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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938.
LOYALIST FORCES
ADVANCE
Cut Insurgents' Communications
Divan Keeper Outraged At Police Raid
Three Temple St. Keepers Caught
SHANGHAI HEARS FIRING
Vigilant For Any Terrorist Acts
Barcelona, Aug. 10.
Shanghai, Aug. 11.. His feelings of proprielry outraged, Following their initial advance To Chung, 33, who had been arrested
Brilliant aunshine returned to across the Segre River yesterday; for running a divan in Temple Street, Shanghal to-day and the vigilance of Loyalist headquarters now claim that protested that his premises had been the authorities in the International they have effected another crossing of the
river half-way between entered with a warrant when be Settlement and French Concession Lerida and Balaguer, over
which appeared before Mr. Macfadyen at was redoubled. Insurgent munitions and supplies the Kowloon Magistracy this mor have been passing, has been cut bying. the
forces. advancing Loyalist Reuter..
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He was assured by the court that everything had been in order. When he entered the divan, Revenue Officer E. T. Warden had had a permanent warrant which he did not produce as Tse had not asked for it at the time, Six smokers, 71 heroin pills and two mace of oplum had been found.
Tse was sentenced to six months hard labour and fined $180 or a fur- Ther six months.
charge Leung Yiu, 41, caught in of another divan in Temple Street, was sentenced to nine months and fined $998 or three months for the possession of 998 pills.
has been just about the same per person; 381.38 million gallons were
For the possession of 170 pills and consumed up to the end of July last as compared with 310.01 million gal-three mace of opium at a third divan ions in 1937. However, the present in Temple Street, Wong Po, 38, was population is estimated to be 500,000 sentenced to six months and fined as compared with the 1037 figure of $285 or six months.
550,75 mil 380,000, On the sand, 550 lion gallons have been consumed as compared with 492.38 milion gallons in 1937, while the population is - timated to be 650,000 as compared 4145,000 last year. On the mainland the consumption per head has been 24.6 gallons and on the island it has been 32.3 gallons,
In all cases the water, storage in the reservoirs is well below the over- flow. At Jubilee Dam It Is 65 feet 3 inches below, at Kowloon Byewash it is 13 feet 6 inches, and at Kowloon
it Main is 22
22 feet inch. The eight rerervoles on the island average 18 feet below the overflow, the worst! being at Tytam Tuk which is 25 feet 11 Inches short of
overflow. the
It is interesting to note that whereas in July 1937 there were cer- tain water restrictions on the island during July, a constant supply has been given to all districts during the whole of the month just passed.
CHOLERA CONTINUES UNABATED
The cholera scourge continues un- abated in Hongkong, ten new cares being added to the year's list, which now totals 294.
Dysentery also continues to in- crease, three additional notifications being made during the pust 24 hours, making the aggregate 500.
There were seven cases of enterle fever and four of meningitis during yesterday.
esc
JAPANESE QUELL TIENTSIN RIOTS
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Shanghai, Aug. 11., Ten Chinese were killed by Japah-
garrison
Tientsin troops following a daring attack by about a hundred Chinese outlaws in Prison No. 3 In the Chinese section Tientsin at p.m. on Tuesday,
The attackers overpowered the succeeded in Chinese guards and releasing 200 Chinese prisoners.
Chinese, Eighty
including -bath assailants and convicts, were сэр- tured. The others are still large-Reuter Special
Mule Kills Chinese
This was the result of the fear that more clement weather is conducive to terrorist activities.
of
So far, however, the only reports from the Nastao of trouble come border of the, French Concession,
bursts where repeated from machine-gun fire and perasional ex- plosions, resembling those of hand heard inside the grenades, were Settlement this morning.
Rumours are current that small bands of guerillas may be attempting an invasion but it is generally con- sidered that the firing emanated from nervous Japanese sentries who have been so keyed up by reports of im- TO pending trouble that they are_Bring ut. every shadow-Reuter away (Special.
ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION
Hankow; Aug. 11. A hand grenade exploded behind Луспис the Petain Apartments on Petain, in the French Concession, at three o'clock yesterday morning, throwing the people there into a panic, according to a Shanghai report. Several windows of the apartments Haw- were shattered by shrapnel. ever, no one was injured.
A stable-boy named Fong Fat, 20, employed at Whitfield Barracks, was Injured yesterday
According to Investigations by the while fatally endeavouring to capture an escaped French Police, the hand grenade was In hospital shortly accidently caused to explode by a He died mule.
French soldier in the barracks be- afterwards.
The Incident occurred about 3 p.m.hind the Petain Apartments.
The report also revealed that an and Fong was dragged for a consi- derable distance along the ground by unexploded bomb was found in the at five the mule. He was taken to hospital International Settlement with multiple injuries, and died o'clock yesterday morning-Centrul
News. about.5 p.m.
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