10
THE
HONGKONG
WEDNESDAY, TELEGRAPH,
NOVEMBER
16, 1988.
Jews Tunnel CHANGSHA DISAPPEARS
To Escape
MET, NOW, 15.
TUNNELS, some as much as
150 feet long, have been dug under the Franco-German fron- tor by Jews, trying to escape from Germany.
Many hundreds of Jews have tried to enter Franco since the murder of Herr von Hall, but the French froniter guarda have been reinforced,
Five hundred refugees were tarned back on the French Baur frontier, and about 150 allowed to enter.
The number who succeeded in entering through the tunnels. dur at night time, is not known.
Neuter Special.
BRITAIN'S
AMBASSADOR GOES TO CHUNGKING
Material Assistance
For China?
CHUNGKING Nov. 16. THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR, THE
Bir Archibald Clark Kerr arrived at Chungking by motor car from Changsha at 8.80 p.m. to-day, after a six days' trip via Kwelyang. Ho Whe accom panied by his Secretary, Dr. J. G. Tahourdin, and also the Assistant Naval American Attache, Captain James McHugh.
According to British circles, Sir Archibald, after mooting General
in Itunun issimo Chiang Kai-shek desires to exchange opinion with other fenders of the National Government In Chungking regarding the various phases of the Far Eastern situation In general, and Sino-British relations in particular.
In British circles, it is generally be- lieved that the rumours of modiation are only speculation.. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr must havo realised that mediation is impossible at the present moment before he reached Hunan.
Well-informed ciroles intimated that the toples discussed belwern; the Ambassador and Chinese lead- ers in Hanan and at Chungking Include the future material and morat British assistanco to China' after the Hongkong route had been ent, and also Smo-British Associat relationa
It is understood that the first item Includes Sino-Brilish trade and com- munications by land, and the con- linual British support of the Chinesa monetary system.-United Press.
FROM MAP IN FLAME
AND EXPLOSION
H.K. MAIL DELAYED: DELPHINUS
All Foreign Property In CRIPPLED
City Reduced To Ashes
From
Shanghai
ALF
POST OFFICE.
INWARD MAILS'
Mail by “Imperial_Airways
Direct Bervica"-London
10th November,
Shanghai and Amoy
Japan.****
Australia and Manila
Japan and Shanghal
Per
Coburg ..
Due.
.......November 18.
November 16,
date, Imperial
Airways Plans
... Taiyuan
November 18,
Tilawa
November 16.
.November 17.
November 17.
USA, Japan and Shanghai (Van-
Atuta Maru Gueisenau
couver B. C. dato, 29th October) Emp, of Asla Straits and Europe via Negapatam (Letters and Papers) London date, 20th October,
Shanghai
Al Mall by "Imperial Airways
Direct Bervico-London
13th November.
Shanghai and Swatow
Plano Returns To Siam Japan...
With Engine Trouble
ENGINE TROUBLE to-day forced the Imperial Airways mail
Bangkok.
CHANGSHA, CAPITAL CITY OF HUNAN PROVINCE, IS A HEAD plane Delphinus to return to
OF ASHES. ITS PAGODAS, 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 tho devastation. No property has remained inviolate. Foreign missions, churches, hospitals, British firms' headquarters have all been devoured.
Destruction has covered the whole city from the American
Mission In Presbyterian
the north to the Norwegian Mission and Normal School in the south.
The entire waterfront is a heap of smouldering ruins. The Provincial. Military Governor's headquarters, the Telephone Exchange, District Governor's Office and the Court of Justice were among the first to go.
hus
The YM.C.A., in the heart of the city which once boasted a population of 800,000, has disappeared, as
on the north-eastern the Y.W.C.A. outskirts.
wharves and offices, Jardine's
Company Petroleum the Axiallo
head and
Delag the German
razed. The quarters have been Roman Cathollo Mission is believed to be destroyed.
All foreigners are safe and com- and adequate food fortable, with water for their present needs.
The British Consulate and British Club on Shullu Island, which is in the centre of the Siang River facing Changsha are also safe, but the island has been evacuated.
All foreign floating property is safe, from authoritative but
a report sources states that no foreign property is standing in Changsha,
This fires are still raging on the outskirts of Changsha, and various Industrial concerns outside the city itself have been dynamited or otherwise destroyed.
-
Yale In China, the famous univer- sity founded by ex-students of Yale
HUNGARIAN University in Americs, appears to be
CABINET RESIGNATION HANDED IN
BUDAPEST, Nov. 15.
PREMIER IMREDY has ten- dered the resignation of the Cabinot to the Hungarian Regent, Admiral von Horthy, and he has been entrusted with the formation of a new ministry.
The decision to resign was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet where Dr. Imredy sald that the return to Hungary of the territories ceded by Czecho-Slovakia marked the opening
intact, and refugees are being centred
there.
81!l rocking the Explosiona are
apart fron
city, but the situation,
the fire, is quiet..
Not more than a few
hundred
Chinese clvillans remain, the bulk of the population having evacuated, south-westwards,
of a
chapter in Hungary's new national Ufc.
He therefore felt called upon to aak for a renewed expression of con-
#dence.
It has been forecast that after forming the new Cabinet, Dr. Imredy will work on a programme of far- reaching reforma.-Reyter,
NEW CABINET
Budupest, Nov. 15. Premier Bela von imredy present- ed, his reconstructed Cabinet to meeting at the Government Party of National Unity held here this even- ing. Tho. Cabinot is composed as
follows:
Frember
Adalbert von Imredy Foreign Affairs Koloman von Kanya Kerriles- Interior :
Frand
Defence
Finance
Flober
Field Marsh Kart
Barths
Bezsonyi-
Letter Andreas Justice
Négy Education Count Pant Teleki Trade, Industry Antón Kunder Without Portfolio Andor Jarosna
The new defence Minister was formerly, the Deputy Minister for National Defence and the new Minis-
CHINESE BURN CHANGSHA
Slangtan, Nov. 10.
the
The Chinese rozed Changsha, pro-
of Hunan, to vincial capitul ground by ire voluntarily in accord ance with the "scorched earth" policy, as the city is difficult to defend after the Japanese have captured Yoyang.
A Central News, correspondent who toured Changsha after the big are writes that the city now ifes In utter ruins. All the business centres, including Pa Chuen Tin Po Tze Street, Tung Chang Road, Nan Cheng
Provincial
Presb
Japanes? Consulate
Yale-in-China
Roman Catholic
Mission
County Office
Station
British Of Consulat
Court of Just PRYCA
04
PO-TZU-XA1
Distr Govern Office ==
Norwegian
Jrinio
Normal Soo
wang-taf
Paisha ching
Chinese Capture
Taierchwang
LOYANG, Nov. 16.
TAIERCHWANG, battle-torn town in
south
Street and Smell West Gate have been Shantung where a great Chinese victory was won in
in
by the conflagration, which is
as the biggest in Changsha spring this year, was recaptured by Chinese mobile units in a surprise attack on Sunday night, a belated military this century. Where formerly building stood only a broken wall was report received here reveals. found all standing. The Hunan University and the First Cotton Mill,
the Y.M.C.A.
During the battle which pre-
the largest structures outside the cliy, ceded
were also reduced to Central News.
shamblon
AMERICAN GIRLS IN
The plane took off on schedule at 4.15 q.m. but had to return to the Aeld after dying for a short time. Eventually the Delphinus left at 7 a.m, and is now expected to reach Kai Tak at 5 p.m. to-day on schedule. With only two planes on the ser- vice, dimculty has been experienced on the Bangkok-Hongkong extension owing to many delays on the main 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 me.
At present the Dorado is being. repaired, after a landing accident at Bangkok, and the Daedalus is being
for overhauled
its airworthiness examination.
I
The four machines which normally operate the Bangkok - Hongkong shuttle service are De Haviland 20 type machines.
Other delays in the service have been caused by monsoonal weather and storms on the Indian leg of the main route.
THE MAN WHO FREED 8,000,000
WOMEN
(Continued from Page 6.)
meet with resistance. He sup- pressed it without mercy. Poli- tical leaders who tried to head were reactionary movements hanged. Moslem holy men who denounced the impiety of emancipating Turkish met the same fate. Persistent- ty, ruthlessly, Kemal Ataturk modernised his nation, sweeping away by curt decrees institutions and traditions that had lasted a thousand years,
women
His only failure was his mar- riage. In the excitement of con- quering the Greeks and taking Smyrna, he took as his wife, Latifeh Hanoum, the daughter of a rich merchant of that city. She was 18 years younger than himself, and had spent a year at school in England, at Christle- hurst.
I was with them when Mme. Kemal was the first Turkish woman to appear unveiled in public, and, what was then al- most equally startling in riding- breeches.
The consternation I saw on
beheld her in this costume 15
the faces of the aged Turks who years ago will always be for me a measure of the change of out- look that Mustapha Komal wrought in his country.
But Mme, Kemal was herself
dictator. "When I say anything
the re-occupation, 150 Stock Market too masterful to ba the wife of a
Japanese were killed while 26, including several officers, wero taken prisoners."
Uncertain
On the same night, It is re-
London, Nov. 10. European uncertainties again de ported, Yihsien, north of Taier-
pressed the London Stock Exchange, chwang, was also retaken by the prices drifting lower until noon, Chinese. The Japanese retreat-when they steadied, though gilt- ed towards Hauchow in northern edged holdings recorded further do-
LAST GAME Kiangsi-Central News.
Farewell Appearanco In Manila Sories
to you," she told me, "It is just as if the Pasha said it." This did not sound of good augury at the time, and within a few years Mustapha Kemal had divorced his Smyrna bride.
Kemal's physical vitality has clines: before the closs.
been intense. He has showed it Foreign exchange, after casing in his pleasures as much as in further on sterling, recovered sharp-
Swatow
Shanghai Shanghal Manila
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date, Imperial Airways
Liangchow
Mirzaporo Newchwang
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Glenbeg Nagara Maru
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Naples,
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OUR
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BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 This old political question sug- gests a change in the charges (two words, 6).
8 We generally use only the end
of this vehicle (7).
9 Food rations of a lower house?
(?).
12 Not hard to be seen in the signs
of the times (4),
13 This ill-feeling is allowed in a
game of cards (5). 14 People with corns were wel- come in this old dance (4). 17 Not reluctant and using mental
power perhapa (7),
J
18 It is the freak variety of this plant that is considered lucky (7).
10 Cook uses this for flavouring
(7).
BLLITY-
ly in terms of dollars, while trance his work. He was by no means zz The publication of this
mary of a person's character is continued to meet with a steady an ascetic, and his late hours
and passion for poker playing 24 Metal (4),
a grave matter (7). Among commodities, rubber weak-imposed considerable strain upon 25 These make a rope for a sall ned following the that the quota had been raised to
GERMAN TRANSPORT demand.
MINISTER IN
LONDON
Special.
announcement
(B).
Maalia, Nov. 18.
50 per cent for the first quarter of the constitutions of his Minis- 20 Mohammedan spirits (4), The American girls softball play-
1930, but subsequently it recovered ters and the members of the 29 An old vesani (7). London, Nov. 18. ers made their final appearance inj
on bear-covering and American buy-Diplomatic Corps who formed 31 Bill's precursor often (7). Dr. Dorpmueller,
German ing. the Manila last night with a match
82 These troops are apparently up- his personal circle in Ankara. between the two touring teams. Minister of Transport, has arrived in
Wall Street was weak---Router
Grim and jovial by turns;]:
right men (two words-8, 4). hot-tempered yet capable of un- The game resulted in a win for London to attend the Jubilee cele
DOWN Columbia Pictures by three runs to brations of the London, Midland and
tiring persistence; personally two. Columbia collected their runs Scottish Railway.
courageous yet self-indulgent, from four hits, while the Hollywood
thore was about his character a Paris, Nov. 18.magnificence of scale which re- The French commercial mission of calls those great Sultans of the 20 members ^. left. to-day for past before whom Europe often Belgrade trembled. He will return to Germany on Bucharest, Sofa and
Reuter Special.
tor of Justice was hitherto chairman Stars had only two from six safe
Count|hiti. of the Government Party, Teleki was Secretary of Blate la the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Minkler without portfolio in leader of the Hungarians of the Oberland.-
Scores: Columbia Pictures Hollywood Stars
R. H. 84 30. United Press.
During his stay he will call on Mr. Lealle Burgin, the British Minister of Transport, and take the opportunity of making himself acquainted with London's transport conditions,"
FRENCH COMMERCE ENVOYS TO BALKANS
1 This sort of music is popular
:(7).
·
2 One of John Peel's hounds (4). 13 Xa” this "mort before noon be comes hungry indeed. (7).;
4 Tell" about #á, fotelja noble-
man (7); b
5 Vapone to chafa f(4),
This kind is the plural of this (3).
7 Surely. It would be unnecessary
to give this entertainment in hot weather (12).
10 Part of New Zealand (0),"
11 Not maimed, but with no help
from others (13).
15 A slang instant (5).
17
16 Colour of fishy origin (5). 20 Fairy advice how to fit (5), 21 This part of Africa sounda.
not much of a home (7),;
22 The time to smoothe things
over? (7).
23 Fame is not this (7).
27 Many kinds, of light-are made from oils and gases, but this comes from none (4),
20 Sing about this, It's culting (4). 10 Quadruped: (3).
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