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SHEKLUNG
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938.
日六十月八
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"Telegraph'
CAPTURED: Photograph
MASS AIR HORRORS
Reported Attempt to Storm Macao Border
America's Big
Spy Trial
(Sco Column Seveni
WERNEK G. GUDENBERG Poriner aircraft employe in Buf- falo. at Curtis Wright plant. Escaped to Germany without passport, during Investigation.
JOHANNA ROFMANN Hairdresser on the liner Europa. Accused of relaying information to high officials In Germany.
QUENTHER GUSTAV
RUMRICH -
Deserter from the United States Army.
Self-confessed novico field agent, Born in Chicago.
worker.
OTTO HERMAN VOSS German-Dark) - Kornfi sccused of espionage si Bévarsky
plant, Long Island. naturalized olfistik.
Ha a
TWO VOLLEYS FIRED, KILLING SEVERAL
APANESE CLAIMS TO HAVE CAPTURED SHEKLUNG HAVE BEEN SEMI-OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED.
This Canton-Kowloon Railway centre is 35 miles from Canton, for where the invaders are
bviously heading.
A remarkable report from a responsible Chinese juarter states that a móbile column of the Japanese has ppeared near Lungmoon, about fifty miles north of Vaichow. No confirmation can be obtained of this report, about which Japanese sources are silent.
If it is true, it indicates that the Japanese are attempting the encirclement of Canton and, at the same time, to cut the Canton-Hankow Railway north of the Kwangtung capital.
Chinese sources admit that Pokio, were repulsed yesterday by the capture of Sheklung is pro- the Chinese regucat guarding the It is stated that there are point. on bable. The Japanese were
small batches of Japanese at Tuchun, the outskirts of the city last north of Peklo. night, and that fighting raging on the banks of Sochuen Creek, a tributary of the East River near Sheklung,
Was
Chinese official quarters now ad- mit that some Japanese in plain clothes appeared at Chevurmuktan, Canton-Kewloch Junetion of the railway and Hongkong-Canlon high- The "felcgraph" has
way, un Monday, but claim that they Information, which cannot be cone have since been driven off.
received
at Sheklung have
been
firmed at present, that Chinese It is confirmed that the big railway
to enter bridges troops who attempted Portuguese territory at Macao with dynamited by the Chinese troops as thetr arms were fired at by a precautionary measure. Mozambique troops, of whom there there are sald to be about 2,000 in Macao.
TERRIFIC BOMBINGS Foreign observers in Conton attri-
by
has
The report, which comes from abute the remarkable advance of the Zu open source, states that the Japanese inland from Bias Bay to
terrine havoc tried to sumpede the
wrought Chinese troops
the Macao Kwangiung Japanese planes, whose bombings across
oner after being bombed nearby since early last week have probably
civilisation been the severest by Japanese planes.
When stopped by a line of native known. The air alarm was sounded conps, the refugees fired and shot at Canton throughout the whole of Portuguese officer, slightly wound- yesterday, but they clty itself was not!
boinbed. ag him,
Central News reports the Japanese at Wuchun, the tanks and soldiers are
where Chinese labourers are being the highway Conscripted to repair bridges blown up by the Chinese.
The Mozambique troops returned) he fire, killing eleven Chinese in! ho Arst volley and seven in econd.
The report states that the Chinese were buried In Chinese territory.
POKLO DENIAL
Chinese official circles in Canton il deny that Poklo, on the east) Bank of the East River, has been La Japonest. It the aptured by stated Central News in issuing the denial, that about 300 Japanese who appeared at Suchun, south-west of
Exhibition
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE-
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Prize-winning and other entries in the Eighth Annual "Telegraph" Amateur Photo- graphic Competition are on ́display. · Admission is free.
AS THEY CROES (THE FRONTIER into Hongkong territory refugees from the war- torn areas in Kwangtung are given bowls of rice and are then directed to the concen- tration camp at Kam Tin Aerodrome. Over 3,000 are now encamped at Kam Tin.
Japanese Claim Tehan, Yanghsin Won
SHANGHAI, Oct. 19.
It is officially claimed by Japanese field headquarters that Tchan was captured last night.
Telan is the last Chinese stronghold in the Lushan Mountains area scuth of the Yangtse.
Italians Bar
Jews From Share Markets
~ALESTINE WAR
BESIEGED ARAB REBELS DEFIANT
Surrounded in Mosque Area
19:33:
1938
DUN LOP
10 YENKI DI GRGAIN,
DUNLOP Fort
JERUSALEM, Oct. 18. IN THE FIRST SIEGE since
For two months the Chinese. defenders of this Verdun of the Yangtse have completely held up the Japanese advance, pro- tecting the Cinton-Hankow Railway and Nanchang. Nan- the war with the Saladins in the aircraft to-day 12th Century. chang has not been entered by directed the British troops who an alien invader in 800 years..
The Tyro with 2,000 Teeth
U.S. SPY PLOT
Amazing German Orders To Spy
"Say You Are Working For England"
NEW YORK, Oct. 18. T THE RESUMED spy
AT
trial to-day,. Guenther Rumrich, who has turned State's Evidence said:
"I had been instructed in case of apprehension to say that I was working for Eng- land.
"I was not to use any re- ference to Germany, but to say I was working for 'Major Christopher Draper' of Lon don."
ac-
These instructions, cording, to Rumrich, came from a mysterious "Mr. Weigand," whom Rumrich had met and from whom he received money.
Rumrich added that Weigand told him to be very careful and to address his letters in future (apart from those sent by messenger) to Mrs. Jessic Mor- Kan, of Dundee, Scotland. (Morgan is now serving a prison term in England for espionage), Rumrich said that Weigand showed him a photograph of himself taken at the German Embassy in Washing- ton along with Captain Wiedmann, who was then visiting the
United States as Herr Hitler's Adjutant, and
Dlackhoff, Also with Herr German Ambassador.
former
Welgand then gave him a letter bstructing him henceforth to con- centrate on information with regard to American rearmament.
Another agent named Schmidt asked if Rumrich knew anyone who was employed in the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, or the Du Pont plant.
Schmidt showed him two $1,000 notes which he sold were going to a (Continued on Page 4.)
have besieged the old city, which Late News On
The Japanese also claim the capture is controlled by Arab rebels, of Yanghsin, described as an im- Rome, Oct. 18.
portant Chinese base and gateway to strongly entrenched behind the
ancient walls. The decrce of the Italian Ministry ine Canton-Hankow Railway.
Tchon, state Japanese field des- Two thousand British troops have It s reported that two Kwangsl of Finance excluding Jews from the divisions have arrived in Canton by Italian shure-markets has affected patches, fell at 11.30 p.m., two hours been reinforced by 4,000 Jewish water. Four divisions are being des- only 34 Jewish rokers and agena, ter the Japanese entered Yanghsin. supernumerary policemen.
The aeroplanes hovered above the The fall of the two elties mark a patched to Kwangtung from Wuchow.it is revealed in to-day's evening
towards the elty and directed fre papers. Of these seven Rome, nine in Milan, 11 in Turin, spectacular turn in the Yangtze war. Rebel stronghold, which is in the three in Genoa, three in Florence as these cities were the last Chinese the Lushan and ane in Naples.
BITTER FIGHTING
Shanghai, Oct. 19. Bitter fighting is in progress in the,
about 75 neighbourhood of Pakio,
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Thirteen Butchered In Junk Outrage, Report
STATING THAT he saw a number of his fellow men bound, stabbed and thrown into the sea by Japanese sailors who had captured their junk, Sze Yat, Chinese fisherman, returned to Hongkong yesterday and 'told his story to the police.
He was afterwards' admitted to alleged atrocities took place while hospital for treatment of a bullet the junk's cargo was being trans- |
ne, ferred to the warship. wound in the head, infleted as
was swimming away from the scene.
An accumulating number Japanese atrocities have been raport ed lately from locul Ashermen.
Thirteen of the passengers
were
of bound, slaled Sze Yat, and in this condition anilors stabbed them one after the other in the throat will bayonets.
of
This one surpasses all in its re-i lentless terrorlam if the story the 41-year-old curvivor is to believed.
were Iri
defence lines oren.
around
mosque area.
The rebels made openings in the Venize The markets of Triesie,
walls surrounding the Moique which Japanese detachments are launchi- the authorities had closed with ce- and Bologna Ministry have sho atcreed that all Jews who held ng vigorous attacks on the Chinese ment directing posts in the share-markets inrces, estimated at 150,000 men, over
Troops stationed in high bulldings Be-outside the city walls, signalled the are to be removed, and Aryanthe whole area north of Tchan, successors have already been appoin-curding to the official Japanese com-ruo-is' movements.
munique. ted in most of the cases.
Оп the north
af
A London message says, thot Mr. Yangtse front, Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary Trlesto bus gone even A &lep Japanese forces are said to have Stato for the Dominions, visited farther and has announced that Jews crossed the Taploh mountains and to Buckingham Palace ta-any and gave will be henceforth forbidden to enter have established
positions from the King a detailed account of the the publle trading rooms of the where they can look down on the affairs in Palestino.-Unlied Prats, Bourse, and it is believed that other plains of Hupch Province.
WHI 1ollow th.a shore-markets example.--Trans-Ocean.
PROTEST AGAINST
"NEW MALTA CONSTITUTION
Taine, Oct. 16. The protest of the Italian popula- After seeing seven of his com- tion of Multa against the new con-
REBELS' NIGHT ADVENTURE
Jerusalem, Oct. 18. There has been sporadic gunfire throughout the city, but the situation" inside the walls of the old city, and the numbers of casualties are not known.
her
Japanese forces at Kwangtse have started a drive towards Kishuf. The message claims that 3,000 Chinese, leving to Kishul, were overtaken and wiped out by Japanese planes within half an hour. The Chinese were taken by surprise while having a meat, and were heavily bombed and
woman' and machine-gunned by the pinnes-child were wounded by stray bullets) Reuter,
in the new city to-day,
quarter.
An Armenian
und
bandoliers-United
NEW GOVERNOR
Jeruzalem, Oct. 18. Major-General O'Conner,
Com
It is reported that the Arab rebela NO QUARTER ASKED
Inst night mounted the walls of the to their be- old city and lowered Dowel reports that the fighting for sicged companions a large supply panlans dealt with in this manner stitution being prepared in London Yangsin was on an unprecedented of rifles
scalo nelther alde overboard. has now received the support of ingrelva tu thousand Chinese troops
asking for nir Press. be and their bodies tossed
Sze Yet decided that his only hope local clergy, a declaration having He stated that the junk was off the was a dash for freedom in the water, been issued by the Chapter of Malta were left to defend the strategle elty Sum Mun Customs Station early in He leaned over our auction of Cathedral to the effect that the man while the rest of the Chinese army the afternoon of October 11 with a fast as he could in the direction of clergy has directed a protest against cargo of eggs and pigs and a crew of the shore.
the constitution to the British Gove took up strategic positions in A Japanese emptied his revolver at eight, two passengers and seven per-
The Japanese claim that before the sons, owners of the cargo.
him, one bullet making a glancing war, wound on his head just above the car of the voting franchise, the new mist of the Doomed Division
In addition to depriving the clergy capture of Yangsin could be effected A three-funnelled Japanese
were Looking back from a safe distance, approached then and fred
according to the do- completely wiped out. several shots which caused them to Eze Yat saw the work of butchery epnailtution,
Yangsin was stormed from three heave to. The sallors then entered continuine. He waited on ebore until claration, does not in any way meet
Chintre defenders the junk which was taken in tow he got a lift from a passing Junk Into the just fed demands of the Maltese directions, the
(Continued on Pope 4.) population-Trans-Ocean. round near headland, where the llongkong.
whi
crament,
rear.
the manding the Seventh Division, has [been appointed Military Governor of
Jerusalem--Neuler,
AMERICAN REACTION
Washington, Oct. 18. Commenting on a cable from the Pro-Arab Defence Society protesting:
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