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FOUNDED 1001 二拜體 六廿月十英港香
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26,
1937. 日三廿月九
SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS $30.00 PER ANNUM.
EUROPEANS
CAPTURED BY
SHIP SEIZED Heavy Carnage In
NEAR
COLONY
German Officers Are Captive For Month
AN
In Formosa
FORCED AT GUN-POINT TO FOLLOW CRUISER
(Exclusive To "Telegraph")
N extraordinary story of the capture of the locally- owned steamship Tchekam (1,300 tons, Ping Un S.S. Company), only eighty miles from Hongkong was told this morning to the Telegraph by two European officers who had just been released after nearly a month of captivity in Formosa.
The men are: Captain L. Hammann, of 236 Wanchai Road, well-known German skipper, formerly of the s.s. Lee Hong who was making his first voyage on the Tche- kam:
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CHINESE TANK GOES INTO ACTION
UFS
This rennrkable,acifon photograuliowas taken ♪ Shanzhal, In the for end of the street a Chinese tanic is rolling towards the Japanese paafton ta tie court, With rifles and machine-guns the upon them this flimsy, kand-bag barrier will be Japanese soldiers are attempting to klop it. Once 14 useless. The tank's machine-guins wil rake them. T. camera-man did not wait to see the end of this engagement.
Chief Engineer K. Nielson, Dane who signed off his ship a few months ago to take his first trip on the Government
Tchekam.
Messrs. Hammann and Nielsen, all 50 members of the crew and both Chinese passengers were brought to Hongkong this
Reduce Aid.
morning by the Hongkong Maru from Formosa, their passages For Farmers
having been paid by the Japanese Admiralty. The Tchekam, however, remains at Takao as a prize of war.
Though flying the Panamanian' tag under which she was register- ed in August this year-and though running for years between Touraine and Hongkong with commercial cargo, a submarine stopped the ship and called up a Japanese cruiser, thei Commander of which accused Capt. Hammann of attempting to convey; provistons to Shanghai warriors,
On board the ship were several hundred head of cattle and one bag of French mall for Hongkong.
This mail was brought back by the Captain this morning and handed to the Postmaster-General.
Dramatic Story
American Dignitaries
And Windsors
Visit May Cause Embarrassmont
Toronto, Oct. 25. The proposed visit of the Duke of This is the story as told jointly by Windsor to Canada drew from cau- tious official inquiries speculation of Mesars, Hammann and Neilsen;
State passible embarrassment to
"Our ship is owned by the Ping dignitaries..
On Steamship Company and was tying under the Chinese flag up to
The head of a publishing house has
been
gust this year. We then register invited the Duke' tolppen a National
under the Panemunion dog and Entinued the regular run the ship id always made between Hongkong And Touraine,
CAL
OWING TO HUGE COTTON CROP
Washington, Oct, 25.
A reducllon of two million neres in an area in which farmers who wish to qualify for the Government's benefit, may plant cotton in 1938, was announced by Mr. Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture to-day.
that
Officials of the Agricultural Ad- Justment Administration state the change has been decided upon because of this year's unusually large colten crop.
original acreage estimate for The
thirty cotton was twenty-nine to million acres, which has now been revised to twenty-seven to twenty-
lae million acres.-Reuter.
Payment Benefits For Farmers
Washington, Oct. 25.
Book Week, and he has also invited to take part in other public in order that farmers co-operating functions. It is believed in some in next year's cotton programme circles that the Duke will accept there should not suffer by the reduction in the acreage rate, benefit payments invitations,
are simulaneously increased from two
"There was no incident on the out- ward trip to Touraine and we started on the return trip on September 201 with a cargo of livestock and one bag of French mall. On October 1, when
The Duke of Windsor's friends in we were about 100 miles from Heng- kong, we were sighted by a Japan-dicate that they will do their utmost submarine. She flagged us for to make the visit effective and mala- our name but we did not stop and tain that they will change their plaas the submarine continued to follow us. if they are likely to embarrass those We learned afterwards that she had of the Duke-United Press. wirelessed for a cruiser, and about 20 miles further on wo acrul- ser coming across our path. It was almost dark by this time, but the cruiser finshed us in Morse "stop."
We had no alternative and accord-| ingly have to.
It is sold the British Government la cents to 24 cents a pound. opposed to any official welcome and will not sanction any such plan.
Machine Gun Trained On Ship "A big maler launch woon came alongside. There were about, forty bluejackets and several officers, the former carrying rides with axed bayonets and the Isfter dawn re- volvers, -A, machine gun was in the bow of the launch and was imined
on us, while some of us Also thought
•
wo saw an anti-aircraft gun as well.
A report has been made to the police by Mr. J. C. Large, of 10 Tungshan Buildings, that somebody broke the door lock of his flat, and stole a quanilty of cloth and a únger ring, worth altogether. $110.
Offciais estimates that smaller acreage will mean a reduction of about 680,000 bales in the 1938 crop. --Reuter.
DIINELAYING EXERCISES
U-24 Sunk By British Destroyer Suggested
Paris. Oct.25.
The newspaper Espagne re- ports that the German Govern- ment has notified the parents of the members of the crew of the submarine U-24, which was sunk on manoeuvres, that it belleved the accident confirmed in sinke a submarine by the British ing of a
Baselisk destroyer Antonio carly in October- United Press.
that the It will be recalled British Admiralty declared the
"canard."
.story
INFLUX OF ILLEGAL MUI-TSAIS
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JAPANESE
Hsinkow
THREAT TO TAKE FULL LIBERTY
OF ACTION
Battles
JAPANESE ARE REPULSED AT NANHAUIKUA
Kwantsun Re-Occupied By Chinese After 4-Hour Fight
Tayuan, Oct. 26. Japanese forces, splitting into several groups, yesterday at- tacked Nanhuaikua, west of Hinkou, three times, but were repulsed and left numerous dead and guns behind on the battlefield.
A surprise night attack by the Twenty-First Division of the Japanese Forces swept back the Chinese from Kwantsun, west of Hamkou, and forced their way up the mountains, occupying the strategic positions which they had been attacking on several successive nights,
SHANGHAI BUND IS PATROLLED
“PRECAUTIONARY" MEASURE
Shanghai, Oct. 20. The Japanese drive is continuing. London, Oct. 25.
Meanwhile Russian members of the The political expert of the Shanghai Volunteer Force are patrol- ling the Bund, reinforced with mount- British Embassy in Paris, Mr. ed machine-guns, for the first limc. Hugh Lloyd Thomas, has arriv›d This is said to be a precautionary here and has informed the For- measure-United Press, eign Office that France is threat- ening to quit the Anglo-French alignment at Tuesday's meeting of the Non-Intervention Com- mittee unless Signor Mussolini, Italian Dictator, abandons his hold on Spanish Morocco and the Balearic Islands.
The French attitude has atliffenedi
a
Japanese Turn Attention To Miaohong
Shanghai, Oct. 28. After repeated attempts to drive wedge into the Chinese lines. at Tazang have failed, Japanese forces are reported to have turned their attention to the Niaohong sector.
It is stated that the Japanese con-
as a result of the piratical attempts sider the Chinese positions here juiling
ssume
in the vicinity of the Balearics, and out to the south of the Wen Tsao a Creek constitute a great menace to France is preparing to demand swift settlement of, firstly, the volun-their posillon at Fengtsuntang 'near teer question, and secondly, the the creek. Moroccan and Balearics situation, Severe fighting is expected in the otherwise she will
"full Miaohong sector within the next few
days. liberty of action."
With a view to testing the Chinese Meanwhile, other developmenta aggravating the situation include, strength In this sector Japanese troops yesterday already launched a concert- firstly, reports that Russia is pre-ed attack from Hauchlachal, Chow- paring to abandon the Non-Interven chainchai and Tachinmachal but were tion Committee, and secondly, the
repulsed by the Chinese forces-- were tallan press claims that there are Central News
between 60,000 and 100,000 mercenn- ries among the Loyalists. They chal- lenge France and Russia to reveal the number of Nationalists in Spain. United Press,,
BROUGHT HERE BY REFUGEES
Lenient Treatment By Magistrate
Refugees trom leniently dealt with by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy Minelaying exercises will be this morning, when they appeared carried out by H. M. Ships in East before him on charges of keeping and Lamma Channel, between Un Kolt bringing unregistered mui-teat in the and Wong Chu Kok, from Wednes- Colony. Defendants were Marian day October 27 to Friday the 20th Poon, (21), charged with keeping an (spare days November 1 and 2)..
unregistered multaat, Fox Fan, allas Chung All junks and somparis tre warned Trui Yin, (18), at No. 17 Man to keep well clear..
Terrace, around floor, on October 25, and bringing her into the Colony on September 3, and Lom Skul, (52), widow, of the same address, who was
keeping two. registered mui-tsal, Pun Wong, (13), and Tam Tip, alias Tung Hol, (12), on October 25, and with bringing unregistered nut-taal into the Colony on October 25,
WAR TO PROTECT JAPANESE charge with
ECONOMIC EXISTENCE
SAYS CONSUL
J
San Francisco, Oct. 28. 400,000,000, which was 40 per cent regulations. The Japanese Consul General, Mr. of all foreign investments in the
Commerce,
un-
Foreign Ships Warned By Authorities
Chinese Planes Raid Japanese Positions
Shanghai, Oct. 20. Chinese planes staged threa raids On Japaneso positions at Hongkew and Yangizepoo between 10.45 o'clock last right and 1.30 o'clock this morning. Despite heavy Japanese anti-air- craft shells, Chinese raiders swooped Iow over Japanese positions and dropped a number of heavy bombs Several fires were started at Yangtze- poo.
All Chinese planes safely returned to their alrhoso after the ralde Central News.
GREAT SCIENTIST'S ABBEY BURIAL
London, Oct. 25.
The Chines Authorities have Both women pleaded guilty, but Issued instructions that, should for- said they had recently come from eign merchant vessels and men-of-
the
river entering
Canion the war Canton, and did not know
catuory be followed by Japanese warships, they are not to proceed, but The officers asked us for our papers Kango Bhozaiti, speaking to the Orient. He said that pilor
to Inspector H. W. Fraser, attached to must immediately turn back on their | which we handed to them, together
sald: hostilities, radical elemeniz had, the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, course, with our manifest. They were not Chamber of
This is necessary in order that satlified and said: "You have thrown "Nanking's peressive anti-Japanese actively terrorised the Japanese and said the older girl of the three mui- taal ron away from her mistress and come papers overboard.
You are a polley, has had far-reaching effects those Chinese who preferred a peace reported to the police, as a result of Japanese vessels masonce to enter the Nelson were buried to-day in the Chinese Government ship and are on Japan's economic life. Our bellet ful polky.
is that the abandonment of such a "Our military operations cannot be which a visit was paid to defendantal vantage of their presence to enter the going to Shanghal with your goods to
policy is the only true means where construed as rafallation against the house, and the qther two girls cig river, as well as to avoid damage to feed the soldiers.”
by permanent peace, con
he Chinese armies illegal allock, nor covered. One was hiding behind other shipping from the forts in "We told them we had been on the established throughout the Orient." acts of aggrcesion with territorial a door, as she had been chastised by repulsing energy, craft,
peanuts. Is Lam Shut for sicaling he run for seven years and were carty-¦¦ Ho conlnued that the Chinese | designs"
added. "Japan
The Chinese Authorities will not economie existence The elder girl had bean presented be responsible for loss or damage to ing Hongkong provisions, but they policy jeopardised Japan's Invest-protecting her
Who was foreign vessela resulting from such still did not believe us with the ments in China, Japanese invest through opposing the Chinese amli- to Mars Poon's mother,
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Arlog, *(Continued on Page 4)
Enents in Manchukuo totalled $1,- Japanom policy: ---Unlled Press.
The mahos of Lord Rutherford of
Westminster Abbey near the tombs scientists' corner in the cast nave of of such great predecessors in scientific and. Lord Kelvin, research as Sir Isaac Newton
A great gathering, representing the whole sentide world, was present--- Dritish Wireless.
After four hours, a Chinese divi. sion pushed up the mountains and They cap- re-occupied Kwantzun..
tured 20 machine guns.
on
Three hundred dead were found the battlefields. The Chinese suffered casualties, from knife and bayonet wounds
state that the reports. Chinese Japanese, in starting their counter- attack, used tear gas, which proved Ineffective.
Kwantsun is still held by Chinese who, claiming fear of a real attack, dispatched 5,000 gas masks to the front.
shihus, west of the Halakou is held by the Chinese, who captured it on October 21.-United Press,
Chinese Bombers Start Fires
Shanghai, Oct. 20. Chinese planes made two ralds this morning using incendiary bombs which caused fees in scattered areas in Hongkew and Yangtzspoo.
The reinforced Japanese anti- aircraft guns at Yangtzepoo showered the Bund with shrapnel, the Cathay places being Hotel among other struck-United Prass.
Terrific Battle At Niangtze Pass
at
Shanghal, Oct. 20. According to Domei's correspondent Shihchfachwang, a terrific battle
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