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No. 13524
一拜禮 號三月五英港香
MONDAY,
MAY 23, 1938.
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CHINESE FORCES EFFECTING JUNCTURE
*SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT. Resist to the Bitter End!" reads the characters on this obelisk, which lins been erected at Hankow. "Even If we must fight to the last man, we must never compromise," the mes. sage to the Chinese peuple
mants.
GERMAN
BIG BATTLE Sudetens Establish Lead In Elections
AS JAPANESE
BLOCK WAY
50 Shantung Divisions, Cut Off From Rear, Smash Steel Cordon
Tokyo, May 23.
Forty-five of the fifty divisions of Chinese troops, in- cluding five divisions of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's personal troops, who were trapped in south Shantung, in the Taierhchwang area, are now engaged in vigorous battle with the Japanese.
According to report from the special correspondent of the Nichi Nichi at the front, the Chinese troops are
AID FOR attempting to rejoin the Hsuehow forces who are
CHINA ΤΟ END
Advisers To Be Withdrawn: No More Munitions
It is learned from impec- cable sources that all Ger- man military advisers to the Chinese Government being withdrawn, and that Germany will supply no further munitions to China.
are
Confirmation of this report was not forthcoming from the German and Japanese consulates in Hongkong when the Telegraph made enquiries, but there is good reason to believe that the re- port is true.
It is stated that this action is being taken by Germany in view of its friendly relations with Japan.
The same report has been cir- culated more than once since Japan signed the Anti-Comiatern Fact, and subsequently denied.
Chief of the German advisers to Generallsmo Chiang Kai-shek, is General von Kalkenhausen, who has with him a staff of German military experts, which includes three other German generals, and about 30 sub- ordinate officials.
CHIEF ARMS SUPPLIER The current report is of peculiar significance as it is acknowledged that Germany has for long been the chicf
алек exporter of munitions armaments to China, and that it was German guns and arms which figured so prominently in the recent Chinese successes in the Talerchwang area.
Most of these armaments were sent via Hongkong.
If Germany culs off this vital source
of supply to China, the
effect may be disastrous in her war agalast Japan.
CLASH ON SOVIET BORDER
Hunchun, Manchukuo,
May 22, Adding still another to the frequent conflicts on the Soviet- Manchukuo border, Manchukuo border guardo clashed hore early this morning with Soviet troops.
From Inside the Manchukuo bor- der, near the line No. 11, it is oliexed that Soviet soldiers opened fre ogainst the Manchukuo guards, with n trench mortar, flring more than a dozen shots. Firing on both sides continued up to 9.30 when it ecused, the reporta state-Domel,
reorganising at Kweiteh, on the Lunghai Railway.
The northern divisions are almost completely surrounded by Japanese forces.
But they are savagely fighting their way through ther Japanese in the mountainous arcus south of suchow, and appear likely to be able to effect a juncture.
Other Chinese divisions under General Sun Lien-chung and General Tung En-po, who were trapped near Mengcheng, are reported to be retreating in a south-easterly direction, also in the hope of re-joining the Chinese lines south of the Lung- hai Railway.
General Tang En-po is notable
as the Chinese leader who led
the remarkable Chinese advance LUNGHAI
which wrested Taierchwang from the Japanese last month. He is regarded as one of the ablest of the Chinese leaders in the northern war area,-Domei,
Chinese troops operating in south Shantung were completely cut nit from ele rear when the Japanese, by a swiftly executed flanking movл ment, seized Hsuchow and the Lung- hi Railway,
Force Way Through
Shanghal, May 23. A Japanese spokesman to-day ad-
several mitted that
divisions of Chinese troops, claimed to have been trapped south-east of Hsuehow, have succeeded in forcing thetr Way through the Japanese net.
The Chinese tought savagely through the Japanese forces encir cling them and, moving in a westerly direction, joined up with the rest of the Chinese armles-Router.
400 Miles Gained
Shanghal, May 23. Japanese forces operating in the western part of Cheklang
(Continued on Page 4.3
on
а
HEAVY AIR RAID ON K.C.R.
Shanghai, May 23.
BATTLE SEEN FROM THE AIR
Graphic Story Of Chinese Retreat
(From Renter's Correspondent on the Hauchow Front)
Shanghai, May 23.
DEFENDING CHINA'S RAILWAYS such troops ás these have put up a sturdy defence against the superior equipment of the Japanese army of invasion. From these shallow trenches they have fought determinedly and even the most ferocious aerial and artillery bombardments do not destroy the spirit of resistance which has hampered every step the Japanese have taken.
COLONY RESIDENTS SIGN RENT PETITION
Seek To Stop Forcible Ejection Of Tenants
A petition, signed by 1,344 residents of Hongkong and Kowloon, "praying for relief from the prevailing conditions arising out of the serious housing shortage in the Colony," has been despatched to the Colonial Secretary, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith for the attention of H. E. the Governor.
Mr. J. P. Braga, a former member of the Legislative Council, has received an acknowledgment of the petition, "to
which a reply will be forwarded in due course.""
BRITON'S HEROISM IN FACE OF DEATH
Reuter's Hsuchow correspon- Missionary Died As He
Waved Union Jack
Pelping, May 22.
Briefly, the petitioners re- quest His Excellency:
the carllest possible date of
such
emergency
EARLY COUNT SHOWS GERMAN MINORITY GIVES SOLID VOTE
But Sudetens Protest At Armed Czech Guard
Prague, May 23. The first results of the municipal elections in Czecho- Slovakia have now been received.
They concern in main big German towns. In the total 33 municipalities where counting has been completed the Sudeten German Party received 84,102 votes. In addition the Social Democrats received 10,808 votes. All other Ger- man Parties have been assimilated by the Sudeten German Party.
This result means that the Sudeten German Party has re- ceived on average 88.56 of the entire German vote, and compared with 58,221 votes obtained by the Sudeten German party in their towns at the last Parliamenary elections in the year 1935, an increased poll of not less than 44.4 per cent. In these 38 German municipalities the Communists polled 4,266 and the Czech Par- ties 17,892.
CHARGE
CZECHS
CROSS BORDER
Apology Made To Germany
Berlin, May 22. Czech soldiers are reported to "(a) To direct the promulgation at have crossed into German terri- regulations tory yesterday in an attempt to with legislative force as wili mine a border bridge, stop the forceful evletion of According to a German report, tenants;
twenty pounds of explosive were "(b) To limit rents
TA
under containers various parts of the bridge, each other and container holding one pound of urgent relief as Your Excel explosive.
of
domestle
premises during the present placed in
emergency; and
"(c) To concede such
tency may be advised should
The report adds that the attempt be granted and as the pre- was discovered through the watchful- vailing
conditions render
necessary."
it not been
with by a mobile Chinese unit in Had
the fact that the urgency
it
for ok
into a state of
The bulk of the elections, however. will be held on May 29 and June 12. The results from the Individual constituencles show that in Bod Koenigswarth the Sudeten German Party received 1,149 or 01 per cent., In Zwodau the Sudeten German Party received 2,761 votes or 87 per cont., the Czech Parties 320, the Communists 114, the Socialdemocrats 200, In Grel- fendorf the Sudeten Germans received 90 per cent; and In Ronsperg 87.5 per cent. of the poll.-Traus Ocean.
Sudeten Protest
Prague, May 23. The Sudeten German Party meet-- ing has protested against the mea- sures taken by the Government in the Sudeten districts. These men sures, declares the Parly, are con trary to the constitution, as there hus been no sign whatever of a revolt or of any resistance.
.
The meeting has also objected to the attitude adopted by Great Britain, which took it for granted that the Czech Government Intended to meet all legitimate demands of the Sudeten Germans.
The Sudeten Party states that it does no see any possibility of enter- (Continued on Page 4.)
STOP PRESS
Speed Charge Against Army Officer Fails
Naval Commander Says Speed Not Evident
dent, flying in an aeroplane over the city saw large fires still rag-
ness of two German frontler guurds, at whose arrival the Czech soldiers ing, but all foreign missions seemed to be intact, with flags
In forwarding the petition, Mr. fed over the border. Braga wrote: "Praying for relief The bridge connects Bernhartsthal, clearly visible from the air. It is now confirmed that Dr. from the prevailing conditions which on German teritory, with Czecho- The railway stations were stin H. G. Wyatt and Miss Buelah have been brought about by the con- Slovakia over the River Thoya burning, while 15 abandoned Chinese Glasby, of the British Baptist tinuous influx of refugees into the Reuter
FRONTIER OCCUPIED trains were lying in the sldings.
The plane, leaving the city, follow. Missionary Society, were killed Colony during the past few months.
Warsaw, May 22. ed the lines of the Chinese
The action of the Czech Govern- drawal, and correspondents, peering North Shanshi.
the matter calls for An carly ment in calling up army reservists has down, could see men aghting, swarm- ing and dying like ants along the
The full story of the outrage submission of the petitioners re- thrown the inhabitants of Teschener
| presentations to
to His Excellency, a territory, just within the Czecho- dusty roads and green felds, while
discloses the great, personal
much larger number of signatures Slovakian frontier, Japanese tanks and cavalry con-
heroism of Dr. Wyatt..
might have been obtained. It was profound consternation, according to tinually harassed the Chinese rear-| The party of five missionaries, with a view to obviating any delay an official Polish statement. guarels.
including, besides Dr. Wyslt and that and
The Czech frontler, it is declared that I
co-signatories have my Dozens of flaming villages were Miss Glasby, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper demon with the number of signn-/military patrols. In connection with
to discernible from the air.
forward the here, is strongly occupied by Czech It expedient They hud and a Chinese chauffeur, left, Talyuan-
A summons against Major M. A. been set on fire by the Japanese fu in a car. At a point 80 miles tures which it bears, all of which this concentration of troops, the Murphy, of Headquarters, China bombing when the retreating Chinese north of Talyuan a bullet fired from were obtained during the past three Polish Government has instructed Its Command, who was charged with endeavoured to halt and obtain a hill smashed the chaffeur's wrist days. On behalf of my co-signatories Minister in Prague to ask the Czech excessive speeding in Hennessy Road, shelter in the village walls. Stations north of Wangli, on
and the car was stopped,
I desire to express the hope that His Gavernment for the reason that has was dismissed at Central Court this The machine passed over a large Dr. Wyatt leapt out and, tearing the Kowloon-Canton Railway, column of Chinese troops marching the British flag from the root of the /Excellency might be pleased to grant/induced it to take this step.
Official quarters here have re- afternoon, after evidence had been were heavily bombed yesterday, in formation, who, upon hearing the car, waved it at the attackers who, the petition his sympathetic consider affirmed the statement made by the given by Commander H. Hopper, of
H.MS. Cumberland, an-sound of the pinne, halted and stood however, continued to
pour in
Pollsh Ambassador in London to the
Mr. W. A, Mackinley appeared for THE PETITION
effect that there is no truth in the motionless in on endeavour to escape heavy fire. allcntion.
Dr. Wyatt faced a furious fusilade
Tumour about concentration of Polish Major Murphy and pleaded Not
Gulity. Another column which passed later of bullets as he ran towards the The petition itself states that the troops along the Czecho-Slovakian
Commander Hopper, who was tra- the frontler-Trans-Ocean. residents of are scattered in all directions, throwing attackers, waving the flag. This had signatories
velling in the car as n passenger, themselves headlong into the ditches, no effect whatever, the fire increasing Colony, who contribute, directly or
at the time of the alleged offence Activity In North and vainly attempted to bring down instead of diminishing. Dr. Wyali indirectly, its taxes. A direct con-
stated that the only occaalon on which the machine with rifle fire.
then ran back to the car, shouting to sequence of the Sino-Japanese hos-
Pellsh
Ish Embassy here has the car could have been travelling Shanghai, May 23. Co-operating with Japanese mili- ominously dashed towards the corres- shelter.
Later still a Japanese pursuit pinne his companions to scatter and take titles was the continuous influx of denied rumours of concentration of in excess of 30 m.ph. whilst in the refugees into Hongkong and an in- Polish troops on the Czecho-built up area in Hennessy Rond was tary forces, naval air raiders on pendent's machine, through the mist
denied Miss Glasby was killed as she and sistent growing demand on the hous- Slovakian frontier. It also
when Major Hopper overlook and Sunday bombed Chinese troop con-
in the car.
that Marshal Rydz-Smigly hos left. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper ing accommodation.
passed a taxi. centrations north-east of Pengpu and but, identifying it, skimmed away.
for the Down below there seemed to be an took refuge beneath the car.
frontter. Polish-Czech The petition continues!
"Major In neighbouring villages, it
5. That as a
of the exien- Trans-Ocean. flow of Japanese columns, morning's announced at this
press endless
TRIED TO SAVE CHAUFFEUR conterence.
supported by armles, trucks and
slon of hostilities to areas nearer the tanks, marching forward for another Other points bombed Included the attack in this apparently endless war. chaffeur on his shoulder and ran commodation may have to be pro- Dr. Wyatt hoisted the unconscious Colony, apprehension is felt that de- area between Fengtal and Meagehend Neuter,
(Continued on Page. 4.) across the bullet-swept road towards south of the Lunghai Railway, and west of the Lunghai at Halchow, the
n nearby ditch, spokesman sald --Domel,
a military spokesman has nounced to-day. Great damage was inflicted at numerous points, It is claimed.—Domei.
Chongchow Bombed
woa
Chengchow, May 23,
a
Ilo was shot as he fell into the by three Japanese planes over here yesterday. The
ralders dropped ditch. Nevertheless, he continued to three bombs at point west of the feebly wave the Union Jack until ho railway station.
died. Chinese anti-aircraft gung went
More than 30 civilians were killed | Into action. It is reported that two or wounded and scores of houses of the enemy machines were slightly|
were demolished during a rald staged 'damaged.Central News.
The Chinese who exptured - Mr.
ation."
on the car in the belief that it was Japanese. The British flag. they said, was not recognised. They provided Mr. and Mrs. Jasper and Mrs. Jasper apologised when with food and mules, and the couple they found that their victims were rode 80 miles through mountains Birlilah, stating that they had fired back to Talyuantu Reuter.
NO POLISH TROOPS
London, Muy 22.
The
Hopper took particular patna to travel below 30 mp.h., as
CZECHS APOLOGISE
Jo had noticed a trade policeman on Prague, May 23,
a motor bicycle behind us, and asic- It is semi-officially stated that aned me to keep an eye on the speedo-
the offeln inquiry into
bridge melor incident showed that Czech soldiers did not notice li nicker above had merely tried to cross the bridge. 30 mph." to German territory.
They fled as soon as they saw the German customs officials approaching. Dr. Krafta, the Czech Prime Minister, has apologised to this German Ambassador in Prague ́ter the deplorable incident--Renter.
(Further Stop Press News on Page 12.)