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QUARTER Hunting New LOYALISTS
MILLION CHINESE KILLED
Wounded Total Many
י
More, And Many Can't Be Treated Out of 500,000 Chinese soldiers wounded during the Sino-Japanese fighting on various fronts in the post twelve montha little more than 120,000 had received treatments in the 417 hospitals established by the
Government and elvil organ throughout the country, according to
Trade Roads
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pf
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SUFFER SEVERELY
Still Clinging To Ebro Line
Saragossa, Aug. 1. Asia, from a business trip to Manila,
Insurgent planes and artillery con- Formerly secretary to the general tinued to pound the south bank of the managers of the Hongkong Shipyard, Ebro River to-day where the Govern- Mr. Gutierrez undertook the present
trip to Monila to renew various con-ment positions are reported to be tacts with leading business concerns, growing steadily more intolerable.
Throughout
vinit, Mr. Each night the Loyalist troops con- Gutierrez kept in constant touch with struct foot bridges across the river Mr. Balmaceda, Director of Com-for the conveyance of food and am- merce, and Mr. Mendinueto, the in-munition, but punctually at dawn the telligence officer of the Department Trisurgent planes destroy them.
A shade temperature of 100 was of
of Commerce and Trade, Bureau of Agriculture, since t
they fiest met in recorded in Saragossa to-day, and it Hongkong six years ago
He also is stated that it is even hotter in the took with him many letters of intro- battle zona.--Reuter.
Dr. Fan Ting-chiu, director of the duction to important firms which National Wounded Soldiers Medical might be induced to enter into trade Service Association, who recently relations with Hongkong. arrived in the Colony from Hankow
on his way to Canton to establish n military hospitni.
Since the beginning of the war, continued Dr. Fan in an Interview with local pressmen, the percentage of the wounded and the dead in the battlefields on the Chinese side is approximately 2 to 1. The well-known medicul worker gave the total Chinese casualty st as about 750,000, with 250,000 directly killed on all fronts, i but he pointed out that many of the! eritienily wounded Chinese soldiers; uften died before they could be moved to fleld hospitals,
A great proportion of the total Chinese wounded were soldiers from
Kwangst. Kwangtung and Bunun provinces, he added.
Hunan to-day, according Fan, is the mule base of treatment for the wounded. soldier in hospital received cents a day.
FIANCES Of Death RUSH TO BATTLE
of
Hendaye, Aug. 3. General Franco's
** Fiances Death" battalion, sworn to die battle, swarmed down the Caballos
מן
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Azh
Dr.i medicul
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CONTROL ORGANISED
Government medical service now under the sole control of the Durent of Medical Service of the Ministry of War, with the assistance
the Bureau of Medical Service of the Ministry of Interior, while the leading civil organisation in the ser-i vice in the Christian Association for Wounded Soldiers' Medical Service, which works in collaboration with 97 missionary hospitals in various pro- ! vinces, Dr. Pan informed the press. men. The Association with its head- quarters in Sian has more than ten stations in Honan, Hupeh, Anhwel, Kiangsi and Szechuan provinces.
The medical corps of the Interna- tional Red Cross Association and the Red Cross Association of China have also done valuable service for the wounded soldiers, he said.
Though much had been done, there were important steps to be taken to improve the service to the wounded: (1) separate treatment for critically and slightly wounded soldiers; (2) transportation of wounded soldiers from the front to the rear; nud (3) supervision of the wounded while in hospitals.
REICH NEEDS MORE TAXES
Berlin, Aug. 3.
As a further step to increase the Componics' Tax. the Government| hns decided to appropriate some of the municipal tax revenues. The profitable local beer tax will be taken from the municipalities and added to the existing Reich beer tox.
.
The Reich will also claim a por- tion of the local tax on sales of real estale and muntelpal business enter- prises like electricity and water- works, which will be taxed like ordinary companies.-Reuter Special.|
and in an engagement lasting all day, fought the International Brigade troops in the Ebro River valley in blistering heat.-United Press.
PLANES FROM BALEARICS SHATTER TARRAGONA
Barcelona, Aug. 3.
junkers Tri-motored
tho from Balearica bombed coastal towns to- day with 70 bombs. At Tarragona the damage was heavy, though the number of casualties is not mention- ed.
A Gibraltar message says that it is reported that the Insurgent Cruisers, Canarias and Cervera, arrived at Cadiz badly damaged by Loyalist shore batteries late on Sunday after
engagement 11 Cartagena
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