THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST
1988. 26,
Powerful Guerilla Force Wrecks Railway AND NOW
WELL-ARMED UNITS
DESTROY ARMOURED TRAIN CAR, PLANE
Tientsin's Communications Interrupted Every Day
Peiping, Aug. 25.
LOYALISTS ON GREAT OFFENSIVE
Inflicting Sovere Casualties On Insurgents
Hendaye, Aug. 25. The Battle of the Ebro is a month old to-day.
Apparently the Loyalist offen- sive has more than accomplished its purpose and there are indien-
The relentless activity of guerillas in cast Hopeitions now that, with pressure threatens to disrupt railway communications between Peiping and Mukden,
During the last few days the track has been damaged at least once daily between Tientsin and Shanhaikwan, trains in both directions ruming hours late while repair gangs try to keep pace with the wrecking activities.
The latest incident has occurred near Tangku, Tientsin's port, this morning, when a section of the track was removed and trains were delayed four hours while -repairs were made. Similar breaks were made last night near Changli, in the Chinwangtao area, where one train was derailed without casualties.
Travellers report that trains,
travelling et night now carry no Hights, und passengers are warned to lie on the floor at the first sound of fring.
They report that a wrecked plane is near the railway track near Tien- tsin. It is unknown whether the machine was brought down by guerillas, but a damaged car of an armoured train in the same aren indicates that the guerillas ore armed with
than machine-guns.-- more Reuter.
Garrison Relieved
Tientsin, Aug, 25.
It is reported that the Japanese
LINDBERGH PUNCHES
BODY GUARD Ogpu Agent Knocked Out By Airman
Paris, Aug. 25.
An incident in connection with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's visit to
DALADIER SUBDUES CRITICS
Popular Front To Back Premier's Social Rulings
Parks, Aug. 25.
Daladter, holding firm to his stand- With the Premier, M. Edouard point, the political storm arising out of his proposal to modify the 40-hour week In the
of National
cause
Defence and economic stability shows signs of abating.
A communique Issued after a three- relieved elsewhere, the Loyalist hour meeting of the National Com- offensive will develop into the mittee of the Rassemblement Pop
laire
which represents the Popular greatest battle since the incep- Front throughout the country, ex- regarding the provision National Defence and the independ- ace of the country," while upholding the Popular Front and maintaining the Integrity of social laws-Reuter.
on of Civil War over two years presses unanimity
of "all necessities for
ago,
RADIO BROADCAST
Concert from the Studio By
Prof. Harry, Ore
"UNDER BIG BEN"
Radio Programme Broadcast by B.W. on a Frequency of 845 kc's, and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 P.m. and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's, per second.
6.00 Dance Music.
That Musie; Fox-Trots Swing Thankful....Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra with vocal chorus by Louis Armstrong; Goody-Goody; It's Been So Long
(From "The Great Ziegfeld')....' Benny Goodman and His Orchestra vocal refrain by Hel
Helen Ward: Tango-Lu Carcajada; doble-Bella Espanola
oin....Orquesin with
vocni Tipica Roberto Firme now
Glory Of refrain: Fox-Trots-The Love; Hold Me Tight I'm Falling Jay Wilbur
He Band with
Wani ifistory (From
tom Palm Spring'); There Isn't any Limit To My Love..... Itudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees: Humba Fox-Trot-Serenade From Gin The Mo
Deceivers'): Fox-Trot-
Moonlight (From Jackson
Nearly 60,000 Loyalists are opposing 60,000 Insurgents. The butter claim to have captured 4,000
Loyalist prisoners since Saturday but the Loyalists, on the other hand, claim that the insurgents have sustained
huge casualties.
The heavy fighting continues along the entire river front.-nited Press.
Celebrating Wilhelmina's Accession
Thousands To Pay Queen Homage
garrison which has been besieged for Soviet Russia is just reported from Majesty at the Naarlem Railway
Amsterdam. Aug. 25.
anniversary The fortieth
of the Accession of Queen Wilhelmina to the Netherlands Throne will be cele brated throughout the country from September 5 to September 10.
Celebrations in Amsterdam will arrival of Her commence with the
some time by guerillas at Yuen hus Moscow,
Station, after which Queen Wilhel been relieved by reinforcements.
Col. Lindbergh noticed that he
will make a triumphat passage The guerillas, however,
re- was being are
constantly shadowed ported to have taken strom: through the streets of Moscow. He hugh the city to her Palace.
up
The official commentoration duy positions in the hill close to the turned suddenly, and punched his
will be September Ú when 10,000 railway between Luasion and shndower on the noMM
men and women, delegates from all Shunhalkwan-Renter.
Next morning Colonel Lindbergh received a telephone call from the OGPU.
Claim Guerillas Defeated
Pelping, Aug. 25.
"The man you knockert out was a police offeer who was acting as your
A Japanese spokesman announced bodyguard," said OGPU Commis to-day that 500 "bandits" launched sioner Yeshov in an aggrieved voice. an assault on Japanese forces be-Trans-Ocean..
tween Fengsun and Lincheng..
Reinforcements were despatched
from the Lincheng garrison, id the guerillas were repulsed. They left 70 dead.
The spokesman also claims that Japanese troops defeated 200 Com- munist querillas six miles south-west of Tehchow, in northern Shantung on August 22, while on the same day 500 guerillas were defented Afteen miles south-east United Press.
of Tehelow..
Thoughts Of Dying Father Stayed Hand
But Do Not Keep Li Out Of Gaol
Home Fleet
Prepares For Short Cruise
London. Aug. 25.
'The Admiralty announces that the Home Fleet will leave on its regular autuma cruise next month,
FIREMAN SHOT
Medway And Submarines Going South
HMS. Medway, with six sub- marines and two destroyers, leaves
vocalists: Don't
In
Hacivers')....Jack
'Gay
Make
and His Orchestra at the Dorchester Hotel, London with vocal refrain; Slow Fox-Trot-Nightfall; Fox-Trot -Way Down Yonder In New Orleans ...Scott Wood and His Six Swingers with vocal chorus.
BIR
Hongkong to-day for Singapore. The London Relay-'Under
Medway will sail. Bp.m.. but the submarines will leave earlier,
The 1wo destroyers going Singapore are HLM.S. Westcott and
1.M.S. Diana,
to
A talk by Howard Marshall. 7.00 Frank Titterton (Tenor) and Doris Vane (Soprano) with the New Light Symphony Orchestra.
March (Erle Bridge
the So New Lght Symphony |
The submarines leaving for south are the Rainbow, Olympus Perseus, Crampus, Pandora Orpheus.
Frank
with
Orchestra
by Joseph conducted
Eyes (Tosti, We Lewis; Denuty's and
Titterion thorley)... Fred Hartley and His Quintet: Inci
utal
To "Mary Rose" Munic
from Weihaiwel,
II.M.S. Defender arrived to-day
Raiders Find Opium, Heroin
Rolds on two narcotic divans in
months. Au Sal
arts of the Netherlands Empire, Temple Street on August 10 by will march to the Royal Palace, Revenue Offerr Warden resulted in where they will do hontage to their the appearance of Che Kwong and ruier-Trans-Orcan.
Au Sal before Mr. Q. A. A. Binefad- yen at Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
Charged with possession at 101 heroin pills, Che was given nine month: imprisonment and fined $100 or another three Was charged with possession of mace of opium and 57 heroin pills, and was fined $175 or six months with an additional six months' hard labour.
on a divan in the Another raid some street on August 24 ied to the arrest of Wong Choi who was fined $70 or four months' hard labour for possession of four mace of opium.
IN LEG
the
As a result of a fracas at Junction of Nathah Road and Hai- phong Road at 3.30 am. to-day, fireman was shot in the legt by a Chinese Police Constable while trying to evade detention.
It appears that the fireman who was off-duty at the time, was making merry with some friends when
The Fleet will be composed of Chinese paliceman came up and re- five battleships, six eruisers, three monstrated with him for behaving aircraft carriers, three destroyer in a disorderly manner. Another flotillas and
the
į! is
the 2nd Submarine pullerman joined him and the fire- Flotilla, and will leave Home portsman, resenting
interference, G. The knocked both the men down. on and after September majority of the warships will be in understood. Invergordon from September 9 to October 17, at Scapa Flow
from October 18 to October 25, and at Rosyth from October 26 to November
The venal will return to their ports on November
14.
Reuter,
At the point of extracting a foun- Home tain pen from the coat of a Chinese in Possession Street, Li Hing-wing. 36, unemployed, was said to have thought of his dying father, and re- frained from the theft. But he was arrested by a Chinese detective any- way,
Li was sentenced to four months' hurd labour by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy to-day for attempted larceny. Defendant had five previous convictions,
EUROPEAN RESIDENTS ROBBED
Mr.. A. 1. Potts, of "High House." Mount Davis Road, reported the theft of a silver salver worth $100 from his home yesterday.
17
36 Now Dead FOOD CONTROL
In Air Crash
Tokyo, Aug. 29.
British Firms Driven From Manchukuo
Harbin, Aug. 25. Owing to the enforcement of the Insurance Law, promulgated by the Government In Hsinking, 28 Insur-; ance companies, of which eleven are British, have withdrawn from busi-
(O'Neill). New Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman O'Neill: A Summer Night (Marzials and Goring Thomas): My Dearest Heart (Sullivan)....Doris Vane with Plano: Cello Obbligato; Oh! No John
That (Arr. Sharp); Songs Live For ever (Lockton, Longstaffe); Intro- Come back to Erin; All through the night; Annie Laurie; Sally, in our
Alley.... Frank Titterton; Mock Morris Dances (Grainger); Handel la The Strand (Grainger).....New Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.
7.40 Chamber Music. Gavotte In E (For Strings-Bach -arr. J. H. Wood); Minuet (Boc- cherini)
The Walter String Jean Pougnet); Players (Lender: Gavotte "Mignon" - Thomas); Orientale (Glazounov) ...Virtuoso arr, Sharpe): Molly On The Shore String Quartel; Tambourin (Gossecs, (Grainger)....Virtuoso String Quar-
tel.
8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.
8.03 Stullo A Tiano Recital by f Professor Harry Ore.
Air in G (Bach-Saint-Saens); 2. Rigxion (Monsig
(Monsigny): 3. The Bag- pipe (Hiller): 4 Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Liszt): 5. American Polonalse (Carpenter): 6. Mediin. tion (Tschaikovsky); 7. A Mountain Blood (A. Brax): 9. (a) Dance of
ning Leave:
(b) Sledge Drive (Palmgren).
Orchestral.
the
8.33
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Mendelssohn): Overture....Berlin
State Opera Orchestra conducted by
Dr. Leo Blech.
8.45
Studio-Rev. C. B. R. Sargent 41st Series of Opera.. "Veril
Programme."
9.30 London Relay-The News 9.50 Ellaline Terris and Seymour Hicks Medley,
strings
and
A third policeman came up and the freman ran off. He was pursued by the policeman who called on him to stop and fired at his legs when the A shot reman refused to do so, grazed the calf of the fireman who was then taught and detained pend-ness in Manchu stipulates that any Only a penny. Sir:
Intro: Honeysuckle and the Bee; Simple little ing further investigation,
The new low insurance company desirous of con
Church Parade; Lousiana taining operations in Manchukuo Lou: I want yer. ma honey; And must open a branch office at Hsinking her golden hair was hanging down and must also deposit 300,000 yuan her
back with Orchestra, .Ellaline Terris with the Manchukuo Government. Seymouír Reuter.
10,30 Variety with Murgatroyd and Winterbottom, the Hill Billies and Jack Hylon's Orchestra,
Moonlight On The Prairie (From the Film): Home on the Range (Arr. Ted
_and_Ezra)
Ezra)....The Hill Billies; If You Pretend You're Blue (M. Crick R. Frankau-T Handley) Murgatroyd and Winterbottom; Un- bellovable (From "Swing Along")-
x-Trot: Drop In Next Time You're Passing (From "Going Places Fox-Trot....Jack Hylton and lis Orchestra with vocal refrain: Through
Dream The Doorway of
(From Big Broadenst of 1030')....Justion
ORGANISED
London, Aug. 25. Britain' organisation for food The number of deaths in the air disaster at Omori, in the southern control in time of war is now com- suburbs of Tokyo, has mounted to plete, with the final appointments of Divisional Olcers by the Board of Trade..
30.
Among the virtins
Mr. ia Himate Yamamoto, proprietor of
Sir Reginald Ford will be Chief the factory whose hands rushed to Divisional Officer for London and the the unfortunate plane to extricate the Home counties. occupants from the wreckage" when the gasoline tank exploded.
The
officers
Land Values
Rising
****
The appreciated value of land Fox- the Colony was this morning when
well demonstrated an auction of 0,000 square feet at Taun Wan, known ng Lot 204, was held at the District appointed for the Once South." The limited capacity of the inter-London and Home counties will take With an upset price of $384 and an Dragonette (Soprano) with Orches- national airport at
at Haneda, in the over the work previously underlaken annual Crown rental of $40, bidding tral Accompaniment: I Love The suburbs of Tokyo, is blamed, for the by the Food (Defence Plans) disaster. Traning lights are usually Department and with officers in ather weitt up, to $1,250 at which priest Moon (P. Rubens); From The Land
Sky-Blue was secured by Wu Tak-chu, of No.1or The
Water (From made from Haneda Airport, which is parts of Britain will assist in the 41, Des Voeux Road Central. It is "Four American-Indian Songs" C. often dangerously crowded.—Domei creation of a shadow organisation
W. Cadman)......Howard Incoba to build a soy factory.
The plane crashed in the factory for food control purposes In the understoud that the site is required Enxophone, Solo) with String Quin-
yard after a collision in the alr, event of war.-Reuter Special,
three of its crew.
Mr. C. E. Gahagan, of 9 Causeway The second plane was alre lost-with Hill, reported the loss from his home of a gold wrist watchs, which is in- sured for $100.
Among the property stolen from the residence of Mr. T. C. Beck on the Peak yesterday was a gold wedd- ing ring, whose loss was not,dis- covered when the first report was made to the police,
STOCK MARKET IMPROVEMENT
London, Aug. 25, Earlier promise of greater activity on the London Stock Exchange failed to materiallec, but prices generally. closed higher to-day.
EXPELLED FROM H. K.
Warten Peter -Ovakimlan, 37. Gill-edged foreign bonds were American, was fined $20 and had an steady, while Industrials showed expulsion order made agunst him by fractional gains, Kaffis cased on Mr. R. Edwards at Central Magla- | inck of expected Parts support after tracy this morning, when he was an early improvement, and closed) charged with entering the Colony slightly higher on the balance- without a valid passport.
Reuter Special. “
Poison Gas
Charge Put
To League
The
Geneva, Aug. 25. Chinese permanent delegate to the League of Na- tions, Dr. Victor Hoo, has inform- ed the Secretary of the League, M. Avenol, that the Japanese destroyed two Chinese battalions with poison gas at Chuchwang.--- Reuter,
FRUIT HAWKERS COLLECT $300,000
Three hundred thousand dollars in were Chinese National Currency
the collected by fruit hawkers in Sheungwan district in their three-day campaign for funds for the Chinese Government, which ended last night, according to an estimate.
The amount is the highest reached in the local movement. Hawkers in all other sections collected a
total
sum of $370,000 Chinese National
Currency..
The drive is continuing and the organisers hope the grand fatal may exceed $1,000,000.
tet and Harp: Timber-Fox-Trot; | Goodnight. My Love-Fox-Trot (From Stowaway')....Jack Hylton And His Orchestra with vocal re- frain.
11.00 Clone Down.
SHIPS IN RADIO COMMUNICATION
The following ships are expected to be in wireless communication with Hongkong Radio Station to-day:
Hllos; Eskbank: Haltan; Griekse- nnu: Halyang: Empress of Japan;] Hupeh: Chaksang: Sulsang: Kum- Bang: Santhia; Yuensang; Hokusan Maru; Empress of Canada; Conte Rosso; Pleasantville; Kamo Maru; Kasimo Maru; Canton; Alipore.
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