THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1938.
Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek Still Optimistic
KWANGSI LEADER PRAISED FOR DEFENCE LINES
Stiff Resistance May Turn Japan's Thrust Against Hsuchow
JAPANESE WILL SHOW GUERILLAS NO MERCY
MONGOL- CHINESE ALLIANCE PREDICTED
Fushih, Jan. 81.
Federal Sails
For Japan
Chinese Loft In Internment
E RADIO BROADCAST
"Sword in Hand" London Relay
5.0-7.0 p.m. Chinese programme. 7.0 Dance Musle.
San Francisco, Jan. 31. The following is the Radio Pro- The General Steamship Corpora-gramme for to-day broadcast by ZUW An offensive and defensive Japan to-day with a crew of Scanner second.
tlon's steamer Federal salled for on Frequencies of 645 k.c's., 0.52 m.e's. alliance between China and dinavians and Americans. Outer Mongolia was predicted by The Hongkong crew of 36 Chinese General Chang Kuo-tao, Presid- have been interred until they can be In The Mission by the Sea; Little Hoy Fox ent of the Chinese Soviet Govern-shippet back to the British Colony Old Lady (Foxtrots) aboard another ship.
& His Orchestra. Don't You Know or ment, in an exclusive interview The Federal cleared the Golden Don't you enre?; Lust Love (Foxtrots) with United Press this morning. Gate for Osaka heavily laden with ... "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm. "Sooner or later," he declared, steel, despite warnings of Pacific Pardon my Love; Cryin' Mood (Fox- trols) ""Fats" Walker and is "we expect an offensive and de- gules.
The Chinese crew of the Federal Rhythm. The Moon Got in My Eyes; fensive alliance between China staged a "sit-down" strike, justify-It's the Natural Thing to do und Outer Mongola,
ing their netlon by saying that the Roy Fox & His Orchestra. Gone ship was being taken to Japan to be with the Wind: The First time I saw used as serap.
Itoy Fox & His Orchestra. 7.30 Peter Dawson Phil the Fluter's Ball (French); With my shillelagh under any Arm I See a Tree (Hodges). (Wallace).
7.10 Lexi Jeffries. & His Orch Spring Time Serenade (Heykers): The Balkan Princess (Waltz) (Rubens).
Hare The Frolicsome (Hope); Dance of the Icicles (Russell). Musical Comedy Gems farr. Foulkes).
0.0 Local Time Signol and Wea- ther Report.
"Daring the past two decades Outer Mongolia has made significant pro- gress, and is now strong enough for self-defence. Unfortunately, it is st seeptleat of its ability to aid China.
"The population of Outer Mongolia is still pround 1,000,000, so it is a question whether it can help China in its struggle against Japan on a
large scale. Shanghai, Jan. 31.
"Such an alliance, however, is a
logical necessity, and inaterialisation
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is highly optimistic regarding the military situation on the various frontscoot be too far distant."
after his inspection tour, according to Chinese reports.
.
Chang Kuo-tao, phoenix-eyed, big- checked and stout, started hils re-
as a worker in the coal mines nt
"We left Hongkong thinking we were to carry supplies from America to Shanghai, we went to Japan carrying scrap we would be shot as traitors In China."--United Press.
Nine Perish In Mine Fire
Cut Off By Flamos And Suffocated
Router.
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you..
8.03 Szigell (Violin).
Nigun (improvisation (Bloch. Danse Russe (From Petrouchka..... Stravinsky); Norwegian Song (Lie); Gavotte from Classical Symphony (Prokofleft).
8.15 London Relay "Sword" In Hand"
The Generalissimo stated he was particularly velutionary carver twenty years ago
London, Jan. 31. satisfied with the able direction of General Li Chung-jen, Pigsinng, his birthplace in Sinking.
Fire In colliery at Kilsyth,
Fencing and Duelling through the He pointed out that the Chinese | Stirlingshire, has resulted in the Centuries. By C. D. Dimedale. Kwangsi's widely experienced soldier-chief, in
authorities In Slaklang were doing death of nine miners.
8.45 Latest Variety and Dance utmost to support Chinese re- The men were cul off by the Records. constructing strong defence lines in the Hsuchow-Wengpusistance against Japan in the present flames and were foundeby
Comedy Foxtrot-I'm it Little sector, along the Tientsin-Pukow railway and the war
Turning to the future, Chang said Rs suffocated by the fumes-Prairie Flower: Comedy Waltz The Girl in the Hanson Cab......Jack Harris and his Orchestra;
"Firefly" Lunghai railway. These are particularly important lines that China's chances of winnhit the
Selection. Louis Levy and His and it is the aim of the high command to hold them at all
Gaumont British Symphony: Can forget You (from fim "High, Wide costs.
and Hundsome")............Richard Tauber. Foxtrots if it's the last thing I do; The Donkey Serenade...
Ben Frankel and Ils Orchestra; I Will the Pray (Nicholls); Whispers in Dark (from the #im Artists and Models)....
..Frances Day (Soprano); Rumba-When Bomba plays སྐ Rumba; Tango-Lonely Troubadour
..Henry Jacques & His Orch. Castanet-Waltz...Barnabos von Geezy and His Orch.
Foxtrots-Roll 'Em:: Afraid Dream....Benny Goodmen and is
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After returning to Hankow from his tour, Marshal Chiang summoned important military leaders to conference. Meanwhile, Chinese sources state that owing to the strong Chinese resistance encountered by, the Japanese the attackers may abandon their plan direct attack against Hsuchow from the south,
On the eve of the Chinese New The spokesman said that Japanese Year, the Japanese are attempting to army planes had been active during close the 150-mile gap between their the week-end, bombing bridges and forces along the Tientsin-Pulow rail- other strategic objectives along the way. But they are at a virtual stand- | Lunghal Railway. still. Clashes are occurring but they are not in the nature 91 major operation.
Annihilation Ordered
Chinese troops, survivors of earlier campaigning, now lying between Shanghal and Nanish will not be freated according to the_law_of_war,
The Japanese naval spokesman said i had been established definitely that all the crew of a Chinese plane shot down near Wahu on January 26 were Russians-Reuter,
Japanese Claims
Shanghai, Feb. 1. The Japanese troops have pierced
war were still in the balance.
China
will not win unless she succeeds firstly in a genuine and thorough national unification; second- ly, in getting sumelent help from abroad--material help, such as air- planes, guns and other modern weapons; and thirdly, by improving. the strength and efficiency of the; Chinese armies and government.
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MANY WEAK POINTS "However, Japan has many weak points, Including 'prenatal weakness in raw materials, capital and creative power; backwardness in scientific ac- complishments, political organisation. military strength and even colonial palicles; and, above all, a weakness through International solution."
Clipper Turns Back To U.S.
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Honolulu, Jan. 31. Pan-American Airways has nounced that the China Clipper, which has been held up by minor trouble, is returning to Alameda on Monday. Passengers Who booked through to the Orient will be trans- ferred here to the Hawaii Clipper, which arrives from Alainedu Tuesday.
on
not The spokesman would
rom-Orch ment on suggestions that the China Clipper was returning to Alameda for a check-up ir
of view
recent
"After all, how much can the help of Mussolini and Italy aid the Japan- difficulties.-United Press. ese materially?
"The Soviet system has been coin- pletely abolished here, and the Chinese Communist party does not expect to resume the Soviet system of government for a long time to come, We are co-operating with the Central | Government-both-de-jure-and-dejactne olders of the Eighth Route Army!
ave fighting at the front. One or two divisions are in the central areas. hers are employed on garrison duties at the frontier.
Recording to a statement made by a the Chinese defences to the west of instance, the majority of the Japanese army spokemaan in-day. Mingkwang and are now advancing: speaking at press conference. The along the Tientsin-Pakow railway
Pengfu, according pokesman said these troops operated | foward
to a mostly in bands of 500 to 1,000 men. Japanese
army spokesman. This They lived on the countryside and at means that the Japanese have avoided in frontal clash along the rnilway and tached Japanese posts
"The Central Government, for its austend have skirted the strong
Chinese positions by penetrating the Pt, is constructing highways into lightly held flank. Then they wheel-Sinking, and is pushing on with co- ed and struck at the railway again.. operative societies inside the frontiers
Chinese; on the other hand, claim formerly held by Soviet China. the Japanese from Mingkwang have
This spokesman declared that band of 960 had been trapped to the south of Souchow on January 20. was completely annihilated.
Total Strength Unknown
been halted. It is asserted the
UNDER MARSHAL CHIANG
1ssimo Chiang Kai-shek, because the abolition of the Soviet Military Council last August marked the com- plete severance of relations between the Eighth Route Frontier
Army and the Government (Chinese Soviets).
STANDING BY AGREEMENT
10
30 London Relay The News, 9.50 Gilbert and Sullivan Excerpls."
The Pirates of Penzance'; . (a) Stay we must not lose our senses... Derek Oldham & Chorus: (b) Hold Monsters......Elsic Grin, George Baker, S. Robertson and Chorus; (c) I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General....George Baker and Chorus; (d) Oh, Men of Dark and Dismal Fate......George Baker & Chorus You May Ho. for youre_at_ Chalones-sur-Marne, Feb. 1. Liberty......Full Company.
10.07 Alfred Coriol Determination to remain faithful to Chorale & Fugue" (Cesar Franck). the tripartite agreement between France, Britsin and the United States
10.25 Miliza Korjus & Philharmonic was expressed by the Finance Minis- Sym. Orch, of New York.
Overture Semiramide" (Rossini)... ter. M. Marcharideau here to-day.
tra: Nocturne (Chopin arr. ....Orchestra: Ile taki the Treasury delicit woul
Winkler). "Ah, Let mc Weep": it; ärst care,
And he
estimated
Nocturne (Chopin arr. Winkler) "O the 1938 deficit at 28,000,000,000. Night, O Dreams"... Miliza Korjus; nearly half of which would be dueApprenti. Sorcler (Dukas) to the exceptional needs of national Orchestra cond. by Toscanini. defence. That meant the state would
11 p.m. Close down. have to barrov 15 per cent. of its'
UGLY INCIDENT AVERTED
In Answer 10) 疆 question the Japanese suffered over 1,000 The Eighth Route Avny is defaite-national Income.-Reiter. spokesman said it was dificult to give i casualties and the Chinese admit niso ly under the command of General- any estimate of the total number of having lost heavily. these Chinese troops involved in Three Japanese warships bave sail, guerilla warfare, It was possible theyed up the Yangise for Chiklang and operated on orders from Hanlow of the Chinese believe their object is to Chungking but he was quite certain cover a possible Innding of troops that neither arms nor other supplies with a view to pinching the Chinese could be reaching them.
forces at present threatening Wuhu. Turning his attention to the south= |—Reuter, ern section of the Tientsin-Pukow rallway, this spokesman reported that Japanese troops based at Mingkwang forces had dislodged the Chinese from the west of the railway over a depth of several kilometres. This had forced the Chinese left wing, which railway. 10 was parallel with the bend westward. The Chinese forces on this wing he estimated at between 2,000 and 3,000, and declared that almost 1,000 were left dead on the feld after their engagement.
Another Clash
Meanwhile, another clash hud oc- curred about 20 miles south-west n Mingkwang. In which about DOù nien of the Chinese forces totalling 2,000 had been slain.
Worked out for you
If you couldn't work out the problem above (in Column 3). start by remembering that as runner-up was a cripple he couldn't have been one of the athletic Smiths, Runner-up was also unmarried, therefore | Rey- nol and not Fellows was 2nd, Reynolds beat Fellows,
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Fellows must have been 3rd or 4th. If Fellows were 4th, this would make the two Smiths Brat and third, but this is impossible since the man who finished 3rd had not previously met the winner. Therefore Fellows was 3rd. Therefore the Smith brothers were placed one and tour. Now Fellows already knew Smith who was usher 11 wedding. Therefore U. It. Smith was the man Fellows hudn't met
M.
his
before, the man who won the tournament.
No Cargo For N. Y. K. Liner
Regarding the Soviet tensl
London, Feb. 1. egunt distribution of land, we are The Exchange Telegraph corres- maintaining the status que because it pondent at Shanghai says a soldier does not conflict with the Kuumin- of the Japanese army narrowly | tanga Three-Peoples Principles.
"Prelude,
Terrible Toll In Bombings
350 Dead, 700 Injured In Barcelona
Barcelona, Jan. 31. In the air attacks made upon
averted a new incident Involving a "We would welcome the appoint- foreigner when a mob attacked Mr. ment by Chiang Kai-shek of any able V. F. Meisling, an American employ this war-scarred city yesterday of the Frontiered by the North China Daily News, the death roll has mounted to man to be head Government, and we are ready to land a Danish citizen, Dr. N. E. shoulder nny duties whenever invited; Skelund, while they were photo 350. to do so by the Central Government." graphing scrap iron dump.
The interview was held in Chang's An Army man
intervened and | own cafe-bedroom, which is his office, ordered the mob to disperse.
Hs netion probably saved the pair They "White House" of "No. 10, Draning Street" of the Chinese Com- from a man-handling-United Press. munist regime is a hillside cave. All -public organisations here are housed
it caves,
HARUNA MARU STILL HELD UP IN U.K.
London, Jan. 31. The N.Y.K. liner Haruno Marn.
The country is far too remote and which Middlesboro wharf-labourers | Malainous for Japanese planes to
British
Crew
refused to loud, arrived at the Thomes pentrate, and the war is far distant Won't Sail
Lo-day.
It is understood that the stove dores and docks have refused un- officially to handle Keneral cargo which is to be londed on to the vessel. An olefal of the Chinese Campaign Committee slates that the Committee is considering launching a fund to ald dockers who might lose time through refusing to work on the Haruna Moru. The find would be toperative until such times as the tendes unlong or the Trades Union Council chooses to old such workers, -Router.
MENINGITIS IN FAR NORTH
Bethel, Alaska, Jan. 31.
,
to the people who once formed the bulwark of sovietism in China,...... United Press.
TOBACCO PROFITS TO AID WAR
Tokyo, Jan. 31. The Ministry of Finance has an- noured that the price of better grade cigarettes will be incrensel trom February 1 in order to pro- vide an estimated increase in nation- al revenue of 10,000,000 yen per ansi
nurn.
The price of cigarettes will be in- creased by seven to 35 per cent. for higher grades. Cheaper grades will) not be affected.
After Killing
Marseilles, Jan. 30. The British members of this crew of the lanker Socony, re- glstered at Hongkong, which ar- rived at 84, Louls-du-Rhone on Thursday with a cargo of olf, ave forelan refusing to tail unless hands in the crew are replaced with Britons
The dispute is a result of a Aght between a Turk and Ruman- Jan on board in which the latter was killed.--Reuter,
STOLE ARMY STORES
Military property to the total value of $500 was stolen from the Royal Revenue from cigarettes will be Artillery store at Devil's Peak, Lyce
for the "China Emergency" mun, on January 20. The thist
All dog trails from Bethel have used
been closed following reporta that Purchase of foreign elgarettes, which named Taoi Lol, 28, was arrested, and Lapinal meningills has broken out in are already sold at exorbitant prices, on admitting the theft before Mr. the native villages of Nanachuk, will be rendered almost prohibitive R.A.D, Forrent at the Central Magle- Tundra and Napagink.
by a almaltanrous increase in price tracy to-day was sentenced to four
Three deaths have occurred in the of approximately ¡past two days-United Press. - United Pren.
25 per
cent weeks' hard labour. Licut. F. Peck
wa In Court as the complainant.
In addition 700 persons have. been injured, some seriously.
These are the gfBela Casualties.-Reuter.
BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED
BY INSURGENTS
London, Feb. 1. The British steamer Endymion has been torpedoed by an Insurgent sub- marino with considerable 1095
·British {lves.-Reuter,
MARINES LEAVING
of
Washington, Jan. 31. The Navy Department announces |that approximately 1,500 marines who proceeded to Shanghat from San Diego last August have been trans- ferred to Honolulu,
They are nailing from Shanghai'on February 10, their services being "no longer needed" in Shanghal Nevertheless, n regiment of 1,000 men is remaining there.-Reuter.
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