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WHITEAWAY'S
WUHAN CITIES EVACUATED
Japanese Occupation Expected This Afternoon
Refugee CHINESE TO TAKE UP Ships NEW DEFENCE LINES Bombed Big Fire Raging In Three
CHANGSHA, Oct. 25.
TWO STEAMSHIPS folly Cities As Defences Leave
loaded with passengers: anchoring in the Siang River outside the west gate | here were. bombed Japanese planes during a severe air raid yesterday.
The two vessels were the ss. Sin Man Yang, belonging to the Reconstruction Department of the Hupch Provincial Govern- ment, and the an. Hung Yuany of the San Pei Steamship Com- pany. They both received several direct hits.
It is estimated that at least 300
HANKOW, OCT. 25.
T HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE CHINESE ARE ABANDONING THE THREE WUHAN CITIES OF HANKOW, WUCHANG AND HANYANG.
THE JAPANESE ARE EXPECTED TO PEACEFULLY OCCUPY CITIES TO-DAY.
THE
THREE
The military authorities have decided to evacuate in order to continue resistance, further westward and to protect foreign lives and property in Hankow, a spokesman at the Press Conference has
casualties resulted among the passen announced..
gera.
CONTINUOUS RAIDS
13
Chungu spent a becile day yester- day as Japanese planes zoomed over- head from morning till afternoon.
At 8 o'clock in the
the morning. Japanese planes came over. One of them was a scouting plane which con- ! ducted extensive reconnaissance over the city. Six machines proceeded to j Lukow, south of Chuchow, where they released several bumbs. The other six aircraft bombed Changsha, drawing intense Chinese anti-aircraft gunire,
Shortly afterwards, another
quadron of six machines broke into the clty and released several misalles
The Conference is the last to be held in Hankow and no further official reports will be issued at this city.
It is officially admitted that most of the Chinese troops have already been. vacuated, and only skeleton defence forces now remain,
They are continuing to dynamite all public utilities before they, too, depart.
It is reported that the Hanyang arsenal and steel works have been dynamited.
"China will continue resis. Throughout yesterday and last tance along new lines west ofight, the Chinese soldiers feverish- placed dynamite beneath all Hankow," the Chinese spekes-rategic buildings in the
Wuban cities, preparatory to blow-
man said.
are able to enter,
thired
at the Yangmatang railway station. The evacuation is in line with ing them up before the Japanese
In the afternoon, two other batches China's defence policy, which is of raiders of ten and six machines to offer prolonged resistance respectively bombed important points along the Canton-Hankow Hallway, only when it will injure Japan including Milo station, 73 kilometres and not China. north of Changsha, More than 20 civilians were killed and wounded there. Central News.
Men Flock To Join Naval Volunteers
Including in the great buildings mined for dynamiiing purposes are the great anyang arsenal and steel works, source of most of China's Internal supplies of war materials.
"Our resistance along the Yangise has been prolonged months before the time set by Japan for the occu- Reports from Japanese sources pation of Hankow, and the invaders early this morning claimed that the have sustained jokies that are vanguard of the invading army on
the north bank of the Yangtse was phenomenal."United Press.
Wuchang, one of the three Wolon click.
German concession.
"Telegraph" Repre- Flies sentive
Over Yangtse Front.
Page 2 Canton Fire Rages threatens Page 7
A now. Shameen
MARTIAL LAW ENFORCED ·
HANKOW, OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE "CHICAGO of CHINA,”" ong of the three Wuhan cities which the Chinese military authorilles have decided to evacuate, Photograph shows the Bund at Hankow----Riverside Road. In the background are the bones of this Yokohama Specio Bank, believed to have been dynamited by the Chinese, the National City Tank of New York and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
How Canton Was Betrayed
By Traitors: First Story
TH
CANTON, OCT. 25. THE INSIDE STORY OF ONE OF THE GREATEST BETRAYALS IN CHINA'S HISTORY IS SLOWLY BUT SURELY BEING WRITTEN AS NEW DETAILS COME TO HAND.
It now seems certain that the loss of Canton was due, not to any inferiority of fighting qualities of the Chinese, but to treason among the higher ranks.
What Japan has paid for its almost bloodless victory will most likely never be known.
way
But it appears certain that preparations for the invasion were under for many months before the actual Japanese landing in Bias Bay.
An investigation by competent observers indicates the Bias Bay region. that the Japanese bought over whole areas of people in
Salt smugglers who formerly operated from the Hongkong frontier guided the Japanese troops along the mountain paths to the East River.
explosions are audible in the Non-anchor off the Standard Oil Com-} It was officially annunced this se advance, and between Poklo
and
were
Of the 120,000 men assigned to defend Canton, it can be revealed now that not more than 10,000 were between Blas Day and the Kwanglung capital,
LATE NEWS
Telephone-26615
TWO MILES AWAY
Japanese shells are now fallhig in only 12 miles from Hankow suburbs, defenders are still holding Chinniu, The Chinese report clims that the The warships operating up the and dispute the Japanese claim that Yungtse have reached Kollen, 20 the Canton-Hankow line has been The conflagration in the Japanese miles distant, where the last remain-severed. concession in Hankow, whleb ing boom across the river burs their divided from the former British and] path. Russlan concessions by the ex- British warships and merchant | Martial law is now strictly en-
Of this fact there is direct evidence. Is spreading men at Hankow moved in closer to forced throughout the three Wuban
It is also revealed that certain. rapidly.
the former British Concession this cities. One of the provisions is that The Chinese now appear Lo
U.S.S. be morning, while the London, Oct. 24.
Guarn any person endangering foreign life men of the Bins Bay defence Recruitment for the Royal Naval setting off their dynamite mines and proceeded down-river at 4 p.m. to will be shot
division actually led the Japan- Volunteer Supplementary Reserve, which opened in 1930 has met with Combatant Zone.
pany's installations.
morning that the Yangtse River Thirly American sailors have been
Waichow shots such a response from yachtsmen and
Anticipating that communication | above Hankow lins been closed to others with sea experience, including prepared as a landing party.
with the outside world will shortly be all traffe by now The entire factory district is now cut off-the only present methods are prevents warships or other vessels Chinese soldiers and their com-up" a few weeks ago that the men TERS OFFICIALLY CLAIM THAT
the This exchanged by ex-omcers of the Royal Navy, Naval
by radio-telegraphy-the American from proceeding either downstream patriots endeavouring to stem normally stalloned south and cast of TWO COLUMNS OF JAPANESE Reserves, and the Merchant Navy, are.
Chinese militarists are blowing up naval authorities have that the Admiralty has now found it
a for upriver from Himkow. high power rudlo transmitter In the necessary to fix a limit to the aum-all Wuhan airfields-United Press.
that The Japanese claim US. Consulate, and poth Britlal and FIVE MILES OF AT 10 AM.
American naval authorities are drill-Chinese lines both south and north Shanghal, Oct 25, ing akeleton "mobilisation
the Yangtse are
completely crews," ut
that communque whose duty it will be to protect for- disintegrating and
organised Isrued at 11.10 am, claims that the cign subjects in the former British resistance has practically ended ex- Japanese vanguards have entered and Russton Conetssions.
cept on the banks of the river liscif. Hnangting, five miles from Hankow. Dr. Logan Koots reports that the Chinese military authorities are firing; Wuchang.
ablaze, and
bers to be entered at 2,000,-British Wireless,
HSINKING VISIT AROUSES INTEREST
Hsinking. Oct. 25. Mr. E. L. Hall-Patch, financial adviser to the British Embassies in
A Japanese Army
Erc City blocks
Aft
Installed
NON-COMBATANT AREAS These two Concessions, known as Special Administrative Districts No. 3, have become non-combatant areas,
booms.
renegade
the Japanese advance.
The
PRO-JAPAN
..
The Japanese planes appear to be hastening the Chinese retreat by one 1of the greatest series of muss air
ails the world has ever known.
Hundreds of planes are constantly the Chinese troops, the Far East, arrived here yesterday. public buildings are being systemati- and both Chinese and Japanese have lying over
Mr. Hall-Patch told Reuter that fila cally dynamited,
promised to respect their neutrality, and bug them, visit to sinking was of an absolutely
Foreigners relresting before the Their boundaries are marked by while neither civilians nor towns are private character, and he was visiting Japanese advance report that Japan-barbed wire and a series of deg being spared in the mass murder. personal acquaintances.
ese planes are straling the refugee- poles, from which fly Brilish, Ameri-
ean and other flogs. All reports tegarding unoilleial Jammed highways, negotiations were absolutely false, he Added.Reuter.
A
1.12. Japanese report i states that the Japanese troops have out the Floghan railway twenty miles north of Hankow and are now, also advancing rapidly on the clly from the north-United Press.
ADVANCING RAPIDLY
ORDERS FROM “HIGHER UP“ Orders were given from "higher
JAPANESE ARMY HEADQUAR-
the East River were to be transferred TROOPS REACHED CHANGKUNG-
CHANGKUNGTI IS TWO MILES
to the Pearl River della area.
[TI AT 12.40 PM. It is now apparent that all the Japanese sorties against the BocE FROM THE EX-BRITISH CONCES Tigris forts and shores of the Fear!SION, WHICH IS IN THE HEART River were conceived with the objec: OF HANKOW.
of giving the trutors an excuse for
PUPPET IN transferring troops from the Bina Bay
WAICHOW
New "Government" At East River City
region.
The ten thousand between
men lefi Bias Day and Canton fought herolcally and almost to the Inst man.
Generalissimo · In Haiphong?
BHANGHAI, OCT. 25.
They were out-numbered three and four to one, were left without arill- lery, aerial and mechanised support, UNCONFIRMED RUMOURS and received orders almost from the STATE TILAT GENERALISSIMO start of the campaign to act in le- AND
MADAME CHIANG KAI- SHEK HAVE LANDED IN FRENCH Despite their numerical inferiority TERRITORY AT HAIPHONG.
defenders the Chinese
contested
THEY RUDDENLY DEPARTED every inch of the way to Canton, FROM ILANKOW BY PLANE LAST endeavouring time after time 16, NIGHT-UNITED PRESS. reforms the lines that were smash-
ed and scattered by Japanese tanks aml planes.
NEARING. FINAL STAGE
Hunkow, Oct. 25.
CANTON, Oct, 25. Many people believe that the fate Fighting for the possession of suffered by Canton at the hands of Wuhan cities is nearing thef the A PRO-JAPANESE GOVERN-[pendently.
MENT has been formed in Incendiarista is almost certain to singe
Wsichow, East River city which be shared by Mankow. One fring
hero Field dispatches received is alrently raging in the city south ALL CANTON
of the former-British concession, admit the evacuation of Ocheng, ap-the invaders captured last week
proximately 70 nautical miles from in their drive on Canton. Its origin is unknown. A Domel
According to reports reaching, that Hankow, by Chinese troops yester message claims WORKERS SAFE
here, the proclamation announcing Imminence of fighting on the Katlen, 25 miles by water from day morning after severe fighting. outskirts of Hankow, became appar Itankow, has alrerdy fallen to Japan-
The Japanese inndo a fresh thrust the formation of the new regime was of General Bishop R. O. Hall of Hongkong this ent to-day as the first dull roar of ese warships, but the Garrison Com-on the town with the aid of heavy smed by two officers
artillery morning received an advice from the Japanese
Chan Kwing-ming's army. became mander of the Wuhan Defence Area,rtillery and boning planes.
In no instance were the Japanese! The Chinese
forced were
HANKOW, Oct. 25.. Most of
of the soldiers, it is reported, successful in breaking the Chinese Rev. 0. F. Allen, secretary of the audible in the city.
General Kuo Chlen, told the Press
the new regime, but lines without tanks or aeroplanes.
officially announced that Canton Refugee Committee. that all Sounding first like the distant roll-yesterday morning that the city was withdraw after all their defence hud have tied
who refused to desert the old the refugee workers were safe.
lug of thunder, the fire gradually in-sult in Chinese lands."
crumbled under the enemy's terrific many
Hundreds of young Cantonese men, Iankow will not be defended. Kwangtung Government have fled to defending their capital from the Government special administrativo Berle uho reported that already the creased in intensity as the day ware The Wuhan Commander calms bombardment.
that in a duel between the Katien The Chinese are now guarding a the hills, where they will probably invaders. refugee camps contain thousands of on.
Individually barricaded districts will be handed over to the War- evacuation of shore batteries and Japanese Meanwhile,
Une between Ochens homeless Chinese, and that many.
and conduct guerilla netivities against themselves inside buildings with their Refugee Zone Committon. --Reuter,*;
(Further Late News on more thousands are expected imme- civilians from Hankow has been ships one Japanese vessel was sunk Kotlen, about 20 miles from Hankow, small Japanese gerrions Our Own machine-run, and fought until their idjately.
(Continued on Page 2.). Yesterday morning.
Correspondent, almost completed.::
(Continued on Page 2)
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the
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now
La
HEROIC YOUNG MEN
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