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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1938.
Chinese Aircraft Sink Warships on Raid
DARING ATTACK ON
CONCENTRATION LYING OFF HUKOW
British Gunboat Steams Up-River to Avoid Trouble at Kiukiang
Telegraphic
(Special to "Telegraph”)
Message Ordinanec, 1894. Copyright by United estved July 10, 11.40 p.m., published July 11, 10,15 ́à..
Press,
Hankow, July 10.
Re-
con-
Aviation headquarters here announces that Chinese aircraft this afternoon bombed a centration of Japanese warships in the Yangtse. The planes attacked sixteen Japanese ships off Hukow and pilots saw two of the larger vessels sinking after direct hits had been registered.
Of the remainder, those which were not disabled steamed off.-United Press.
Japanese Vessels
Severely Punished
Hankow, July 10.
ANOTHER | Death Aboard AIR LINK Empress Liner TO COLONY
French Planes To
Ply Here
Cholora Suspected
As Baby Dies
Shanghai, July 10. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Russia flew the yellow Quarantine fing as she arrived from Hongkong to-day.
CHOLERA
SWEEPS SHANGHAI
70 Cases Daily In Foreign Areas.
Shanghai, July 11.
An average of seventy cases daily are being reported to the Deaths average eight daily. Municipal health authorities.
Another air service to Hongkong will be inaugurated on Wednesday
As a result of the extreme when Air France make their Arst flight to this Colony, commencing n Passengers were detained aboard heat the cholera epidemic has regular weekly service between here the ship, for six hours while the increased greatly during the and Hanoi. The first plane is due Japanese authorities investigated the past week. at 11 am. Wednesday.
death aboard of Filipino baby, The initial fight will be mode. In suspected to be from cholera. The Fokker, with M. Pucheu, one of baby was buried at sea between the chief executives of Air France in Hongkong and Shanghai, the Far East, us a passenger, De- Thirty-two Chinese sicerage pas tailed surveys have been made along sengers who had been in contact the route. Whether passengers and with the baby were placed in the mails will be carried at the outset, Shanghal Isolation Hospital-Reuter.national Settlement appear to be the in not known definitely but the schedule is already settled as follows: The plane to leave Hanoi every Wednesday at 0.30 a.m, and arrive in Hongkong at 11 am.
The plane to depart from Hong- kong every Friday at 6,30 am. and arrive in Hanoi at 11 am.
No mention is made of the use of Fort Bayard as un intermediate stop-
play place, though it is on the route and has recently had Its Aerodrome improved for such a service.
iano is already linked to Europe
STUDY BRITISH FORMULA
Barcelona, July 10. The Foreign Minister has informed the Cabinet of the receipt of the British Note containing details of the Non-intervention Plan.
The French Concession and Inter-
chief sufferers from the epidemic.
Since mid-May a total of 1,700 Chinese have been affected by the disease, the 'deaths totalling 234. Most of the victims have been refugees.
A hundred thousand residents in the French Concession have so far been inoculated, and, at the present: time, about 30,000 injections are being admistered daily-Trans-Ocean,
148 DEAD IN WEEK
by air and this link will give Hong- It la stated that the Spanish { ge- kong its second direct
connection Government will study the problems The Health Bulletin for Ekstern with Europe. It in learned that arising from the British plan. Ports issued by the Hongkong Direc- woltine planes will be used on the Meanwhile the Cabinet has reaffirmed tor of Medical Services, reveals that service after the Fokker has com-the position adopted by all Govern- deaths from cholera in Macao dur pleted the initial flights.
to ing the week ending July 2 reached ments since July, 1936, namely, adjust attion to the general interests 148, the highest total of any For Last
the Spanish centre affected by the epidemic, of peace, for which
have made such major at the People
sacrifices during the past two years.
Reuter,
-
of
addition to large quantities ammunition.
The Japanese were beaten back lo Hukow.
The Chinese success was confirmed
including the bankars Nanchong aerodrome.
Another group of Japanese bombers appeared over Hengyong, on
Chinese military headquarters by a telegrain from Fowllang, which the Canton-Hunkow Rallway, but due claim that Chinese bombers sank declared that the Japanese Shimada two out of three Japanese war-regiment was severely cut up. ships which were shelling Kiukiang this morning. The
Launches Captured
OH
to adverse weather and heavy anti-known as Special Administrative Dis- alrerift lire, were unsuccessful in trict Number Three, is building harb their efforts to bomb the city.
ed wire gates in fourteen streets lead- log into the area. The gates each possess a
ssess a turn-table.
Japanese reports state that four Chinese planes were destroyed in the third Japanese ship retired According to the telegram, about hangars at Nanchang.-Trans-Ocean, downstream towards Hukow. a score of launches used by thef
Japanese Troops in landing thele
Planes Hunt Guerillas were either disabled H.M.S. Cockchafer, which has forces
Shanghai, July 11, been stationed
captured by the Chinese. Klukiang,
Japanese acroplanes have been Included among the booty seized. | sent to attack Chinese guerillas steamed upstream above the the message declared, were twenty operation near Nanking city in order to avoid the Japan war horses, 300 rifles and 400 gas ese shelling and air raids.
al
cùn-
Chinese bombers also claim to have sunk one Japanese warship and badly damaged another when the Japanese naval centration off Anking Wa bombed this morning-Reuter.
Important Chinese Gain
Nanchong, July 11.
masks.
Foreign military virulea altucti considerable significance to this an- that nouncement, since it indientes Large numbers of Japanese re- territory allegedly in the hands of torcements, it is stated, ture being the Japanese is by no means free of rushed from Anking to strengthen Chinese troops. the shattered advance positions.
Actually, the Chinese are believed Another message, received from to be operating in considerable Kiukiang, declared that the series numbers in the vicinity of the former
ot Chinese successes along the capital, which fell curly in December. Yangtze has had a stabilizing effect→Trans-Ocean. on the situation east of Klukiang and west of the Payang Lake.
The Chinese defence lines along Japanese troups operating along the river and on the borders of the the Yangtse received a serious check Payang Lake, the message declared, in their advance from Hukow yester-are extremely strong.-Central News day when in a flanking movement Chinese forces cornered a column of about 1,000 and killed 600 of them near Lannitu, a point south-west of Hukow.
Kiukiang Still Defended
Hankow, July 11.
This zone. it i
is hoped, will be bale from bombardment and no troops will be allowed to enter . There will be thousands of refugees seeking admission if the Japanese approach.
--Uutted Press.
Attack Repulsed
prevents, Ponkow.
up
Hankow, July 11. The Japanese commenced their drive against Kiuklang, the important Yangtse city of 180,000 people, where the biggest and most strategie boom aeross the river China's "Dardanelles" to
In an attempt to flank the Chinese forces defending Kiukiang, the Japan- ese endeavoured to cross Poyang Lake but,
to according
Chinese sources, the attack was repulsed.
Japanese reports that Klukdang has already fallen are premature, since Klukiang and Honkow was still nor- telephone communication between
Penetically the whole of the For East, from India to China, is affected by the present epidemie.
During the same period 301 cases were reported from of cholern Shanghal, which, however, does not disclose the percentage of fatalities,
Forly-one cases were reported from Calcutta, while Allahabad, Cawnpure, Basseln, Delhi, Hanol and Canton are also affected,
A further ten cases, three of which were Imported into the Colony, were reported in Hongkong on Saturday, making the total since the commence- ment of the outbreak 97. Eight of the cases were, reported from the residential Bren of the city of Victoria, and two from Kowloon.
Four cuses of typhold were report- ed from Kowloon, and une ease of i dysentery ench from Kowloon and the New Territories were reported.
fined to India, 37 cases being reported Small-pox is now apparently con- from Madras, 22 from Calcutta and five from Bombay,
The only cases of plague during the week ending July 2 Were two, reported from Rangoon.
It is officially reported here that Kiuklang is still in the
CHOLERA IN LOYANG hands of the Chinese, Rumoursmat last night,
Loyang, July 10. that this important place had
Repeated Chinese attacks are be- Loyang is threatened by a cholera fallen to a swift Japanese attack made on Hukow, further down epidemie which has alrendy taken a
the river. Otherwise, out were denied,
operations toll of 16 lives in the last few days. along the Yangtse have been brought | Anti-Cholera corps have been sent 10 a standstill by heavy rains.
Inoculate the prople.- Trans-Ocean.
Japanese Bombers Out Shanghai, July 11. Japanese seaplanes carried The battle was one of the most another raid on Nanchang, capital violent of the Yangtze operations. of Klangsi province, yesterday. Sixteen tanks and armoured cars According to Japanese reports the
were captured by the Chinese, in ralders destroyed numerous bulidings,
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