanning- In the Brusa region, the Karad-Amsterdam and Brussels.
was the very bitter article publish re-opening but the Japanese au- which Chow may have been parti- The explosions were, 20
Nevertheless, across the snow-ed in the Kokumin Shimbun.thorities on the spot are hurrying ally blamed.
that shop windows In the neigh-Yamchow highway. 35 miles south Jabey Plains are again inundated
Si Nanning, were attacked by the and Afteen villages are sub drifts, the Dusch and Belgians are which is closely connected with up preparations, including repairs bourhood were blown out and a Continued on Back Page merged.
keeping watch in conditions which Army circles. stating that Admiral to wharves and third Power are described in Amsterdam as Yonai's appointment was due to vessels, which hitherto have been reminiscent of Finland.
underhand action by "statesmen requisitioned for military pur- See also Fage 7
close to the Throns" who had been poses. looking forward to him as a future GRAF SPEE ECHO: NO POISON GAS
ALLIED WARSHIPS WAITING FOR COLUMBUS CREW
number of ceilings collapsed. A
hospital nearby escaped
it was heavily sandbagged,
because
The noise of the explosions was heard 20 miles away and fames BAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18 (Reu-shot high into the sky. ter)-It is reported that two Aus- The cause is not known at pre- tralian cruisers and one Canadian sent. gunboat are lying off San Fran- cisco Harbour, spread like a fan 100 miles out.
This has prompted the Immigra- tion authorities to change their plans to ship the crew of the scuttled German liner Columbus in Japanese ships.
The Lumigration authorities sayi
TWO DEMOCRAT
CANDIDATES
FOR PRESIDENCY Special to the HK. Daily Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (Reuter) -Senator Vic Donahey, from Ohio,
Nazis In Same Economic Straits As In 1916
No Mean Achievement For
Brand New Ministry
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candidate for Premiership "ever since the time he quashed the Japanese "German" alilance by op- ¦». LONDON, »Jan. '18" (BW8)—The posing it when as Navy Minister
Captains of the British merchant in the Hiranuma Cabinet.” vessels who were prisoners on board
the German battleship Graf Spee Evacuation Home”
Athe German
cesses
For Princesses
"Asked "wha{ "third" Power would benefit most, from the opening of the Yanrise," the ́ ́ ́ spokesman" was of the opinion that, judging from past busi- ness result, British received the most benefit, though the United States too would, na- at the time of the action off River
turally share in the benefits." Plate, who have just returned to
Replying to a question, the England, state that after the bat-
spokesman said that he under- tle the German "dead were laid out Special to the HK. Daily Press [stood that a' conference between LONDON, Jan. 18 (BWS)-A sharp shock has been ad- on the deck and the corpses were LONDON, Jan 18 (Havas)-Pra-Wang Ching-wel and Liang Elizabeth and Magaret Chung-chth is being held at the ministered to German economy as a result of the operation sprayed with a very strong dis- of Britain's economic warfare and the revelations of the infectant having a pungent and Rose lett Buckingham Palace for end of January in connexion with Minister, Mr. Ronald Cross, in the House of Commons last offensive odour,
their new "evacuation home" in the establishment of the new A great part of the ship was also the country.
Central Government of China. night made it clear that after four-and-a-half months of
treated in this way," A war Germany is in something like the same ec nomic
The British prisoners on board straits to which she was brought after two years in the last the Graf Spee, moreover, main- tained that no suggestion of the Although helped by 1914-18 inevitably accompanies the legit possible use of gas shells was experiments it is, says The mate exercise of this belligerent made, even by the most inexper (Reuter) Times, no mean achievement right, is being gradually smoothed fenced on board the Graf Spee. The American Ambassador, Mr. for a brand new Ministry, out and it is gratifying, in this Nelson T. Johnson, returned from which had to improvise a far connexion, to learn, of the growing The Government has decided on North China aboard the transport reaching organisation for obj and successful application of the the creation of a "National OUS.S. Henderson. Commissariat to control Ruman-
Interviewed, he said that he will taining necessary information
that the crew la temporarily held announced that be would become at the immigration station. It had a candidate for White House,
With Vice-President J. 1. Garner been understood that the crew would return to Germany, via there will be two Democrat cand...
dates for the Presidency. Japan and Russia.
RUMANIAN OIL CONTROL
Special to the H.K. Daily Press
BUCHAREST, Jan, 18 (Reuter)
MR. NELSON T. JOHNSON
SHANGHAL, Jan 18
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war.
lan oll production and sale, co- take a trip to Hankow next week for taking appropriate action, ordinate all of industries and con-and later Chungking... trol exports and provide the Army with its needa.
NORWEGIAN SHIP TORPEDOED
LONDON, Jan. 18 (Reuter)-The Norwegian steamer Unid was tor- pedoed and shelled off the north- east coast of Britain:*
Eight members of the crew were
rescued by a trawler while the rest
of the crew landed in the ship's 'boat.
to make effective control of No special significance is attach- Germany's supplies as effec-
ed to his trip to Chungking it be- tive almost from the begin- ing just the usual routine Ambas-ning of this war as it was in {sador's trip.
the later stages of the last.
INSTALLATION OF DALAI LAMA
navicert system.
-"Moreover," since, the intro- duction of the embargo on German seaborne experts as a.. lawful reprkal, replenishment from this source of Germany's supplies of foreign exchance ls rapidly becoming impos- sible.".
The Daily Telegraph sys Bri- tain's offensive against enemy in reference to the part of the prompt and Ministers speech dealing with re- been trade has
Not only háve we lations with neutrals the Man- vigorous.”.
NEW DELHI, Jan. 18 (Reuterswept the seas. clean of German chester Guardian says the
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Mr. B. J. Gould, the Political Agentships but our contraband control nouncement that fourteen agree-Summary Court over methods of our Leading article" in Bikkim, is going to Lhasa to re-has reduced to insignificant pro- ments present the British Government at portions imports to Germany by economie, warfare are now being Women's interests Finance, commerce the forthcoming installation of the way of neutral shipping Initial discussed, or have already been new Dalai Lama,
friction with neutrals,
which
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Anglo French Prosecution Of War "A Family Affair
LONDON, 310, 18 (Renter) — Mr. Læsila' Burgin, Minister of Sup- ply, receiving journalists on the eve of the return to Paris of M. Tautry, the French Minister of Supply, said, "We are" making full use not only of the raw materials of both our Empires but of their manufacturing sources as well.
"The general alms are that any weakness in economy of one coun- try shall be made up by the other."
Both Mr. Burgin and M. Dautryi said that Anglo-French collabora-1 tion was now a somewhat too weak word to apply to the relations be-.. tween the two countries.
The French
Minister Bald,
RAILWAY SMASH KILLS: TWELVE: 20 HURT
BERLIN, Jan. 18 Renter)-AC- cording" "to" the official German
"There are no more secrets of News Agency, 12 were led and frontiers between us. Our prose-20 mjured in a rallway amaah yes. cution of the war is a complete terday near Zittau Saxony. family affair. We have roped our-The accident occurred at a level selves together for a hard climb to crossng during a snowstormi. The victory and we shall both arrive engine overturned and the » «fest
carriages were derailed. at the top together."