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FOUNDED 1801
No. 15720
二拜禮 號十月一英港香 TUESDAY,
JANUARY 10, 1939. 日十二月一十
HARASSED S'HAI GANG WARFARE
Y GUERILLA ARMIES
VEIHAIWEI IN NORTH, BOCCA TIGRIS IN
IN SOUTH INSECURE BOCCA TIGRIS"Tiger's Mouth" is the Portuguese name given
by European adventurers four centuries ago to the famous gateway new drive by guerillas în to Canton-is threatened as the result of a the Pearl River delta area.
Insurgents Threatened By Loyalist Successes
GIBRALTAR, Jan. 9.
and INSURGENT TROOPS vil guards have been hastily ithdrawn from Lalinen, Alge- iras and Tarifa, and sent to Seville, en route for the Estra- nadura front, according to information received here.
The guerillas, who have been completely re-organised and placed under a central command, have already re- captured Wongkong, midway between the river forts and Po On.
They are now pushing on from Wongkong in the direction of Bocca Tigris.
Taiping, about 40 miles north- west of Po On, is also threaten- ed by the guerillas, states a Central News message from Szewui.
in
Since it- November the Japan- ese have found il Increasingly dim-|
their cult to maintain
footing Kwangtung, and they are not even secure in Canton, it is believed,
Their attempts to push inland fromį Samshui, which they captured a fart- night after Canton fell, has been) utterly abortive, Kumlee, 711⁄2 miles There is no confirmation as yet of south of Samshui, is still completely reports that reinforcements have in Chinese hands, despite intensive; been brought to the mainland from Japanese artillery and atrial netivi- Morocco,
ty, which culminated yesterday in a nid on the Chinese positions by 30 planes,
loan
message,
Meanwhile, according to a Barce
It is claimed that the left wing of the Loyalist forces at Estremadura have occupled Azung, about 10 miles from the Seville- Burgos railway, and are approaching both Valerde and Lerena.
It is also claimed that the fight wing forces have captured Mont Errubio and the approaches to Casturera-Reuter.
GERMAN REPORT
Lerida, Jan. 'D.
The Aragon front army, command- ed by General Moscardo, made a rapid advance to-day and succeeded In cutting off parts of the Loyalis army in the Lerida sector.
The Insurgent troops advanced swiftly from Bellvis in a
south-easter
Tsengshing is now completely in Chinese hands.
CONSTANT WARFARE Although warfare between Chinese and Japanese regulars has complete- ly ceased throughout China, the guerillas are constantly harassing the invaders.
ago,
BOW
Shantung Promontory, which was "captured" by the Japanirke Afteen months completely under guerilla' control with the exception of four points- Chefoo, Weihaiwol, Hangchow and Tsingtao.
The Lunghal Railway aren be-;
and Suchow is ly direction as for us the main road tween the coast
Lerida, Cervera and Baree-controlled by the Chinese and in all between lona, which they reached at the vil villages the Chinese national dag Inge of Molleruss,
flown.
was stormed, and the According to a Central News iness- Thenchments between Lerida age from Loyang, Weihatwe, former Loyaltst and Mollerus are now isolated. The British concession, is itself threaten- number of prisoners captured by the ed by guerillas now. Insurgents is said to be very large.
th
Since December 10, sporadle fight-¦ North of
of the main road, the Insur-
the former gents
the villages of Palau,ing has taken place in captured
British territory, and recently the Sidamunt, Dondarella and Golmes.
Further advance by the Aragon Japanese were forced to send
south-easterly direction Cheloo and Tsingtao for reinforce- army in a along the main road in question may be expected, whereby Tarragona, which is the key position of the e- publican defence lines, and Cervera
be endangered.
The right wing of the Navarra army
in the adjacent southern sector, following the empture of Vimbodl be yond Sierra de la Lena, is now stand- ing before the town of Mont Blanche.
part of the road Lerida to Tarragona is now in the
hands of the Insurgents.
ments.
"MOPPING-UP" FAILS, Further south, Japanese efforts to mop up the guerillas operating in the vicinity of Shanghai have notice- ably failed. Observers believe that, there are more guerillas in the arca to-day than was the case when the Japanese commenced their "mopping up" drive last November.
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Nanwel and Pengslen, two im- portant towns in Pootung, are guerilla hunds. Many guerillas, It is The southern section of the Insur-reported, have now actually crossed gent army threatens Valset, which is the Whangpoo River and
operating along the only eight kilometres from the man
road from Reus to Tarragona, and of Minghong highway,
Reus
ure now
Shanghal-
RAILWAY DISAPPEARS
puts itself.
Insurgent headquarters expect both towns to fall within the next! Much of the Canton-Hankow Rail- few days, with the result that the way in the vicinity of Yoyang has densely populated region included in been completely ifted and taken the triangle of Tortosa, Mora del away by the guerillas, thus frustrat- and Tarragone, would be in ing any possibility of the Japanese Imminent
danger of
being able to use the line in the Trans-Ocean.
future. In many parts, all that re- mains of the railway is a scar across the countryside, where once the rail- way embankment stood.
Isolation.-
Imperial Air-Liner
Guerillas ore also extremely nelive in the Kiukiang-Tehan area.
Lushian mountains, on the peak
MARCE
The struggle round Canton. Territory held by Japanese (in black); area relaken by Chinese (shaded). Arrows khow direc- tion of Chinese allack. G Indi- cates Chinese guerilla forces.
Gun Battle Follows Bombing
CA
SHANGHAI, Jan. 9.
ANG WARFARE among local Chinese gamblers flared up in Jessfield Road to day, where a gun duel took place between rival factions after a gambling den had been bombed.
Apparently the only casualty was a Chinese woman bystander. But the gambling den was badly damaged.. United Press,
Sunspot Is Causing Freakish Weather
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION on the outer surface of the sun-the meteorologists call it a sunspot-is giving Hongkong the craziest weather she has known this century.
There is no hint yet that our. drought is likely to break. Since
the beginning of December the JAPAN
only rain has been slight drizzle on three occasions-less than an inch. The year that has just concluded was the second driest; in the Colony's meteorological history.
SITS
ON FENCE
Waiting For U.S. Congress To Act
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Through a telescope the area of the
TOKYO, Jan. 9. explosion on the sun which is causing this drought looks just a little spot. Actually it extends over 850,000,000HE "NICH NICHT" to-day
predicted that Mr. Arita, thei square miles, almost three and a half
Japanese Foreign Minister in times the size of the earth.
Observers in London say that the his speech at the next session sunspot is playing havoc with the of the Diet, would urge the planets-especially Mars. Astrono- United States to "face actual mers have discovered vast tracts of conditions in East Asia, without fee and snow on the planet that have prejudice and without precon- has turnal hungr of thousands of erived ideas." miles into an ley wilderness.
never been seen fore. The sunspot
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NAZI CALUMNIES AGAINST BRITISH TROOPS REFUTED
War Office Issues Statement On Campaign In Palestine
LONDON, Jan. 9.
WITH A VIEW to ending the "campaign of lying and exaggerated propaganda” by hostile persons and organisations about the atrocities of British troops in Palestine, the War Office to-day issued a detailed descrip- tion of the real situation in Palestine, with details of the actual measures taken to deal with it.
The statentent says that} throughout the country there is probably not more than 1,000 to 1,500 permanent active rebels.
There are no major leaders con- trolling a number of gungs, and the minor leaders are almost completely independent, and are! often at open enmity with ench jother.
Thus there is no stunding armed ¡foree against which troops can act, ¡ nor
whose central organisation Idéstruction would cause the rebellion;
a
to collapse.
The situation is further complicated the emergence of an Arab anti- in the supporters of the rebel terror.
rebel gang, who wish to take revenge
IDENTIFICATION DIFFICULT
tary faces is in identification. As o
the increasing number of Arab in-
JapaneseTM Terrorism On Junks Near H.K.
10,092 Fishermon Killed In Fourteen Months
JAPANESE TER-
i
RORIST ACTIVITIES The great difficulty which the mi- against Chinese fishermen result of information collected, and near Hongkong have re- formants, the names of a large pro- sulted, during the past 14 The newspaper stated that this In Hongkong fair weather, with would constitute an indirect reply to portion of active rebels are known, months, in- fresh north-east winds, is expected the United States note of December the real difleulty is in identifien- Hence village searches are Highest 31 refusing to recognise a new order continue. Yesterday's
necessary. temperature of 66 was already ex-in East Asia.
The method adopted Is to cordon ceeded by 1 o'clock this morning.
aircraft. The Last night's minimum was 50.
against at-
to
Hongkong Is Aggressor
In Never-Ending "War"
HONGKONG HAS declared war-on rats!
Since January 1, 1930, there have been over 1,500,000 rodent casualties in the campaign being waged by the Sanitary Depart- ment.
It has been carried on in both mainland and island.
Internee Shot In Attempt To Escape pleasing to the health authori-
Which may be exceedingly bad news for rats, but greatly
Restlessness evinced by pri- soners of war interned by the British authorities at Malau- cheong Camp in Kowloon Clly reached ✡ ellmax last night when further attempt to escape was made.
the Kumaon
As a result, guard was foroed to fire, wounding an escaping prisoner,
The
man was recaptured and is now in hospital. Ills cond!-
lon is not serious,
An attempt to Escape on' Christmas Eve proved success- ful and the prisoner, in this case, has not yet beca recaptur- ed.
Following this first attempt thre Kumaon guards чего equipped with rifles instead of shot guns.
During the past two weeks the internees have evinced restless- ness at their continued Intern- ment.
R.A.F. Officer
"Not Superstitious"
Sets New Record They still command the heights of Aerodrome, was sommoned
of
tics.
For rats were responsible for the Great Plague of 1804 which, com- mencing in Yunnan, spread to Hong- kong and from here was carried by ships to India and other parts of the Far East. A hundred thousand peo-
flon.
10,092 fishermen being killed or drowned.
628 Junks being sunk. The paper added that Mr. Arlta on area by troops or
$8,000,000 loss of properly. will declare that Japan's military inhabitants are warned
These figures include only actions in Asia are not motivated as tempting to break through. As the those junks which cruise in the In result of aggressive designs, but procedure is well-known it safely "Intended to safeguard Japan's assumed that cordon-breakers have waters in the neighbourhood of good reason for wishing to avoid the Hongkong. They include many national existence."
It was further stated that Gover-troops. A number of cordon-breakers junks registered in Hongkong during searches, and containing Chinese people' ment quarters are hopeful that Mr. which probably forms the basis of the who have the right to call them- Arila's statement will help the propaganda that Arab prisoners are American people to understand the shot in cold blood. special political and economic condi- After the cordon has been es- More than fifty per cent. of tions prevailing in the Far East ustablished, the male Inhabitants
are the 10,092 people drowned or a direct consequence of the present assembled for identification and killed as a result of Japanese conflict."
Domiciliary searches
hiden men, sabotage of junks were women stringent orders being and children.
have been shot
Interrogallon,
selves British subjects.
The paper also said that a formal are made to discover reply to the American note would be arms, elc., delayed pending a study of the re-given to the troops to prevent looting ey represent over ten per percussions to President Roosevelt's and wanton destruction,
cent. of the total population message to Congress. It was observed The statement categorically denies that an answer at the present time propaganda suggestions that whole.ngaged in fishing activities near
sale demolition of Was considered "inopportune In
innocent Arab Hongkong. view of the prevalling conditions," houses is effected. Individual, select- The figures were released this
ed houses only ure demolished for morning and this is considered direct
Hongkong well-founded reasons. admission of Japan's policy towards
Fishermen's Guild. the United States to depend upon ASSASSINATION CAMPAIGN congreacional action regarding the
The statement points out that Neutrality Act and the national whether from sympathy or terrorism,] defence programme-United Press. practically every village has at some-
time harboured or sheltered rebels,
A relentless campaign of assassina-
ple died in Canton and over 5,000 in Aviation Committee tion is waged against Arabs suspected
Hongkong. The disease, spreading to Indin, killed more than ten million people In that country before it was suppressed.
It took Hongkong over thirty years
to effectively stamp out the disease by waging war on rats, who are the only plague-carriers.
Warns America
Washington, Jan. 9.
of giving the Government Informa-
Lion, and cons
consequently villages
terrorised by minorities.
Arc
In the urban arens the two princi- of pal rebel elements consial more
A warning that the feverish ex- the educated Effendi class, and a pansion of military and commercial lower class of terrorist thugs. The air fleets by foreign nations WIS Effendis, terrorised by fear of being
hutk rat has challenging America's leadership in murdered, give advice
aviation, is contained in the report orders, which
Hongkong's war on the proved so successful that, since 1030. there has not been one case of plague infected rat discovered. The last in-
mecto fected rats were found in 1929.
In addition to being carriers of discase, rats create enormous damage to stored food and goods. They probably cost the Colony at least $1,- 000,000 a year.
PROLIFIC RACE
In twelve months, a pair of rais can produce 1,200 offspring. It is probable that twice or thrice as many [rats as human beings inhabit Hong-
kong. F/Lt. R. C. S. Allin, of Kal Tak
The Hongkong Government once before which is Kuling, the famous health Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kow-paid five cents for every rat captured London, Jan. 9.
loon Magistracy this morning for not and handed over to the Sanitary De
partment. Imperial Airways liner Falcon, resort,
having been in a position to have
But the payment of rewards as- record another commercial
full control of his car in Nathan samed such gigantic proportions that Sporndle shelling across the Slu Road on December 14, and for the offer was withdrawn. It was dis don to-day in 40 minutes, at an River, which has been kept up by having driven without due care and covered that Chinese were importing average speed of 250 miles per hour. both sides for the past fortmght, in caution.
The air liner carried eleven pas-the only warfare now being carried crow of four, and a ton of on by Chinese and Japanese regulors.
charges Allin denied both ongers, freight.
Neither alde in attempting to hearing of the case was axed for The previous record for the Bame dislodge the other by crossing the Friday, January 13, at 2.30 p.m. Journey was 53 minutes-Reuter.
When It flew to Brussels from Croy-
SPORADIC SHELLINO
(Continued on Page 12,)
THEY CHOOSE RIGHT WAY
PRAGUE, Jan. 9.
CZECHO-SLOVÁKIA and Hungary have agreed to settle week's border incident by creating a neutral zone in the
acevo počtor--Router.
and
dead rats from Canton and Macao in order to sell them, to the Hongkong Government!
Asking Allin if he had time to attend Court on January 13, Mr. Macfadyen Inquired, smilingly: "You are not superstitious, are you?"
Allin: "Not very air. I think I can manage that day."
The case was adjourned because one of the prosecution's witnesses is in the New Territories.
Artificial Log On Gridiron
St. Joseph, Mo. Jackle Burnam has an artificial leg, but that doesn't prevent him from playing a pretty good game of foot- ball. He is a guard on the reserve team and his coach rates him one of the spunktest players he ever met.
come
to Congress by the National Advisory gangs from the Committee on Aviation.
The committee, of which Coloneli Lindbergh and Mr. Orville-Wright
not
direct to the Mufti and
his
ussociates.
Dealing
with the
of procedure with the object combing arens
ot
hardship
are members, Insists that effective-rounding up known rebels, the state- ment declares that inevitably the ness in design is more important than{***** mere numbers in aircraft, and it is process involves a certain amount of 15 the Innocent and vital, from the standpoint of national defence, that Amerien has aircraft guilty are completely mixed. But in
or superior in
the
no other present conditions, equal
in performance than any potential enemy.
possible. course is The report recommends that the ammunition, the statement declares Regarding searches for arms and production of American planes be that inhabitants are warned to leave increased, that more funds be appro- everything locked up to avold un- priated, and that neronauticol re-
cessary damage. Women search and experiments be continu- molested in any way the statement ed with lighter-than-alr craft emphasises, and are only searched Reuter.
(Continued on Page 12.)
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not
KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED
Life Imprisonment for Fake Arrests
OLYMPIA, Washington, Jan. 9. DR. KENT W. BERRY and his three companions were to-day sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping of Irving F. Baker, a former coastguardsman,
An
The life sentences referred to the kidnapping, while additional sentence of from 10 to 20 years imprisonment for assault was also passed.
The 50 year-old Dr. Berry accused Baker of seducing his wife on July 4 last, when he used a fake arrest warrant.—United Press.
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ground floor put the gloves in sacies and took them to waiting cars hidden in a neatly cul-de-sace
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