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CHANGSHA DISAPPEARS W
FROM MAP IN FLAME Jews Tunnel AND EXPLOSION
To Escape
METZ, Nav, 15.
TUNNELS. same as much as
150 feet long, have been dug under the Franco-German fron- tier by Jews, trying to escape from GermILILY",
Many bundreds of Jews have tried to enter France since the marder of Herr von Rath, but the French froniler guards have been reinforced,
Five hundred refugees were turned back on the French Saar frontier, and about 150 allowed to enter.
The number who surcceded in entering through the tunnels, dag at night time, is not known, -Reuter Special.
BRITAIN'S AMBASSADOR GOES TO
All Foreign Property In
City Reduced To Ashes
CHANGSHA CAPITAL CITY OF HUNAN PROVINCE, IS A HEAD
ITS PACODAS, ITS AGE-OLD TEMPLES, HAVE CRASHED IN RUINS: ITS BUILDINGS ARE HEAPS OF RUBBLE.
For four days and nights the fires, exceeding in intensity even those which swept Canton, have raged through the city of wooden buildings.
Explosions are still adding to the devastation. No Foreign missions, property has remained inviolate.
churches, hospitals, British firms' headquarters have all been devoured.
Destruction has covered the
CHUNGKING whole city from the American
Material Assistance
Presbyterian Mission in the
north to the Norwegian Mission and Normal School in the south. The entire waterfront is a heap of smouldering ruins. The Provinclad Military Governor's the Telephone Exchange, District Governor's Office and the Court of
Justice
H.K. MAIL
DELAYED:
headquarters, DELPHINUS
CRIPPLED
were among the first to go. The Y.M.C.A., in the heart of the city which once boasted a population of 800,000, has disappeared, as has the YW.C.A. on the north-custern Plane Returns To Siam! outskirts.
With Engine Trouble
For China ?
CHUNGKING, Nov. 15. THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR,
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr}' arrived at Chungking by motor car from Changsha at 3.30 p.m. to-day, after a six days' trip via Kwelyang. Не YAS accom- Jardine's wharves and offlers, panied by his Secretary, Dr. J. G. Tabourdin, and also the American Assistant Naval Attache, Captain James McHugh,
And the German Defag, head-
The Ashallo Petroleum Company ENGINE TROUBLE to-day quarters have bren razed. The forced the Imperial Airways mail] Roman Catholic Mission is believed plane Delphinus to return to to be destroyed.
Bangkok.
According to British clrcics, Sir All foreigners are safe and com- and adequate food Archibaldi, after meeting General-fortable, with issimo Chiang Kai-shek in Hunan water for their present needs. destres to exchange opinion with other leaders of the National Guvernment In Chungking regarding the various phases of the Fur Eastern situaton in general, and Sino-British relations in particular.
In British circles, it is generally be- lleved that the rumours of mediation are only speculation. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr must have realised that medution is impossible at the present moment before he teached Huban.
The plane took off an schedule ntj 4.15 a.m. but had to return to the a short time. Acid after flying for The British Consulate and British Club on Shuillu Island, which is in Eventually the Delphinus left at 7 the centre of the Siang River facingam, and is now expected to reach but the Kai Tak at 5 p.m. to-day on schedule. Changsha are also cafe, island has been evacuated.
With only two planes on the ser- All foreign floating property is safe, vice, dificulty has been experienced report from authoritative on the Bangkok-Hongkong extension but sources states that no foreign property owing to many delays on the main is standing in Changsha,
This fires are still raging on the outskirts of Changsha, and various Industrial concerns outside the city liselt have been dynamlied or otherwino destroyed.
Well-informed circles intimated that the toples discussed between the Ambassador and Chinese lead- ers in Human and at Chungking
Yale in China, the famous univer- include the future material and moral British assistance to China sity founded by ex-students of Yoic after the Hongkong route had been University in America, appears to be ent, and alss Sino-British financial intact, and refugees are being centred
relations.
line from London to Sydney. The local service is dependent on the main service being on schedule, but several times recently flying-boats have left Southampton a day be hind the scheduled time.
Turn
TWELVE swallown which Cock the Wrong (clantic) turning arrived at Ply- mouth this month n the P. and O. liner Chitral as it wag proceeding Home from Hong- kong.
011
They flew board in the Bay of Biscay, settled down In the smoking
Death Sentence Commuted By The Governor
CHUNG CHI-CHEUNG, pacing his condemned cell in Stanley Prison
as he brooded over the fate that was being decided for him 9,700 miles away by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, has been told that, irrespective of the London decision, sentence of death imposed and began build by the Hongkong Supreme Court will not be carried out.
ing nests,
room,
Presumably
they thought the liner was bound for warmer climes.
They made a mistake, for the ward bound from
| Chitral was home- :
the Far East,
the And now Bwallows find
themselves hack in England.
The sentence has been commuted to one of imprisonment for life by His Excellency the Governor.
His Excellency's decision was made known this morning. It was in Bias Bay on January 11, twenty-two months ago, that a Hongkong water police launch found Chung lying wounded in a cabin of the Chinese Customs cruiser Cheung Keng with a revolver in each hand,
Not far away lay his skipper, Douglas Lorne Campbell, dead in his dressing-gown. He had a bullet wound alleged to have been inflicted with one of Chung's revolvers.
FULL SPEED AHEAD
Above them, on the bridge, luy the chief officer, a Chinese, who groaned orders telling his boatswain Luke control of the vessel and herd fur port at full speel.
When Chung was well enough to leave hospital he made a statement, It was alleged, in which he sold:
At the time of the occurrence I lost my vetised and didn't know what I was doing.
"I didn't recover until twenty- four hours after I got to hospital. I tried to think out why I should have done such a thing, but failed.....I bad no grievance whatever against the captain or chief officer....how repentance Is too fate."
According to this statement, ho
ALLEGED ATROCITY IN AMERICAN MISSION
Acid Thrown In Doctors' Face
HANKOW, Nov, 15.
FOREIGN SOURCES REPORT that Japanese soldiers, at-
lid not doubt that it was he who tempting to drive out Chinese had done the killing. He remember-refugees from St. Michael's ad nothing of it himself, but the Church at Wuchang yesterday, testimony of other members of the threw a bottle of carbolle held at Chinese crew-all my good friends"
-convinced him, he said, that be Dr. Logan Roots, who remon-
strated with the goldiers, guilty.
However, Dr: Roots was not hit, HIS spacal to the Privy Council, the result of which has not yet been though it is said that he was orced received in Hongkong, was based on to enynge in fisticuffs for the Ameri purely technical questions, such as cut Ong which adorned the church.
It is said that the United States "the Supreme objection that Court of Hongkong has never had Consul has protested to the Japanese
Consul-General. any Common Law jurisdiction over armed public vessels of foreign States, in Hongkong waters or over] the crew of such vessels."
A CORNER OF STANLEY PRISON.-The death cell is in the an extreme left corner.
Cargo
H.K.
Mystery Of Arms for
LONDON, Nov. 15.
"ELEVENTH MOON"
RAPE IS ALLEGED
to
It is learned that the Japanese authorities refused permission United States Consul officials to visit St. Michael's Church at Wuchang. These objections-there were four- It is said that Dr. Roots investigated teen of them listed in the bound the church after hearing numerous volume of documents of the trial reports of rape cases-United Press. which were issued to barristers and Privy Councillors-relate to a clis- pute over Chung's nationality. In the early stages of the trial a stream of Chinese had gone into the wit- ness-box to tell of the circumstances of Chung's birth. He own story
At present the Dorado is being FURTHER DETAILS in the queer story of w repaired, after a landing accident at Bangkok, and the Daedalus is being plans to ship a cargo of guns and ammunition to overhauled for its airworthiness Hongkong, and the ultimate shipping of a cargo Explosions are still rocking the examination.
thero.
includes Sino-Brilish trade and com- munications by land, and the con- the are, is qulot.
operate
the
Bangkok - Hongkong!
of old tyres and bricks which were seized at
It is understood that the first item city, but the situation, apart from The four machines which normally Marseilles, were unfolded at the Bow Street than a few hundred shuttle service are De Haviland 86 Police Court before Sir Rollo Graham-Campbell. Not more Chinese civilians remain, the bulk of
evacuated type machines. population having the south-westwards.
Unual British support of the Chinese monetary system.-United Press.
HUNGARIAN CABINET RESIGNATION HANDED IN
CHINESE DURN CHANGEHA Stangtan, Nov, 10. The Chinese razed Changsha, pro- to the of Hunan, vincial enpilal ground by fire voluntarily in accord- ance with the "scorched earth" policy, as the city is difficult to defend ufter the Japanese have captured Yoyong.
Central News correspondent who toured Changalia after the big Are writes that the city now lles in utter ruins. All the business centres, BUDAPEST, Nov. 16.. including Pa Chuen Ting, Po Tze Street, Tung Chang Road, Nan Cheng PREMIER IMREDY has ten Street and Small West Gate have been dered the resignation of the gutted by the conflagration, which is Hungarian Cabinet to the described as the biggest in Changsha Regent, Admiral von Horthy, in this century. and he has boon entrusted with
formerly the formation of a new ministry, building stood only a broken wall was
found still standing. The
Where
the
-Y.M.C.A.
Hupan
shambles
The decision to rosign was taken University and the First Cotton Mill, at a meeting of the Cabinet where the largest structures outside the city, Dr. Imredy said that the return to were also reduced to Hungary of the territories ceded by Central News. Czecho-Slovakia' marked the opening
of a new chapter Iri Hungary's
national life.
He therefore felt called upon to ask for a renewed expression of con- Adence.
It has been forecast that after forming the new Cabinet, Dr. Imredy will work on a programme of far 'reachingt⋅ reforms.--Reuter.
FRENCH COMMERCE ENVOYS TO BALKANI
Paris, Nov. 19. The French commercial mission of 201 members
to-day left
for Bucharest, Sofa and Belgrade. Reuter Special.
Other delays in the service have
main route.
AMERICAN GIRLS IN LAST GAME
Dennis Corrigan, of Park lane, Į
relationship to Generalissimo Chlang
MET IN EMBASSIES
"I was borti, I think, on the tenth day of the eleventh moon in 1915. When my father died, X was living in Kowloon Tong; he had only one wife. He had another wife who went back to the conn- try, so I don't know whether she is dead or alive. I have not kept touch with her.
"My father was born at Pinhot. my mother at Hongkong. My
LATE NEWS
mother was Wong Kam-kla; sho Taierchwang
dled more than ten years ago, as siso my father."
He had no documents to prove
Recaptured By Chinese
been caused by monsoonal weather Frederick Wiiling, a Dutch sub- "I met Chou in the Chinese and storms on the Indian leg of the jert, and James Oll Herbert Embassy in both Paris and London, Willing are charged with having and at both Embassies he was with- conspired with Chou Tin-shu and put his hat and coat," Lamite con-his story, and his birth was never
tinued.
registered. His sister told the court another unknown to cheat Theo-
the Chou, he contioued, had permits of his birth, on the tenth of dora Lafitte of £7,250.
purporting to be permits for the eleventh moon (she could not remem- Corrigan has already been fined importation of armas to China,
her at what year), in
in "a house behind
Loyang, Nov. 16. £500 for making in, false Customs
Tolerchwang, battle-torn town in The witness added that he did not Shamshulpo Dispensary" declaration.
And an old electrician's coolic
where 0 great South Shantung the
of the case this make enquiries about Chou at either On
resumption
named Cheung Tam-lsung told the Chinese victory was won in spring morning, questions were asked about Embassy because he believed in and some story and said he remembered this year, was recaptured by Chinese a Chinese man of mystery and his ad confidence in Willing.
it because, "I went to
this boy moblio units in a.surprise attack on Asked what made him auspicious and Dr. H. H. Kung
regarding the cases of "munitions, at moon feast all those years ago."
The fight for Chung's life and pos- Sunday night, a belated milltary re- Hesselberg, counsel for the willings, weight of the cartridges peared But Chung has no money to pay for
Under cross-examination by Mr. Marseilles, Latte said that the sible freedom is against the Crown, port received here reveals.
During the battle which preceded Japanese were the re-occupation, Latte denied the suggestion that incorrect and the cases weighed the lawyers who have worked on bis willed while 23, Including several Instead of being a member of a well-supposed to contain the guns weighed case now for almost two years, for leers, were taken prisoners. known French armament firm it was only two kilos. better to describe him as a middlo Lafitte agreed, when the subailtu- the documents involved in his trial, man or intermediary, in selling arms tion was discovered, that Frederick for the counsel who fought for his
Willing had rushed around to see him, life. between firms,
he had a half and
was terribly upset. Willing Lamille declared the French Government
Innocent, and the revelation regard- share in a Society making arms for declared that he and his son were Mr. Hesselberg described. Chou in the substitution had come as a Tin-shu as "this". Chinese man of terrible shock to them.
The caso was adjourned, until The game resulted in a win for mystery" and asked Lafitle: whether Columbia Pictures by three runs to he had been told that Chou was n November 22, Sir Rollo refused. a
Corrigan. two. Columbia collected their runs brother-in-law of the Chinese Pre-renewed application for
hed Janyen Will- Mr. B. M. Stephenson, prosecuting In London, where the documents Stars had only two from six safe
VP Farewell Appearance In Manila Series
Manila, Nov. 18. The American giris softball play-
Manlia last night with
made their anal appearance in between the two touring teams.
W
match!
Dr. KH King, p
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bail for
150
On the same night, it is reported, yihsten, sorth of Taierchwang, was
also retaken by the Chinese. The In Hongkong, Memera. G. K. Japanese retreated towards Hauchow Hali Bration, & Co. handled his in northern Klangai.--Central News. initial defence and the preliminary stages of his appeal to the Privy Council; Their fee from the Crown will probably be less than $100 probably a twentieth part of the money
Нате they
spent
En proparing the defence and appeal.
from four hile, while the Hollywood | Math Fredericlipsed kryelated' in { said the tales declaration was made recording › the case, had the title:
kita.
Scores:
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Columbia Pictures Hollywood Stars
R. H. E.
2
-United Press.
I LEBRON clerk in a firm of shipping agente, lant) and the King. (respondent)
Chiang
HA ̄ Dr. H. H. out by a man named Clements, a "Between Chung Chi-cheung (mp- The value was shown as 29.250, one of the most eminent English Demite added, that he was also told
Kank
that Chou was the head of the the final destination being Hongkong King's Counsellors, whose - briefs
Although the declaration was made often command
Chinese Armament Purchasing Com- mission.
(Continued on Puon 4.3
four-igure tees, argued the case for no few at all.