Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 1,
1939.
Heavy Chinese Offensive Succeeding
Japanoso
Lossos
In April Reported
HOLD ON NANCHANG
UNRELAXED: NEW
TACTICS SCORING
CHUNGKING, May 1.
THE
"HE Chinese Military Head- quarters announced yesterday that a total of 31,- 665 Japanese were killed and 513 taken prisoner during 504 engagements on the Shansi, north Kiangsl, Hupeh, Hónan, Kwangtung, Cheklang. Anh-
woi, Shantung, Klangsu, Hopel, Chahar and Suiyuan fronts from April 16 to 30.
THE
TUNGSIANG, Kiangsi, May 1.
HE GRIM hold of the Chinese forces on Nan- chang continued unrolaxed during the week- and as a series of fresh attacks on the outskirts of the Kiangsi provincial capital kept the Japanose
on tenterhooks.
The heavy Japanese losses.of it is pointed out, were due to the offensive tactics adopted by the Chinese forces on all fronts during the period under
Utter pandemonium, ruled in several parts Nanchang where large fires of unknown origin were rapidly reducing the few remaining houses to ruins. One of the main Japanese ammunition stores in the city was reported to have been blown up during the conflagration, lost 1,456 rifics, 56 machine-which was not put out until yesterday evening. guns, 21 artillery pieces, 57.- 691 rounds of ammunition and 375 horses, and 96 armoured cars were destroyed and three war vessels sunk.
review,
In addition, the Japanese
Many sections of railways and highways on the various fronts were damaged by the
Central News.
Chinese forces who smashed their way into the city have retreated again after having wrought havoc with the Japanese de fence system. They have now been reinforced with strong fresh units and are tightening their grip on the city.
The Chinese right,wing, in a lightning drive, advanced to Kwangyangkino, seven miles east of Nanchang, yesterday morning, and is gradually encroaching on the capital city.
For a distance of ten miles south of Nanchang to Chinese during that period-Siangtang, the Japanese line has been cut at numerous places by continued Chinese, nagging process while Siangtang itself has now been cleared of Japanese troops.
Two New Pro-Japan Concerns In Shanghai
Meanwhile Currency Continues To Flop
SHANGHAI, May 1. TWO MAJOR joint Sino- Japanese enterprises, one in the field of transportation, and the other in finance, came into being here yester- day, when the Central China Railways Company, and the Huahsing Commercial Bank, each capitalised at $50,000,- 000 were established.
Lientang, five miles south of Nanchang, is surrounded by Chinese forces. Land communication be- tween the Japanese forces at Lientang and Nanchang has been effectively cut.
NEW TACTICS SUCCEED
Interviewed by a representative of the Central News, a high Chinese commander who has just returned to Kweilin from a tour of the front expressed complete satisfaction at the outcome of the Chinese operations on Nanchang.
The high officer stated that the Chinese tactics at Nanchang were featured by unhampered initiative and a high degree of mobility unattained in previous engagements.
Japanese Violate Regulations
National Emergency Rules Unpopular
their
indust-
NEW YORK WORLD FAIR OPENED BY ROOSEVELT
NEW YORK, Apr. 30-New York to-day throw off all its cares and gava itself to colebrating the opening of the World's Fair.
Headed by President Roosovolt, hundreds of thousands of people flocked through the turnstiles at the rate of 400 a
minuta.
Special trains from all parts of the United States poured into New York. Ono train from Washington brought 600 Congressmen, Cabinet Ministers, and judges.
Twenty-nino warships of the Atlantic floot are on show, while 12,000 officers and. men will visit the Fair. Reuter,
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH
New York, Apr. 30. "Often I think we Americans offer silent prayer that on the continent of Europe from which the American hemisphere has been principally colonised, we will, in years to come, break down the many barriers to Intercourse between nations," declared President Roosevelt in the speech inaugurating World's Fair.
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He added that the American wagon is hitched to the star of international goodwill, and above all, the star of peace.
With its theme "The world of to-morrow," the Fair is regard ed as America's supreme ges- ture of international optimism.
The Fair is one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever held, with 02 countries contributing.
Over 1,000,000 were expected to attend to-day, and over 00,- 000,000 are expected before the close of the Fair. Reuter Special,
Comintern May Day Manifesto
Moscow, Apr. 30.
U.S. Neutrality
Congress Members
Are Still Undecided
WASHINGTON, Apr. 30. REPRESENTATIVE Sol Bloom, on the ove of the final week of the neutrality hearings, said he believed that the majority of committeemen have not yet committed themselves to a single measure. He believed that the testimony of Mr. Hull and others would be taken be- |fore the final session, and would
likely be decisive.
Mr. Bloom believed that the only points now acceptable by the majority are, firstly; the continuation of the munitions control boord requiring Heenses and full data on all arms shipments abroad, and, secondly; forbidding United States citizens to travel on ships of belligerent nations and through war zones, or permitting only at their own risk."
The House will hold hearings only
A Comintern May Day manifestu on Tuesday and Wednesday but the least onc joint aligned the world Communists with Senate hearings will continue through the Governments of England, France next Saturday. and the United States in any effort executive session is likely United against aggression.
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The manifesto sald. "You will de- monstrate together with the English Throughout these operations, the and French workers against the in- officer continued, senior officers instigators of war; for mensures against command and the lowest rank of foot ogaTessors; for the application soldiers have acted in perfect unison military and economie sanctions. You and co-operation, achieving remark-will only demand from the Bourgoise able results.
Governments of England, France and
for the! the United States, help Spanish Republicans, the Czech, Albanian and, Abyssinian patriots and the Austrian Democrats toward their liberation from the foreign yoke."--| United Press.
Nanchang, according to the high command, is virtually under the alege of Chinese forces as one strategic point after another on the outskirts of the city has fallen into Chinese hands. The success of the Chinese operations in Nanchang started with the recapture of Knoon on April 23. Following the return of Kaoan, Tacheng. Kasyushih and many other points were grasped back from the Japanese.
SHANSI SITUATION
COMINTERN CALLS FOR
to
Press,
Warmer Week-End Weather
Appreciable increases in tempera- ture marked the week-end, yester- day's maximum being 70, with a minimum ot 73.
The mercury remained high this moming, 79 being touched at 10 o'clock, while accompanying humidity
was 89 per cent.
the
UNITED FRONT The railway company is a
Toltye, May 1.
MOSCOW, Apr, 30. subsidiary of the Central China The Tokyo Police Board reveals
WORKERS IN Britain, France Development Company, and will that 54,351 Tokyo citizens have been
and the United States are urged
Although the last 24 hours were manage on behalf of the "Re-charged with the violation of various
Sinn, May 1. to make a common cause with rainless, as many as 20.48 inches of formed Government" 800 kilo-provisions of the National Material
Control Regulations since
After throwing back a Japanese those fighting aggression in a rain have fallen during the year, metres of railway in the lower enforcement nine months ago.
nine Inches above force in a bitter engagement south-
average. Yangtse delta, including the Shanghai-Nanking, the Shang- Act alone totalled 20,500 and wards the city with renewed vigour,
Violaters against the Anti-Profiteer-east of Wensi in south Shansi, Chi-May Day proclamation issued by which is
nese troops are again pushing to-the Comintern.
The local weather forecast in- hai-Hangchow, the Soochow those evading the Commodity Price according to latest muntinmle, military and political sanctions cast winds, with a cloudy sky, and
des-
The proclamation demanda econo-dicates moderate east and south- Kashing, the Nanking-Wuhu, Control Regulations 17,473.....
patches on the Shanel war, situation against war-mongers, and help for some local fog or mist. and the Shanghai-Woosung lines.
Fierce fight, it is stated, There were many offenders also in
China and for movements
The Semi-omelat Japanese reports add
Royal Observatory report the metals,
cotton-tissues, started in the outskirts of the city. fucl, that the company will also operate leather, rubber and lumber
In
car the Shensi "liberate" Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, the Hotsin area, near
states that a moderate anti-cyclong border,
the Spain and Ethiopia. Japanese attack on inter-urban bus lines.
covers the Paclic to the east of tries. The railways, which were the pro-
Chinese positions nearby last Thurs- Unlike previous manifestos, the Japan, and another appears to be perty of the Chinese State, have now Most of the persons arrested were
dus s was
proclamation does not stress world forming over Mongolia. Depressions passed into the
revolution, nor does it condemn the fare moving eastward over south- farmed Gove hands of the "Re-released with a warning.
Japanese launch Reinforced, the And which, it is The police are disturbed to
following morning.
The Chinese are democratic countries.--Reuter.
cast Manchuria and to the north of understood, will not be
concerned that such cases tend to increase and
the Bonins. A depression is station- with the thorny question of foreign signify they will adopt a more drastic reported to be putting up
resistance, engaging the enemy in
ary over Tongking and Slam. Indebtedness in the lines in which attitude towards future offenders.
Derce hand-to-hand combats.
Paris, Apr. 30. British interests are heavily repre-
Particularly annoying is the tradic will net only
The majority of public Labour sented, as it will
an the
in petrol-tickets issued to car owners. operating agency
ney of the railways, The Huahsing Commercial Bank The official price of petrol is 55 scn
Day demonstrations took place to-day will have $50,000,000 capital fully (8d.) per American gallon and taxis
Instead of to-morrow, which, for the first time for years, is to be a work
with few exceptions. paid up, and the shareholders will are rationed on a ticket system for Taiku.
Private owners are allowed only set fire to the villages, razing is is Labour's indirect reply to be the "Reformed Government" and from 100 to 150 gallons monthly.
them to the ground. six Japanese banks,
Д gallons month. The A Japanese unit north of Tsinyuan Hitler", writes the Paris newspaper
"Soir."Reuter, The bank's issue, according to the former find it more remunerative to was recently surrounded by the same semi-official Japanese reports, sell their tickes to private owners at Chinese and nearly completely wiped will be "legal tender in the territory premiums ranging from Y1.20 (1/6) out. under the jurisdiction of the Re-to Y2 (2/4) per gallon, than to run formed Government," the sponsors their taxis.
Uhirteen
stiff
The Japanese who occupied the villages near Wuslang and Yushe, in southeast Shans! recently, have now been withdrawn to an area south of Prior to their withdrawal,
In west Shansi, the Japanese who drove to the north of Lishih have
hope, and the notes will be "con- The Authorities are at present been repulsed by the Chinese de- vertible into foreign exchange at a powerless to stop this traffic as the rate approximately of the market Contral regulations fail to provide value of the Nationalist notes."-- for such an eventuality-Router. Reuter.
MARKET NERVOUS
Shanghai, May 1. Some nervousness is apparent in local Anancial clrcles due to the week-end reports of the opening of the new Sino-Japanese banks.
Exchange rates
So far Dre changed, but forward rates are dis- playing a tendency to narrow, while early dealings to-day witnessed
un-
both showing appreciable gains. Reuter.
FEDERAL BANKNOTES
Japan's Struggle
Paris Colebrations
3,700 Jews Expelled From Italy
4,
Lithuanian Co-operation
Army C. In C. To
Visit Warsaw
WARSAW, Apr. 30.-It is announced that General Rashti- kls, Commander-in-Chief of the Lithuanian Army, will pay an official three-day visit to Warsaw in the middle of May, at the invitation of Marshal Smigly- Rydz.
Reuter.
fenders. After the arrival of rein- forcements, they staged a counter- offensive and Oghting is in progress.
from A Japanese attack on Hoku Plenkwan, in northwest Shansi, has also been repelled by the Chinese. ow facing The opposing forces are now
are near Hoku.
Rome, Apr. 20. each other at the village near
As many as 3,700 foreign Jews Kansas City, Apr. 30.
CENTRAL HUPEH OPERATIONS
have left Italy since March 12, ac- Bishop Arthur J. Moore of San
Icheng, Hupeh, May 1.
cording to the Italian Stefani Agency,
The forthcoming talks are regarded Re-shifting of Japanese ättention which also reports that 933 Jewe Antonio, Texas, who for six years was rector in the Orient of the to the central Hupeli front, which have runde use of perr ission to re- as having particular importance as Methodist Episcopal Church, address has seen a lull during the past fort main in Italy under certain condi- they will mean that collaboration the tions.
between Lithuania and Poland, which Ing the Methodist United Conference night, was Indicated during
weekend by streams of enemy rein- These Jews have been either re- for a year Ilved on terms of hostility heavy buying of gold bars und yuans, to-day sald: "The cost in men and forcements pouring plong the Flon-siding permanently in Italy cinco to one another, has made considerable
money lo prosecute their war in
advances recently. highway
1910, are married to Italian women, kow-Ichang China is proving heavy drain on
Furthermore, the talks will mark Reluforcements, numbering from or are over 65 years of age. . DOWN AGAIN
Japan's national resources.
Of the other foreign Jews in Italy, a new extension of contacts which made alnce Hitler's "Today, thoughtful Japanese are several hundred to more than 1,000, Tientsin, May 1.
of 3,100 naked for permission to stay Poland has The were noticed nt Hoklatlep, cost Federal Reserve bank notes in a deeply troubled mood. North China moved another notch nation is waging a life and death Julhsien, Huayuen, Aniu, and many in the country, but only 128 had their annexation of the Czech provinces lower to-day, the national dollar struggle and undoubtedly it is facing other points. About 200 Japanese at request granted-Trans-Ocean.
Anlu opened an attack on the Chin- ruling at a premium of 3 per cent. the greatest crisis in its history. in terms of the Japanese fostered "Some day, the leaders of the ese on Saturday and fighting is pro-
ceeding. nation may bitterly regret that their
A company of 200 Japanere forecs 1 ever set foot in China.”—at Chungklang made several attempts With the national dollar valued at army 8% pence, the Federal Reserto Bank United Press.
to cross the river on Saturday and dollar is actually worth barely more
Sunday, but were turned back while in midstream by Chinese machine- than sixpence, despite the official value of 1/20.
It now remains to be seen whether
guns.
CHINESE MILITIA CORPS Moreover, since the Federal Re-the Japanese authorities will press en
ACTIVE IN SUIYUAN serve Banke dollar is convertible into with the plan which certainly seems
Wayuna, Suiyuan, May 1. yon at par, it is possible to-day to to be turning out to their disadvant-j.
A Chinese militia corpa which buy yen for approxunatoly 0 peace, age, since the yuan is supposed to
be linked with the yen..
Įpushed - towards the outskirts of leuter.
It is not freely Interchangeable Tokoto, southwest of Kwelsul in with the yen and cannot be imported Sulyuan, has clashed with the Japan- London, May. 1.. The attempt by the Japanese into Japan. Nevertheless, it has al- eso there, notren Tokolo and!
The highway authorities in North China to, sun-ways been understood that. Japan's plant the old Chinese, currency with intention was to give the North Kweleul has been damaged in several the Japanese yuan is not proving Chits territories a currency, which points, thus preventing the Japanese very successful, says the "Times" in would have a fixed exchange rate from sending reinforcements there. iis city notes.
with the yon--Reuter.
Central News.
currency.
"TIMES" COMMENT
Japan's New Expansion Designs in South
TOKYO, Apr. 30,
PLAN for the creation of a single administrative body for Japanese possessions of Formosa, the Spratley Islands, and the South Bea Islands, is being considered by the Japanese Diinister for the Colonies, according to the "Asahi Shimbun", which declares that this will be a riep in the preparation for the "expansion of the Japanese emples to the Bouth",
The paper plates that this administration would be regarded as the Government-General of the south.
Regarding membership In new body, and the scope of lia authority, no information is as yet available-Trans-Occan.
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