THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938.
RADIO
FLAMES FROM FOUR Wuhan Walls BROADCAST
FIRES
FROM
Last Act
SWEEP CITY END TO END
By Chinese Evacuation Tragedy
In
ITERALLY SWAMPING CANTON FROM END TO END WITH
L PETROL AND KEROSENE, CHINESE REMNANTS AND CIVILIANS
STARTED ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON THE BIGGEST MAN-MADE FIRE SINCE MOSCOW WAS BURNED IN 1812 TO CHECK NAPOLEAN.
Placarded
HANKOW, Oct. 21. THE CHINESE Students" Anti-Japanese Association yesterday evening placarded Japanese and painted in sloganes on many of Hankow walls, which read:
"Japanese soldiers! Harkow Is your grate-Japanese sol- diert Revolt against your millarista!"-United Press.
of such tragedy is set in a scERO abomination
that and desolation even the Japanese conquerors are nghast, while the flames from the ever-growing are light up hastly posted proclamations which read:
Beethoven Trio From
The Studio
"VICTORIA AND DISRAELI”
Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 ic.c's. | and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m.) and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's, per second.
6.0 For The Children.
Alice In Wonderland"; Twinkle, twinkle, little bal; Jabberwocky; Fury sald to a mouse; Will you walk a little faster (Lobster Quadrille); "Tls the voice
of the lobster; Beauti
told They ful Soup; Queen of hearts;
Frank me you had been to her....Fra Luther with Instrumental Accom paniment: "Seeing the
their candman
Ve bring peace and prosperity, and we want all merchants to re- sume their business."
WIND SAVES SHAMEEN At the end of the day provident breezes came to save Shameen frum being included in the holocaust, de flecting the flemes which, however,
A city which was once the home of nearly 2,000,000 people, and whoso sons are scattered throughout the world, is rapidly being consumed by the flamos, which have swept through all the most important blocks, leaving continued to rear unabated. nothing but gutted ruins in their wake.
Fanned by a stiff north-easterly wind, the conflagration roared through Canton throughout Saturday night and all day yesterday and this morning was still burning fiercely in the Saichuen and Honam districts.
The flames, spreading from building to building as bamboo bomb racks, placed atop the structures for protection against air raids, spared neither European nar Chinese premises in their ferocious and all-consuming advance through the heart of Canton.
wind, and the magalileent efforts of the Shameen Volunteers, who toiled censely all day yesterday.
Greatest tribute must be paid to fighters, who the organisers of the fire
of German residents.
fresh outbreak In Unless there is a are a group
between the British bridge the area and Wongsha, the prospect of Sha- Nevertheless the authorities are not relaxing emergency measure, and Where once stood the remains of the Wongshaaval units and volunteers were keep- district, which suffered so heavily from Japanese air Luildings and from other vantage raids, are now two gigantic craters.
The central and Bund areas are heaps of smouldering meen being involved is very slight. ruins.
They were caused when two ammunition dumps exploded at 10.10
The explosions
4.m.
showered Shameen with debris. for fully five minutes, wounding two Chinese on the island and severely damaging
on
at
least
ing
a watch all night on the roofs of
Last night a nearby explosion rocked Lingnam University, while Wongsha hook. The Shameen au- thorities state that they expect one
the city. or two more explosions
Another United Press correspon dent at Canton writes that from a river launch he saw a Japanese
directly plane pass
overhead as Wongsha exploded, indicating that the machine was possibly bombing the place in an effort to check the Are.
On the other hand,, eye witnessen assert that many Japanese troops are there
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"The blant almost knocked me into the river, while sizzling frag- ments dived into the water
win- around the launch. Every
was shattered, dow In Shamcen although there does not seem to have been any structural damage caused to the American Consulate. However, the interior is a mass of broken glass and plaster, while one of the Chinese clerks had his face deeply goalied by flying debris. "In the course of a tour of Pak- hoktung and Fongchuen, which are missionary centres across the river, I found no Japanese troops, bui stream of refugees were cutting their way across the countryside, and end- Two terrife explosions occurred in less human trickle across the green the city yesterday which shook Sha-rolling fields."
Japanese troops stopped the looting neen, and blew in the window frames of rice shops opposite the British of the Royal Dutch Consulate, evert bridge. uprocting the floor boards.
points.
Old residents who went through Canton's previous Communisl up-rising and civil wars state that never before in their experience was there a day file yesterday.
Kwan Hotel, which biggest skyscraper,
French Doumer hospital The caught afire half-an-hour after the pallents were evacuated to the Hackett Memorial Hospital.
Y.M.C.A. DYNAMITED
were
The steel
Story-
Songs of the The Green-Eyed Dragon (Wolseley Charles); Five Marc-C. Armstrong Eyes (De La Gibbs); The Mare and the Foal (Traditional) Tally Ho! (Praydon- Thomas (Bari- Leon)....Wilfrid
tone) with Plano.
0.30 Beethoven--Symphony No. 3 la E Fist Major, Op. 85 (Eroica).
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates.
7.13 Bong by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano),
The Shepherd on the Rock (Schu- bert)....Wilh Piano
by George Reeves. Clarinet: Reginald Kell.
accomp.
7.23 Closing local Stock Qusto-
tions London Relay-Music Hall,
Including Peter Dawson (Bari- tone), Isay Bonn (The Hebrew Vocal Raconteur) Elale Carlisic and Sam Browne (Radio's Pioneer Duettista) with The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted
Shadwell. by Charles Presented by John Sharman.
8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- ments,
8.03 Webster Booth (Tenor) and London Palladium Orchestra.
Booth
Hear You Calling Me (Marshall, Haydn Wood): Bird Of Love Divine (Hayda Wood)....The Lon- don Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Crean; A Song For You And Me (Rizzi): Moon ΟΙ Roinance
Webster (Strachey) .... we (Tenor) with Orch.; Everybody's Songs (arr. Geehl): Intro: I passed by your window: Somewhere a voice Is calling: Down Vounxhall Way, I know of two bright eyes; O lovely Night, Passing by, Come to the Fair ....The London Palladium Orches ira cond. by Richard Crean; A Year Or- of Theatre Land; Intro: Play
(To-night at 8.30): เด
Coin (Careless Raplurc
Goes
breathe on windows (Over the goca) Drop in next time you're passing (Going
Anything Places) (Anything Goca); Love Is a dancing Mr. Wallace Forgie, a helper at the Y.M.C.A., evacuated the
thing (Follow the Sun); Unbeliev- building when flames licked the buckable (Swing along): This'll make you
door of the institution.
Bundside
that assert Several eyewitnesses two Japanese planes flew over the explosion, and that one subsequently disappeared.
The YMCA, was evacuated in vinder frames of the Hongkong and twenty buildings in the British order to allow a Japanese dynamite Shanghai Bank were also blown to squad to blow up the building in ansaithereens, debris flying in the rond- Concession.
way after the concussion, while the The damage on the western end of effort to create a fire break.
residents aldee the Foreign Shameen island was so severe that
to be Japanese In an attempt to isolate the Swiss Consul and his family have
had to leave their home. most of the buildings had evacuated. The walls of famous blazes, but without success.
amateur fre-Bghters
Following yesterday morning's ex- The
CITY'S CENTRE ABLAZE Christ Church were cracked, the
by theplosion, the keepers at the lunatle handicapped
writes correspondent Another Italian Consulate collapsed. Among hopelessly
which absence of water, the dynamiting of vlum at Paankhaktung, across the Shameen
Shameen, fled that the whole of the centre of the bulkings have had to be evacuated are the the city's reservoirs by the Chinese Pear! River from
iny, eaving 800 mental inmates uncared Canton city at present is burn- .on Friday,
ing
the flames taking in an area A,P.C. and Loxley & Co. premises. before they evacuated
blocks ten British navalmen come to the from the bridge to The Chartered Bank was also con- completely disrupting water supplies. for,
Dynamite was the only weapon the
also siderably damaged.
Japanese could use, and throughout rescue and supplied 80 bags of rice north of that point and several
fn order to give them en evening block wide. A new fire has
started in Taping Road and the New the day loud explosions lestined, to the fact that it was being detonated meal.-Reuter. freely in attempts
Asia Hotel which is burning from the create fre-
ground up, suggesting Incendiarism as A cause, rather than stray sparks.
Telephone communications cut late on Saturday afternoon, and по one was permitted to leave
10
At Wong-hin the havoc wrought by, the explosions is terrific. The and yards entire railway sintion have disappeared.
breaks. Locomotive, trucks, carriages and
The flames, after destroylog of war materials awalt- Wongaha, travelled towards the Sal- a hure pilo
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ing shipment Hankow were chuen area, vomiting up the dregs of
arens.
blown sky high, landing hundreds | civilian refugees from the city's slum of yards away in the most grotes que and twisted shapes.
Owlug to fears that they would be incinerated the authorities were forced to release all Inmates of the leper seillement and insane asylum, as well as prisoners from the elvic Faol.
SATURATED AREAS
It is definitely known that the Bres, four of which broke out simultane- ously in widely seattored areas, were caused by the Chinese, who were wit. nessed by several Europeuns us they saturated wide areas with kerosene and petrol.
WATERFRONT BLAZE
Across the Pearl River at Honum, the British wharves and foreign oil installations appear to have been completely_gutted,
The Bres were still Bercely raging this morning at Honam and Canlon of in the western parts proper, but Shameen is now con- sidered safe.
One Chineze who attempted to alight set Shameen
1135 been arrested. The fires commenced simultaneous ly on Saturday afternoon in Wongsha, Honam Island, and the southern, northern and bund areas of the city
Canton's famous silk street, proper.
They raged along the entire bundcontaining rich texules and silks of from east of the damaged Penri fabulous value, was swept from end River Bridge, past the Shakce Canal which divides Shameen from the city, to Wongsha,
Another conflagration almost cam- pletely gutted nine blocks through the heart of the business area from the bund to the Goddess of Mercy Temple.
The Honam Island waterfront, mu the other alde of the Pearl River, was completely obluze all day yester-
at
the
to end.
A computatlon of the damage wrought by the flames places it at well over £50,000,000. What the Japanese attempted to do in twelve months savage bombings was accomplished by the Chinese in two days.
LOOTERS ACTIVE
Canton, Oct. 24. Japanese patrols yesterday even-
VICTORY TURNS TO ASIES
Canton, Oct. 24. Napoleon in Moscow, Canton's wanted morts found very's
were
whistle (This make you whistle}} ....Janet Lind and Webster Booth with Chorus and Orchestra.
8.13 Two Songs by Gitta Alpar (Soprano).
'Home
and
Sing Something In The Morning
Cochran's (C. B. Beauty'); No More (C. B. Cochran's Home and Beauty)....with Or- chestra cond. by G. Waiter.
8.40 B.B.C. Recording-A Talk on 'Speed' by Sir Malcolm Campbell.
Trio 8.50 Studio Beethoven played by
(Violin), Pruo Lewis Ettore
Pellegati (Cello), and Lind- say A. Lafford (Piano).
9.20 Three Songs by Alexander Kipnis
(Goethe-Schubert,
Heide
in their path turning to ashes during Shameen, therefore it was impossoble Op. 3, No. 3); Impatience (Muller-
the week-end.
Entering the city with not more
to discover whether the Y.M.C.A...
than two thousand men, the Japan-und the Canton Hospital were at that so were helpless to stem the awful time in flames, holocaust that is sweeping Kwang- tung's capital from end to end.
The victor is fire-fires started after the Japanese entry into the city.
nomer con
Schubert, Op. 25, No. 7): The Erl King (Goethe-Schubert, Op. 1).... with Gerald Moore at the Piono.
Two fires on the northern, outskirts of the city might eventually threaten
the Shameen and therefore brigades have been organised, ready for action.
fighters While the Japanese fire succeeded in extinguishing the firear in the centre of the city early
on
kilco
n
Snake Charmer: Greenwich Witch; Twilight in Turkey: Serenade for n Wealthy Widow....Torch.
1812
10.33 The Band of II. M. Cold- stream Guards,
Overture (Tchaikovsky};! 1012 Colonel Bogey-March (Alford),
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0.30 London Relay-The News, ១.៥០ A Dance and Variety Pro- gramme. fre
Orch: Antigu--Rumba, Dance Barbary Coast Blues....Joe Daniels and His Hot Shots In "Drumnos
Won't licks": Vocal and Plano-1 The Japanese are almost gnashing
Tell A Soul
(Parker-Charles),' their teeth in their rage. They have
деп Two Shadows (from the Film). no water to combat the menace of
Lealle Hutchinson; Instrumental- total destruction that now threatens Sunday morning, new fires broke out around Shameen, and at present two
Pua Carnation (Traditional); Pali Krasp their rich prize in the hour
fires are raging in Shakee, one at a
Bluce
(Traditional).... of their success.
Tahiti Beachcombers; Vocal-Dinah the in ending west end rice store, which was set Just as they succeed
It Don't Mean (Lewis-Young-Akat): one are by dynamiting buildings and alight after being looted, and
other near the French Bridge, which
the creating fire-breaks, the Chinese start
spread from the Sun Company, owned A Thing (Ellington)....The Bos-
by well Sistera accompanied another conflagration elsewhere.
by the super-patriot Chai Chung, who It is the greatest organised in-
was observed removing his goods be- Dorsey Brothers Orchestra; Three Planos Lille Silhouette-Fox- cendiarism the world has ever known,
fore the occupation of Canton.
Three Jolly Fellows While stald Shameen talpans and
As
precautionary measure Tret;
Three Virtuosos; naval officers stripped to the waist
Shamern Brimen drenched Shameen Fox-Trot....The
Vocal: There's Something Spanish and blackened by smoke and ashes,
matsheds, and at the time of sending
In My Eyes (Caesar und Friend); the massage Chinese looters were
opposite wage a guerilla war on the flames in
the Stay Out Of The South (Dixon). the vicinity of the Anglo-French cou- looling & rice store
Sophie Tucker with Ted Shapiro and cessions in an attempt to prevent the Beliisit bridge.
His Orchestra; Organ-Hot Pipes; conflagration
quietly, from devouring the
The night passed very small island, Japanese officers are dis-
Intro: The Toy Trumpet; I'm Get- there
occasional firing Sentimental Over You: The being only
Lin' cansulately riding through the ruined evidently used for signalling pur- city,
poses, since it was regular. The only
remaining Inhabitants IL s evident that the Chinese popu- appear 10 be poverty-stricken lace has not been interferred with day.
"The flerce flames in the viciniving stood on guard outside the shops scavengers, who are looting where since they are still carrying their
on the Shakee front where looters ever the Japanese have been unable parcels as they evacuate, of Shameen, especially
were creating havoc. Three or four to post sentries. of
The only sign of Japanese was an French end, sent shower
The Japanese cannot find the fire occasional truck patrol at Shukee. orders sparks over the Anglo-French Con-persistent looters who opposed the
soldiers' the utmost inyonetled and they are now lying Canton which, when they landed in
bugs, and they cannot find the rich FOREIGN OFFICES GUTTED cessions, necessitating
the fires were Dlaraci, At noon yesterday all the vigilance on the part of
en the Shakee Bund in pools of blood.
A play specially written for broad- casting by Hector Bolitho with Dame residents, who turned fire-fighters When the Japanese patrol with-ins Bay, loomed before their cove slowly circling Shameen from the and manned bucket brigades and
drew,
half a block away. The Marie Tempest as Queen Victorin THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. on to victory,
fres was every available garden hose. Roofs of buildings in the Conces at however, the looters Immedi- lous eyes as a magnet drawing them { cast and west The nearest of the
PLANE IN EXPLOSION wind then was blowing the Taiping (By permission of H. M. Tennent, behaviour of the troops
Two Japanese planes were circling Road are into the jerry-built Sal Ltd.) and Robert Farquharson .os sions were constantly saturated with hitherto has been exemplary, accord- lazily over Wongsha when the two kwan district, directly north.
Disraeli: Narrator, Laidman Browne; water to prevent them catching to the accounts of foreigners who gigantle explosions rocked the city A
Wa United
John Brown, the Queen's Scottish Press
correspondent
servant, James Woodburn: Montague visited the city.
walked along the Bund from Shameen Looting has been checked wher-
One of the planes completely dis- to the Pearl River Bridge and found Corry, Secretary to Disraeli, Mor-
the district So intense was the hent from ever possible, but owing to the small
Queen Victoria, Mary a desolated shell, including Several Japanese soldiers who Company channel that number of Japanese in the city, appeared in the birst. the narrow
Queen's Secretary, foreign residents monning the Sha- totalling approximately 1,500, the
were patrolling the area were also the offices of the Schmidt Company, wiped out.
the Hongkong and Canton Steamship Gordon McLeod: Prince Bismarck,
fluword Marion-Crawford; meen defences had to constantly entire city is not patrolled.""
Lord reure from the waterfront in order
from the interior and the American were on fire American sailors were The island is full up with people Company, and the Post Office, which
Tennyson, Norman Shelley; Singer So cool off.
Jan Van Der Gucht; Production by and Italian consulates Bent the British
the John Chealle, BAVO women and children scurrying out fighting desperately to STILL A RAGING INFERNO
to the lawns, where they sat down Customs House.
no fire be- Canton, Oct. 24.
However, there was for two hours. At nightfall yesterday the city was Finally the explosiona ironically tween Taiping Road and the Bridge, Buildings destroyed by the stil
ព raging inferno, with a blew
the doors open
Japanese The Y.M.C.A., and French Hospital Aames included the famous Temple mammoth fire cast of the Bund area fi on Shameen, which had been was found to be just on the edge of of the Great Badda, the Flowers being fanned towards the city, and closed
for more
yesterday's dro which had Paroda,
developing into a tremendous area, The explosions and fires in the city itself out. Municipal Headquarters, the measuring between five and six scared, but at the same time pleased A few Japanese soldiers were seen, a food store. of Finance, the Great
the Chinese on Shameen, as evidence and one was looting Hotel,
Aala square miles." The New
that Chinese power was working Otherwise there were no signa of Hongkong - Ferry tás
looting. The correspondent saw one untern, or dotroo p
who had been The present. Let of "Canton's Chinese; soldier
light.
ACTORS
INTENSE HEAT
Two small fires were started at the French end of the Concession, but they were quickly subdued.
flames
Alon the band the extended for about two miles.
the Provincial and
returned.
The
Ind
Japanese headquarters have been established in the old Chinese. hend- quarters building-Reuter,
Ministry Eastern
The conflagration on the Shakee Hotel. wharven.
the Fow Ofice, New walerfront has died down as a result China Hotel and the 16-storey 01 of a change in the direction of the
yesterday.
on their baggagO
of
than a year.
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surrounding the Sunland Graham; to
burned
Ponsonby, The
11.45 Close down.
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with
Enquire as the Cam Showreeme
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