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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,
Social Items
The Kowloon Union Church will be holding their Annual Sale of Work! on Saturday, November 19, at 3 pm. Mr. B. Wyllo has kindly consented to open the sale.
NOVEMBER 18, 1938.
Another
China To Labour Wins Stand At Bye-Election Hengyang
CHINESE
LONDON, Nov. 17.
The Polico Dance takes place at the Peninsula Hotel Rose Room, lo-|
The Labour gain from the Govern- night from 8.16 til 2.a.m. Spot prizes
ment at the last general election in the Dancaster division, was 'consoli- are to be given for the lucky ones. Light refreshments will be served | THE
WITHDRAWAL dated to-day when, in a bye-election during the evening. Tickets are $2 from Yochow and tire imminent due to the death of Mr. A. Short, each, and
may be purchased at the abandonment of Changsha, according Labour held the seat with an door by those who have not already to well-informed Chinese inliltary creased majority. got them. A good programme
There was an increased turn-over has observes here, are appropriate steps
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being:
popular new danco "The Lambeth Walk." Proceeds are in aid of the principles.
of civil wars in the past, Mr. John Morgan (Lab). 31,735 Police Branch of the Ministering they pointed out, weldly lustrated Mr. A. Monteith (Nat. Lib) 20,027 that Changsha L most vulnerable
capital.
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provouth of Changsha on
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province.
mountainous reglans nt
.175 Nom.ang, saw the crushing defeats
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110 of two
10%
urinics driving southward to 02 capture the key position.
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In 1017 when General Liu Chlen- fon declared his independence of the .68% Feiping Government at Lingyuan with the sort of the forces commanded
support by
.83%
11,728 Lab. Majority At the last general election, the gures were:
20,003 Mr. A. Short (Lab) Mr. A. H. E. Molson (Con). 22,011
Lab. Majority
7,952
Reuter.
Kenya Applauds
1) General Cheng Chien, now Chief-at-
General Ten Hou-ming and Chamberlain's 11.00 Stall of the Chinese Army, the
723
Pelping military authorities ordered Assurance 128 four crack divisions and one brigade 1/8e of the
1/3.3/32
1/31
fought
Nairobi, Nov. 17.
Mr. Chamberlain's reply to the
the Peiyang Army to suppress the independence movements.
Decisive battle
at House of Commons question relating wag and Paochiashan just to Tanganyika made on November 13, 2944 Hengshan
The proud was received with loud applause in 11.30 north of Hengyang.
Pelyang divisions were subsequently the Kenya Legislature to-day, when defeated by the Kwangsl and Human the Governor read a telegram from troops. The beaten forces retreated the Colonial Ofice, alving the exact directly northward to Yochow without terms.
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LATE NEWS
Gas Will Be Used In H.K. Manoeuvres
Combined manoeuvres this year, which commence next Monday, wi be carried out under realistic condi- tions.
any attempt to retain Changsha,
Next your another expeditionary
The Governor's cominent that Mr.
TO
Yes, Straight to the Electric Chair!
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forces hended by General Wu Pel- Chamberlain's negative was "deinile, CAMPUS FEUD AND A WHIRLWIND PLAYER! fu was again routed on the slopes and has no proviso," was also loudly
of Hengshan and the Pelping applauded.
in
with
enter.
until Mr.
authorities were forced to surrender Nevertheless, publie feeling to the southern army,
throughout East Africa is a position It was
the capture of Hengyang in their northward drive that cannot be certain
1920 that the National Re-Chamberlain refers in unequivocal by terms in the future of Tanganyika.— volutionary Forces commanded General
Chalang Kai-shek were able Canten- to push swiftly along the Hankow
railway and take Changeha and the Wuhan elties in a very short The opposing forces under abandoned Wu Pel-fu after the
Pancral
Changshu
occupation of Hengyang by the revolutionary army, It is most certain that the mast decisive battle of the Sino-Japanese war will be fought in the old battle- fields at Hengyang, observers believe. 32 EXECUTIONS ON HANKOW
Honkow, Nov. 17. General Morioka, chief of staff of the special Intelligence Service in an Interview to-day sald that the Japanese authorities were not de- manding the Hankow population to reconstruct tha Government. If they! wanted to reorganise the Government
Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Nov. 17.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 1938 has been awarded to the Nansen Office for Refugees at Geneva.-Router.
LOCAL JOURNAL
they could do so immediately, other ON H.K. FUTURE
wise reconstruction will be delayed ir the civilians are still afraid to return to the city,
The September issue of the Far
Eastern Mirror contains a number Answering questions concerning of interesting articles, mostly in re- the activities of Chinese guerillas in Intion to the Sino-Japanese hostill- Hankow, particularly in connection ties. with the recent fires, General
acts
Morioka said it was not deßnitely; Of special interest to local readers
Chinese established that
guerilla is the editorial conumenting on the troops caused all of the disrupting position of Hongkong as a vital link In the British system of overseas However, he had ascertained that communications and an equally im- Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek, portant le line for China, and en- According to a Press communique before his retreat, had ordered the visaging the possibility of Chinese Issued by the military authorities organisation of a fire-setting squad collaboration with the Colony to this afternoon the coast road from to harass the Japanese army.
make foreign invasion entirely im- Felix Vlas, Pokfulam, to Tylam
He added that the Japanese had possible. Gap will be the scene of consider-executed 32 Chinese Communists. able military activity from 6 p.m. on However many more still remained Thursday to Bam. on the following in Hankow, especially in the French dangerous to traffic. However, the authorities were doing their utmost Monday, especially during the hours Concesalon hide-outs. of darkness.
General Morioka estimated there to clear the river. Guna a well
as machine guns were 300,000 Chinese refugees, In- He said it was impossible to give located near the road will be firing cluding Chackow refugees, who were an approximate date for the opening blank ammunition.
providing their own food. However, of the river. at Wuching and Hangyang; the re fugees were Very poor, and the Japanese army was feeding them. the Canton-Hankow railway, Gen-
Japanese officials, he said, were
Tear as is to be employed for the A New Grace Moore at Her Grandest in an Outstanding Comedy || first time in the 1938 mock wars.
The operations will last for eight
RIOTOUS WHIRL OF
MELODY AND ROMANCE!
Наук.
Questioned as to the Japanese plans for the capture of the whole of
encouraging the peo
people to return to cru
Japan Changes
Leaders they refuse to return, the Japanese Leaders
Army
Morioka sald: "I necessary, yes, we shall do that, since the their former residences and bust
Japanese intend to fight until Chiong in accordance with nesses
the Kai-shek surrenders, which he
gives Japanese desire for the restoration of no algn of doing at the present." normal trade. However, he said, it He said that the purpose of the rapprochement between the Kuomin- forces will remove
move the refugees from tang and the Communists was for TOKYO, Nov. 18. the special districts.
**mulua! utilianlion". However, a The War Oflee ahnounced at noon
Japanese authorities were sev
severe internal split and disunity on Friday that Lieutenant-General Issuing certificates to peaceful re had been revealed by documents dls- Molowo Furusho, Supreme Com-sidents and they now expected the covered
Hankow since the munder of the Japanese Expedition-return of the Chinese populailon to Japan ary Force in South China, has been be complete in two weeks. transferred to the Army General Stuff and that Lieutenant-General
The
Japanese occupation.
He concluded: "There are no signs of peace yel. The final Issue
CLEARING THE RIVER. depends on the complete and Riklehl Andoo, Commander of the General Morioka sold that the thorough chastisement of Chlang Fifth Division, has been appointed Japanese authorities reiterated many Kol-slick's Government." supreme Commander of the Japanese times that the Yangise is still very Prets. Army furces £13 South
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