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No. 18334
五拜禮 號三月六英港香
JUNE 3, FRIDAY,
1938.
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DUNLOP FORT 90
ANHWEI AND HONAN BATTLES RAGING
JAPANESE RAPIDLY
PUSH WEST
Claim Huge Chinese Forces In Retreat
· INVADERS' CASUALTIES ADMITTEDLY HIGH
• Liuan, Anhwei, June 3.
In addition to the column driving from Pohsien to uyi on the Honan-Anhwei border, two Japanese olumns in north Anhwei are pushing in the direction of
st Honan.
One column is striking south from Mengcheng on north bank of the Kwo River, 45 miles north-west of Pengpu, while the other column is west from Tingyuan,
3 miles west of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway in north
'Wei.
British Girl Arrested As Espionage Suspect
CHINESE VICTORY CONFIRMED
Japanese Raiders Severely Punished
In Hankow Fight
Shanghai, June 4. Under the heading "Japanese
this
re-
Fighting has already broken out between the Meng-Air Raid Losses Confirmed," the heng column and Chinese defenders at Lochiachi, north North Ching that foreign to ingtai. Numbering about 2,000 men, the Japanese ports confirm previous messages re assisted by tanks and artillery.
regarding the Japanese air raid over Hunkow on Tuesday.
Phe column advancing westward
** Tingyuan is divided into two) Chinese troops have rushed)
to block their drive.
stated by Chinese despatches. resorted to gus
the Japanese
is in the vichuity of Tingyuan nr 1 Many Chinese soldiers killed,
anwhile, on the Hofel sector, the uttackers are reported to
ave reached the outskirts of the city
fighting here
In progress. ntral Netos,
erious Threat To Kaifeng
Hunkow, June 3
A serious threat to Kaifeng is; veloping as a result of the Japan-
Banking
movement
near
ithsien, according to latest reports in the front. Instead of driving stward along the Lunghui Railway The possession of Lanteng, **se are said to be advancing Kweltch and Yungchen and chen on Hihsien und Luyi. One Japanese column driving west ough Lingling is reported to have upled Chihsien.
In believed the Japanese are g to strike the Pelping-itankow
hy in the vicinity of Yenchen,
uth of Chengehow.
The Chinese are preparing to check
s advance and at the same time to tend the Hankow area in the event
a push in that direction.
Crossing Yellow River
In an attempt to reach the Lunghai
Iway and points north-west
(Continued on Page 4.)
CHINESE GATHERING AT AMOY
of
Urge Continued Attacks On Canton, Hankow
Tokyo, June. 3. Mr. Kenzo Adachit, Chairman of the National League, yester- day handled to Lieut. General Gen Sugiyama, Minister of War, and to Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Navy Minister, copies of the re- solutions adopted by the minority political party which he repre- sents.
These resolutions urge that relentless allock shall be malu- Laine Yankow and Caston, "both of which towns are strongly defended Chinese bases as de- monstrated by undisputable evidence."--Domet.
BRITAIN LAYS IN EMERGENCY SUPPLIES
Twenty-one Japanese planes took part in the raid, most of them being pursuit planes.
R.M.A. DORADO CAUGHT FIRE at Kai Tak this morning Just before her take-off; but was only slightly damaged. Passengers, crew, mails and freight all escaped injury. This
| photograph of the Delphinus-sister ship to Dorado-shows how fire from the engines might threaten those in the big plane's cabin,
REFUGEE CENTRE MAY BE BUILT
22-YEAR-OLD SOUTH
AFRICAN DETAINED :
GERMAN ALSO HELD
In Chinese Prison Cell As Japanese Air Raiders Bombed Wongsha District
(By "Telegraph" Special Representative)
Imprisoned in Canton for over a week as a suspected espionage agent, a pretty 22-year-old British girl has just arrived in Hongkong, after her release had been secured by the British Consul General, Mr. A. P. Blunt.-
The girl is Misa Kathleen Weston, of Burgville, Natal Province, South Africa. Her home is in a farming dis- trict 200 miles inland from Durban.
Karl Rein, a 25-year-old German medical student from Hargen, Westphalia, is still in a Canton prison. Miss Weston and Rein were arrested on the Canton Railway station on May 27, as they were en route from Hankow to
BY H.K. CHINESE Hongkong,
Private Chinese persons are pressing for the early establishment of a refugee settlement in the Colony and, though official participation in the scheme is still lacking, it is known that sites have been inspected in Kowloon by Directors of the Chinese hospitals.
Mr. Chau Shiu-ng, Chairman of the Directors of the
Effort to secure the release of the German have failed./
In an effort to obtain evidence against the British girl and her travelling companion, Chinese agents raided the rooms in which they had left their baggage in Hongkong whilst they were in the interior of China.
They were opposed by about 10 Tung Wah Hospital, stated that he had been with the Mme. Chiang
Chinese planes. The Japanese lost twelve pursuit planes, shot down over Hankow, and twe bombers, shot whilst attempting to bomb the hoom across the Yangtse at Kiu-
None of the bombers participating in the raid succeeded in reaching Hankow, all of them being intercept- d by the speedier Chinese pursuit planes.
the
Hon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke to several places on mainland to see whether it was feasible to erect matsheds and huts for the poorer refugees.
Government is apparently reluce | tant to father the scheme because of the complications that it involves but the Chinese themselves are expected to proceed with the building of huts The Chinese lost only two machines
for the accommodation of women,
and infirm ma children
Kite In the encounter, it is confirmed,
males if can be secured. The
sites only Under this report, the North China Daily News publishes the story from
available are on Crown land. Apart Tokyo, quoting a Navy spokesman as
from the political aspects of
of such anying that in the raid nine Japan-scheme, it would involve quite con- esp raiders engaged over 50 Chinese siderable expense. Sanitation would
have to be sound
and no plunes, shooting down 201 The same Japanese report states that all but one Japanese plane returned safely to their base, -Reuter.
Underground Deaths Caused By Negligence
London, June 3.
The inquest on the six victims of The underground rallway collision on May 17 was concluded to-day, when the Coroner's Court returned
Food To Be Stored Inverds that ull hud mel their
hod
Safe Places
death through un accident enused by the negligence of Artlur George Baer, Chief Linesman, and the contributory negligence of Arthur Walter Foskew, Foremon at Temple Station.
Jess
serious point is that it would probably swell the tide of refugees coming here if they knew that provision had been made for them,
Terrible Living Conditions
Ono authority stated that Govern- ment would be forced to come into the scheme for its own protection since the poorer residential area is becoming intolerably danstrous to the health of the community. There are whole floors without any sanfta- tion and some where the only con- venience is a temporary one placed in the kitchen. The spaces under- neath stairways are all med na bed spnoes.
casc
Godowns and warehouses have been thrown open to homeless persons at the request of the Chinese hospital authorities but there still remains a very urgent need for organised dc- commodation. Another
of cholera reported this morning has added to the fears of the medical department which is adopting extra- ordinary precautions to aŭfeguard the large number of evacuees In the old Government Civil Hospital.
Refugees Held Up
Cholera Victim
Found Near Refugee Centre
the
The baggage was surrep- titiously taken to Canton. Mise Weston's efforts to secure the release of her property have so far been unavailing. She dare not go to Canton to make en- quiries, for fear she should be
Tells Of Women's Work re-arrested.
Interviewed By Daughter Of
Press Magnate
Miss Jane Howard, daughter of the President of the United Press Association and of the Scripps Howard
newspaper
When I interviewed Miss Weston in Kowloon this morning, she told a remarkable story of her experiences. After she was arrested she was flung into a small cell in native Chinese prisons near Wongsha. Her travelling companion was placed in another cell in the same prison.
On Saturday, the day after they were arrested, the Japanese planes carried out the first of the series of bombings of Canton.
"They were attempting to hit some
chain, has just returned to objective near the prison, and the
(Continued on Page 4.) Hongkong from Hankow, after the
interviewing Madame Chiang Kai-shek there for her news- paper in Honolulu.
A case of cholera was found at Third Street to-day near Jarge refugee settlement in old Government Civil Hospital.
The patient died, shortly after being taken to hospital.
He was a malc adult but whether a refugee or resident is not yet known,
EXPLORER FLYING PACIFIC
On Expedition To New Guinea
San Diego, June 3.
Miss Howard gave her story to the Telegraph to-day after flying the Pacific and onto Hankow on a special assignment.
She wanted to know, first, whether the people of the outlying districts of China had been aroused by the Japanese invasion and its attendant horrors to
which civilians were so frequently exposed.
Sald Madame Chiang: "At first the people away from the not coust districts in Chinn- were aware of the horrors of the war and not all the people wanted to fight; but now everyone is united. The people have learned through educa tion and through seeing the furces. Al
low, high
and women the are making things for the soldiers.
"China was already on her way to unity before the Japanese attacked her.
The
re
London. June 3. How the co-operation of tradere
been enlisted in connection In neither case, added the rider lo
her negligence
chief impediment to with plans for creating reserves of the verdict, did the
The world's largest private lying unlitention has been the subversive essential commodities was mentioned mount to criminal negligence.
A mistake was made by the man
boat, owned by Richard Archbold, work of the Japanese but the war has in the House of Commons to-day by who did the wiring. before the ac-
famous American explorer, st of crystallsed this unity.
work of Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the cldent, and it amounted only to on
"The wor of our women's About one hundred refugees who from San Diego for Honolulu at 2.44
aimed directly at the Board of Trade, when moving the error of judgment,
ls alm could not produce twenty dollars as second rending of the Essential Com- The jury highly commended the
p.m. to-day.
of unity. Work done during modities Reserve Bill.
courage and presence of mind of the required by the new regulation in
Archbold is route to New rehabilitation work is equally
the war is only the beginning; for driver of the
train Hongkong. were' detained yesterday statlunury Mr. Stanley said that in some cases, involved in the accident, and ex-afternoon when the steamers Tal Guinea, off the north coast of Queens-portant. If, when the war is over, Chinese forces on the mainland at traders would be induced to carry, on pressed its deepest sympathy to Shan, Kwong Sai, Tin Yat and Salland, where he will spend two years China has not achieved unity through
On arrived here from Canton. oy opened fire against the Japan-behalf of the Government, more than relatives of the bereaved.--Reuter:
on zoological The total number of refugees American Museum of Natural History. dooned.
the her sufferings she deserves to o'clock on Tuesday morning their normal stocks,
aboard the four ships was ip- proximately 6,000.
Hope To Attack Occupying Force
at
Amoy, June 3.
"were silenced by effective Japan- He declared that, under the terma counter-bombardment, it was ad- of the BIII, the liquidation.of stocks cannot be effected without another tro lo-day.
their base at Oluo, 4,000 Act of Parliament defining the manner distant across the water from in which this could be done, and on Amoy Island, the Chinese thus prevent large stocks from being three shots which fell short thrown on the market and so din pped into the son, the report organise ordinary channels of trade.
Firms entrusted with the custody
of wheat would take it over, when
Seven Killed
In Pit Blast
The detained refugees in the mean- time are in police custody. The num ber of refugees
ees in various refugee camps at present la:,
Tang Wah Hospital, 328, of which 160 came from Shanghal; Old Vic- Pittston, Penn., June 3.
toria Gaol, 608; Government Civil Hosplin), 1,402. Soven miners have been killed in bling at Otac, the Chinese the time came for milling, in order a coal-gus explosion in an anthracite
The former magistracy in Kowloon are now building pill-box to prevent deterioration and ease the mine here.
was opened for refugees yesterday as ons and are waiting for a chance difficulties of storing, Most of the Six other miners ure injured. a number of one hundred refugees pture the Island, according to wheat would be stored near the west Threo are not expected to recover from the Government Civil Hospital
wes transferred there, claims-Domeť,
(Continued) on Page 4)
United PreH.
research
for
His flight will cover 6,500 miles across the sea, and he will pass over
WOMEN'S DUTY
The women who
intellectuals
attended
the spot in the Pacific where Amelia recent Kuling conference were Earhart disappeared in June last year leading on her world fight.
im-
be
the
the
the
umeng women of China. They were choson because of their own merits and not The glant Consolidated Airbont, because of the importance of their which cont U.S. $200,000, is being husbands. The purpose in
calling ploted by Russ Rogers and Ray Born, them together was to give them a Included in the crow are Gerald chance to get nequainted and to pre- Brown, radio-operator; Stephen Bar- pare a programme for all the women rinks, machanic; and Capt. Lewis of China. If all of China's women Yancey, navigator.-United Prces.
(Continued on Page 4.)
STOP PRESS
New Minister
For War In
Tokyo Cabinet
Tokyo, June 3.
It is officially announced that Lt. General Selshiro Itagaki has been appointed Minister for War. He re- has places General Sugiyama, who resigned-Reuter.
(Further Stop Press News on
Page 13.)