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四拜禮辦一卅三英港香
MARCH THURSDAY,
31,
1938.
山十三月二
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WHITEAWAY'S
JAPANESE FAIL TO CHECK ATTACKERS
GIVE GROUND "We are Preparing Men and Means for War
STEADILY ON LONG FRONT
Many Garrisons Shut Up in Walled
in Walled Towns
FOREIGN EXPERTS SAY TACTICS TO BLAME
(Special to "Telegraph")
Shanghai, Mar. 31.
MEN FOR THE NEXT WAR"
UFS
IL DÚCE BAYS, "WE LIKE IT—Having led out the Paco Romano-the modified German goose- step on his Black Shirts, Preller Mussolini liked it may well he ordered it as a regular movement for his Fascist militia. Above, the goose-stepping soldiers in review in Rome, on the 15th Fascist anniversary. "It's not for the sedentory," Duce arhi,?? ThƐát, why we like i
Chinese Army despatches reveal that the Japanese in most parts of the fighting lines in southern Shantung and southern Shansi are in general retreat, apparently intending to con- solidate their now endangered strategic positions and to reopen their severed lines of communication. The Japanese retreat has been forced by the war's most extensive Chinese counter-drive, and the Chinese claim they have Promises. Aid forced the Japanese troops to abandon large To Refugees supplies of war materials at many points.
to
The Japanese have been compelled barricade themselves in the scattered walled towns, while they are awaiting reinforcements.
Foreign military experts here are Inclined to give full credence to the that Chinese claims, pointing out Japanese vanguards for outdistanced their safe communication lines and Chinese their flanks to exposed guerulins.
Moreover, they left insufficient garrisons in their strategic towns and villages, in the mistaken belief that the Chinese troops were concentrated of the ahead to the south-west,
Japanese vanguard.
Japan's Error Means
Heavy Loss To Army The foreign experis discussing the ghort-sighted" "Japanese strategy declare it may result in the war's most costly phase, due to the present heavy losses and the necesally of procuring thousands of reinforce ments prior to any attempt to retake the positions which the Japanese are at present reported to be evacuating.
IMPERIAL
AIRWAYS ANSWERS CRITICS
Managing Director Given No Chance To Offer Defence
London, Mar. 30.
Cadman
The Imperial Airways Company Report replies to the criticisms in a letter to their share- holders, which, among other things, complains that until the report was published, Imperial Airways had not
idea that its managing direc
the
Government
London, Mar. 30.
Mr. R. A. Butler, speaking In the House of Commons to-day, stated that the invitation. from the United States to co-operate -in establishing a special commit.
tee to deal with the problem of the emigration of refugees from Austria and Germany, was re- celving the prompt and sym- pathetic consideration of the
Government-Router.
U.S. Expected To Take Lead In Building Bigger Ships
Escalator Clause May Be Invoked To-day
Mr.
CHINESE AIRCRAFT ATTACK YIHSIEH
Rain Bombs-Or Japanese
(Special to, "Telegrapd")
Haukow, Mar. 31-
WARSAW'S THREAT TO PRAGUE
Czecho-Slovakia Communist Rampart,
Poland Charges:
Warsaw, Mar. 30. Possibly foreslandowing diplomatic action by the Prague Government the Polish press to-day attacked It is officially disclosed that a .Czceho-Slovakia. The newspaper, Chinese air force squadron Express Poranny wrote: bombed 'the city of Yihsich, 20
other national groups in
Chincan miles east of Lincheng, yester-Czecho-Slovakia demand autonomy,
day. There has been heavy the Poles are equally entitled to it. fighting in this area and the Czecho-Slovakia must cease to be the Central European rampart of the Japanese have been pouring re- Communist Internationale. If Prague serves into insu
Yihsich.
I not ready to co-operate with Warsaw, it must, bear the full res- The numerous Japanese troops in
ponsibility for any future coni- the city were seen to be la frighten sequences."United Press. ed disorder when the Chifjese planes pa
came over.
The raiders dropped a "huge.num- ber" of bombs and set fire to.
advances of the future will be very "intoler be cherted with being Stato, said to-day that the American "dumps" of Japanese war supplies.
It is predicted that Japanese tor
on
he The letter alleges that condemned without an
of defending himself.
WAR
All the raiders returned... safely their base of operations. United Press.
Washington, Mac, 30. Cordell Hull, Secretary of
suggestion, and Government would probably send unyiciding to the probable
in negotiation," or of note to Great Britain to-morrow 'O much slower, due
Invoking
the escalator precaution of fully "mopping up" "taking too narrow and commercial formally
a view of his responsibilities." clause of the Naval Treaty. before pressing the attack.
is believed that
the United The foreign experts are impressed
Civilians Killed opportunity States Government will formally by the apparently unified Chinese
clalm the lack of Japanese assurances
By The Score command over the guerillas in North
converged
the As regards the recommendation that that nation is not building war China, which
Shanghal, Mar. 31. Japanese from all aides simultaneous concerning alleged staff dissatisfac-vessels above the 35,000-ton category
for the American Chinese reports state that 17 ly, indicating surprising strength ton, the letter says the company is responsible
action United Press. adopted collective bargaining with behind the Japanese lines.
Japanese planes, in attempting to regard to one group of employees be- It was intimated yesterday that
Talerchwang, Kore the Cadman Committee was ap the United States and Great Britain elleve pressure pointed,
would probably build battle craft dropped 200 bombs on nearby vill- Greatest Victory
The letter adds that it is un-over the 35,000-ton level, and per- ages, kúling scores of civilians," fortunate there have been rival (haps up to the 45,000-ton mark. after Chinese troops hnd encirèled. Chinese reports hall the Tientsin-associations claiming to represent Earlier it was suggested that, the and threatened to wipe out a Japan- Pukow railway counter-drive as the certain groups of the stall.
United States would arm her super- ese column. before reinforcements war's greatest victory.
The Board answers other criticisms, battleships with 16 inch une
It is understood that Great Britain could possibly arrive. approves the committee's recommend
Japanese reporti on that a full-lime chairman be is already casting the great moulde appointed, and finally claims that the with which she will manufacture
pany has rendered, great service
**
Hailed As War's.......
..
It is indicated that the successful guerillas are not attempting to hold The decupled towns and villages after
the arrival of strong Japaniero re in the development of civil aviation. Weapons of more than 14-inch size. - Loving. reinforcements. But they by vastly improving Empire com- are practically wiping out scores of small garrisons Thereafter, they "disappear."
munications---Reuter.-
However, the Chinese regular at Noblemen Of
Liny! and on the Talerchwang seclor are fighting a frontal baille unequal- led in fury since the engagements at Shanghai,—United Press.
Reinforcements Mass
Wounded Pour In
"Pelping, Mar. 31,
It is learned here that hravy Jananean - İşinforcements ⠀aro: being rushsdjup to the front lines.dra
Austria Kept
– Atiku mime-lima; forelen «reports sala, thất “traintonds of JAPANSKE wonided are on their way to Tierk
o United Pres
In Custody:
Berlin." Mar. 30. The Austrian Archduke Josephi Fordinind. who was: - recently j
{prof¬ctive". eustody,
Hetina
SULTAN PLANS DIVORCE FROM BRITISH WIFE
་་
on
admalt very
heavy fighting at Talerchwang, and it is estimated that 80,000 of General Tang En-po's. Chinese troops are "aftering very stiff resistance" -It-in
French Fire On Insurgent Air Raiders
Paris, Mar. 30.
French anti-aircraft batteries opened fired to-day on Insurgent war planes which were returning along the French frontier after bombing theo. Spanish town of Port Bou, Just over the French border,
It is Tearned that two people were killed and much damage caused at Port Bou by the raid- ing planea, which flew along the railway linking Port Bou with Perpignan Reuter Bulletin,
29
MUSSOLINI BOASTS OF FIGHTING POWER OF ITALIAN NATION
Navy Won't Stay in Port When Hostilities Open
Rome, Mar. 30.
Opening an important speech to the Senate on the fighting Services estimates, Signor Benito Mussolini said that the best defence was the offensive. While Italy had now 44,000,000 people, in 10 years time she would have 50,000,000 in the mother country alone..
There was a round of applause when I Duce said that many men were needed to form big battalions. He added that the dispatch of two army corps to Lybia, and the drain on the army, in Spain had not weakened Italy.
·
The officers of the Italian army, he said, constituted
a hierarchy worthy of the highest respect. "We are preparing men and means for war and a quick decision. There can never be too many guns in proportion to infantry. The gun has always been called the Queen of the battle."
U.S. Bomber's Crash Kills
Five of Crew
Honolulu, Mar. 30. Five men are believed to have been killed when a United States naval patrol bomber crashed oil the island of Oahu, to-day.
of Οπο
the crew, which numbered seven, swam ashore, and another was safety in an unconscious condi- tion--Reuter. ・
wached
Government Angered By Raid On Ship Strong Protest To
Insurgents
London, Mar. 30, When the bombing of the British ship, Stanwell, by. Insur- gent planes, was raised in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. R. A. Butler stated that after careful, consideration of all the evidence; the Government had usion that the come to the o vessel was th „bject of a de- liberate attack:
t
Signor Mussolini proceeded to say that italy had solved the question of unity of command. The policy, | both political and strategical, was the hands and head of the Government.". Italy had a duty, oven more than a right, to possess u
worthy navy would By 1941 Italy
-have eight battleships, four of which would be new. The navy' had, given proof of its value during the inst few yearz, and its contribution to the Abyssinian campaign was an essential ono. Won't Remain In Harbour
In the next war, Hallan warships would not remain in harbour. "You have only to go aboard an Italian warship to see the remarkable im- provement the Fascist regime has worked in the physical and moral condition of our sallora, added I' Duce.
We
a
All the Italian naval bases
have been brought up to dale with the latest devices of
of engineering.. have a reserve of fuel in lialy for long period. The naval spielt in the Imperial, sense of the word has been born among the Italian
The Mussolini,
thousands
Kallan Dir
said
is composed of several of aeroplanes, many of which are of the most modern type. There were 48,000 workers in many factories building aeroplaries (Continued on Päpe 12.)
STOP PRESS
LIANGHSIATIEN AND TENGHSIEN ATTACKED
Hsuchow, March 81. Assisting the counter-attacks of the
regular forces, Chinese guerilla units are attacking Tenghalen and Liang-
hslation on the north Tientsin-Pukow Railway front. The British Agent at Burgos had In a night attack on Linnghsiatlen
on accordingly been instructed to in- March 29 the guerillas slaughter- form the Insurgent authorities toed 100 Japanese soldiers with hand- this effect, and to enter a strong pro- grenades, and on the previous day test against the incident, which the they engaged the Japanese at Llang- Government regarded as entirely un-hslotten in a three-hours combat,
infileting considerable casualties.
Large quantiles of ammunition The British Agent had been in and provisions left behind by the structed to demand an investigation. Japanese upon their retreat from while the Government reserved the Lincheng on March 27 were set on right to claim, in due course, full fire, by the Chinese the next day compensation to persons and pro- when the city changed hands again. perty, resulting from the attack-Central News. Router.
claimed that iwo battalions of over TRANSPORT justifiable
500 Chinese troops were killed in a night attack at Samochiang,... – near Taierehwang.
Chinese reports state that Chinese) planes were taking part in the drive. However, details of their activities are very sketchý - th
CAN BE PROTECTED
Lessons Of Home. Fleet Exercises
40 CIVILIANS SLAIN represented by battleships, protected
Chengyangkwan; Mar. 31.. In the first place by an outer des-
Over 40 civilians were killed and, troyer patrol, and then by cruisers, 30 wounded on the morning of March would normally have 15 to 20 20 when Ave Japanese planes bombed minuics warning before a bombing Hotel In Anhwel About 200 houses attack, and all anil-gitcraft guns were also wrecked Central News could be manned in readiness.net
Furthermers, aircraft would also Further Stop Pres. News on
Page: 12.). T have to pass a barrier put up by the
Singapore, Mar. 31. The Sulten of Joliere lias announced that he will divorce his wife, the
It is noteworthy that Japanese former Mrs. Helen Wilson, in accord- ance with the
Moslem faith,
reports of routine Jupahes, ralds in remains välld in South “China and Central China The marriage",
London, Mar, 30. Englishy, Jaw last the couple were stated that they had not encountered married at the Kensington Registry any Chlipie pinnes, and usir possibly The Home Fleat's Important two- amco, as well as at the Woking, substantiates reports, that the major day and air manoeuvres have con. The Sultan goes to Ceylon for a ity of Chinese planes are concentrat cluded. The exercises proved that holiday on April 1— Reuter...
ing in North Ching-United Prasai" troop transport purriers, which were cruisers anti-aircraft gunis Reuter.