THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1938.
RACKETEERS' ARCH -
ARCH-ENEMY SEEKS
NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL OFFICE
JAPANESE TROOPS did not enter the three Wuhan cities entirely without resistance, as this photograph indientes. It shows Japanese soldiers behind make-shift shelters as they were suddenly barred by the Chinese. A Japanese photographer lost his life in taking a similar photograph.—Copyright.
Japanese Drive On Changsha
Claim First Defence
Line Pierced
PUCHI, Nov. 8. PUSHING THROUGH
Hongkong Pacifists To Wear White Poppies
WINTE POPPIES, as well as red, will be wees in Hongkong ou
Armistice Day for the first time since this anniversary was Arat
abserved.
The white emblems, proceeds for which will be directed as in the case of the red popples which will be on sale in Hongkong's streets, to the Eart Haig Fund for disabled soldiers, will be worn by members
of the Hongkong brauch of the Prace Pledge Union.
A dozen white poppies have already been seat out to the Colony by special request of the Hongkong PPU.
The rate of white popples has been a feature of Armistice Day obsernance in England for several years, where the Peace Ptedyr Union membership has reached several thousands.
the newly-constructed Chinese defences, units of Peiping-Hankow Railway.
The pill-box
fortresses in
Election Battle In To-day's Polls
New York, Nov. 8.
IN JUNE, 1935, the governor of New York state Herbert H. Lehman, appointed Thomas E. Dewey Special Prosecutor to combat crime in New York City.
In a genéral election to-day, the same Thomas E. Dewey will seek the office of New York state governor, and his opponent will be the same Herbert H. Lehman, incumbent.
Lehman will be slightly
Invoured to defeat Dewey, be- Pat And Andy
cause the Democratic party,
which he represents, is numeri-
cally stronger in the state than Convert "Yam'
the Republican party, which is sponsoring Dowey. In addition,
Lehman has gained the pigs Into Ballroom
of several strong labour groups. There is no personal feud between the two candidates. It is not a case
of one man having become embitter-
Number
ed toward the other and seeking to Saturday's Innovation
unseat him. There has been none
of the mud-slinging, dirt and nithi
which often characterises holly-)
At Gloucester Hotel
contested campaigns. Lehman is on the Democratic ticket; Dewey on the the first--if not THE first-cities in Hongkong is going to be one of Republlenn.
Pat
Although they have a mutual ob- the world to see Fred Astaire's and Jective in their Agh! against crime, Ginger Rogers famous "Yam" per- their political philosophies differ, formed as a ballroom dance. The and this is a contest between ex-venue will be the Gloucester Hotel night next, ponents of two separate political the occasion, Saturday faiths.
und the performers, popular Lenman, now 60 years old, is an Sykes and "Andy" Andrews, who, all school Democrat of the sume in
in the eyes of Hongkong's socialites class that graduated President Roo at least, have become the epitome of all that is first-class in ballroom Postmaster General James Levelt, Forley and former New York state dancing. Governor Al Smith. Dewey repre- The courageous Innovation promises sents the new school Republicanism, to be one of the senations of Hong- a re-birth of the conservative Re-kong's winter season. A "Telegraph" With the Japanese occupation of publican party that expired influen- representative has already had the tially if not nominally with the ac privilege of seeing Pat and Andy the Sienning and Kiayu, the first defence feat of its presidential candidate, 'Ak perkarm their ballroom study of the the Japanese forces advanc-Peiping-Hankow Hallway zone have the connecting
Woning, Slenning London, in 1936.
the new Astaire "Yam", highlight of
"Carefree", by the and Kiayu, has now gone, while the
which opens ing through the undulating practically been abandoned
connecting Chinese forces as they have failed second
Dewey is only 30 but is a ranking Rogers film line
Slushui,
Friday next. plain north of the Peiping-to take any defnite stand on their Tsungyong and Puch) has also been in:mber of the newly vitalised ne-a run in Hongkong on
18 variously and putrons of the Gloucester Hotel Hankow Railway are prepared fortifications-Domei,
can rest assured that they are in for broken as a result of the Japanese publican party. He
termed "libera!" and "progressive." capture of Puchi ond Tsungyang.
an artistic treat. From the intricate Hunan sweeping on the
Pat Astaire-Rogers screen steps, und REMARKABLE RISE
a series of Andy have evolved a of dainty, border in pursuance of their
Since his appointment in 1935, attractive, and rhythunic Dewey has risen from a prosperous which, while
movements, drive on Changsha.
but obscure practicing attorney to the original
dispenses with A striking advance in the
features, and moonlight OS reported last
district brings and he has since become
the publle a first-class ball-
which room number,
might very night when the Hitomi detach- The Information states that they
and attorney of New York county, having roo
elected to that office last
easily become popularised here. ment advanced to the north- Jupanese Hitem detachment took, second defence lines, the dispatch been
enst of says, the Chinese troops are howautumn.
Additionally the ballroom experts east of Yanglosze, about 30 Watimi, about 25 miles
Yochow (Yoyang) on Tungting Lake, concentrating at Tungcheng, 25 miles Among the rackets which Dewey will demonstrate the tango, waltz and miles south-west of Puchi, on in Hunan Province, on Sunday even-south-west of Tsungyang, and also has destroyed by removing the crime slow fox-trot, so that Saturday next the Hupeh-Hunan border.
Jog.
at Yanglowsze, on
the Hankow-leaders who preyed on business men at the Gloucester will not be lacking Thi Fujioka detachment at 3: The Chinese first and second le-Canton Raliway, apparently with the with threats of physical vioience and in entertainment. o'clock on Monday afternoon enp-fence lines for Changsha have al-dual object of covering the retreat who controlled the rackets are the tured Tungtchklog on the shore of ready been broken by the Japanese of their comrades and at the same loan shark
(Continued on Next Column.) Hwangkui Lake,
north
DRIVE ADVANCED
Tokyo, Nov. 8. The Japanese drive on Clingshus, capital of Human Province, has made remarkable progress, patch claims.
of
the forces, the dispatch states.
Meanwhile, Wuning und Słuchu, on the River Shi in Kiangsi Province, are still held by the Chinese forces, the dispatch states, at the same time jare already isolated.
Reld dis- painting out that these two outpost nation's leading racket-buster,its more the mood of
U.B.
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racket, tne restaurant racket, the trucking, poultry, policy and baking rackets.
Although Lehman's record has not Mr. Pirow Has
been so sensational from a reader interest standpoint, Lehman's backers! point out that the governor had wip-
ed out a $100,000,000 state deficit and and political, social has wrought economic reforms that have made New York a healthier state.
the son of a Lehman, German-Jewish banker who landed
wealthy
in the United States as a poor iminigrant in 1848, retired from his lucrative banking business
Long Talk With
The Premier
London, Nov. 7.
in 1820 The South African Defence Minis-
to become cutenant-governor
of ter, Mr. Oswald Pirow, was received
New York state. After two terms in by the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville
afternoon,
when that office, be succeeded Franklin D. Chamberlain this Roosevelt as governor in 1932 and is they had a long conference which,
according
to informed circles, dealt now rounding out his third term.
He was reluctant to seek a fourth with the inclusion of South Africa in the British national defence system. term, and as recent as June 21, an
Pirow was the Mr.
guest of honour nounced that he would not consider another term as governor but offered luncheon tendered by the British run for the Senate, filling the Government in the Mayfair Hotel to- vacancy caused by the recent death day, the British Minister for the Co- of Iloyat S. Copeland,
ordination of Defence, Sir Thomas Insitip, acting as host.-Trans-Ocean.
to
Then, on September 30, the Repub licans
nominated Dewey. Realizing that only by presenting a powerful candidate could they hope to defeat Tammany influence from the state He declared it was Dewey, the Democrats drafted Leh-Rovernment." man as their nominee, believing that the duty of the state to protect lis he was the only one of their numbers citizens from economic catastrophe, capable of polling more votes than see that every worker had a job and provide necessary relief and adequate the young district attorney.
housing.
tales
NO EXPERIENCE
of
eriticism Dewey's principal Lehman publicly admitted his high Lehman is that the governor for- esteem for Dewey the prosecutor but felted all claim to political independ- vouchsafed his belief that Dewey was ence when he permitted the state not sufficiently experienced in state chairman of the Democratic party, to fulfil the office successfully. Jim Farley, to force him to abandon In his acceptance speech Lehman his intentions of running for the declared that Dewey "has no record Senate and enter the gubernatorial of experience in the fields of social race against his (Lehman's) will. or labour problems in their relation to business and government.”
In reply, Dewey declared that "it was time to remove the corrupt
Dewey has been criticized from Beveral quarters for giving up the district attorneyship before he com- pletes his pledges offered
in the campaign. Dowoy's reply is that the office le so efficiently organized that time of defending Changsha and he could absent himself and it would still function smoothly, Alling ble campalan promises `
Further, clies that it is the governor's preroga.
| Hiengyang-Domei."
ADVANCE FARTHER WEST
4
Live to appoint the district 'altorney!
Shanghal, Nov, D. successor; hence, if elected, he could The Japanese have not only occu-enlist the services of someone upon pled the town Puchl but have ad-whom he could rely to perform the vanced 12% miles further west, dulles. All the while, the silico according to Japanese reports issued, would be under his direct Jurisdic- here yesterday evening,
tion.
Another Japanese column hus ar- The race resolves itself in a balile Aved at the village Wullpel, 28 miles between a fighting young prosecutor east of Yochum.
bent on dispensing" na mich publje Japanese warships on the Yangtze korvico as the pubile will accept nich have reached a point 60 miles below a veteran statesman who wishes to Yochow. The mine fields laid by continus furnishing the pubilo serviço the Chinese between Hankow and that has tigen generally popular Yochow having been removed,-*|ámong his constituents for six years. Trans-Ocean,
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