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FIRST EDITION
Hongkong Telegraph S
FOUNDED 1801 一拜禮 號八廿月一十英港香
MONDAY,
No. 155
NOVEMBER 28, 1938. 日七初月十一
GOVERNOR
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"TELEGRAPH' TALKS TO MAKES AN Fires Rage
DEFENDERS, INVADERS: FIGHTING DESCRIBED
British Soldiers Tell of Fight At Military Post Near Shataukok
“TELEGRAPH" STAFF REPORTER
AT THE COST of blistered feet after a six hours' walk that took me over mountains and through deep valleys far into Chinese territory beyond the Hongkong frontier, I have secured two vital interviews that clear up the position regarding the Japanese 'mopping up' campaign in the South.
Chinese
Leader Discloses
His Plans
was
The first interview with Major Tsang Wu, who is in charge of 540 soldiers of the 151st Division of General Mok Hai-tak's scattered army.
These men, with the ex- ception of 250 troops de- fcnding Shataukok, are the only Chinese troops between the Japanese forces, now att Pokuling and Salkwan, and their objective the Mira Bay coastline.
The second interview
Was
DURING HIS frontier with a Japanese officer and two
Japanese War Correspondents,
Japanese
Tell Of Shataukok Advance
THE JAPANESE tour, the most comprehen-wore encountered west of TROOPS operating along sive yet undertaken by a Pokuling. Of the three Japan- the Hongkong front yester- Hongkong newspaper, aese, only one, Takubo Suetsura, day occupied Pokuling and "Telegraph" staff represen- of the Tokyo Asahi, could speak
Saikwan, two important tative yesterday penetrated English,
With Suotsura acting as interpreter, villages north of Taukuling into Chinese territory in a the Japanese officer gave me valuable Police Station. search for the war that is details of the Japanese campaign, and They intend to continue in progress between Shum ald that mopping up operations were
expected to be completed to-night their mopping-up operations Chun and Shataukok.
with the capture of Shataukok. with as far east as the Mirs Bay Lance Corporal E. Smith, of "C" area which, they insist, Company, the First Battalion has not yet been entered by privates, exchanged fire with any Japanese troops, and band of sixty Chinese soldiers wi
expect to reach Shataukok No. 3 Military Camp. four miles
to-day. from Shalankok.
This tour permits the "Telegraph" to publish to- day an exclusive interview with the Chinese officer commanding the remnants of the 151st Division of the Kwangtung Army.
third interview wn.3
Middlesex Regiment who, with six
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area entire frontier closed throughout yesterday by order of the Hongkong military
This news was conveyed to the "Telegraph" yesterday by a Japanese officer who, with two
The officer, who submitted to authorities and it was necessary to Japanese War Correspondents, being photographed with his strike over mountains to reach my meagre staff, disclosed that the objectives.
was found by a "Telegraph" re- porter slightly west of Pokuling.
The two Japanese War Corres
are with
540 men under his command Striking northwards from about aj were, with the exception of mile below Shalaukok, I anally came pondents, one of whom photographed about 250 soldiers defending upon No. 3 Military Camp, which the "Telegraph" reporter.
overlooks Chinese territory at San- the Japanese Army, Shataukok, the only Chinese sul village, in the Ngtsun Shan soldiers remaining to defend the valley, entire area between the present Japanese positions at Salkwan and Pokuling and the Japanese objectives
Mirs the
Bay Shataukokand coastline.
The Chinese officer was Major Tsang Wu. Through defections, he has become the only commissioned officer remaining with the Chinese remnanta,
The Chinese were encamped at Cheungkul village, in Chinese terri- tory not far from the Lin Ma Han Mines, when they were visited by the Telegraph" reporter.
REPORTER CHALLENGED BY BAYONETS
When the reporter spproached the vilinge the soldiers were lined up in two ranks and were being harangued by a young
Chinese woman. At
the conclusion of their talk the men gave a spirited cheer.
"When the Telegraph" reporter
It was at this point that an exchange of fire took place early yesterday morning between the Koven British woldiers guarding the post and sixty Chinese soldiers, regulars of the 151st Division, who attempted to enter Brillah terri tory without surrending their arma
TELLS OF SKIRMISH We noticed the Chinese soldiers approaching from Santsul village," said Lance Corporal Smith,
Only one could speak English. He Was Tokubo Suetsura, War Corres pondent of the Tokyo Asahi.
The Japanese forces operating near- Hongkong came down the Canton- Kowloon Railway from Walchow, via Cheungmuktau, ho
revealed.
No Japanese troops were operat-| ing from Tamshui, and no Japanese troops had, to the best of his know- ledge, entered the Mira Bay region! from either Pingshan or Bins Bay.
ONLY 500 MEN
**The
forces entire Japanese operating on the Hongkong frontier consist of only 500 men." he claimed...
"When they reached our barbed wire entanglements, which divides British and Chinese soil, they were challenged, and informed that they would have to surrender their arms and submit to being interned.
"The Chinese refused to surrender with tanks and armoured cars,
udded.. their arms. A shot was fired,
"Others joined in the firing. I
The unit was fully
mechanised,
he
The Japanese forces will continue ordered our men to take cover and their operations right up to Mire Bay, to hold their fire.
and expect to reach Shatzukok to- "When the firing from the Chinese day.
was about a hundred yards from the did not cease, and they continged
The Japanese confirmed that aerial
--(Continued on Fuga 4.3
town, he was suddenly challenged coming over the barbed-wire, I told reconnaissance indicated that there by a Chinere sentry, who could not
talk English.
Another sentry raised the alarm and the "Telegraph" reporter was moon surrounded by a ring of men, all of whom came running up with mkusers drawn and bayonots at the -ready.
of telling whether the men werd hosille -ar “Talegraph"
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(Continued on Page 4.)
Franco's Blockade To Beat The Loyalists
BURGOS, Nov. 27.
ATRIE INBURGENTS are bitterly disappointed that the Anglo-
* talks failed to bring belligerent rights any neurer."
• dan for their | : 2. hemi-official comment declares the other side, whom the "Hods call
that General Franco destros a quick refugoes, end to the war, and food for all, ki prisoners,”agata z
Laro
but.. who
really General Franco's officiat spokesman
For the former, he will carry out a midi Bat the Loyalisis, having failed blockade, and for the latter, he in pawn on the Euro front, were winning their pared to receive 3,000,000 people froen- bettles in Paris and Geneva-e-feuter,
APPEAL
To the Editor.
fiengkong Telegraph.
Dear Ble-Thero are now some zoores of thousands of homeless, destijula refugees from South China in the Now Territories of this Colony and many more fu and near Canton.
I hope
therefore, that all those in a position to do so who have contributed to the local Fund for the Relief of Distress fa China will hasten to
to give, and generously.
Contributions may bo meni and cheques mada- payable to
The British Fund for the Belief of Distress in China, ....
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Hongkong,
G. A. B. NORTHCOTE.
President, Hongkong Branch, B.F.H.D.C.
On Western
H.K. Border
A NEW JAPANESE landing was effected at Namtau, in the Pearl River delta region, early yesterday morning.
-Namtau is stated to be now in Japanese hands.
Actual observation by a "Telegraph" representative, who remained on the frontier last night, indicates that the entire region is fiercely burning.· ́
Here is the famous monoplane "Condor", which in August last flew from Berlin to New York and back again in record time, and which is now about to start on an attempt to fly from Berlin to Tokyo in two hops. The plane will / from Berlin to Hanoi, and then Hanoi to the Japanese capital. The Condor is expected to pass Hongkong on Wednesday morning during the final stage of the flight.
French Strikers Start
Go Back To Work
Switzerland's Anti-Red Legislation
BASLE, Nov. 27.
A LAW, prohibiting civil servants and local govern- ment officials from joining the Communist Party, and certain other, partică”” des- cribed as "Enemies of the
State", bas boen passed by popular; vote in the Basle Canton.
Voters in the Uri Canton have passed a similar law. Reuter
Polish
Officer Killed
Is
Serious Affair On Czech-Polish Frontier WARDAWNov. POLISH officer wa
woun
„frontier clash betwBên Exech
Slova
VALENCIENNES,
Nov. 21. TINERS in the Valencien-
MIN
nes district, together
with the building trades
To
To Make
workers at Densin, have de- Panama A
cided to resume work to. morrow-Reuter,
TENSION RELAXES
Paris, Nov. 27. Despite the prospect of a nation. wide strike on Wednesday; the week- end brought an unmistakable relaxa- tion in tension.
Fortress
Canal Must Be Made Impregnable Says War Secretary
NEW YORK, Nov. 27..
A back-to-work movement has north, gathered momentum. In the
motal the delerates of though workers union ordered their 25,000 THE PANAMA Canal must be made impregnable, declares men to remain on strike at a demon- stration in Valenciennes this after the Secretary for War, Mr.
noon.
At least eight or nine fires, at widely scattered points, were clearly visible from the Hongkong fron- tiér.
One of the fires, which w18., apparently either at Namtau or in ita Immediate vicinity, had the appearance of an oil installa tion afire.
Yesterday afternoon the Japanese continued their 'mopping up" opera- tions cast of the Canton-Kowloon Hallway and reached Pokuling and. Takuling Salkwan, opposite the Police Station, which is about miles east of Shum Chun.
Hundreds of
refugees Bocked
across the frontier at this point throughout yesterday morning and afternoon.
cd.
Many of the civilians were wound-
One woman, who hid hoe foot shot to pieces with what appeared to be a 'dum-dum'. bullet, was carried over 18 miles into British territory on the back of her, hus- band. who fell exhausted to the ground when
the he reached British police station, with his bur den..
BILATAUKOK QUIET . The situation at Shataukok is quiet, although Dghting I mentarily expected there. About 250 Chinese troops are in the Chinese section of the town, and they state that they are determined to fight when the Japanese arrive.
20,000 REFUGEES HERE Between the Japanese and Sha- inukokare another 540 Chinese troops, who have 'dug in' at Cheung- kut,, Ave milos eastward of Snatal- kok. The Japanese vanguard is re- of ported to be about three miles east this force, or about seven or eight miles north-east of Shataukok,
other Apparently there are no Chinese troops opposing the JapanesO, (Continued on Page 4.)
LATE NEWS
CHINESE SOLDIERS FOODLESS
SHATAUKOK, 18 mm. Shalaukok is full of refurbes, and
avertims Harry H. Woodring, in his that the 250 Chinese soldiers now
Negotiations regarding are proceeding in the big metal works outside Lille, where a strike was expected on Monday, and as a result work will continue normally. Meanwhile, the Government tinderslood to have made plans to deal with the general strike, on the handling of which the survival of the Datadler Cabinet probably ́de- penda.
to President
the dow into British territory has Increased perseptibly this mocaÉRE.
Milliary beervers here belove the Chinese section of the border annual report
town will make a tast stand.-
however," nze The Chiners soldiers; The report adds: "All locks and practically foodiesel en fakad Roosevelt.
Last night wymipsihiatry on, the dams that, are vital to the waterway, must be made bomb-proof, and the Bettiah wide of the frontier maded possibility of sabotage by: ships" them Avo Bags of rion, which they eagerly accepted with profum thanks crews must be eliminated.
immediately: starton, cooking "We must greally augment the air and forces and anti-aircraft aridiery, lo. The native part of theʻelly, les gene-
zone." this
tically descriod, and all: shoyevin the Declaring that the United States business ares are heavily attend
The Middlesex Regimesse
In addition to the requisitioning Do orders, it is reported that a law for military preparations contemplate no mobilisation of the country in the aggression against any Power on mounting" guard on the burier event of war may be invoked, and earth, Mr. Woodring points out that all. Cames are perched
the protective mobilisation plan of an they enlac) helika bertine 13 if this is insufficient, a State sicgo may bè đóglared under the Law of 2017" visualizes in the event of a | Chinese, once, be Pure re-inier: Chi-
employ-
1878.
major- war, the immediate
The drastic effects of the strike ment of an initial protective force of ear territory, Bisk
nese
are likely to be mitigated as a result approximately 100,000 regular army The road betwbben saulakko
of the Government's action à na- and national guard troops; augmented Waing in blacken wingers Lonel
Conference:" of "ex-servicemen' } by. auch - roculiment as: the exiga KammerHOOTE
to-day decided to send delegations to cies of the
warna thaf in a
Mr. Woodringtuation permut. M. Duisdier, and headquarters are defensive situation the United States appealing to the Government to find could, not depend upon allles holding measures of Palipoasement in the in the battle ine while she made ternal conflicts, and, to the workers belated preparations-Reuter, to reconsider the diger of à general
hetion.
15 bira, Dalacties, in a broadcast to strike is a challenge by the dictator
Intendono labip of the minority, to desi night declared
dictatorship and no
troops, sacrifices demanded HER THICKS
*Th** He appealed to the
for and lovely of sil Trei
the life of the country, A. genersi l'on the paril.