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WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER
TOKYO TO TELL WORLD OF POLICY TOWARDS CHINESE GOVERNMENT Japan Wuchang Occupation Is Won't Stiff Task As Irregulars Relax Block Streets Into Drives
TOKYO, Oct. 26.
*IF* NECESSARY we shall march to the remotest sections of China," declared General Itagaki, the War Minister, in an exclusive in- terview with "Reuter" to- day on the occasion of the partial occupation of Han- kow.
"Our army has at last entered i into the city of Hankow, and
City
*HE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT IS PREPARING TO ISSUE AN
BY THE JAPANESE WORLD THE ATTITUDE TO BE TAKEN GOVERNMENT FOLLOWING THE FALL OF CANTON AND HANKOW. Contrary to expectations, the Japanese are not to be allowed to occupy the three. Wuhan, cities without opposition.
Severe fighting is now proceeding in the ruins of Wuchang, the southernmost of the three cities which form the Wuhan area.
Details are meagre, owing to Wuchang's complete isolation from Hankow on the other side of the river, but it is apparent that Japanese attempts to occupy the blazing area are not meeting with success.
No attempt has been made by the Japanese to city divided from occupy Hanyang, the western
very soon we will fulfil the occu- Hankow and Wuchang by the Yangtse and Han Rivers. pation.
Despite the official withdrawal
"What the fall of Hankow signifier will best be known to of Chinese troops, it is believed Chiang Kai-shek himself.
AIK RAIDS IN HUNAN
Changshu, Oct. 26. Japanese planes conducted a series have remained west of the Han of air raids in Ilunan yesterday. on the
that some thousand irregulars
"But for the Japanese this is River, in order to give the concentrating their attack
Canton-Hankow Railway
a mere milestone on the way to final and complete eradication of Japanese as stiff a fight as pos-
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WUCHANG
Big 72 Fight-to-the-Death Battle For Bocca Tigris Forts
Planes For H.K.
ONE OF THE EPICS OF THE CHINESE RESISTANCE TO THE
Six bombers appeared over all the influences embracing sible for the ruins of the great yang 140 kilometres north of here,
where untilis
and reirased a num» ; the morning Communism and the resisting of industrial area,
yesterday stood China's great ber of missiles at the Hungshakla Japan's just rights and aims.
and the Huangshiu railway "We will not relax our efforts inland arsenal and the Govern bridge, causting some damage.
In the afternoon, nine Japanese until we have succeeded in build-ment steel works.
"Reuter" states that two Japanese for Chuchow, 45 kilometres south of passed over here, hending machines ing a new China and of laying the
Japanese
PLEDGING THEM- foundation for permanent peace in motor-boats with twenty
sive reconnaisenner. Shortly after-SELVES to a regular the Far East Only then, and not marines aboard drew alongside the here, where they conducted exten- until then, Will we stop-Reuter burning Japanese Concession, opwards, another squadron of mind weekly service between RIVER.
GERMANY'S ENORMOUS OBLIGATIONS
25,791,800,000,000 Awaits Payment
THE GERMAN
warplanes broke into Chuchow
alte the mouldering shell of the Consulate, yesterday evening. made the railway station and Its America and Hongkong as
A landed two hundred vicinity the target of their attack. The
Japanese
new 74-passenger yards below H.M.S. Ghat and H.M.S. number of explosive and incendiary Soon
the Tern. Standing on the bund bombs dropped caused eight civillan planes are put on shore in drizzling rain, the Japanese casualties and the demolition of more schedule, Pan American officer in charge of the party assured than 10 houses.
fore-
as
that the Jacquinot Non-Combatant Simultaneous with the attack on Airways are applying to the
Zone, comprising the former British and Iussian settlements, respected.
would be Chuchow, three other machines raid-U.S.A. Government for an
Chuchow.-- cd Lukow.. south of
increase in the air mail rates. Central News.
A larger vessel is arriving at 5 p.m, to-day, and thereafter the entire Japanese Yangtse feet, estimated to number seventy vessels, will upriver.
comé
GUTTED BY FIRE
Chungking, Oct. 26, Japanese army provisions stored on Coal Hill in Peiping were gutted The main Army is not expected to by fire on Oct. 23, according to a reuch Hankow until later.
Pelping message. The cause of the
unknown.-Central : conflagration is BRITONS BAYE PROPERTY
News. Press" "United
reveals
that
BERLIN, Oct. 25.
GOVERN- to in- MENT has offered demnify the holders of certain prompt netion on the part of British Austrian bonds by exchanging naval offers saved most of the the international loans of the Japanese buildings in the various former Austrian State for 414 per cent. Reich loans.
Debentures can only be exchanged which have been in the possession of persons living in Germany since April 14, 1938.
ITALY APPLAUDS JAPAN
Rome, Oct. 20. The Fascist Grand Council, after foreign concessions from destruction. meeting for four and a half hours, of British officers discovered that aft which Il Duce and all the members the buildings in Ure Japanese Con- were present, issued n communique
declaring: cession had been dynamited.
Four of the new Bocings will be assigned to the trans-Pacific service and two to the Atlantic.
These
world's are rated as the Jurgeat trans-occunic flying boats,: each capable of currying 74 passen- gers and weighing 41 tons, or about one and one-half times as big as the present trans-Pacific clippers,
JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF CANTON AND THE SURROUND- ING AREA WAS, IT HAS JUST BEEN REVEALED, THE DEFENCE OF THE FAMOUS BOCCA TIGRIS FORTS, GATEWAY TO THE PEARL
The entire Chinese garrison of the forts remained at their posts until the end.
Two hundred and fifty died at their posts, manning the guns until the last minute and then, when the Japanese finally stormed the battlements from land and sea, fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets and daggers.
18 DIE IN AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST AIR DISASTER
Plane Crashed Into Mountain-Side
THE
The first of these ships in now undergoing tests and is expected to go into service between Hongkong MELBOURNE, Oct. 25. "This Council, on the occasion of
and San Francisco next month,
THE MT. DANDENONG Following the discovery a dau-i
search uf the military victories achieved by the
The second plane is nearing com- gerous house-to-house
air disaster, in which Japanese buildings was made by armed forces of Japan' in Canton and
Hankow, sends a message of goodwill pletion at the Boting Aircraft Com- the Bellish naval landing party. The dynamite caches were dis- to Japan, the nation to which the
lives, is the greatest in the By increasing the new loan issue
total covered, wires snipped, and explo. Italian people feels itself bound by any plant in Seattle, Washington, eighteen persons lost their
aviation to 1,880,000,000 marks, the
The hulls of the third and fourth history of political solidarity, spiritual and amount of the Government's short-sive and lures were dumped into the profound and unreserved ideological, and will be launched soon.
are fairly well which has found concrete expression planes
assembled, Australia. term indebtedness, consolidated into Yangise. loans in the course of this year, has
the-Reuter. along reached 0,336,000,000 marks, which is
ceremonial
A fourth Japanese
Kishul area, marching
column hins
double the amount of Government's how arrived at Hankow from, then tho Italo-German-Japaneso pact."while the fifth is partly assembled.l
loan transaellons last year.
north bank of the Yangise.
It is believed that a
Germany's indebtedness us thus more than doubled since January 30, entry by the whole Japanese Army 1933, and -now totals 25,791,800,000,-will be made into Hankow to-morrow
or Friday. 000 marks-Reuter Special,
Shrapnel Bursts Over Harbour Caused Alarm
HOMEBOUND TIFFIN business people and Kowloon residents were slightly alarmed to-day when shortly after noon they aaw an acroplane flying over the harbour with shrapnel burst- ing around it. Med v
JAPANESE CONSUL FOR HANKOW
Shanghal, Oct. 20.
and construction of the sixth has Just storted.
Plane No. I made its first test flight. last June 7, being aloft 38 minutes! Mr. Yoshinur! Hanawa, newly-and going from Seattle's Puget Sound appointed Japanese Consul-General In Hankow, accompanied by members harbour to sheltered Lake Washing- of his sint, left here on Tuesday ton.
nboard the Taishin Maru en roule to It was found to function perfectly Hankow to re-open the Japanese once in the air but was not as satis- Consulate-General there.
Foderal
Tho Japanese losses are also; believed to have been severe, al-
though the Japanese claim that EUROPEANS wounded and 32 missing. IN TIFFIN-
their losses were alx killed, 81
Of the entire Chinese garrison, only sixteen were taken prisoner by the Japanese. They were all too severely wounded to fight.
The Japanese claim to have cap- tured several howitzers, trench-mor- turs, 3,350 bombs,. 37 rifles and 7,000 rounds of ammunition.
Cut off from their supplies at Can- ton, this was the only ummunition left by the Chinese defenders.
All the guns in the forts are be- lleved to have been dynamited, and rendered useless, before the Japanese landed. thus
WHERE IS JAPAN'S ARMYT A "United Press" messago from canton reveals the Afth day after the in Japanero entry leaves unsolved the riddle of the whereabouts of the | Japanese Army.
The only Japanese soldiers who Included in the dead are:
have entered the city are the van- Hon. Mr. C. A. 8. Hawker, guard of about 1,000 man
Member Parliamentary
Il is authoritatively learned that for Wakefield, S.A. since 1029, and the British Consul, Mr. A. G. Blunt, former Minister for Commerce has been informed that larger bodies
not of Japanese soldiers are to enter in the near future.
The Headquarters of the Japanese South China Command are sull at:
the Federal Cabinet;
Mr. W. Hardy, partner in the well-known Australian Jewellery firm of Hardy Brok;
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expected
BRITONS POLICE DUND
Mr. L. S. Abrahams, K.C., lead-Taengcheng, 40 miles away. Ing Sydney barrister;
-Pilot, Webb, Chlef Capitain factory on the water. The clipper Aboard the same vessel were about dipped its right wing in the water
formerly of the Royal Air Force]
and fater of. the in England 200 Japanese refugees, Including Mr.
R.A.A.F. Fumlo
director of the several times when wind unbalanced Shimizu, Japanese Residents Corporation in the empty craft. Hankow, who are returning to Han- kow to rehabilitate their enterprises ...Domei.
UNEXPECTED HITCH AN
an
TIME CAR COLLISION
Chinese Bystander Goes To Hospital
A SERIOUS COLLISION in- volving two European drivers occurred at the intersection of Upper Albert and Garden Roads at noon to-day.
The drivers were Mr. H H. Mundy,
of Messrs. Dodwell & Company: and
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P. & 0. LINER THRILL
This morning the British nasal;
Hoogkong passengers aboard P.&O. authorities. together with armed liner: Rajputana, which left Hong- Punjab police and French soldiers kong, for? Home Just before. Japanese and sailors, patrolled Abecity] landing, in: Bianï Day, &were: among In addition to Mr. Abrahams Uiere
strcels opposite Shamsen, follow the very few: Europeans who saw the Installation of twin rudders, 10-
Ing an intimation from the Jap- Japanme Meraada sneaking into Blas were four other prominent Austra pincing the singlo rudder with which tion barristers, returning from anese that they were too busy to Bay, lettare just received discloso." the plane was origirially designed, is Arbitration Court action in Adelaide,
(ake care of the entire olly, A At the Rajputanazwan „would not oliject to foreign@sales through the night, sèntobliksupay 16. to be completed soon. Boeing>Air- Included in the eighteen dead are
wuddenly on OCCUPATION
craft engineers will then conduct three women, one of whom, Miss
including several new chips Puarding it far Despite Official Chinese evacuation w series of experiments in manoeu-Elma Jones, was the air hostess.
The plane involved in the disaster ones, continue to burn in the shell of transporte near Bld Day? red, white and blue markinga on the] The guns were aimed at a plane
towing a target. Previously this of the Wuhan pities, the Japanese vering the flying boat on the water,
kendam(Continued on Rape 10). was tho frak, line that anti-air practice has been carried out by the ometaily:admit that their entry inte aller which the department of com- was the Kreema, crack Douglas of what was once a city of two Continued at pag 10.14 marca month-long Last"; will ̈mtarta craft practice he taken place over Army outside the harbour limits."
However, it was not long before the harbour, batteries opening up they got a loser view and saw the from Stonecutters,
It
Lance.
Aires,
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