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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 6, 1939.
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Northern Offensive
"Biggest Battle" Rages
In
Guerilla Territory
* NEARLY À QUARTER of a million Japanese troops and marines are participating in the biggest Japanese offensive since the capture of Hankow.
They are attempting to "mop up" guerilla forces in Shantung: and northern Kiangsu whose; total is variously estimated at between 500.000 and 1.250.000.
In the new offensive.
At least six major naval landings have been carried out on the coasts of the two provluces;
یده
according to
Five Japanese columns have thrown a cortion around Halchow, "city of the sea" at the terialnus antl, Railway the Lunghat
claims. Japanese have surrounded 60,000 guerillasi A Japanese fleet has broken
Chinese defences through the the mouth of the Shcyang
In Meining and has succeeded thirty miles up-river to within bombarding distance of Fowning, where 100.000 Chiare troups are said to be massed.
a!
itiver
Landings have been effected nurta of Kaluchow Bay, In and south
and oficial Japanese Shantung, communiques claim that guerillus have been driven back twenty miles from the buy.
GUERILLA H, Q. FALL?
Wrecked Plane Identified
THE
NICE, Mar, S. WRECKED PLANE
Hongkong
Generals
March Together
In London this morning. Major- Generad Arthur
Wollaston Bartho-
lomew will suc-
reed Lieut-Gen-
eral Sir Oswald
Mahatma's Fast
GANDHI SPENDS RESTLESS NIGHT
He spent a slightly restless night, and is weaker.
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RADIO-
Wing-Cdr. Steele-Perkins On A.R.P.
Two Sleepy People-Fox-Trot (film "Thanks for the Memory')....M. Pierre and Hls Strict Dance Tempo Orchestra; Humorous Monologue MOZART CONCERTO
Gardening-What To Do With Your Aspidistra (Wakefield). .Oilver Radio Programine Broadlenat by akceflcid (The Voice of Inexperi
ence'); Vocal-Je Crois N'Avolr miere'): Du Solell Dans Ses Yeux (Claret)....Daria accomp. by Wal- Berg and His Orchestra.
and
ut
p.in. on 0.52 m.c's, per
Sleata
RAJKOT, Mar. 5. ZUW on Frequency of 845 l.e's. A BULLETIN issued to-day stated that and on Short Wave from 12. Jamnis Alme (French film Pre- TWO distinguished soldiers
HK.T.. well-known in Hongkong, Mahatma Gandhi's blood pressure had risen second.
12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service whose carcers have marched side from 168 to 180, and that he had lost two pounds
Si. Intercession from
7.20 The Aldershot Tattoo of 1938. John's
Massed Bands Of The Aldershot by side will establish yet another;
Cathedral. link in common to-day.
in weight.
12.30 London Palladium Orches- And Eastern Commands,
7.45 Studio Talk by Wing-Com- tra.
The Golden Valse (arr. Winter); mander Steele-Perkins on A.R.P.
(Buch- The Grasshopper's Dance
0.0 Local Time Signal, Weather Li lossi);
(Barcarolle Report and Announcements. Mrs. Gandhi, who has Norton-urr. Lotter); Charm Of The
8.03 Herbert Grol (Tenor) and Valse (arr. Winter); Intro: Rouge et the Orchestre Raymonde. been detained in a camp Noir: Amorettentanze: Tres Julie; Gounod In Vienna (arr. G. Walter) near here since February 2Irish Whispers: Love's dream after
....Orchestre Raymonde; Sunshine when she arrived to parti- the Ball: Blue Danube; Stories of the In Spring (im The Voice of the Vienna Forest; Blue Danube....con Heari~De Cultis-Baumann); Let cipate in a civil disobe- ducted by Richard Crean.
My Love Fill Your Heart (lm "The 14.59
Songs by l'aul Robeson Voice of the Heart—Becce-Buch- (Tenor) dience campaign, was to-day
(1259).
holz)....Herbert E. Groh to her Deep Deseri (film 'Jericho with Orchestra, (Sung in German); brought by car
Wallz (Weber- husband's bedside by the
Jericho Kennedy
Carr}; arr.
Militaire Walter); Polonase State authorities.
Walter)....Orchestre Climbing Up (The Mountain Song (Chopin-arr.
Ladies Lovely from film King Solomon's Mines Raymonde: You
(Bund-Slegel); Beenuse I Love You, Spolianski).
Signal and Bella Larcia!
(Leenen-Muhler- Groh Schuite). Herbert E. A(Tenor) with Chorus and Orchestra (Sung in German); Manhattan (Alter);
as Lieutenant of the
Tower
London.
of
found near Nice yester-Cuthbert Borrelt day has definitely been identi- fied as a German civit machine which was on a service be- tween Berlin and Barcelona, via Rome and the Balearics.
It was apparently the air liner which disappeared while flying from Majorca to Italy last week-end.
Ten bodies have been found, and all are these of civil air- craft officers.
It is also stated that no woman was aboard.-Reater,
opened several unsuccessful herce offensives.
rear
#t
Three hundred Japanese were trap- Chinese guerilla headquarters fifty-ped and mercilessly wiped out yes- Ove mica from Chefod have, it sterday morning to the northwest of elaimed, been captured, and another Sanyanglion, when their
states that the 13okjals and Changkiatsi was put of #by a Chinese tanking snovenient. Japanese report
The invaders retreated hastily to the Lunghai Railway cast of Suchow s
possession. now in Japanese
the Chinese ult: waiting for them and The most significant part about south, but were met by strong
that Ls
annihilated. offensive this Japanese, for the first time, admit that Shantung Peninsula and northern Kiangsu, an area of ten thousand square miles, has been recaptured by the Chinese.
new
This teen was among the first cap- with tured by Japan in the war China. For the past twelve months, however. It has-been--Clings bands, and Chinese Governments have functioned normally throughout the country.
FIVE ATTACKS
Kiukow, important river town on the east bank of the Ilan River twenty captured by the Chinese forces after, miles south of Chungsiang, was,
the heavy brief ovcupation by the Japanese
Saturday, During engagement the Japanese again re- sorted to the use of poison gas which forced the Chinese to abandon the place but later with reinforcement: they mined their hold.
On the Ilonkow-Ichang highway. little fighting was witnessed during the weekend with the Japanese shift- In the attack on Halchow, which is ing their main strength to the King-1 China's principal suit-producing chan-Chungsiang sector. To counter-
aet the Japanese movements, Chinese! centre normally it supplies 120,- 000,000 people in seven northern and forces are bringing constant pressure central
provinces-the Japanese to bear on the Japanese positions at launched their drive from five direc- Wamisotsi, twenty miles west
Tsaoshih tions.
A naval landing was made at the
At Yoluwehen, where bitter ht- mouth of the Chao tidal river and in raged throughout last week, the northwards. An-situation has turned quiet yesterday this force drove other landing was made at Felni,Central News. on the Kiangsu-Shantung border, for!
a drive southwards.
Simultaneously land forces dravej from Tuoyuan, oni north-eastwards
und
the main
nt
"SPIDER WEB"
Both their str names begin with
Both were in 1878. born They were al Park House Pro- paratory School, Major-General Rending, at the Bartholomew. same time.
Bartholomew followed Borrett as General Officer Communding the British forces in China.
buildings The by which they will be remem. bered are Bar- tholomew's "pl- with boxes," which he fortified Hongkong be tween 1935 and Lt.-General Sir 1038, and Bur- O. C. Barrett. rett's fort at Razmak, Waziristan, a key point on the North-West Frontier of India.
Major General Bartholomew's father, who is 93, is reputed to be the oldest living Oxford Blue.
Gayda Attacks Britain
ROME, Mar. 5. EVERYTHING
British Air Record
Imperial Airways planes covered a distance of 1.158. 000 miles in December, lost year--a new record for over- seas flying.
Scheduled services repre- sented 695.000 miles includ- ing 123,000 miles flown on the Sydney-Singapore section of the Australian route. operated by an associate com- pany, Quantas Empire Air-
woys.
A further 463.000 miles were flown on special Christ- mas mail deliveries. Imperial Airways' own aircraft flew 282,000 miles of this total; aircraft made available by the Royal Air Force, 29,000; and chartered aircraft, 152,000,
A Look Through The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
March 6, 1880.
As it was not known if she Gandhi had been release, instructed her to return to the detention canip this evening.
VICEROY ENDS TOUR
Kennedy and Carr): My Way (lm Invitation To The
and
1.0 Locat Weather Report.
Time
1.03 Mozart Concerto In Major, K. V. 488.
Manhattan
Arthur Rubinstein (Plano) and Moonlight The London Symphony Orchestra Serenade (Alter)....Orchestre Ray- conducted by John Barbiroll.
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press,
monde.
According to a New Delhi message, the Viceroy of India has decided to curtail bis tour of Rajputana, and will arrive here to-morrow morning. Weather Forecast and Announce Maric."
The news has aroused great in- ments. terest in political circles here, and it is thought that important develop- ments may occur to-morrow.
1.48 Latest Variety.
Selections from "Rose "Helen" and "No, No,
Naneile.".
"Rose-Marie"-Selections. (Friml) Dance Orch.--All Ashore-Fox-
New Mayfair Orchestra; Helen" Trot; Don't Let That Moon GetVocal Cems....Columbia Light Company with Orchestra; In New Delhi "Reuter learns on Away-Fox-Trot (Alm 'Sing you Opera
No, Nanette"-Selection very reliable authority that nege Sinners')... Eddie Carroll and His "No.
Comedien Hlations between Important repre- Music with Vocal
cal Hetrain;
"Show (Youmans);
of Shows"- sentatives of Congress and Lord-1 Pulled Myself Together! (Askey) Selection....New Mayfair Orchestra Linlithgow with a view to settling....Arthur
with Edward O'Henry (Cinema Or- the Rajkot dispute, thus ending accomp.; Dance Orch-You're Love-
gan). Gandhi's fast, wil probably begin ly Madame-Fox-Trot: What Have to-morrow.
You Got That Gels Me-Fox-Tral;
Askey
Pinno with
0.0 Stravinsky-Apollo Musagetes, The Boyd Neel String Orchestra. It is likely that G. D. Birle, an (both from 'Ariisis and Models Intimate friend of Gandhi, will Aboard')....Bob Crosby and His Lader: Louis Willoughby; Conductor:
Boyd Neel. represent Congress, and it is believed Orchestra; HumorousWe've Got To
0.30 London Relay-The News. 9.50 he will place definite proposals before Keep Up With The Joneses (Elliott)
Songs by Leslie Hutchinson the Viceroy for a solution of the dis- Gracie Fields with Fred Hart-
(Piano). Orch-Hear nute. Birla pesumed the role of icy's Orchestra; Dance
I Feel A Song Coming On (Alm previous disputes-All. See All, Say Now't-Fox-Trot Every Night At Eight'); My Heart (from I've got a horse'); I'm Singing Is Haunted (Elynn-Egan); East Or A Song For The Old Folks-Fox The Sun (Brooks Bowman)
Ilk Band
10.0 London Relay....In
mediator in Reuter.
CONGRESS „ACCUSED_
Town
Vocal-Let's To-night,
(Denniker
personalities Introducing
from
Trot.Billy Callon and 1 New Delhi, Mar. 5. The "Statesman." in a leader to-day, with Vocal Chorus; accuses Congress of "dishonesty" in Break The Good News alleging that the paramount power is and Davis); Ride, Tenderfoot Ride every walk of life in interviews The Chinese Government have con- an obstacle to progress in the States. ffilm Romance und Rhythm) with Lionel Gamlin, flashes from the
Accomp.; sented to a light being placed on the
The leader adds that misrule, where Les Allen with Novelty
the Corner' (Michael Standing inter- Gap Itock, and have volunteered to erect
Hght we Wagian land, which is it does exist, is entirely contrary to Dance Orch. So blue the skies news of the week, and 'Standing on
Stewart's and em-Maxwell
Ballroomed and produced by C. F. Mechan.
Music. 10.30 Damo very desirable position for leading civil liberty and julee,
Ministers 2.15 Close Down,
Fox-Trots Sing, Sing, Sing; Har- moment that the Indian Hongkong Harbour..
6.0 For the Children"
lem. Teddy Foster and His Kings propose to resign and to tell the world
Children's Overture (Quiter).... of Swing: that they are incapable of facing ony
Quickstep-Around And Neducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargcut; Round The Old Bourds sydney, "Lip-
Light Symphony Orchestra
Bandstand; Fox Trot sort of crisis-Renter.
Studio Serin! Story; "Snow White ton and His Orchestra with Vocul And The Seven Dwarfs"-Selection
PROVES that the demo,cknowledged by shipmasters to heavey Briton's fundamental ideas of Tango; Joseph Joseph-Fox-Trot views the Man in the Street'); Edit- cracies are heading more light to the North East Entrance of pinsises that it does not believe for a Melody. rapidly for war," declared Signor Gayda writing in the "Voc Italia" to-day.
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Gang Attack: Coolie Dies
Vas
Reginald Foort at the B.B.C. Chorus: Fox-Trol-Supposing; Six- Eight-Sarali, The Sergeant Major's Theatre Organ.
Daughter.Max
Max Murray and His 6.30 Closing legal Stock Quotu- Music Makers with Vocal Refrain:
tions.
....
11.0
Close down.
Asthma Cause Killed in 24 Hours
DRIVE IN SHANSI
He adds that their "furious" Chungking. Mar, 5. Chinese military leaders stated to- armament is losing a defensive
25 YEARS AGO the Grand Canal, south-eastwards day that the more recent Japanese character,
March 6, 2014. from Ichow and eastwards along the military activities In Shansi indicates opening offensive one.
6.32 Claphara and Dwyer, Oliver Waltzes-Say That You Will Not they were either luanching, or had!
There was a fast-moving trans- The annual report of the British
Wakefield. The Boswell Sisters and Forget (film Lullaby'); Sweet Mary
Elic and
Hlo Rose....Bernhard the regimental Lunghai Railway.
whoses that launched a twi-pronged attack in the
Dance Orch.; Fox-Trots-Your Heart Rival Triad societies are belleved Others in a Variely Programme, south and south-cast areas of Shans formation from Mr. Neville Chun- Army AIR ATTACK
by atrength is 274,250 which the lowest
Vocal-This May Be The Night And Mine (from 'Blackbirds of They state that three Japanese beeisin's
negotiation to a formula of peace for a decade, and esparsa with 2702 to have been the motive for A
A for 1912. There is a defeiency of 8,500, The attack on Halchow, which is
The strength of the Territorial Army vendetta in Kowloon which resulted (lm 'My Lucky Star'); By
('Blackbirds of 1036')....Jock Har- normally a elly of 100,000 people, divisions available for action had been
King- Tony Martin with Jerry Joyce ris and His Orchestra with Vocal n 21-year-old coolie, Wong of Pingyang on the Tutung-Pukow was preceded and accompanied by concentrated mainly at Howma, south by intimidation.
"We can be certain that in a few was 216,600, which shows a deficiency in the death yesterday afternoon of Wishing Well (8lm 'My Lucky Star) 1938); Keep A Twinkle In Your Eye
Cuban Orch-Chorus. bombardments natal
chun. Anyang months time, when the war magazines; of 60,000. also
and His Orches-Rumba....Don und erial
railway.
Pre filled, the British tone will
Five alleged members of one of the Rumba. which are stated to have been un-(Change) in north of Honan.
Ilis Cuban Orchestra; "Reuter's" correspondent at New York precedented in the present war.
The experts claimed that the move-harmonise even less with the pipes
states that England, Australia, France, several unlawful societies belleved to Ramon and A constant rain of bombs and ment is designed to clean out centres of peace."
Rumba He added that there remained Belgium, Germany at Canada have be flourishing in the Colony attacked Rumba Orch.The Lady In Red
(illm
Caliente').... In shells fell on the city for 72 hours of the Eighth Route Army and the
Including in nothing for Italy but to provide for challenged the United, Sintes for the Wong with choppers and knives. and when it was occupied by the guerilla, activities,
Davis Lawn Tennis Cup,
The attack was made in broad day-Geroldo and His Rumba Orchestra;
Screws light in Hamilton, Road, and was Humorous-Three Loose Japaneso nothing but a shell re-mobile headquarters of General Chu armaments-Reuter.
...The Three Loose mained.
Teli, the location of which they would
GIVEN AWAYA & PASSENGER, 30 witnessed by a large number of on- Comedy Sketch..
Screws (Chick Endor, Charlie Farrell Undamaged portions of the city not reveal.
H.P. TOURING CAR EQUIPPED WITH lookers.
Wong sustained terrible injuries. and Eddie "Pola); Vocal-Mood In- before They added that the Japanese ob-
32x34 PETER UNION TYRES. SIX were fired by the guerillus
MONTHS GUARANTEE.
He was still alive when admitted to digo (Ellington); Sentimental Gen-
Thanks to the discovery of an American they retreated south-westwards to-Jectives inefuded Yusnehu, Puhsien,
attleman From Georgia (Perkins).... Each hour you hire a motor car en- Kowloon Hospital and warda Fowning, where they ure nt-Liachow, Hsinsbui and Changcheng.
titles you to one coupon. There are mediately placed under an anaes-The Boswell Slaters with Orch.; Physician, it now is possible to get rid o
those turelbis spells of choking, camping. Makes tempting to join up with
Orch.-Love
The coughing and whoosing Asthma by killing The Japanese offensive was eliarac=
,000 coupons to be given away. When thetic for an emergency operation. Dance
(from World Go Round guera forces.
"These the true cause which is Germa in the blood.
No more burning of powders, no more hy The Japanese naval operations terised by a more scattered offensive
The modified full course for the there coupons have been disposed of Ile died on the operating table.
The five assailants made good their Foollsh Things) Quickstep; The podermia injections, his new discovery.. cover a distance of about 400 miles in the area. One Japanese column,
crayons will be awarded the aforemen
Chestnut Tree Quickstep....Jack afandace, starts to work in minutes, kill of coastline, while the battlefront instead of capturing a city, was mov- training of instructors and Air Raid tho. balder of the largest number of
Police bellevo a dispute arose be-Hylton and His Orchestra with Veraling the derm cause of Asthma, also puri- around Hatchow is over 200 miles. In ing on to another and was now com- wardens will commerce on Tuesday. tioned moter car. The naine of the capt.
Demarying can miosp soundly all night, saz the blood and restoring vitality. BO Humorous Tennis.... addition, Inrge operations have com- bing the entire countryside, planning
converge on the strategle Restaurant, at the Race Course, by kong
the distribution of the proceeds of a Clapham and Dwyer; Dance Orch-anything and work and enjoy life. Biendaco inenced around Chefco, Wulhaiwel later to
courtesy of the Hongkong Jockey $8.00 per hour: Cash only, points.
larceny,
I've Got A Pocketful of Dreams-au successful it is guaranteed to give you Trou, enay breathing in 24 hours and to stop and Tsingtao.
This tpye of offensive, said the Club. Lecturer will be Mr. J. A.
Quickstep (Alm 'Sing you Sinners'); your Asthma completely in 8 days or rooney It is noteworthy that, in Shantung
back an esturn of empty, packaga, Gat ----| Mendaca from your okamist today."The peninsula, the Chinese are in posses- observers, was designed to offset the Bendall.
There will be seating accommoda-
truarantos protects you. sion of il territory excepting Wel-retreating guerilla tactles and to form
a "spider webb" Into which they tion for approximately 75 people. halwel and Chefoo.
opened to trap the Chinese guerilla
Lectures will be given every Tues- day and Thursday for approximately forces,
The militarista Guld that the
five weeks. Japanese forces were constructing. A major Japanese masault in two concrete blockhouses in a wide aren columns, with two full regiments participating, was hurled back within which to form an "iron ring" will probably do the same against
the Japanese." large numbers of casualties on the around the guerillas.
It was recalled that these tactles An American military observer, Central lunch front along the King were similar to the one Generalfa- who recently arrived from Peiping. shan-Chungslang highway yesterday, simo Chiang Kai-shek employed in said that Japanese officers admitted Fighting raged at several villages running in a semi-circle about forty Kinngel some years ago when fight miles southeast of Chungsinng, with lug the Communists, who now form
part of
of the Eighth
Route Army. the defenders stubbornly holding on
It was also recalled that the Com- to their posta.
Takingchen, forty miles east of munists under General Chu Teh and Chungslang, and Mumepu, south of General Mao Tse-tung escaped from province to pltched their main force against the murch" through the invaders, were seene of bloody battlo Shens. Therefore, said a military o Saturday, when the Japanese observer, "the Eighth Route Army
CHINESE HURL BACK JAPANESE
Chungslang, Mar. R.
in March at 5.30 pm. In the Public winner will be published in the tween two rival Triad societies over Hylton a
Telegraph." Terma
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March 0, 1929. The Beltial. Burma Association elnitas Constitution, and *eparation from Home Rule, on the basis of the Irish India.
Madame Gall Curci, the famous Ja -the soprano, arrived coloratura Colony to-day.
5 YEARS AGO
March 6, 1934,
SOLDIERS
IN CRASH-
Three gunners of the Royal Artillery are in Kowloon Hos pital this morning as the result of a serious. car amash near Sheungshui yesterday,
to drive around the They decided New Territories and left Kowloon at about 10 a.m.
As they were approaching Fonting North the car left the road and crashed with some force into a tree.
Gunner Breen rustained his in-
THE "TELEGRAPH” will send Staff Photographer to all
a
events of public There will be general agreement with
that they could capture, but and the view expressed at yesterday's nest not hold cities, such as Yuanchu anding of the Hongkong Telephone Com Puhalen, owinit to the surrounding pany that everything possible should be h which constituled the base of done to expedite the inauguration of a the guerilla nelivities, cutting off the radio-telephons vervice which will link Company with characteristig enterprise," supply routes. He said that severni Hongkong with the outside world. The cilles had been captured several has been keenly interested in this mat- by the Chinese guerilins-United | circumstances have militated against a
Zulhiment of its hopes
Tungklaochen, where the defenders the network and started men, but they were always retaken ter for a vary considerable thño, buti
Press,
The three men nro
Gunner Breen, driver of the car, serious cute on face and throst;
Gunner
In- Page, tuperficial
juries mainly from broken glass, tho force of the crash mashing the wind-screen. The other two men were in the back seat of the car.
The three soldiers, who are in the Royal Artillery, aro Stanley Fort.
attached
interest. Requests
nted to should be addressed
Jurles;
They received medical attention Gunner Johnson, minor injuries, from the Medical Officer at Lowu The car, No. 2210, was hired by Camp before being brought into the three soldiers yesterday morning, Kowloon Hospital by ambulanco...
the Pictorial Editor.
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