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Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1601
No. 15530
一拜敢 號三月十英港香
OCTOBER MONDAY,
3, 1938.
日十月八
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GENERAL APPEASEMENT PLAN
Queen Mother's MOOTED FOR EUROPE BY GERMAN LEADER
Condition
LONDON, Oct. 2. Queen Mary's condition was about the same to-day, but she is remaining in her room as a precaution.
The Queen Mother is suf- fering from laryngitis.- Reuter Special.
Typhoon: No Threat To Colony
Moving Towards Hainan Strait
ALTHOUGH it may become
necessary later to holst the No. 8 typhoon signal, Hongkong is not at present menaced by the typhoon which caused No. 1 signal to be hoisted at 10.26 a.m. to-day.
The typhoon, which was stationary this morning, is now believed to be travelling towards Hainan Strait, away from Hongkong.
There is not much danger that it the direction of will develop in Hongkong, and, unless it changes its
nol threaten .course, it will
Colony.
PLENTY OF RAIN
this
Mr. C. W. Jeffries, the Director of the Royal Observatory, said this afternoon: "Although I do not think (Continued on Page 4
American Air Mail May Go To U.K.
Air mail for America, which was be taken by Imperial Airways London to-morrow and shipped from there across the Atlantic.
• to have left by Clipper to-day, may
the
Owing to typhoon conditions Clipper's fight from Manila to Hong-
the plane
re-
kong was cancelled, Next Clipper turning to Al is due here on October 13.
Following change of schedule, the. Home mail via Imperial Airways will on Wednesday, Hongcong reach Instead of Tuesday, this week.
Herr Hitler Planning New International Parleys
Berlin, Oct. 3.
HERR ADOLF HITLER, Chancellor of Germany, is expected to propose
shortly plans for the general appeasement of Europë.
He will spend the next three months in retirement in his country home at Borchtesgaden planning an immense and complicated system of discussions and agreements designed to preserve the peace of the world. But first he will proclaim the annexation of the Sudeten areas and is now on his way to Eger with Herr Konrad Henlein.
The groundwork of the general appeasement plan which the Fuehrer is said to be working on has been delegated to General Goering, Herr Goebels, and Herr von Ribbentrop.
The plan, which the Fuehrer, will spend the next three months in designing during his retirement, will probably rest on three main principles:
An arms limitation agreement restricting the use of heavy bombers, heavy artillery and gas;
A tri-Power meeting in which the Spanish and Mediterranean ques tions will be exhaustively discussed and clarified between Italy, France and to erase the Britain, with a German observer assisting and attempting Franco-Italian_differences and make effective the Anglo-Italian pact pre- paratory to a Four-Power collaboration plan; and
A Franco-German agreement, similar to the Anglo-German Agree ment, to dissolve the historical bitterness between the two nations.-United Press.
HITLER FOLLOWS armY
It is announced that the German Chancellor is behind
BEYREUTH, Bavaria, Oct. 3.
the goose-stepping army
of occupation which has
already crossed the border.
Desire For Knowledge
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DUN LOP
TOWELS OF PROWTH;
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyre with 2,000 Teeth
CROWDING ALONG the Charlottenburger Chaussce, Berlin, thousands of Germans craned their necks to see this parade of big guns-some with barrels 40ft. long. The military show was put on in honour of Admiral Horthy. guest of Herr Hitler.
JAPANESE
SHIPS
MEET DISASTER IN YANGTSE DUELS
-TSINGYANG, Oct. 3.
ACCOMPANIED by some
of his generals, Herr Hitler (left) was photographed re cently during his. visit to Kehl He inspected troops
* 'Germany's
and
saw
fortifications.
new
Guerillas Harass Japanese
Threat To Sian Rly.
W
Is. Removed
LOYANG, Oct. 3. WITH the recapture of Menghsien and Wuchih, the war situation along the north bank of the Yellow River has turned greatly in favour of the Chinese.
The Japanese are retiring in a northerly direction through Siuwu. A strong Chinese force has been sent to intercept the invaders.
Tsinotso station, on the Tao- kow-Chinghua Railway, was re- taken by Chinese troops yester- day-Central News,
JAPANESE SEND MORE TROOPS
ady crossed the port will enter Eger at 10 am. to Led To Prison Bank utright, Loss, of life from this quals disabled and two. It de senatrating 40,030 troops an
formally proclaim the annexation of the ceded terri- tories.
It is expected that he will cross the border near Asch. Both Eger and Asch are in zone three, into which the German troops are to enter to-day.
Nazi welfare organisations will follow the troops in order to "care for the populace pauperised by Czech terror."
The Sudeten population is preparing to wildly celebrate the arrival of Herr Hitler, who is to be accompanied, according to reporta, by Herr Henlein.
Church bells chined and with ablaze The village of Eisenstein, that zone.
the streets were
Sudeten smiling swastikcas and normally with a population of 3,400 has only twenty members Germans, who tossed Rowers under re- the hob-nailed boats of the infantry. of the Sudeten free corps
The columns have spread along a maining the remainder having 43-mile long strip of frontier.
towns entered included Reshensu. fled into Germany during "a week of terrorism by red Czech Weigsdorf, Echland, Ebersbach and moba and gendarmes."
R
Selfhenners.
The
army new
the zone In the southern continued pour into the The town is not included in the firat occupation zones and in there Reich territory. There appeared to no-man's Inndo no Czach resistance at any point, fore virtually in
Shop- and
the the
the territory, including plebiscite. pending
shops looted fortifications, appears to have been windows are broken, and the streets strewn with rubbish-left intact. United Preas.“
Avo in Saxony, AL Locbau,
under columns of German troops
Yon Bock Colonel-General Feder ended an all-night wait at exactly 1 am, on October 2, when they entered
Sausages Exhibit A In Central Court Case
Exhibit in a case at the Central Magistracy this morning was
a catty of sausages,
The sausages belonged to Lo Yee, 49-year-old widow. Twenty-year-old unemployed Teoi Hung liked sausages and attempted to relieve Lo of her uncooked dinner.
The attempt cost him a month's
For the next four weeks Tool will
inrd Inbour when he appeared before dwell in a place where he may dream Mr. R. Edwards at the Cenitali Magistrney thin morning.
of but never see sausages.
standing.
of
HA
JAD Wong Tak, 25-year-old unemployed, glanced at the definition
and of arceny” prison" in a book which he at- the trmpled to pilfer from Commercial Press show-room ta Queen's Road Central, he may have paused awhile,
Wong tucked a dictionary un- der his arm as he was leaving the building. An alert salesman SAW the and when Wong ap-
act peared before Mr. B. Edwards
Central
Magistracy this morning he was awarded three months hard labour and re- commended for banishment,
at
Which only goes to show that too much learning can be a dangerous thing sometimes.
TEN-YEAR- OLD GIVES EVIDENCE
POLES MARCH IN
Story Balieved, But. Teschen, Oct. 3.-.
Caso Dismissed Yesterday a wandering 'populace openly weeping. watched many Poles,
the leadership under
THOUGH given very clearly General
march W. Bortonowski,
com- and definitely and believed to be across the Olsa Bridge and mence the peaceful occupation of the truth by the Magistrate, Mr. part of the Czech frontier, thus E. Himsworth, the evidence of liquidating a dispute of twenty
a ten-year-old child, Theresa yevin by stoild and un- Pereira, failed to convict Sui demonstrativo, wille bands played Yun-kan who was charged to- acroplanes droned overhead. day at the Magistracy with an One citizen sald to United Press attempted larceny.
to-day and "We may be Czechs
It was a rule of law, the magistrate Poles to-morrow-but we are always]
pointed out, that a person could not Silesions."
be convicted on the unsupported evidence of a child, and since i second witness, the child's father, could not corroborate the essential points of his daughter's story, the defendant was discharged.
and
Some Czech soldiers have already The remainder been withdrawn. have been instructed to remain in their barracks-United Press.
DALADIER WORRIED.
Paris, Oct. 3. The Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, is anticipating serious opposition to (Continued on Page 4.)
Civing her evidence in English, the complainant stated that on Satur day she went to a wedding at
(Continued on Page 4.)
the
numerous
Japanese
the drive
Hankow, Oct. 3.
been Considerable interest has aroused here at reports that a con- CHINESE ARTILLERY in the hilly country in the Yangtse centration of Japanese troops have The total mussed to drive against the Chinese area has had a brilliantly successful month.. number of Japanese vessels disabled during the last ten days in mobile units operating in the area bordering Hopei, Shansi and Charhar September totalled '129, according to a Chinese communique,
provinces.
understood that the Japanese Of ships hit 47 have been seriously
the Peiping-Sulyunn and Pelping- not definitely known but is believed to be considerable.
Hankow Railways for
the However, the number slain is Nanchang-Iludang front along the against the guerillas.
successful The guerillas, particularly
Army, have
been of less importance than the loss railway by of effective vessels of light draft, sorties against Japanese units among Eighth Route
the difficult mountain approaches. carrying out extensive raids on the since it is on these small craft
strong Japanese communications and have On Saturday morning that the Japanese Army must Chinese detachment challenged
accupied a large number of towns at slightly removed from the railway now increasingly depend for its force over 1,000 effective advance towards Han-Yangchinohen and Chengmenshan, zones.-Reuter Special.
north of Tehan. kow.
The fighting resulted in the death Having reached comparatively of 500 Japanese and the capture of 36 mountainous country the mechanised others. Chinese casualties numbered forces of the favaders, must progress 300,-Centrel News, more slowly by virtue, not only of
YANGTSE CROSSED the terrain but also of the more effec-
Hankow, Oct. 3. tive resistance which the Chinese, assisted by the natural contours, can
Japanese forces from Tienchincheng up. In these circumstances the have crossed the Yangtae to join in angtae has become a file-line for the the drive along the south bank of the Japanese
and the impld river towards Yanghsin, according to transfer of troops and light artillery information reaching here... and supplies from one side of the Cliinese artillery, state reports river to the other, and from one land-reaching the Chinese military head- ing to another, is of vital importance, quarters, hit a pontoon bridge erected more especially as with the rapidly by the Japanese across the Fu River:
for their advance on Tangbein. The falling flood level the heavier war- Bridge-in now ablazo'wki
forces,
broken
HEADING FOR S, CHINA?
ships ure unable to proceert over a wido aran to bombard Clilhose em- Reuter, placements and uttempt to silence to nn Infantry tem preparatory attack.Central News,.
NANCHANG-KIUKIANG RLY. GAINS
Nanchang, Oct. 3. Chinese troops continue to gain ground on the centre column of the
SHANGHAI, Oct. 2. There is some speculation here over large-scale Japanese troop movements which are reported by some observers. There is also a be
(Continued on Page 4.1
Thick, Oozing Mud Saves Kowloon-Canton Railway
Canton, Oct. 3.
Mud-thick, oozing mud that squelches between the toes and rises to the knees-is defeating Japanese bomber along the Kowloon- Canton Railway.
district
It WAB responsible for saving back to their bass, after having been from serious driven off by anti-aircraft fire from Tongtauha damage when four bombs, dropped Canton, when they dropped their by Japanese bombers, falled to ex-inisalles, which merely embedded plode in the vicinity of the railwayihemselves in the mud.
Another boint, however, station. The torpedoes fell, nose- frst, into the ooze, which was too near the railway track. It falled to soft to set off their percussion caps. do much damage-Our Own Corres-
The raiders. were on their way |pondent.
burst
NEAR FETING RAILWAY
Hankow, Oct. 3,
advancing west Japanese troops from Loshan have captured Hwai- (Continued on Page 4.)
STOP PRESS
SEAFORTHS RETURNING
The 1st Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, who arrived in Hong-. kong from Shanghat last week,.are returning to the northern city by the troopship Lancashire to-morrow.