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THURSDAY,
AUGUST
4,
1938.
日九初月七 $36.00 PER ANNUM
SOVIET
MOBILISING
MEN CALLED British Firms Fight
TO COLOURS
FOR CRISIS
Japanese Reported To Be Rushing Troops To Threatened Border
London, Aug. 3.
The Warsaw correspondent of the Echange Tele- graph says that reports from Khabarovsk state that the Soviets have mobilised three classes of conscripts in Siberia and have sent part of them to the Manchukuo border.--!'nited Press.
SOVIET FLYING OVER CHANGKUFENG,
RADIO CLAIM
London, Aug. 4.
The Daily Express asserts to-day that it heard a Khabarovsk broadeast, which stated that the commander of the Soviet troops had hoisted the Red Flag of Russia at Changkufeng.
The broadcast stated that Japan had rushed 35,000 troops and 100 planes to the area.
The radiocast ended with the words: "Hello Tokyo! We are not afraid."
Tokyn. Aug 4
was
A Korean Army commanique states thal Soviet troups yesterday after- noun began a withdanwad from the Shautsaoping, sector, though it was admitted that the withdrawuj incomplete as late as 7 pm. Never- theless the Russians are alleged to be moving northward, after bomb- urdment of the Japanese positions. In which the Japanese din "slight Josses," which Insted all the morning
The
report stules that the bombard- ineart of Japanese positions at (bang- kufeng, Kujo and Nautengshan whic ceased at 3 o'clock yesterday after-
በኋይነ✟ኒ
The total strength of the Soviet forces facing the Japanese ad Chang- kuleng is gatuled to be three at- giments of infantry and one mech anised brigade, Including about 130 tinks of these, the Japanese alley they have disabled 29 so far
Soviet casualties up to Tuesday, it is claimed, are 2001, but no mention Is made of Japanese losses.----Taiteet Press.
Japanese Rushing Men To Frontier
Peiping, Aug. 4. All
sources contirm
that Japanese troops moving enstward in large numbers, (Continued on Page 7)
are
CARDENAS RESISTS PRESSURE
Mexico Clly, Aug. 3. President Manuel Cardenas, in a written reply to Mr. Cordell Hull's proposals to arbitrate regarding American-owned lands and
Disc concerning the time and manner of payment of compensation says that Mexico admits her obligation to make adequate compensation, but insists according to international law, the time and manner of payment shall be determined by their laws.
that
DWn
pre-
The note emphasises the ponderate number of Mexicans affected by gearien expropriations, and that proferential treatment limited to a number of foreigners would be unjustified,
Arbitration
come
United Press.
BORDER SITUATION TENSE
Reuter Eyc-Witness Watches Movements
Chungchan (Manchukuo).
Aug. 4. The situation on the frontier is Tenise, military activity both sides being seen yesterday, reports Reater's special corres- pondent on the Soviet-Mancha- kuo horder.
particular attention
JAPANESE CHIEFLY
TO BLAME FOR CLASH
Experts In London Hold Disputed Area Russia's
London, Aug. 4. The calm in Russian anta Japanese official circity in Lon don. with regard to the Russo- Japanese frontier lighting, is reflected in the comments of the newspaper diplomatic
corres-
pondents, as well as the depar-
ture of Mr. Neville Chamberlain!
yesterday for a fishing holiday in Scotland, after his long talk with Lord Halifax with regard, te the prospects of varly comple tion of the Anglo-Italian agree ment. and the Far Eastern situation, and with Mr. Maleolni MacDonald on Palestine.
The Times diplomatic correspondent
still
ays that it seems clear the disputed Is Russian, but the exnet eireanistances of the fighting are abscure. The Soviet atthude from both sides come reports of a appears to be remarkably Arru, bul
desire to keep the conflict local and to end it quickly
It is a question of whether the fival
commanders on the spot can He adds that Manchukuo is paying Į keep a like scuse of proportion.
The writer adds that experts stop London seem to Soviet planes from flying over her
believe that territory. 11 is believed that as
Japanese are mainly to blame result of the very extensive prepara- attacking the tiili, and there is some
ions of the past few days, the au
surprise at the number of Japanese thorities are satisfied they can offer.
(Continued on Page 7.) lively resist attempts to violate the frontier by atr.
it
There has been no further report during the past 24 hours of attempts by Soviet planes to fly over Manchu- kuo or Korean territory.
The Japanese sull hold Changku- feng and Chaotsaoping. There was Intermittent artillery fre att day yesterday, the Soviet batteries con- centrating on the Japanese positions at Changkufeng and Shaofoosping. Otherwise nothing alarming occurred, ----Reuter.
BOMBS KILL ·
VILLAGERS
Planes Continue To
Raid Kwangtung
FORMOSA FLOODS SERIOUS
Railways Unable To Function
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WHITEAWAY'S
SIBERIA
for Rights in China
In a great outpouring of affection, the people of Sweden honoured their beloved King Gustaf on his recent 80th birthday. He is shown above speaking in Stockholm on that occasion. Left to right are President Kyosti Kallio of Finland, King Haakon of Norway, King Gustaf and King Christian of Denmark. Later. erect in his saddle, the King reviewed troops.
JAPANESE REFUSAL
NAVY DISAPPROVES JAPAN'S CLOSING OF KIUKIANG DOOR
Ban May Give Precedent For Hankow "Lock-Out'
Shanghai, Aug. 4.
British firms, whose employees are prevented from returning to Kiukiang from their refuges on British gunboats and merchant vessels, have made strong repre- sentations to the British Embassy urging that a protest should be made to Japan.
It is reliably learned that the British Navy has intimated the view that there is no validity in the Japanese contention that it would not be safe for foreigners to return to Kiukiang.
British businessmen stress that if the Japanese ban on the return of foreigners is accepted this case will create a precedent whereby foreigners will be barred from a re-entry to Hankow should this place be occupied
TO ALLOW DREDGING by the Japanese-Iteuter. OF WHANGPOO WILL STOP BRITISH SHIPS
London, Aug. 4.
In a letter to the Times to-day, Mr. Edward Mackay, former chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, says that with regard to the refusal of the Japanese military authorities to allow the Whangpoo Conservancy Board to continue dredging the river between Woosung and Shanghai, deep-draught vessels, most of which are British and American, will soon be unable to reach the port.
He says.he understands the Canadian Pacific and President liners have already intimated their intention to omit calls.
No reason is advanced bay Japanese for their action which, with the fighting area for removed fron | Shanghal, cannot be justißerl. The Japanese may have in view develop- ment of Woosung as a port to cater to the valuable export and import trade of the Yangtse northern and
southern ports, leaving Shanghai in high and dry; or they may wish to the develop Tinagtao as such a port. In inetther cuse, if they render the Whang-
ungavigable ไป Doo
deep-draught vessels they will isolate Shangha and millions of British capital will be lost.
Tokyo, Aug. 4. Railways in northern Formosa have been brought to a standstill as a result of heavy rains and the flooding of a "vast area."
house's are
Japanese reports state that wide- spread damage has been caused, and that 21,000 concreto dooded in the Taikoku aren alone,
It is said timt 30 houses collapsed, though the number of casualties in not available.—United Press.
The letter adds that the British Ambassador to Tukyn should be invited to ask the Japanese Foreign Minister what is the objection to the Conservancy Board carrying on the vital work of dredging the Whang- poo, and he should necept no reply which savours of prevarication --- Reuter.
GUERILLAS SCORING IN MANY DISTRICTS
Severe In Three Provinces
QUARTER MILLION CHINESE KILLED
Wounded Total Many More, And Many Can't Be Treated
Out of 500,000 Chinese soldiers! wounded during the Sing-Japanese fighting on various fronts in the past
menulis twelve
little more thurt 120,000 had received treatments ini the 417 hospitals established by the Government
rivil organs throughout the country, according to Dr. Fan Thut-chiu, director of the National Wounded Soldiers' Medical Service Association, who recently arrived in the Colony from Hankow on his way to Cunton to establish a military hospital.
Since the beginning of the war, continued Dr. Fan in an interview) i with local pressmen, the percentage of the wounded and the dead by the battlefelds on the Chinese side is approximately 2 to 1. The well-known medical worker gave the total Chinese casualty list as about 750,000, with 250,000 directly killed on all fronts, but he pointed out that many of the critically wounded Chinese soldiers often died before they could be moved 10 field hospitals.
A great proportion of the total Chengchow, Aug 1,
Chinese wounded were soldiers from Following a fierce attack, Chinese Kwangs,
Hunan Kwangtung and forces re-occupied Antze, south-east provinces, he added. of Peiping, August 1, a belated mill-
to Hunan to-day, according tary report reveals. The Japanese Fan, is the main brac of medical
forced to flee in a northerly
were
British Officer Killed H.M.S. Gnat, which was
im- mediately despatched to the scene Crawley. where Captain J. G. C. British commander of the Chinese customs cruiser, Was killed. by Japanese machine-gun bullets when the vessel was attacked by Japanese seaplanes on Tuesday afternoon, re- turned to Hankaw yesterday after- noon with three bodies which were curried ushere by coolies.
Captain Crawley's body was taken to the International Hospital.
Licut-Commander E. Neville, in an interview with Reuter, said Utat about 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday Japanese seaplanes attacked Chinese customs cruiser, Chianghaing, (Continued on Page 7.),
six the
STOP PRESS
RUSSIANS BOMBARD KOREAN
VILLAGES
Tokyo, Aug. 4.
It is officially stated that Dr Soviet artillery, operating
direction, with the Chinese in close treatment for the wounded. Every from points cast of tho soldier in hospital received twenty Tumen River, indiscrimin-
a day.
WORLD'S LARGEST P
LINER SOON TO BE LAUNCHED
London, Aug. 3. Arrangements are in hand for the launching ceremony at the new Cunard White Star liner, Queen Elizabeth, sister shio to the Queen Mary, which will be in the afternoon of September 27.
cents a
CONTROL ORGANISED
Bureau of Medical Service of the
The report adds that traffic on the Pelping-Hankow Railway has been
Government medical service Isately shelled Kozo and So- disrupted as several bridges and sections of the track near Matouchen now under the sole control of the zan, villages in North Korea and Hanton in south Hope have Ministry of War, with the assistance from yesterday at nightfall More than 700 Munchukuo irregulars the Ministry of Interior, while the until I a.m. to-day.-Reuter. in Minokiachwan in Hopel have ro- volted and are joining the Chinese,teading civil organisation in the ser- Central News.
been damaged by Chinese guorillas.
as the Burenu of Medical Service of
vice is the Christian Association for, Wounded Soldiers' Medical Service, CHINESE PRESSING
which works in collaboration with 07 Chengcho, được đ
missionary hospitals in various pro- Chinese forces in east Shantung are vinces, Dr. Fan informed the press pressing towards Klaohslen, south-
The Association with its lead- enat of Knomi, on the Kinotal Rafi- quarters in Slan has more than ten way. Fighting has already broken stations in Honun out in the southern outskirts of the
Hupch, Anhwel, town with the Chinese steadily ad- Klangel and Szechuan provinces. vancing.
The medical corps of the Interna- tional Red Cross Association and the Meanwhile, it is learned that Red Cross Association of China have Pork Chinese mobile bands staged a night
attack on Cheťoo
Special provision has been neces- sary to cope with the problem of the coincidence of traffic due to the huge crowds anticipated on the south bank of the Clyde opposite John Brown's yard with traffic to the Empire Ex- hibition Lit Bellahottston British Wireless.
Canton, Aug. 4. Official Chinese reports issued this
QUEEN MARY TO VISIT ton does not gested by Washing- afternoon disclose that at 10 a.m. within the Wash- yesterday three Japanese aircraft
EMPIRE EXHIBITION. Ington Trenty which dhaka with dropped alx bombs at Wonghunkong, matters of irreconcilable differences killing five and demolishing a num-
London, Aug. 3. between the natio
nations.
It is officially announced that Queen ber of houses.
NO FIRING TO-NIGHT Fresident Cardenas suggests that
Mary will visit the Empire Exhibition American and Mexican representa- At 3 p.m. nine planes dropped nt Ginggow on September 5 and 9. By a notice posted in the Harbour tives be appointed to fix within rea- twenty bombs on Chengling and Her Majesty will then be in realdence Onice to-day, all shipping to notified sonable limit, the value of properties Wangilch, villagos on the Kowloon- at the palace of Holyrood House, and that firing practice which taken, and the manner of payment Canton Hallway. More than twelve will motor from there to Glasgow. have taken place to-night by the equitable for nationals and foreign- porAONS were killed and twenty Both visita will be of private 2nd Battalion Royal Scots has been ers-Reuter.
houses wrecked.--United Press. character.-British Wireless.
postponed until September 0.
WOB
to
were
August 2, in- also done valuable service for the flicting severe losses on the Japanese, wounded soldiers, he said. Thoy seized more than 80 rifles, two
Though much had been done there important steps to be taken to machine-guns and 12 armoured cars.
improve the service to the wounded: --Central News,
(1) separnio: treatment for critically and slightly wounded soldiers; (2) transportation of wounded soldiers from the front to the rear; and (3) supervision of the wounded while In hospitals.
CHINESE SURROUNDING
SINKIANG
Slan, Aug. 4. Military reports received from
(Continued on: Page 7,)
(Further Stop Press News on Page 12.)