V
NAZI WAR ON "TRAITORS” IN SUDETEN AREAS
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zareas, lays down that, the Swastika is hanceforth the national day."
The national emblem of the Reich -will in futuro be used by the civil authorities in the Sudolën funda.— Reuter.
MANY GERMAN THOOPS,
Prague, Oct. 10.
A correspondent travelling by car from Waldhus in Bavnela Through the occupied Sudeten Territory and over the new frontier Into Czecho- Slovakia found all the villages and hamlets in the Sudeten area occup!-
by
German troops, chiefly
ed
the units.
mectionised unt
scen
A number of Czech troops were
between
Pilsen
and Prague. In the German area no artillery evident, but large numbers of whippet tanks and ormoured cars could be
be seen. ΣΤΑ
places Dumerous along the
the road triumphal arches have been
each bearing banners Inscribed
thank our Fuehrer.” It was somewhat surprising to discover a village only seven miles from Pilsen covered with Swastika flags, although it is well within the Czech lines.Reuter,
crece
were occupied.
com-
Ger-
22-YEAR-OLD FRENCH
GIRL SURVIVES THIRD SEA DRAMÁ
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Immediately with all the chain. Starboard anchor seems to hold the
ship.
7.45 pm--Very heavy sens give terrible pitching. Starboard in-
chor and all the damaging windluss.
chúin breaks,
7.30 to 9.30 pm-Ship out of control and drifting south.
10.30 pmPosition very dan- gerous. Ship driting SSW. En- tirely out of control..
10.40 p.m. Ship bumps terribly on the bottom and blown en bencli.
Sounded all round. No leaking. Motintinous seas and ship pitching dangerously,
TAIKOO OFFER AID
The ship was aground on the sand- bank until 0.30 p.m. on October 9. in the Intervening forty-eight hours, the only entries in the log were that holds No. 1 and No. 2 flooded.
hnd been
Eventually in answer to radio calls the tug Taikoo came alongside and affered assistance, but the Yolande Bertin reached Hongkong under her own power. She will be thoroughly examined in dock,
ANOTHER SHIP IN TYPHOON
DESIGNED MANY BIG H.K. BUILDINGS
THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938.
Ex-Admiralty Chief Joins
LONDON EATS BOWLS OF RICE British Sympathisers with China Sit Down to Orient Dinners Newspaper
CHINESE BULWARK OF WORLD PEACE
LONDON, Oct. 10.
IN CELEBRATION of China's national day and to 1 raise funds for refugees about 400 people, both foreign and Chinese, sat down to a “bowl of rice dinner" here this evening.
Those present included Mr. Listowel, the Chairman, and Mr. Quo Tai-chi and Lord Cecil.
GUERILLAS BREAK JAPANESE LINES
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enemy out. They captured Japanese officers alive,
Another Chinese column in the
the
total 866up
to the invaders.
DAMAGES
London, Oct. 10.
Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, who ten
20 Warships MARINER'S CLAIM FOR days ago resigned from the ministry,
Off Swatow
SWATOW, Oct. 10.
JAPANESE warships
off the Swatow coast have been increased to twenty, cruising to and fro off Jaoping, Toklum and Tenghai.
Yesterday evening two Japanese naval planes scouted over Chaoyang, Wailoi, Hoi- fung and Lukfung.— Central News.
BRITAIN'S "BEST
signed a contract witly London's leading evening paper, the Evening Standard, to furnish regular articles (Continued from Page 1.)
on foreign and political questions.
On Tuesday Mr. Duft Cooper will salary in lieu of notier, the total answer Herr Hiller'e Saarbrucken damages, therefore, amounted to speech under the heading "Who $1,224.76. However, shortly after his Wants War?" dismissal, plaintiff managed to thi
Mr. Duff Cooper has already pub- olher employment and was now working as master of the Naveled two books and his writings Dockyard fug Cherub, for which ho are considered of considerable value was being paid $110 a week. As the events of the past few months.
because of his "inside knowledge" result he had decided to reduce the Though not known definitely it is claim by the amount of his earnings said that the remuneration will be which, when this period of three £400 a year, while Mr. Duff Cooper months
expired on November 2, would have totalled $172. Further, retains its salary of £000 a year as a member of the House of Commons. the defendons had just paid in the
Trans-Ocean. balance of the wages from July 23 and August 2, and the claim there- |~= fore now stood at $623.40.
ployment.
GI
In reply to the claim, went on Mr. Several days later, the parties met Strellett, defendant had filed a state-again, when defendant handed ment denying that plaintif was plaintif a letter confirming the dismissed and swaying that his cm-pointment and saying that ployment was for the term of the salary was to be $400.25 a month. Defendant also said the ship would
charter of the vessel.
MONTH'S TRIAL
The charter stipulated a month's trial, and a further period of six months if the charterers were satis Ged. Plaintiff denied knowledge of
of
and
be ready in the first week of Junu in expressed the desire that plain-
was to take it over at once. The employment commenced on June 2, and at
time was thero
**
cringed animated at the any reference to the charter, Flain- was employed
would tell the Court that ho steamer, an appointment which had would never have left his regular no limitations whatsoever.
unill
There was great enthusiasm when the Chairman read a telegram relating the Chinese victory south of the Yangtse,
"The Chinese are one of the bulwarks of world peace,"
Lord Cecil in
his declared three NEW CZECHI AREAS SEIZED
speech.
To the best of my knowledge they Prague, Oct. 10. The ship Delock which reached meantime opened an attack on Taian, have never in recent times begun an German Troops have overstepped Hongkang yesterday niso battled the
north of Yenchow. Hidden behind aggressive war and they are now the demarcation line at more than typhoon for two days, being driven their defence works, the Japanese fighting in self-defence, for the tree- one pont, particularly at Brannau,shore six miles cast of Hainan resis
resisted stubbornly. The battledom of their country and agalast the where two additional communes flead. The ship refloated under her
tinued until yesterday morning, most unjust and Intense mit own power after being grounded 19 | KAR
when a Chinese dare-to-die corpa, invasion they have ever experienced, A protest to the German
The Deslock, under Captainted by Captain Li Tien-yun, pentsaid the speaker. hours, mander was in vain, as he replied J. H. Longmire, was on the run from trated into the city through the west
GENERAL" Lord Cecil expressed the most that a deputation of the inhabitants Hongkong to Hongay to plek up a
bloody hand-to-hand combat profound sympathy for the noble
Relating the events which led to employment to join the new ship it had invited him to occupy the region (cargo.
took
place, resulting in
with which the Chinese General Sir Edmund
only a term. Ironside, the employment, Mr. Strellelt salde was employed for only a
APPOINTMENT TERMINATED because it is chiefly inhabited by
Annihilation of the Japanese guard- were
G.O.C. Eastern Command, who is re-that in August, 1037 his client was
Nothing further happened Sudeten Germons.”
ing the west gate,
the League of Nations hadgarded in some military circles as the chief officer of the s.5. Kong Ning, With their position becoming announced that China was in the fittest officer to command the British of which Capt. McCarthy, who died July 25, when plaintiff was astonish- untenable the Japanese fled in con-right and her Invaders in the wrong Army in the field, is making final recently, was the master. In Feb-ed to receive a letter from defendant employment and fusion In a northerly direction. The the duty of members of the League arrangements to leave England next ruary of this year, Capt. McCarthy terminating his Chinese took full control of Trion was therefore quite clear.
month to be Military Governor of became very sick and plaintiff was saying that the ship was to be look-
after by Mr. Callum, ed
the immediately
chief after the Japanese
appointed to take his place, Military Intervention was obviously Gibraltar.
A month later, defendant went on omcer. During his employment, out of the question, but, declared
board the Kong Ning, and asked there was no complaint about his Lord Ceell, two possible courses were
plaintiff it he would care to take up work whatever, nnd accordingly open
the appointment of master of the s.8. when he received the letter plaintiff Chuen Hing, which was then being told defendant he would not let the be ready matter rest there. Defendant ther rebuilt and expected to about the end of June.
said ike ship was being laid up and the when it was ready again he would As his appointment with
calf upon him Kong Ning was not a permanent one, plaintiff agreed to see the Chuch Institute. Hing, ofter which he informed de
On Jul
Institute that Mr. Callum was fendant that he thought it would be the July 27, plaintify discovered at possible for him to become master engaging new officers for the ship, If the terms were acceptable and it and it then dawned on him for the the accommodation could be en-frst time that the defendant had in larged.
fact no Intention of retaining his ser-
And that he was Ships expected to be in wireless
was being sup- his chief assistant. communication with Hongkong to-
told plaintiff that he had made the Mr. Strellelt alterations asked for. The question ring to the Lawson v. Nemazeo caso Ranpura, Bolstevnin, of salary was discussed, and plaintiff in 1923 in which Mr. Justice Gom Maru, Seistan,
Changon, said he could be relied to take uppertz held that three months' notice
+
(Continued from Page 1.) the projects sketched by Mr. show's hand.
Fel-retreat.--Centrol News,
The Hungarians, while the man army marches into Czecho- Slovakia from the north and west, have made maximum demands which, if agreed to, will deprive Slovakia of all her fertile plains and leave her only a
mountain barren
in range which pleblecite will be held.
The fact that negotiations are Among other things, Mr. Felshow proceeding suggests that the possi-was interested in theosophy, being a bility
of a settlement a little less member of the local Theosophical drastic is not yet excluded. Much Society. "He was prominent in the will depend on the advice tendered affairs of the Kowloon Residents' by certain great Powers who are Association, belonged to the local Interested in the question.
brauch of the League of Nations Union Council and was for long a member of St. Andrew's Church.
Deceased is mrvived by a widow and daughter.
"To-day is the most bitter day of our existence. We are draining the last dregs of the cup of humiliation," 1s the Czecho- Slovakian papers' comment on the day of the occupation of the final zone which is to be handed over to Germany-Reuter.
OCCUPATION COMPLETED
Berlin, Oct. 10.
The German Supreme Command announced the completion of the be- cupation of the Sudeten territories according to plan in a communique
Issued to-night.
The funeral passes the monument at 5 p.m. to-duy. A service, at which the Bishop of Hongkong will officlate, will be held in the chupei and the
cortege will then proceed to the Crematorium.
MEETING POSTPONED
General Ironside la fifty-eight, and normally his appointment in the One was that the British should Eastern Command would run for two organise themselves to refuse to buy years more. He will take the place any article of Japanese production, of Sir Charles Harington at Gibraltar. and the other was that the British
The post usually goes to should urge the Government to give
to China, guished officers at the end assistance
active carcers,
took financial
BRITAIN CANNOT
FORGET
HEAVY JAPANESE CASUALTIES
Loyang, Oct. 11. Altogether 34,C60 Easualues were suffered by the Japanese in cast and north Honan from July to September, according to a military report,
Several hundred
during
the place
period. the bitterest occurring ut Taiyuan, Tsinyang and Shaoyuan in north Honan
Minchuan. and Lanfeng,
Lori Cecil asked if it should be Talkang, Pohslen and Yungcheng in said in Britain, in our joy at ob- cast Ilonan.
taining prace for ourselves, we were Aside from cusualles, the Japan-forgetting those in China who ese lost three planes, over 30 artillery fighting so just a
battle for their pieces, 4,700 trucks, 13 locomotives own peace.
"I refuse to believe that our coun- day: The war booty seized by the Chinese in July included 13 artillery try would accept so miserable a posi
said the speaker. llon," 74 military horses and Inrge
Other speakers included the Am-Tosan
and a number of boats,
are
SHIPS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
Tingsang,
distin- of their
SALARY DISCUSSED
at the Seamen's
In the middle of May, defendant planted Haired by refer-
As a consequence of the death of eces of food Tupplies; in August,bassador, Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Mr. Peter Potsdam, Athos 11. Tug Taikoo, Ho- the appointment when the ship was was reasonable as far as the master
Mr. Felshow, the monthly meeting of members of the General Com mittee of the Kowloon Residents' The message added that the Ger- Association which was to have taken man Air Force had taken over the place, this evening, has been post-rides, 47 revolvers, 204 Czech Air Force properties and setponed.
anti-aircraft
up
muns. Special
troops have been sent to remove dea- tructive materials and repair damage to the railway lines and a great part of the railway system service can now be resumed by the German rail- ways-Router.
COMMUNISTS ARHISTED
Prague, Oct. 10,
It la reported that a number of Communist leaders have been placed under arrest and all Communist publications suppressed.--Reuter.
LEGION VANGUARD
London, Oct. 10.
FRANCE, BRITAIN
ATTACKED
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authorities unnecessarily excite the Japanese people by starting their movement for the lease of Hainan faland aid by carrying out grand naval manoeuvres In the South China sons while the current hostilities are in full swing.
"We cannot pass over such rumours unnoticed," the Kokumin concludes. A delegation of three members of
"The nation must pay attention to the British Legion who are charged Anglo-French manoeuvres in South with the task of making arrange- China where it is easily imagined, ments for the arrival of the 1,250 Chiang Kai-shek will take
#helter Legionaries in the areas in which a following the fall of Henkow."— plebiscite is to be held, left for Domel, Progue by air to-day.Trans-Occan, |
LORD MAYOR'S FUND
London, Oct. 10.
It is announced that the Lord
Fund
problems resulting from the with- drawal from the frontier by the Czechs will be discussed at length, Foreign Office officials are expected Mayor's
for refugees into assist in the talks.-Reuter. Czecho-Slovakia has already reached £40,000,
contributed in four days.
TERMS REJECTED The Lord Mayor, Sir Harry Twyford, accompanied by the director of the
Komorn, Oct. 10. It is disclosed that the Czech rejec- Refugees Ald Organisation, Sir Neil Malcolm, left by air for Prague to- tion of the Hungarian claims was 10- based on the fact that the ethno-
day in order to confer with the logical maps the Hungarian delega-
authorities Concerning the
Czech
were
wor
The case is proceeding.
453 rifles, one trench mortar, 23 Fleming, Times correspondent, who sang, Conte Biancamano, Kutsang, ready, at the same time asking for of a vessel was concerned. trucks, 7,490 gallons of petrol and graphically described what he had Pres. Coolidge, Empress of Russia. a letter of confirmation of his cm- many machine-guns; In 24 machine-guns, three
September,
seen during his tour of the 34 areas in China, and Miss Rose Tou. Las masks a Chinese girl who has been work- and 44 cases of medical supplies.
medical relief behind the ing at During the perlod under review, Chinese ines and has just arrived in the Chinese captured four Japanese airmen, 24 urmy officers and 117
England. privates-Central News.
CHINESE LOSE 2,350
Shangcheng, Oct. 11, The Chinese forces left 2,350 bodies, behind In the Shawo sector at the north-western base of the Tapich Mountain Range between September 17 and October 6, a check-up by Japanese military authorities indi- cates.
of
The Japanese booty includes 221 rides, 20 light machine-guns, 1 heavy
rounds machine-gun, 210,000 ammunition, 350 artillery shells, 43 trench-mortar shells and 2,000 hand- grenades.-Domei.
TAIAN OCCUPIED
Miss Tou movingly described the heroism of the Chinese soldlers in terrible sufferings, and the terrible plight of the Chinese refugees, carn- estly appealing for help for her country-Reuser,
POLICE IN 50 M.P.H. CHASE AFTER CAR ·
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Rond. Then he pulled ahead" and I saw him disappear along the right hand bend of the Road, When [arrived at the end of the concreted part of the Road, I saw that the car Shonghal, Oct. 11. was turned on its near side fucing
which Japanese reports indicate that the opposite direction to Chinese troops reoccupled Yenchow had been going." and Talan, both on the Tientsin- Pukow Railway, yesterday morning the direction of Clear Water Bay.
"Two men ran down the hill in The report states that the Chinese stopped my motorcycle, took out my Peace Preservation Corps and the whistle, blew it, and gave chase. Police of Yenchow nssisted the attackers by opening the west gate through which the Chinese troops were able to enter the city.-United Press.
welfare of refugees and the distribu-Hungarians purced to study the Szech BERLIN COLLECTS
on of the Mansion House Fund-maps and allow an expert commals-
Trans-Ocean and Reuter.
NEW CZECH PRESIDENT
sion to compare them both with the actual state of the nationalities to- day. United Press.
DELEGATES MEET
Komorn, Oct. 10. The Hungarian delegation which returned here on Monday to continue
with the Czecho egotiations Slovakian delegation was given u triumphal welcome by the "inhabl- iants.
The Conference lasted only two hours and concluded at 4 p.m.
SCRAP IRON
WENT OVER EMBANKMENT
"They went over the embatik. ment on the left side of the Road where the bushes were very thick and one of them was caught 40 the bushes and was arrested by
me.
been Asked. it, he had anything to pay, the defendant replied: "I do not re- member one instance when the sur was out of my control."
"The other man came up after this and was also taken into custody." Berlin, Oct. 10. Concluding, Sergennt Bethell said: Prague, Oct. 10.
Berlin is losing the iron railings "I would like your Worship to take from its front gardens.
a very serious view of this case, as The question of the election of o
President
Czecho- of the
During the week-end local Storm not only was the defendant running new Slovakian Republic in succcasion to
Troopers, neling under Instructiona himself into danger of being killed, Dn. Edouard Benes is being discussed
by General Goering, carried out an but he also passed two cars on the "old iron collection" throughout the Road, on which were quite a lot of at a meeting of the Permanent Ways
capitel.
people. The whole chase was over and Means Committee of the Czech
Old sewing machines, engine parts, about eight miles of road, your Parliament,
iron-pipes, etc., were gathered dur- Worship." Although
the
Constitution
Ing a house to house collection and stipulates that the election must take
removed in card which had place within, a fortnight of a Pre- The Slovak leaders declared that requisitioned for the purpose. sident's death or resignation, it is
With the owners' permission ugly understood that the Committee has in principle they were willing to iron railings were removed from the decided on a postponement of the accept the Hungarian demands for
gardens. the return to Hungary of those ter-
The removal of rallings, rapidly Benes la still in Czecho- ritories predominantly Hungaria
that the line of de spreading as a habit, is expected to Just some time and to provide a Slovakia, though it is understood but considered thr
STOR. that he has promised to leave the marcation proposed by the Hunger-farto amount of
went beyond the Reuter Special delegation .country.
ethnic boundaries. The Agrarian newspapers Ja The Hungarian delegation then Prague are insisting that no licences proposed the setting up of a mixed be issued to any immigrants cliher commission, to define the boundary Korean Volunteers To from the Sudeten Grean or Austria between the Hungarians and the who may exercise professions in Slovaks, though the despatch of Bohemin.
such a commission to the actual They also insist that the Jewish scenes was no reason for delaying problem be solved without sentiment the negellations.
malter.
Dr.
sun
Aid China
Hankow, Oct. 11. A Korean volunteer corpa to assist China to fight Japan was formally
Mr. Barnett: Is there any excuso for taking somebody else's car polico and driving on when the told you to stop?
The defendant did not reply to This question.
1.
NAVAL CHARGES PENDING Captain F. A. Eustace, Royal Marines, was in Court, Asked by Mr. Barnett regarding defendant's record Capt. Eustace said that the defendont had behaved well until about a week or delay, and hint that Jews showed It was decided, therefore, that a little desire to help the Czech Gov-commission of experts should meet organised by the Korean National amers
ago, when he became a constant There were three outstanding ernment when it was a question of at 9 am, on Thursday, in the mean Front League yesterday on the_oc=| charges of a serious nature against putting their hands in their pockela time the Slovaks will submit their casion of China's Independence Day.
him and he would be dealt with, to contribute to the national defence counter-proposals relating to the In #manifesto issued the corps
after the present case, under the demarcation of the frontier at the declared that it will night alde by
Naval Discipline Act. next meeting of the delegations, at side with the Chinese soldiers in the
The defendant received three ahlil- present scheduled for Tuesday after-present resistance campaign. London, Oct. 10.
It also urged Koreans as well as ingen day us wager.
Mr. Barnett imposed Enes of $10, Discussions between Britishy Trea- It is learned that the Hungarians other minor races in the Orient sury officials and a Czech delegation will continue to insist on the right of under: Japanese rule to stand on the $100 and 360 on the three charger concernies the proposed British cre- the Slovak and Carpatho-Ukramten Wide, at chins in the present strugerespectively.
Ret Damage to the car, which was in- dits to Czecho-Slovakia are expected peoples to complete self-determina- sie in order to crush Japan and re-sured, was between $800 and $1,000,
gain Independence.-Centrul · News. to begin on Tueday. The economic ion---Trans-Ocean.
a police report said.
fund-Reuter
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