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FOUNDER 1881 - #^#A÷1✯F MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 28, 1938.
TELEGRAPH' TALKS TO DEFENDERS, INVADERS: FIGHTING DESCRIBED
1
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- fending Shataukok, are the only Chinese troops between the Japanese forces, now at Pokuling and Salkwan, and their objective-the Mirs 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-who were 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 Suetsura 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 detalls of the Japanese campaign, and
They intend to continue in progress between Shum sold that mopping up operations were
expected to be completed to-night their mopping-up operations i Chun and Shatoukok
the capture of Shataukok. A third taterview Was
with as far east as the Mirs Bay
the
This tour permits "Telegraph" to publish to- day an exclusive interview with the Chinese officer commanding the remnants of the 151st Division of the Kwangtung Army.
with the
A
Lance Corporal E, Smith, of "C" area which, they insist, Company the First Battalion, has not yet been entered by Middlesex Regiment who, with six}
any Japanese troops, and privates, exchanged Gro with band of sixty Chinese soldiers at
No. 3 Military Camp, four miles expect to reach Shataukok
from Shanukok.
The
entire
to-day.
This news was conveyed to the frontier. Aren was!
"by "Telegraph" yesterday by 4 closed throughout yesterday order of the Hongkong military 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 was found by a "Telegraph" re- |porter slightly west of Pokuling. meagre staff, disclosed that the objectives.
Corres- The two Japanese War 640 men under his
Striking northwards from about a were, with the exception of mile below Shataukok, I finally came pondents, ene of whom photographed about, 250 soldiers defending upon No. 3 Military Camp, which the Telegraph" reporter, are with Shataukok, the only Chinese overlooks Chinese territory at San- the Japanese Army.
tsul village, in the Ngtsun Shan
command
soldiers remaining to defend the valley.
present between the entire area Japanese positions at Salkwan and Pokallag and the Japanese objectives Shatoukok and the Mira Bay coastline.
The Chinese officer was Mejor Trang Wu. Through defections, he has become the only commissioned offeer remaining with the Chinese remnants.
The Chinese were encamped at Cheungkui village, in Chinese terri tory not for from the Lin Ma Han
Afines, when they were visited by the "Telegraph" reporter.
REPORTER CHALLENGED BY BAYONETS
When the reporter approached the village the soldiers were lined up in two ranks and were being harangued by a young Chinese woman,
At
Only one could speak English. He It was at this point that an was Takubo Suctsura, War Corres- exchange of fire took place early pondent of the Tokyo Asahi. yesterday morning between the seven Kiritish soldiers guarding the post and sixty Chinese soldiers, regulars of the 151st Division, who attempted to enter British terrt-
tory without surrending their arms,
TELLS OF SKIRMISH
approaching from Santsul village,' said Lance Corporal Smith.
"When they reached
Our
which
barbed divides
wire entanglements, ll, they were British and Chinese soll,, challenged, and
would have to shat they
The Japanese forces operating near Hongkong came down the Canton- Kowloon Railway from Walchow, via Cheungmuktaa, he revealed.
日七初月十
GOVERNOR
BINGLE COPY 10 CZTER
$36.00 PER ANNUM
MAKES AN Fires
APPEAL
To the Ealtor.
Hongkong Telegraph. ̧ ̧.
Dear Sir There are now some teores of thousands of homeless, destliate refugees from South China in the New Territories of this Colony and many more in and near Canton.
hope therefore, that all those In a position to do so who have not yet coniribaled to the local Fond for the Itelief of Distrem In China will hastep to give, and
Contributions may
be sent
and cheques made payable to
The Brillah Fund for the Relief of Distress in China,
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Hongkong.
Q. A. 6. NORTHCOTE.
President, Hongkong Branch, B.F.E.D.C.
kupt
1938
DUN LOP
DEAD 2 GADIST #
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyre with 2,000 Toeth
Fires Rage
On Western
H.K. Border
A NEW JAPANESE landing was effected at Namtau, in the Pearl River delta region, early yesterday morning.
Namtat 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 few 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 fly 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.
800 Soldiers In Harbour
Floating Internment Camp
Strike
Threat In France
PARIS, Nov. 27.
A DIRECT CHALLENGE to the authority of the French
FLOATING INTERNMENT CAMP
EIGHT HUNDRED CHINESE soldiers left Fanling by train at to-day...
noon
They will arrive in Kow- loon shortly after 1 p.m. and will march aboard the and
Hongkong. Canton
Macro Steamboat Com- pany's steamer Lihong.
nine
At least eight or fires, at widely scattered points, were clearly visible. from the Hongkong fron- tier.
One of the fires, which was apparently either at Namtau or in its immediate vicinity, had the appearance of an oil installa- tion afire.
Yesterday afternoon the Japanese continued their 'mopping up' opera-. tions cast of the Canten-Kowloon Railway and reached Pokuling and Salkwan. opposite the Takuling Police Station, which is about Ave miles east of Shum Chun.
Hundreds of refugees flocked across the frontier at this point- throughout yesterday morning and afternoon.
Many of the civilians were wound- cd.
.
Ono-woman, who had her ·foot shot to pieces with what appeared to be a 'dum-dum' bullet, carried over 18 maltes into British territory on the back of her hus- band, who fell exhausted to the ground when he reached the British police station with his bur-
mo-
SHATAUKOK QUIET The situation at Shatakok is qulet, although fighting melartly 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- Lukok" are another $40- Chinese troops, who have 'dug in' at Cheung- kul, five miles eastward of Shalau- kok. The Japaneso, vanguard is re- ported to be about three milles east of This force, or about seven or eight miles north-east of Shataukok. Apparently there are no Chinese troops opposing the Japanese, (Continued on Page 4.)
other
Mosley's LATE NEWS
Secret
Marriage
LONDON, Nov. 27. READERS OF THE "Sunday
For the duration of the Chronicle" have been supplied Barbed-Wire
No Japanese troops were operat-Government has been made by war between China and with a tit-bit of news about the ing from Tamshul, and no Japanese the French railway workers' Japan, the men will remain marriage of Sir Oswald Mosley, troops hind, to the best of his know union, decided to
either Pingshan or Bay.
ONLY 500 MEN
**The
entire Japanese
100 men," he
to Mrs. Diana Gryman-Mitford,
"We noticed the Chinese soldiers ledge, entered the Mirs Bay region upon when it was deaction or aboard the Lihong, which leader of the British Fascists, Across Public Premier Daindier in requisition-has been chartered by the daughter of Lord Redesdale and Highway In N. T. ing the railways and placing rail- Hongkong Government as sister of Miss Unity Mitford. forces way workers under martial law, an internment ship. operating on the Hongkong frontier by cabling for a general sus- consist of only
pension of work on all French claimed The unit was fully mechanised, railways from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m.
he on Wednesday next.
Exception wil be made only The Japanese forces will continue in the case of safety and assis- their, operations right up to Mira Bay and expect to reach Shataukok to-tance services.—Trans-Ocean. day,
their arms
being interned, and submit to
"The Chinese refused to surrender with tanks and armoured cars,
added, their arms. A shot was fired.
"Others joined in the ring. 1 ordered our men to take cover and the conclusion of their talk the men to hold their fire. gava a spirited cheer.
When the Telegraph" reporter was about a hundred yards from the town, he was suddenly challenged by a Chinese sentry, who could not talk English.
Another sentry raised the alarm and the Telegraph" reporter was! soon surrounded by a ring of men, all of whom came running up with mausers drawn and bayonets at the ready,
WAY. “There who no
of telling whether the men were hostile or
Telegraph said the friendly," raportes. "I don't mind mying X WH *Wisdy!". All the man, he ̈säded, were in a date of the greatest melles -ment, and their Alilinde, due to their
invidious position, wan sudut, seses.
"When the fring from the Chinese did not cease, and they continued coming over the barbed wire, I told (Continued on Page 4.)
The Japanese confirmed that serial reconnaissance indicated that there (Continued on Page 43
Franco's Blockade To Beat The Loyalists
BURGO3, Nov. 27.
DALADIER'S APPEAL'
aro
the
barrier
"The wedding, which has been
A platoon of the Middlesex Regi- kept strictly secret, took place at Munich at the beginning of Decem- ment commenced erecting a barbed- As soon as the 800 men
across the public ber of well-known political per-highway to Shataukok at 10 o'clock detrained, they will march be-ber, 1937, in the presence of a num-wire tween guards to the Lihong at sonages,"
newspaper report. this morning.
All traffle to Shataukok, with the Holt's Wharf.
Sir
Mosley's first wife was
of military lorries," Han When they are all embarked the Lady Cynthia Curzon, daughter of exception
road is Lihong will cast off and will be towed the Marquess of Curzon of Kedles-been prohibited.
The barrier ncross the to Kowloon Bay, where the Chinese tone. She died in 1933. Three chil
the police station, internees will be kept for the time dren resulted from the marriage, two situated below
about three-quarters of a mile from sons and a daughter. being:
the the frontier. Mrs. Diana It is anticipated that the Lihong)
Gryman-Mitford,
The military authorities have Paris, Nov. 27. Speaking over the wireless this will later proceed to Taipo Harbour, present Lady Mosley, was formerly
an-wife of Mr. Bryan Guinness, from taken over the entire eastern border evening, the Premier, M. Daladler which is considered a better
whom she obtained a divorce in 1934.tren. made an appeal to the French nation chorage.
There are two sons by her first mer. to maintain the strictest disciplina in
The 809 soldlers comprise those|ringe.--Trans-Ocean. the face of the challenge thrown out.
who have warrendered their arms to the authority of the French Gov-
and sought -sanctuary in Britis ernment, and explained the motives
territory. that were behind the general strike. He recalled that lighting. strikes
The majority of them entered months. British territory at Shum Chun, broke
out in Paris and northern end-western paris of France just at Takuling, Lin Ma Hon and Shatou- the moment the French and British kok.
the
Hongkong harbour for the past. 18
BOLDIERS FOODLESS
SHATAUKOK, 10 am Säntsakok full of refugees, and the Some of the men are bandaged, the flow into Briikh territory has THE INSURGENTS are bitterly disappointed that the Anglo-statesmen got together to discuss
question of a common defence. The from slight wounds received in en- increased perceptibly this mornings a here hellere fay, when the
1. Killary absorvers: h counters with the Japanese, following day,
proposed French talks failed to bring belligerent rights any nearer.
A semi-official comment declares the other side, whom the "Reds call signing of the Franco-German agrée More seriously wounded casan that the: 180: Chinese: woldicen: non are being deleted in the Kowloon in the Chincus secilas et live tourtne really ment was announced the French that General Franco desires a quick refugees,
ad Kwong Wax hospitals, bus AB, IWWI Will Inkth a Tavs stand. OURSE with a prisoners."
Federation of Labour, replied. 'The ""Telegraph reporter prodiac-end to the war, and food for all... ed als Hongkong Pesas Identidestion For the former, he will carry out said that the Loyalats, having falled
General Franco's oficial spokesman proclamation of a general strike, om na iyay seò în di condition. So 11The Chiness soldiers, however, are
What is at the root of this agita- joka their companions they will be penetionity funding figuratiana-it tinderstood
sent out to the Lihang. who spoke English blockade, and for the Istler, he fa pre- on the Ebro front, were winning their tion, he asked, which is bound to In-
(Continued.es Page 4.). (on Psoe J
|pared to receive 3,000,000 people from battles in Paris and Geneva.Reuter.
but who HIN
The Lihong has been laid up into (Command o