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FRIDAY, MARCH 4,
1938.
日三初月二
No. 18450
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DUNLOP FORT 90
PERISH IN CALIFORNIA FLOOD
MANY SWEPT TO Million Dollar Oil Installation for H.K.
SEA BY RAGING
RIVERS' FORCE
Film Stars Amongst Many Victims Marooned In Residential Area
AUTHORITIES STILL UNABLE TO ESTIMATE FULL LOSS
Los Angeles, Mar. 3.
The hardest hit town in the Los Angeles flood catastrophe is Riverside, California, where 15 people were trapped in motor cars and drowned when the Santa Ana river poured in a deluge over its banks into the old channel which had not been used since 1882. The dead cannot yet be counted throughout in area affected.
The town's power was completely cut off, and flood victims were obliged to cling to tree tops until rescued..
Forty-five people are now estimated to have been on the Los Angeles river bridge when it collapsed yesterday. Ships at sea have been asked to search for survivors.
Thirty people were rescued in the nick of time from an island in the Los Angeles river by an heroic band of four men who fought their way across the tottering bridge through a mile of water.
Theatres and churches throughout | the stricken area are serving to houSO
flood refugees-Router,
LOOTING ADDS TO HORROR
Los Angeles, Mar. 3.
* It is reported that looling is adding
killed
to the horror of the flood. It is -estimated that 45 have been
and 10,000 rendered homeless in one part, wh
while the damage caused by the floods is estimated at U.S.$25,000,000. Police are investigating the looting of stores and homes in South Santa Monica, in the vicinity of which are the homes of several film stors.
Los Angeles has been hit by un unprecedented cloudburst, .cleven inches
the
hes of rain falling in four days. The Red Cross is caring for 10,000 refugees at Long Beach, Los, Angelca and Riverside which are among hardest hit spots. Workers said the refugee problem was becoming "in- creasingly alarming". Los Angeles stores have closed, but the news-
papers published according schedule.
to
At Long Beach it is reported that 11 people were swept into the sea and are believed to have been drown- ed, when the Los Angeles River bridge was washed out. Ten perished at Riverside when the Santa Ana River dem burst. There. Is devasta- tion over more than 30,000 square miles, the storm arca baving extended to the Venturn country,
south to Mexico and east to San Bernardine. -Unlled Press,
Japan's Loss
Estimated At
250,000 Men
Hankow, Mar. 4.
The Chinese Intelligence Ser- vice places the Japanese casual- tles, prior to January 15, at 70,000 were killed.
It is further estimated that 50,000 Japanese soldiers have been put out of action since that date, and that of these about 13,000 are dead-United Press.
JOCKEY BADLY
INJURED
THEY VOLUNTEERED TO DIE
CHINESE HOPEFUL EVEN IN RETREAT Do Not Blame Their
Goneral--For-Loss-
(BY JACK BELDEN)
With the Chinese Army near
Linfen, Mar. 3.
A. P. C.
UNDERTAKING LARGE RECLAMATION SCHEME AT TSUN WAN
Project will Probably Take Two or Three Years
Work will commence shortly on a new million-dollar oil installation in Hongkong.
When completed it will be one of the largest and most modern in the Far East.
The installation is being erected in Taun Wan Bay, New Territories, for the Asiatic Petroleum Company.
Tenders have already been let for the building of a reclamation in Tsun Wan Bay, where over 49 acres will be built out into the sea. This is believed to be one of the largest private reclamation works carried out in Hong- kong.
The Commandant of a Ja panese unit of volunteers, the Death Band, they called themselves, gives them last instructions on the banks of the Yellow River. These men swore to die Niemoeller For rather than be turned back. Presumably they did die, for Chinese gains were reported shortly after they went into action. in Shantung, and the Japanese retreated.
ITALY AND GERMANY NOW DISAGREEING ON SPANISH WITHDRAWAL
I am with the Chinese Army, Want to Recall Only 10,000
retreating, a little to the south
of Linfen. I am travelling with a machine-gun company of the
26th Brigade, 10th Division,
commanded by General Wei Li- huang. The retreat is a result
Of Foreign Volunteers
London, Mar. 3.
of the fall of Linfen, one of the Formal Anglo-Italian talks are expected to open in strong Chinese strategic points Rome early next week. Lord Perth will leave for Rome north of the Yellow River, whose on Saturday, and meanwhile the detailed application of the loss has thrown the Chinese British formula for the withdrawal of volunteers from plans into confusion.
After the fall of Linfen none of Spain is being discussed diplomatically in London.
A difficulty has arisen over the question of the res-
us slept for two days. I managed
to scrape up one bowl of noodles in toration of land and sea control Germany and Italy are
that time.
their
mountains. It is unthinkable to
The army is retreating, but its anxious that land control should be re-established as soon spirit is not impaired. Several generals have told me that
as the Non-Intervention Commission to study plans for troops are still desperately resisting the withdrawals, leaves Spain, but France and Russia and that they plan to fight from the favour a postponement until the first withdrawal is evacuate Shansi, which is the only actually about to occur, otherwise they allege, the Franco- section of the country north of the Yellow River where regular Chinese Spanish frontier will be closed for a period in which General Franco is free to receive munitions by sen, as the fen without encountering resistance. sea control cannot be restored so quickly.
armies are still operating.
The Japanese cavalry entered Lin-
The Shanel Government had fed to
the west. General Wel L-huang
French circles point out that ΠΟ
had marched his army 50 miles south scheme of alr control'has yet been
and was attempting to consolidate a
Mr. W. H.S. Davis Chu Teh, the Communist leader, was
new line by this time. Meanwhile, devised, yet there are grave suspicions STYRIAN.
that the Nationallats are receiving attempting to create a diversion from relays of supplies.
Pinned Under
His
Mount
the cast.
threatened
HITLER SEES AMBASSADOR
Berlin, Mar. 3.
·
In
Concentration. Camp, not Gaol
It now
Berlin, Mar. 3. oppers probable that Bishop Niemoeller will be detained in a concentration camp, although confirmation is not. obtainable as officials themselves seem to be un aware of the pastor's destination.
It is stated that a concentration camp is regarded as the lightest ferin of punishment, and "protective custody will almost
neccesorily entail his removal to a camp.
a semi-official statement it was declared that
Niemceller Bishop would be taken into "protective cus- because he stated that he in-
cory" to continue to preach in this
manner
against the Inw. It wis
added that if the pastor gave an undertaking to confine his preaching
purely to religious subjects and not to intringe on matters concerning the State and against the law, he would be released.—Reuter,
RUSSIAN PRISONER CONFESSES
Krestinsky Breaks Down Under Examination
down
sea
The contract price for the re- clamation is sald to exceed $400,000, and includes roadways and a wall. Earth filling for the reclama- tion will be obtained from hills near Taun Wan village.
The reclamation will reach out across the bay from a point near the Hume Pipe works and in the other direction from the bank of a creek running under the main Castle Peak road.
Work on the entire project will occupy two or three years, and, it is sald, will include the construction of a jetty for oll-tankers.
The anchorage in Tsun Wan Bay, which is also used-by-the-Texaco Company's Installation, is regarded as one of the finest in the Colony.
STOP PRESS
SINSIANG AND
WEIHWEI
RECAPTURED Loyang, Mar. 4. The Chinese counter-offensive in north Honan where the majority of the Japanese troons have been shifted to south Shansi has reaped tangible results, Both Sinalang, important Junction of the Pelping-Hankow Taoxou-Chinghua Rullway and the Rallway, and Weihwel, also on the railway, are reported to have been recaptured by the Chinese forces on March 2.
The Chinese forces, which had crossed the Yellow River pressed to- ward Sinsiang and Weihwel, by way. of Wushe, whilst other units on the Moscow, Mar. 3,
right flank of the railway attacked There was a climactic touch to the the Japanese rear. The Зарапско trial of 21 Soviet leaders to-day when troops in the two cities were forced Krestinsky, severely cross-examined to withdraw offer a brief engagement. by M. Vishinsky, the Attorney Gen the Chinese forces are now encircling After recapturing the two cities, ern), broke
and abjectly affirmed the charges of espionage and the Japanese troops retreating north- ward along the railway, it is stated, | wrecking which he faces,
With the exception of a few hun- He said: "Yesterday, under the dred Japanese troops remaining at pressure of shame of being in the Fentchit, important town on the dock and because of linece, I said, north bank of the Yellow River, all Instead of being gulty, that I was other ellies on the right flank of the Kulity. I picad completely railway in north Honen are practical- | gulity to all my crimes.”
ly cleared of Japanese troops.
Chinczo guerilia units are mean- He admitted that the latter he while pressing on Taokou, and Po Al, wrote to Trotsky repudiating Trotsky-respectively the east and west termini ism, was an alibi.
of the Taokou-Chinghua Raliway, fand other cities along the line. -Mr. Zubarev, another of the ac-Central News.
not
FILM STARS MAROONED
SITUATION Los Angeles, Mar. 3.
Other diMculties include the basic Sixteen are dead and seven miss-
Troops Broke In Disorder number of volunters to ing as a result of raging floods follow-
be with- IS.TENSE - ing a four-day downpour, which has
The Japanese capture of Linfen drawn, Russia is stated to have virtually isolated Hollywood and the
was the same sort of procedure as agreed to 20,000, while Germany and whole Alm district. Damage at pre-
Mr. W. S. Davis, the well. occurred at Talyuan. General Wan
Cabinet Repudiates sent is estimated at £500,000. known local jockey, is now lying at Fu-lin's and General Sung Chch- Italy prefer the figure to be 10,000.,
Seyssinquart Richard Dix are among the many from a broken ankle and an injured retreated south of the Yellow Alver
Norma Shearer, Ginger Rogers and the Queen Mary Hospital suffering yuan's troups breaking and fleeing. Reuter,
utterly demoralised. Some of them (Continued on Page 4.)
back as the result of an accident at the Happy Valley race-track Bldgainst orders and General Wel Li-
Vienna, Mar. 3. huang's rear was morning.
It is officially announced consequence. He was forced to Herr Adolf Hitler, German Chan- that Herr Stephan, anti-Nazi Mr. Davis was taking an Australian withdraw and Marshat Chiang Kai- cellor, received the British Ambas- Governor of Styria has resigned, used asserted that M. Ivanov had pony, See That, belonging to Mr. shek Anaily admitted it and authorls-sador to Berlin to-day, at which and has been replaced by Dr.structed him to give secret Informa Harold Seth, out for exercises short-ed the retreat. ly after 7 arm. when it suddenly be- The swiftness of the Japanese meeting Herr Joachim von Ribben-Rudolf Trummer,
Mon concerning Soviet agriculture on came frightened and reared up. It advance and the sudden breaking of trop, the Foreign Minister, was also Catholic, and strong supporter regard to supplies and storage.
militant behalf of Germany, particularly with of the Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Court and said: "May 7 saya
Prior to this Zubarev addressed tho An ocial statement fecued in Kurt von Schuschnigg. London and Berlin says that Herr
preliminary words about the theoret The Cabinet, by a large mariority, cal aspect of our opposition?" Hitler and Sir Neville Henderson had refused to ratify Herr Scyssinquart's a general conversation of interest to agreement with the Elyrian Nazis of the Military Tribunal laughed and
Marshal Vassily Ulrich, Presid during the period of conflict between plained of a pain in the back.
both countries.
permitting: private individuals to China and Japen.
An ambulance was sent for and freight car. One side of it is torn I am writing this inside a bombed The Authority
Nazi zaluuter wear Nazi badges and to give the piled, "No," section of the Co-Operative move-ospital.
represents every Mr. Davis was taken to Queen Mary out and there is a gaping hole in reek or to grant an interview within
A tonnago from Mexico City states The altuation is fonso and there that Trotsky, in an interview, said ment, and Includes the Co-Operative
the floor. Weary woldiers are plied; foreign diplomat,-- and the present is reuson to bellove that the German that Krostinoky ́a, refusal to confess Unlön---Renter.
Soo That le one of the senson's inside and on top of another car. We taunting has aroused great interest. Charge d'Affaires is keeping in close shows even a blind man that the Importations from Australia,
(Continued on Page 431045 Reuter Bulleting,
BOYCOTT OF JAPAN
London, Mar. 3.
fell back on its rider who, it is under-parts of the Chinese line have sur-present. stood, was pinned down.
The National Co-Operative Author-
prised Chu Tch, who was unable to ity, at a meeting in Manchester
come to the assistance of his allles to- When ansialance reached day, recommended
the of the Central Government quickly that all Co- Jackey, it was found that he had hurt enough. -Operative: Bocletics and members his ankle, which was Inter discovered
kano purchasing Japaneso goods to be fractured. Mr. Davis also com- On Train To South
It la unusual for Herr Her to
n few
(Further Stop Press News `DI Page 12.)