THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938.
Traitor's Flares
JAPANESE DRIVE ON
HANKOW
Nazi Ships Suspect In Castellon
CONTINUES Bombardment
Armies Succeed In Effecting Junction
Hankow, June 15,
The two Japanese armies ad- vancing on Hankow from An-
Paris, June 15.
Guide Bombers to
MORNING BOMBINGS TAKE FEW LIVES IN DESERTED AREA
Official circles in Valencia Planes Scatter Handbills
that Castellon was {announce
bombarded before its evacuation by the Loyalists,
The bombardment is alleged
king, on the Yangtse River, and to have been carried out by Hofci, went of Nanking, have foreign warships which appeared now succeeded in effecting to be German. juncture at Tungcheng.
To Discourage Soldiers
(Special to "Telegraph")
Telepraplie Messages Ordinance, tape.
Preis.
Copyright by United crived by Telephone, June 10, 7.33 am, Published June 18, 10 a.m.
Canton, June 16.
Re-
Two waves of bombing planes flew low over Canton
Officials in Valencia wore re- Tungcheng was evacuated by the Chinese in the face of threats from cently informed that a flotilla of the two Japanese armies, and the city German destroyers passed was occupied by the Japanese last through the Straits of Gibraltar night.
The Chinese forces have with-into the Mediterranean.-Router during the early hours of the day and heavily bombed drawn to the hilly regions west of Special, Tungcheng, where they are now consolidating their positions.
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the the eastern suburbs, apparently concentrating on
At least 20 heavy bombs or groups Tien-ho aerodrome.
west of Weishith are surrounded by of bombs were dropped.
It
the Chinese.
The Japanese are continuing their march towards Hankow 12: two columns, one of which is advancing along the rond from Anking, ning parallel to the Yangtze River, Chungmnow where the flood situation
The majority of the Japanese at
was
a cloudy night. Occasional flashes of
Canton RELAX in
Warns Traders To Caution In German Trade!
Loan Negotiations May Cause Trouble
It
London, June 15.
of Com- Referring in the House
the Austrinn mans this evening to Luan negotiations,
Mr.
Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, Entd was impossible at present to make any announcement with regard to the nature of the action likely to be taken by Great Britain. Such action, he sld, must clearly depend upon circumstances.
The British Government stili hoped that negotiations would reach successful conclusion, but traders must recognise that there might be dimculties in obtaining payments after the end of June, and must therefore use discretion in necepiing any new commitments which might result in an accumultation of debts in Germany. Reuter.
TRADE PACT UNSATISFACTORY
London, June 15. Disappointment with the working
ment was expressed in the House of Commons to-night by Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade.
and the other along the rond from is worst have withdrawn to Kaifeng lightning answered the leaping flame of the bomo of the Anglo-Russian Trade Agree- Hofel to Hsinyang, city on the The small unit still remaining ixide explosions and the darting tongues of fire from the anti- Peiping-Hankow Railway about 112 the city has barricaded die city gutes miles north of Hankow. This fatter
with sandbags. But an is running aircraft batteries. force will probably effeef a juncture short of providons and in danger of with a third Japanese aring, operal- Chinese attacks, it is reported to be ing south of the flooded regions in
preparing to withdraw. Honan.
Here and there, also, red flares shot into the sky. These were fired by traitors who attempted to guide the The column operating from Hofer |
Chinese peasants" Torps round Japanese airmen to their targets. One flare appeared to has already reached Lluan, 150 miles|Layi on the Auhwel-Honan border east of Hsinyang.
have risen to assist the regular troops have been fired from the roof of Japanese troops on the bank of the ita counter-attack the Invaders, and Yangtze River have received strong e damaging diparse munca (Shameen.
tion lines
reinforcemeník.
The Japanese warship Idamo has arrived at Nanking. Trans-Ocean
Chinese Counter-Attack
Chengchow, June 16
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Taking advantage of the Chinese regular and guerilla troops are counter-attacking isolated Japan ese units in Honan.
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Propaganda Pamphlets
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United Copyright by however, did Received by telephone, June June 16. Bull city
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Replying in the debate on Trade, Mr. Stanley said that the letter of the Agreement was being observed but it was being carried out in the proportion of re-exports to exporta manufactured in Great Britain, which did not represent the spirit in which Great Britain had belleved the Agree- ment was going to be carried out.
Mr. Stanley disclosed that he was now discussing this most important question with these whose interests were mast niTeted by the course of trade with Hussia-RLET,
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The riders first A Japanese unit of 300 men was 1345 am and the "all
troops at El-sounded at 4:31 £1 routed by Clunese
AL 539 it Yang, south-east 11 Sinfisien, 30
The plane, kilometres west of Kweitel, on June sounded
over the With BAILE witward. they not come
androsted by 1.008) Chine Bom of their bouts coitid be heard.m.). were
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Cantun, June 15. Some 100 in the distance at Polarizi querior
Foreigners at Lingnan University
versution attributed to them: Japanese were killed
pre- During yesterday's ralds a whole picked up scores of handballs,
"We are nut fighting for the people (tond sumably dropped by Japanese pero-tut for the military and the Com- lock of houses in Ubaugnatz
In-day single planes. without destroyed
Carlsts," shy's the Brak. was
A fortnight ago there novel type, two inches by four, with "We are not paid and we are pine- vasalty
ly ed. Many of our comrades are would have been hundreds killed a picture in three colours on one side.
Now the congested | This represents two wounded Chineseed or wanded and we are hotf deserted. soldiers standing on a scarred battledend," the second answers. prortenlly
Defi On live other side a
was given
A Japanese detachment stationed i Forty army trucks at Chuts nul- at Nanpeltono, south of Weishth, 50 way station new Kwettel were des- kilometrea south of Kaifeng has troyed and dinny Japonese killed by been compelled to withdring" "no th=¦ guerillas un a
Surprise rast on the
blitst west after being subjreted to con- same day. The gturillas also des- mach a stont Chinese attacks
Between 800 troved sections of walls before they
Huited Press, und 700 Japanese in the villages withdrew - Central News,
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Bomber Shot Down
Canton, June 15.
It is confirmed trom milliary Fources that one of the three Japanese bombers reconnoftring over Yuyuan, 40 kilometres west of Shlukwan, after arald on Kweilin with SIX more Japanese machines lust Tuesday, was badly damaged by Chinese anti-
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outskirts of Yuyuan and finally fell in the vicinity of Yungyun, 90 kilometres Feast of Shiukwan.--Special.
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Three Visits
south-
Canton, June 15. The city received three visitations from Japanese air raiders last night and this morning. The Brat raid this morning was at 1 a.m., subsequent raids being mude at 3.30 a.m. and before the moon went down at 5.30 (1.177.
The 2.30 n.m, raid was the heaviest, and a large number of planes came over the city, dropping their bombs on various localities.
It is significant that the ralders carried riding lights which could be seen quite plainly in the city, and their appearance occasioned outbursts uf rifle shots from all quarters in the faint hope that a stray shot, might
a target.
And
The other two raids were not so intensive and uppeared to consist only
of three or four planes on each occa- sion, bombs being dropped Inter- mittently on the outskirts of the elty.
Reuter.
School Struck
Canton, June 10. In the course of last night's raids two bombs were dropped in the com- pound of St. Hilda's School for Girls, which is the property of the Church Missionary Society.
One building was directly hit by a bomb, and was completely demolish- ed, while other buildings attached to the school were seriously damaged.
Fortunately there were no casual- ties as the school had been evacuated because it was in the danger zone.
Almost all colleges and universities In Canton have now been emptied. Lingnam University, which previously housed 800 students, now contains only sixty.-Reuter.
Questions In Commons
London, June 15.. Questioned in the House of Com- (mons regarding the effects of the Japanese air attacks in Canton the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, said the official estimates of the ensunitles received | up to the present were incomplete, but reports indicated that between 3,500 und 4,000 persons were killed and wounded between May 28 and Гило 10.
"As the House is aware, His Majesty's Government has protected to the Japanese Government against the Indiscriminate bombing of civi- Ban area and thickly populated cen- tres", Mr. Butler said.
Baked in a supplementary question If a reply had been received to the British protest, Mr.. Butler sald cer- tain prefiminary observation had been made to the British Ambassador in Tokyo by the Japanese foreign minis- ter, who had promised to send a con- sidered reply-British Wireless.-
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