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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938.
Mass Raids Devastating ALHAMBRA
China Interior
CHUNGKING, Nov. 8.
INDICATING CONTINUED JAPANESE attempts
WOOD IN DEMAND
Arrested Man Alleges Victim of Guards
A fine of $250 with the alternative
to kill Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese reports of three months' hard labour, was Im- state that Japanese planes yesterday continued to make posed on Wu Wai-man, 29, unem- very severe raids on Hengyang, where Chiang Kai-shek mand before Atr. T. J. Houston at the is reported to have made his headquarters.
station.
played, when he appeared on re- Central Magistracy yesterday charg ed with the unlawful possession of 100 entties of wild tree wood, worth However, this part of the lished at Lanchow; capital of Kansu $2. nt Blue Pool Road on Saturday, report cannot be confirmed.
Province, Yunnanfu, capitai of
Sub-Inspector that when brought H. G. Baker, who Yunna Province, The Japanese raids have in-|
and Chenglu, prosecuted, ereased since they repaired the which bases fighter planes of the E15 of having been assaulted by two capital of Szechuan Province, toto Wanchal Station, Wu complained Wuhan nerodromes where huge type of Soviet manufacture, Gloster forest guards because he had refused fleets have been recently based. Gladiators of British make, and De- to enrry the wood to the
Chungking had an air raid alarm! woltines of French manufacture, Wu's vest was torn, but the Inspector this morning, but no planes appeared. totalling 200 in, number, have been could see so marks of injury on him.
Initial reports glate that severe niransigned.-Domei,
Wu declared he hnd never been in battles have taken place at Balung.
porsrsion of the wood, and the forest Llangshan and Hanchung, in moutli
guards had struck him and made him Shenii, but
claim the wood as his. th
results are not known. It is
Chungking, Nov, D. Defendant had two previous con- noteworthy that Clarke Kerr and Chiang Kai-slick re-chaum, Japanese aircraft also raided
Besides bombing Chengtu in Sze-victions, one for a smifar offence.
Charged with the theft of two portedly had a conference at Heng yesterday Hengyang and Hengshun pieces of Arewood worth 20 cents, yang during the week-end during ut Hunan, Nanchang in Kiangsi, from the Bakery of the Royal Arny which time the Japanese
made Shianing, Lukpo and Lokcheng In Service Corps, and with trepassing on the city. frequent air ralds on
The Chungking military aerodrome thus far received.
Kwangtung, according to
in military property, Tung Bun, 23, unemployed, appeared before Mr. T. hortly after 1 bombed
shortly
yesterday..
Was
that Sir Archibald
p.m.
JAPANESE MASS RAIDS
reports.
das, a single Japanese plane, TC, 115 miles south-west of J. Houston at the Central Magistracy
and Hengshan, 33 mues turning from Chengtu, dropping eight
north.cast of Hengyang.
Sub-Inspector H. G. Baker said hombs on the Chinese air defenders,
were at- by two separate
Tung was seen climbing out of ind but no essential damage was
groups of window of the Bakery by Pte. C. caused.cked
Japanese warplanes, Eighteen gant Japanese bombers
Edwards, R.A.O.C., who caught hold Twenty-one
of the machines broke of him. There were three other men score of pursuit planes dis-
dinta Hengshan in the morning and with Tung, but they escaped, In- turbed various parts of Szechuan to dumped a "The Adventures of Marco Polo" In China trop shoplosive and incendiary bombs in the had been several thefts of wood from
confused the Chinese outposts said that the Japanese planes centrated on the suburbs of Chengtu
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200 civilians are the Bakery recently, more than 1,000 estimated to have been killed and 50 lbs, of firewood having been stolen. more wounded.
Tung Was sentenced to A whose row of over 40 houses on! Two hundred bombs were dropped Sichen Street cubalde the West Gate of larceny, and fined $15 or 14 days' munits hard labour on the charge on the Chengtu aerodrome, but the was razed exact damage caused is not known. bomba..
the ground by six hard labour on the charge of tres- passing The terms are to run con- It is uncunftrraedly reported that
Huge fires started by Incendiary currently. one Japanese bomber" was shot down.
The Chinese authorities at Chungssties ut the North Gate
duced the place to smouldering ruins, ing and Chengtu are doing their
rendering many homeless, utmost to evacuate the civilians in both cities, as it is expected that there will be a large death roll from the Japanese bombings in the future.-- turned later and sprayed the city Pickpocket Takes Student's
United Press.
states.
CHENGTU ATTACKED
FOR FIRST TIME
Tokyo, Nov. 1.
arca re-
At Rengyong, 3 Japanese air- PREVIOUS craft released about 120 bombs. Six scouting machines, however, re-
with machine-gun fire, resulting in over 30 civilian casualites.
Shortly afterwards, another squad- j ron of 18 machines appeared from Kiangat and dumped 30
more mis-
OFFENCES
Fountain Pen
The theft of a fountain pen from
Des
Vocux Chinese student, in Road on Monday, resulted in
Lam Ha, 21, on a charge of larceny br
the
For the first time since the out-ses a Hengyang. break of hostilities, Chenglu, capital) A report from Nanchang revealed appearance of a man named of Szechuan Province, on Tuesday tit nine Japanese planes passed over fore Mr. R. Edwards at the Central was suliceted to a bombing attack by the
eity an
and after circling over the Japanese aircraft, a field dispatch eastern suburbs for some time, Magistracy yesterday.
micnine-gunned the streets below. Various kinds of Chinese military No damage was enused. establishments in the inland city:
After circling over the city, three} were attacked and damaged, the dis-i Japanese plants released a number te was sentenced to nine months' patch adds-Domei,
of bombs in the outskirts of Shiuhing hard labour and ordered to be under and
nise across the West River in the morning.
JAPANESE PLANE DOWNED ·
Chenglu. Nov. 8.
One of the 18 Japanese bombers
Five other planes scouted the West River for # considerabl
Lam pleaded not guilty, but was convicted after evidence, during which a detective stated that he had
see the theft actually seen
committed.
which staged the first air raid over time and dropped several missiles at He asked to be tros
police supervision for two years,
The defendant had three previous along convictions, two of which were of a similar nature to the present charge.
treated Lukpo
leniently as in the afternoon.
lie had a mother to support. Canton-Hankow Railway in Kwang- It is reported that Lokehong on the
Snatcher Caught As she was leaving the Winst Lok also raided. Detalls are wharf, Connaught Road Central, on tung was lacking
Monday, a woman named Loung wei and north Kiangsu in the past which held $100 in Shanghai notes, Japanse aerial activities in An- Sul-m, 21. had her handkerchief.
days
are also reported In snatched from her hand. despatches reaching here.
The thief, named Li Kit, 21. was On Monday, If Japanese machines arrested, and yesterday he appeared
Magistracy charged
Chengtu, provincial capital of Sze- chuan, was shot down by Chinese airmen during the aerial combat.
The Japanese machines
broke into the city in two squadrons shortly after 11 o'clock in the morning and commenced bombing the alraeld in
low the northern suburbs and the south-
or outs combat planes which had bombed Tsingyang, south of Tung-, before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen-
Chinese taken to the air gave battle. The Japanese aircraft were forced
tak formation.
break
to
ling in Anhwel, relays, dropping tral
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with 113 bumbs outside the south gate. largeny. Li pleaded guilty, and was Several farm hothes were blown to sentenced to six months' hard labour. One of them was hit by Chinese
bits. bullets and nosedived to the ground, said to have already evacuatza.
Alost civilians, in the eily, are He had two previous convictions. wwwsze helching: black smoke in its trail.
Nanling, northeast of Ts.ngyang. It is estimated that 58 bonbs
Was bombed
four landed now the adrield. The area
on Sunday by in the vicinity of the Taiping Temple
Japanese planes which dropped saven in the southern outskirts received musiles, causing only slight damage. On Nov. 5, Ive enemy aircraft 40 missiles, which killed two civilians
bornbed and maching-gunned Sutalen, i und wounded one.-Central News.
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the experimental alr - mall Jeervice across the North Atlantic The general tone on the London will, it is hoped, be started as soon as Stock Exchange to-day was satis- the Botwood, Newfoundland seaplane factory with activity expending and base is free from ice next spring- prices hardening in the latter part Reuter.
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Tunnanfu, the capital of Yunnan Province, is only 750 miles from Hankow and 520 miles from Canton, the correspondent observes,
su, k.iling more than 10 civilians, Central News.
CUSTOMS OFFICER BITTEN BY DOG
Chan Ching the second offteer of the Chinese Maritime Customs cruis er Honsing, lying in Kowloon Bay, was bitten by a dog owned by Capt. Norman, master of the Customs Chiang Kai-shek, be declares, is cruiser, Kwellin, on November 3.) apparently making a fourth and pos- Chan was treated at the Kowloon sibly Bnal attempt to reorganise the Hospital, and the dog was sent to Chinese air force with bases estab-| Mathukok for observation.
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