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CHINESE FLANK MENACED AT LANFENG
BIG FORCES Britain's Air Raid Precautions Outlined
MASS
SOUTH SHARK OF RAILWAY HOOKED
Major Battle Looms As Chinese Prepare To Meet New Threat
Shanghai, June 2.
Japanese reports state that the Japanese forces have now occupied Kihsien, 30 miles south of Lanfeng.
This move threatens to outflank the strong Chinese forces concentrated in the Kaifeng sector.
The reports do not indiente whether the Japanese troops. now in Kihsien came from Kweiteh or from the northern Lung hai sector. It is therefore not clear whether the troops pro- ceeding rapidly to the relief of Generat Doihura are not also coming up on the Chinese flank.
Japanese reports claim that the occupation of Kihsien following intensive artillery cannonadings and acrial bombings.
Japanese planes zoomed down on the Chinese con- centrations, loosening a hail of machine gun bullets and small bombs, which created havoc amongst their ranks.
DARING
PIRACY
IN NORTH
i
IN H.K. HARBOUR
SIX-FOOT-MONSTER NEAR BATHERS
Cruising less than a mile from the Chinese bathing sheds at North Point, where hundreds of Chinese swim and sun bathe during the week-ends, a six-foot shark was caught inside Hong- kong Harbour on Sunday by Mr. K. C. Wong, of the Sun Company, Ltd.
The monster, which weighed
20 gut fishing line and a four 117 lbs., was caught with a No.
inch hook, a live fish being used ! for bail.
$ put up ferrite struggle after
was hooked, and was only landed
after a dahl that insted for over
quarter of an hour.
The shack was cruising slowly up
dows Jud off Shaukiwan Hundreds of Chinese Bathers swim- mg the nearby bathing Meds རྙ༈ "༄ unaware of the danger fucking ४१९ and the shark Was cuptured w out their attention being drown
Several Scen
Chinese positions eight miles to the drangle north of Kihsien are now being subject to heavy artillery and al attacks-United Press,
TENSION INCREASING
Changchow. June 2
Madive dahave folk at Shaukowo eeport Bud several sich Tate huse berg seen munang around hal de the yetmoon entrance to the Barbour recently
So far t
known. The The situation on the Lunthu Harb, way has become extremely tense as constitutes a record catch by long- the Japanese troops pusing west- long amateur anglers word from Kweileh are striking in It will be recalled that a Chinese
Portuguese Ship Seized:everd directions in the directim of haffer had has leg torn
Engineer Shot Dead
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Iwo
Lanfeng
mysterious maruter whilst swinning just fade Lyemoon about Violent fighting is in progress Ali years agte It was never ascertained Ningling, Chihsien, Tsingliangssu and what caused the injury Ljuhotstund, points west and south- Following closely on the out-west of Kwelteh. Heavy Chinese re- rage on the Dollar line tender inforcements have been rushed to
Mingchuan, 32 mites west of Kwetter!
Shanghai, June 2.
The Dollar, which was held up on the Langhat Railway, to check by pirates yesterday while en the Japanese advance. route to Shanghai from lower Yangtse ports, comes news of a more serious piracy.
Meantime, 1,000 Japanese troops at Kuantal are reported in have crossed the Yellow River under a heavy
protective barrage. Chinese troops With the Chinese second enst- on the south bank are engaging them. Recr dent and the Portuguese Confused fighting is going purser and four members of the north-west of Lanteng.
where the Chinese crew missing, the 494-ton beleaguered Dohura troops are still Portuguese steamer Delta arrived stubbornly holding out as they awalt in Shanghai last night, after being the arrival of reinforcements. Ku- pirated in Sanmenkwan Bay. in Cheklang province.
stangtsi, the stronghold of the Jup-
Delivers Protest
SIX-FOOT SHARK, shown above, was caught in Hongkong Harbour, near the Chinese bathing sheds at North Point, jast Sunday. The shark was landed by Mr. K. C. Wong, of the Sun Company. Ltd., after a terrific struggle, which lasted for over a quarter of an hour. Mr. Wong is shown in a stooping position, just behind the monster.
BRITAIN THREATENS
ACTION IN SPAIN AGAINST BOMBINGS
London, June 2. Continued attacks upon British ships in and near Spanish ports is known to be giving the British Govern- ment great concern.
TRENCH SYSTEM TO PROTECT 1,500,000 IN EVENT OF EMERGENCY
Mass Evacuation From Cities May Be Necessary
London, June 2. Trenches and dug-out accommodation will be provided around London for 1,500,000 civilians as part of the new Air Raid Precautions announced in the House of Commons to-night by the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare.
Orders for 275,000,000 sandbags have already been given by the Government, and work would be placed in hand immediately they were delivered.
Local authorities in one hundred districts have received for storage a sufficient supply of gas masks for the entire civil population in their areas.
Plans are also in hand for the mass evacuation of civilians from densely populated areas in the event of war. The Commons listened with attention to the Home Secre- Hary's speech during the dis- cussion on Air Raid Precautions this evening,
Sir Samuel Hoare reported to the House on the progress of Britain's preparations, and gave much inter- esting information on the problems being studied by his own and other departments, and the plans being Inade to solve them,
He said they were Ketting Henr half way to the million volunteers for which he had appealed a few weeks ago.
U.S. WILL BUY MORE CHINESE SILVER
New Shipments Must Be Completed By July 15
Washington, June 1.
The Home Secretary forecast an intensifention of the campaign for the enforcement and training of per- sonnel, and announced the inaugura- tion in the course of a few days of a
It is learned that the U.S. Treasury women's organisation-a non-party and non-sectariam organisation re-recently reached a new agreement to additional sliver from presentative of all large women's purchase
China. societies-which would be in closest
An understanding was reached in British ILLES Repeated protests have been made when
harmony with local authorities and
April, calling for new shipments of clearing house for women ships have suffered damage, the result either of provide a a.s
the metal. which must be completed The volunteers,
Dow organisation deliberate attack or of indiscriminate bombing, and the
would be under the direction of the by July 15. Government have reserved the right to claim com- Dowager Lady Reading,
Samuel Houre revealed that Government experts were making o
On Bombing pensation.
Quo Tai-chi Urges British Support
London, June 1.
to the British and other Governments
Nevertheless, the
He discussed precautions against high explosive and incendiary bombs and gas, and emphasised that the was by no means Government neglecting the first of these.
SURVEY OF COUNTRY Surveys of basement accommoda- tion in several London boroughs, und and dugouts, had yielded surprisingly encouraging results.
U.S. Examining of open spaces available for trenches Nationals' Part
attacks have continued and careful study of the lessons of aerial considerable feeling is being aroused in British shipping bombing in the East and Spain, and had been in touch with Spanish re- authoritative with circles. This afternoon a number of Members of Parlia-presentatives
of of the experiences ment and representatives of various shipping companies knowledge Darcelona. The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Quo were received at the Foreign Office by the Under- anese north of Lowang station, is Tai-cil, thin afternoon called on the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, and a still closely besieged by the Chinese. The ship was entering Saumen- Chinese "darc-to-die" corps Bave Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, discussion took place regarding recent attacks on British kwan Bay after voyage from Wen- broken into Kulistangts! and also Lord Hallfax, and delivered a Note chow with general cargo when two Tungehwang, a point north, several protesting against Japanese aircraft ships in Spanish waters. large junks, one flying a French flag. times, and engaged in bloody close-bombing Chinese open towns.
The position of the British | The Nate recalled the resolution of came alongside.
range fighting with the enemy,
the Assembly of the League of Nations Government since the beginning The pirate band, consisting of hand grenades, they
Wielding big swords and hurlin on September 28 Inst year, condemn of the Spanish Civil War has killed many ing such bombardments, and appeals been that it would afford naval about a hundred armed men, threw
Japanese. small bombs aboard the ship, the second engineer being shockingly ADVANCING TOWARDS HANKOW to "take such urgent and effective protection to British shipping wounded by the explosion from one
measures as will restrain Japan from on the High Seas, but could not of the missiles.
After taking Pohsien on the Kwo continuing the wholesale slaughter of give protection in territorial River in north Anlıwei, the Japanese innocent non-combatants, largely waters. After boarding the ship the pirates column continued its advance in the comprising women and children."
The Government, nevertheless, has ordered the captain to steer into the direction of Hanitow yesterday. It The Chinese Government has cent bay. After three hour, sailing, they was halted near Luyi, 15 miles west a similar protest to the League of no intention of allowing British ships abandoned the ship, taking away the of Pohsien,
lawfully trading with Spanish ports on the Honan-Anhwel Nations. purser and four members of the crew, border, where a bloody battle is The Chinese protest says that the to be the object of attacks from the Chinese present bombings of Canton proved air, with the possible loss of British for runtam somewhere ashore in the suburbs of Pohslen and Kwoyang.
the immediate even more barbarous and disastrous lives and damage to property.
than any previous Japanese visita- bay. The pirates took all the coah and valuables they were able to find westward into Honan from north
The Japanese intention to drive tions by Japanese aircraft.
"It is certain that if the Japanese in the ship, which they completely Anhwel is apparently attack are allowed to go on unchecked, such ransacked.
rear.-Central air-raids will yet be repeated over Chengchow from the
Canton and other cities with even News.
more terrible loss of human life, and incalculable effects on the future conduct of aerial warfare throughout the world."—Reuter.
raging. Large units of The Ave men are now being held troops are still in
The Delta was formerly a French gunboat. She was sold to her present owners, the Jupiter Petroleum Company, somé years ago.-Router Special.
Woman Is Killed By Falling Rock
A small land silde at the Tong Sia Keo quarry' to-day caused
the death of Ngal Nu-muu, 62, married woman, when sovéral big rooke fell on her. The body Was removed to The Pubile Mortuary,
to
CHINESE IN HWAIJEN
Chengchow, June 2. According to military reports just received a column of Chinese troops has succeeded in breaking into the city of Hwaljen, in north Shanel,
ISSUES MANFESTO
Honkow, June 2 An appeal to civilised nations to
The Government, therefore is now giving close and active con- sideration to measures which could be taken to bring home to those attacks that concerned in these their continuance cannot be tolerat- ed, and that if protests are neglect ed they do not exhaust the action which
Government the British
take might be compellal to British Wirelcas.
Political Intervention
London, June 2. The British Government is cop- intervention in the Spanish Civil (Continued on Page 4)
and is now engaging in bloody street check Japan's indiscriminate bomb-sidering the possiblity of political Aghting with the Japanese. The entry followed an all-night battle ings in Chinese cities is contained in on May 30 manifesto Just issued by the Chin-
which Was staricd Central News.
Chinese Prepare
Counter-Attack
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League of Nations Union, Recalling the recent visit to Japan by Chinese planes which refrained from dropping an bombs, the de claration accused Japan with reply- ing to such civilised action with unrestrained brutality.
16 NEW CASES OF DISEASE
In War Areas
Washington, June 1. President F. D. Roosevelt has requested an Inter-Department Committee to report on the use of American avlators and flying equipment in belligerent comm- tites.
The Committee consists of re- presentatives of the Departments of Commerce, War and Justice, with a representative of the De- partment of State acting in ad advisory, capacity.
The Report will include the nature and extent of aeronautical allcountries participation In "with military complications." Reuter.
POSSESSED HEROIN PILLS: FINED $200
One of the points mentioned by Sir Hosre was that open spaces London would provide trench and dugout accommodation for about 1,600,000 persons. An order for 276,- 600,000 sandbags had been given.
Government already
had
100 emergency fire brigade schemes, and (Continued on Page 4.)
British Girl On Espionage Charge
Carlsbad, June 2.
The agreement is for an undisclosed amount.
Treasury ofetuls admitted to-day that China has purchased some gold with silver. It is learned that most of the gold purchased in the United States by China will remain in this country, to be ear-marked for U.S. credits on behalf of China in other countries.
The new agreement is the fourth such in the past two years. It (Continued on Page 4)
STOP PRESS
Japanese Drive To Cut Chinese Communications
Hankow. June 2. Japanese forces in the Lunghai Railway area, concentrated. ht Yung chen and Mengchen, are converging on the. Anhwel-Henan border for a drive in the direction of the Peiping- Hankow Railway.
If this drive succeeds they will cut, off the Chinese forces in Chengchow' and costwards along the Lunghal Raliway to Lanfeng.
Chinese sources, here state
that
to-
the Japanese troops advancing wards Lanteng from Kweltch have
It is announced that four persons have been arrested here on suspicion of espionage.
suddenly turned southwestwards, They include William Mucft, & and their vanguards have renched 22-year-old residential student from Lingleng, where they have formed Chicago and Miss U. V. Freeman=| a junction with their comrades from Milford, the British girl who is known Pohalen.
"Herr Hiller's... young British
It
A fine of $200 with the alternative
Heavy fighting is belloved to be of two months' hard labour was im
progressing in the vicinity of Ling- Sixteen new cases of nollflable posed on Les Fook, 15, widow, by Mr, friend."
will be recalled that Miss long and Hutholen. R. Edwards at the Central Magiat Freeman-Mitford was badly beaten Lluan, June 2.
Another Japanese detachment has diseases were reported to the health racy this morning for possession of Fighting on a major scale is ex-{ Having Inflicted no less than 3,000 authorities during the last 24 hours. 1,180 heroin pills at a house in Tong up in Hyde Park on April 10 for appeared at Chilhsien, south of Kaf- pected soon on the southern section casualties, including Boy Scouts and These included two cases of small- Law Street.
wearing a swastika, which was a gift feng, constituting another threat to frown Horr Hitler, at Spanish of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway where Girt Guides engaged in rescue work, pox, two of diphtheria, two of enterle
(Further Stop Press NewE OF United demonstration. --- the Chinese are preparing for a and rendering over 7,000 Canton fever, two of menales, two of men-
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ingilis and.oix of dysentery.
Mr. C. Y. Kwan represented the Loyalist dotendant legally, and pleaded guilly. Press.
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