Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 17, 1939.
BOMB Danzig Problem
NAZI LAW
JAPANESE AIR RAIDERS SOUTH-WEST, CENTRAL CHINA CHIEFS TO
Intense Activity In Kwangsi: Pakhoi Also Visited And Damaged
SHANGHAI, Aug. 17 (Domei).—With the return of fine weather, Japanese naval air units have staged wide-spread attacks in Southwest and Central China, according to a communique issued by the press section of the Japanese Fleet in China Waters.
Especially intense activity was shown in Kwangsi where Liuchow, Sunchow, Nanning and Ningming were visited by Japanese bombers. Raiding Liuchow in central Kwangsi, Japanese planes rained bombs on the western part of the city where munitions were piled up. Huge fire was started at two places in the city.
Sunchow, about 75 miles southeast west of Chinhai on the south bank of Lluchow in southeastern Kwangs, of Hangelow Bay in north Chekints
were
Tate Gallery Refuses
Portrait of Duke
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
LONDON, Aug. 18 (Router)—A_charcoal drawing by Bargent of the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales, has been declined by the Trasters of the Tate Gallery to which I was bequeathed by the late Sir Philip Sassoon, First Commissioner of Works,
It was stated that the offer was declined "purely on its merits as a portrait."
WRS
CONFER
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Berlin, Aug, 10 (Reuter),—Nazi low chiefs and experts will hold n conference at Zoppol from August 21 to 25 to discuss Danzig and other Exist European problems.
The aim of the conference is stated to be to set forth clearly and scienti
the political problems of East rope, especially Danzig, and prove the justice of the attitude of Danzig and the Reich in current
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Representatives from Danzig and the brought
foreign The trustees made the decision when the pleiure
organisation of the Nazi Party will also attend, before them for Inspection, as is the case of all works offered to the gallery, some weeks ago.
At the same time, the trusters accepted anather bequest by Sir Philip, of a portrait in oils of himself, also the work of Bargent.
Polish Army Ready To Resist All Pressure
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
be
WARSAW, Aug. 16 (Reuter).—The registra- tion of experts including workmen of all kinds, ospecially mechanics and engineers, who may required for various departments of national defence in the event of war, began to-day through-
was also attucked by Japanese craft. youterday. A number of military boats
Seven bombs were dropped wound-out Poland. claimed to have been smashed there. ing seven civilians and destroying Warehouses, barracks anel
other the Tzehu Middle School and scores milltary establishments at Ningning of other bulidints. and Nanning in southern Kwanggi were bombed and greatly damagerį | the communique points out.
Troops Bombed
naval
Assisting the Army and landing forces operating on Hainan
Later the aircraft Bow over Kwan- haiwei, northwest of Tzek), where they released five missiles. Seven civilians were killed and 20 others wounded while 14 houses were re- dured to ruins.
We was caused.
Volunteers Pouring In
LONDON, Aurt: 10, (British Wire-
All persons between the ages of 16 and 60 are to be enrolled and eight recruiting centres have opened in Warsaw alone. The response on the opening day is said to have been very large.
Herr A. Foerster, Nazi Regional Leader in Danzig, will open the pro- ceedings and Heer E. W. Bohle, Dis- trict Leader of the Auslands Organi sation, and Dr. A. Seyss-Inquari, Relch Commissioner for Austrła will be among the speakers.
DANZIG SOLDIERS
ON PARADE
DANZIG, Aug 10 (Trans-Ocean), The military bodies which have weeks will parade before the Danzig popula-
been formed during the past
ton for the first time on Friday. The
S.S.
"Heimwehr" Corps which were organised from National Socialist Party guards to augment the Dauzig porrisons. The Commander is
includes 1,500 men
en who live in Leader Goetze and the Corps com- prizes four infantry companies, one machine-gun company, two armoured companies and one company of sharp shooters as well as engineer, communication BAd transportation
detachments,
In a surprite visit to Pakhol in southern Kwanglung, Japanese naval aircraft bombed and machine-gunned
After reviewing troops al Vilna, Chinese military boats unloading
Shensi Town Bombed
President Moscicki declared that the. munitions in the harbour. Lluwang
YULIN, Shens, Aug 17 (Central).
Polish Army was filled with the and points northwest of Chaochow in
The Danzig Gauleiter, 1lerr Marshal Pilsudsid spirit of the late enstern Kwangtung were also bomb-Tsukien, north of Yenchwan in
Foerster will present a tag to the northern Shensi, was bombed by nine less)About 24,000 persons applied! ed by separate ul units.
any challenge to accept Japanese aircraft on Tuesday."
Corps after which the parade will be last week to be enrolled for national and would No
resist all forms of pressure, service making a total of about
held. serious
Anti-Polish incidents continue to
Military preparedness in Danzig is 2,041,000 volunteers since the cam- Plane Crashes
be reported from the frontier. Fut becoming increasingly evident and "There will be a special rehearsal on school at Jandorff are reported to Tantry drilling can be observed in Sulyum, Aug 17 (Cen-paign began in January last.
example, the Directors of a Polishi Island, naval aircraft bombed and tral). A Japanese plane crashed at machine-gunned the Chinese troops Photow, Sulyunn, a few days ago. Friday of the Thames ambulance
have been ordered to leave the Reich men of Danal who
the fields outside the city. Young and positions near Penghai and Talmu The crash was said to be due to en-service organised by the Port of in six weeks, and German citizens eu for auxiling have been recruit in the southeastern part of the gine trouble. The machine was an
Tur a London Authority
national The ambulance craft of folish race in Western Silesia have some cases being replaced In their island,
total wreck and the airmen were all emergency.
been ordered to surrender their pass-work by women. Tiennsi northwest of Nanchang, the killed.
will give a demonstration of the ports, thus preventing many from Chinese positions cast of Pukow,
embarkation of casualties from a fire crossing the frontier to work in Yangkia and Meltsun in northern
art the river
from the Poland. Klungsu were attacked by Japanese
Battersen power station. air units which co-operated with the
The revision of plans for the Army forces in mopping up remnant Chinese troops in Central China on Tuesday.
Raid Over Tacki
Another Crash CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 (Central). --While conducting reconnaissance over Siccawel, In the western suburbs
float on
of Shanghai yesterday morning, evacuation of children and mothers Japanese plane crashed
to "the of young children from London in Sequel To Fall in ground. The pilot was killed instant-war which is at present being under-
ly, according to a Shanghai message. Laken by responsible departments is Petroleum Prices
The cause of the crash cannot be likely to bring an additional 230,000;
within the scope of the schome.
KINHWA, Aug. 17 (Central) — Two Japanese bombers raked Tzeki, į established,
THE
Chinese Version
OIL WELLS
WAR IN CHINA CLOSE FOR
JAPANESE HARASSED. BY FLOOD
CHUNGKING, Aug, 17 (Central): - Extreme diffi- culty is being experienced by the Japanese in military transport in North China as a result of the damage of the railway tracks by flood.
Traffic on the Pelping-Sulyuan, Peiping-Hankow, Peiping-Liaoning and Tientsin-Pukow Railways bus been
repeatedly disrupted.
Wang Ching-wei Japanese Version
Wants to Lead A Puppet Army
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CHUNGKING. Aug. (Central).It is reported that Wang Ching-wel, the expelled Kuomintang leader, is negoti. ating with Lieut-General Rikich! Ando, Commander-in- Chief of the Japanese. Forces in South China, and other Japanese army commanders, on the reor- ganisation of all irregular troops In the Japanese "occupied" areas in Kwangtung into a new pup- pel army.
I will be placed under the command of Wang to fight against the Chinese national troops.
losses on the enemy and recovered
Wide areas at Chingbai and Yang-several important points.
both on the Tientsin-Pukuw
Hluching,
Rafiway, respectively 22 miles south-
west and nine miles west of Tientsin, have been turned into a
Chinese Sabotage
LOYANG,
Aug. 17 (Central),
vast sheet Taking advantage of a drenching rain.
of water. Passengers an
and freight
have to be transported by boat.
for days without interruption. The Luanho sector of
the Peiping- Liaoning Railway is inundated.
Chinese guerillas have become more active. Japanese garrison
units
by flood have been attacked.
Town Besieged
Isolated at Wenun and other places
|a Chinese guerilla unit systematically
CHINESE TROOPS ENCIRCLED
15 DAYS
Students Protest
To Lord Halifax
PARIS, Aug. 16 (fleuter).—A message protesting against the British decision to hund over The four Chinese suspects in Tientsin, was sent to Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Minister, to-day by the, International Students
Conference
which opened here yesterday and attended by students of 35 countries. The message sayg the students "insist that the British Government should not hand over the Chinese NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (Reuter)-prisoners to a phantom government, Following the fail in crude petroleum Such action would be contrary to prices, oll wells in the States of British justice, for it would signify s Oklahoma and Kansas have been or-recomition by n member of the dered by the Oklahoma and Kansas League of Nations of an aggressor Corporation Commission to close down | Power and would have grave interna- for 15 days
tional consequences.".
A total of 19,200 wells is affected in Kansas.
and other States, including Arkansas and New Mexico are expected to
Texus has already closed its wells Plane Bought From
HANKOW, Aug. 17 (Cen-follow suit. tral).-About 3,000 Chinese sociation representing 90 per cent of
The Ind
Independent Petroleum As-
Dutch Airlines
LONDON, Aug. 16 (Reuter),~~) the nation's independent oil produc-Owing to the loss of three of their Szechwan ers has asked the inter-State Oll air liners In just over a week, British the shutting down of all oil wells in Lockheed 14 air-liner from K.L.M. Compact Commission to recommend Airways Limited have bought a the mid-continent for 15 days.
The crisis has now spread to the inois fleid where the Ohio Corpora- tion, a
a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, has reduced its purchasing price from 195 to 85 cents per barrel.
troops of the Army are assentedly threa- tened with "annihilation" as the result of fresh Japanese encircling operations in the triangular area between Tayeh, Yangsin and Tung- shan in the southeastern part of Hupeh Province, field dispatches indicate.
Two Japanese Army detachments
damaged the steel bridges on the participating in the pincer-movement
Chinese Defection
west
Large Order For Ticket Machines
Dutch Airlines to supplement their Deet.
The new engined monoplane seating ten pas- acquisition is a twin- sengers; it has a top speed of 220 mph. and a cruising speed of 190 m.ph. The machine will probably be used on the London-Berlin London-Budapest service.
Squalus Salvage Resumes
or
Aug. 17 (Central),~The defection wards Talanchen. Japanese troops issue ange of tube railway tickets is expected to commence at 5 am.
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Rain has been falling in east Hopel Lunghai Railway west of Lanfeng in defeated about 600 Chinese troops
PORTSMOUTH. Aug. 16 (UP),- enst Henan recently, thus greatly who entrenched themselves in the
Divers have repaired the broken air impending Japanese communication. 730 metres high Fenghuochien north LONDON, Aug. 10 (British Wire-hoseline which had delaped the sal- . Taking advantage of the flood, along the highway near Lanteng.
Sabotage work was also carried out of Tafanchen. about 15 miles north-less). The ingenuity of engineers vage operations on the sunken sub-
of Tungshan, on Tuesday morn-having overcome the difficulties of marine Squalus. ing.
"Licket providing automatic
and The pontoons have again been] 1*4 from Dislodged
their mountain change-giving" machines for the placed in position and the second lift citadel, the Chinese began fleeing to-wh
whole of Chinese irregulars in the Japanese were in hot pursuit of them.
by the London Transport on Thursday, Board, a large order for now employ in Shantung Is Increasing daily.
Staging an outflanking movement, machines has been placed and the CHENGCHOW, Aug. 17 (Central),
a Japaneze flying column crossed the main Underground Stations will soon -Pingtu, a town in the Shantung 1,000 irregulars under Han Ping-chen a detour to the south of Trekowchen, of these machines greatly relieving According to the latest report, Fushiri River on Monday and making be equipped with a complete battery Peninsula, is besieged by the Chinese. and another 1,600 under Huang Ai- 20 miles northeast of Tungshan, cut congestion at rush hours. Remnant Japanese in the outskirts chua have killed their Japanese off the Chinese retreat at a point 6 have been "mopped up" and severe advisers and gone over to the Chinese miles south of Tzekowchen at noon attacks are being launched on the side. They are
town.
reorganisation.
now
undergoing on Tuesday,
Chinose Menace Sungklang
Fighting Noor Shanghai CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 (Central) CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 (Central).- Chinese units operating along the Over two hundred shots were ex- Shanghai-Hangchow Railway have changed between puppet police and re-occupied all vital points in the several Chinese residents in San Yu suburbs of Sunklang, 22 miles south-Hotel in the extra-settlement area in west Shanghal in the wee hours Shanghai report.
The Chinese made good their escapo in the dark.
Completely disorganized, about 3,000 Chinese troops under command of General Yang Lin are struggling for retreat from Tzckowchen Toranchen through the Japanese en- circling lines.
and
British Trade Increases
Profit Taking Upsets Market
LONDON, Aug. 10 (Router). Proft toking was responsible for a
slightly color trend in the day's
markets on the Stock Exchange though lasses were only small and a firm undertone was generally main- tained.
Silver fell Vact. to 17d. per LONDON, Aug. 16 (British Wire- ounce on cessation of Indian buying less)The Board of Trade Index of which intterly has constituted the
west of Shanghai, and are menscina | yesterday morning, according to a following a series of attacks. The Industrial activity in the United | market'e chief support.
the town itself.
Sovero Japanesa Losies
Japanese retreated towards Singang. the year shows an increase of 1.8 Kingdom in the second quarter of Attack Repulsed
per cent over the March quarter and of 9.0 per cent, over the June YUNGYUN, Kwangtung, Aug, 17 quarter of 1939. The Junc quarter Index of 133.4 per cent, of the quar- Sheklung attacked Namshe on the terly average of 1930 was substandal- SIAN, Aug. 17 (Central)-A mill-Canton-Kowloon Railway, 45. miles ly the same as for the. June quarter Sulyuan has been in progress during tary despatch received here reveals east of Canton and five and half miles at 1037 which has been exceeded the last few days.
that Chongtaikwan, about 14 miles from Sheklung, on Sunday. It only by the December quarter of The Chinese, who have been rein- forced, have inflicted considerable been recovered by Chinese forces but was finally repulsed.
north of Sinyang in south Honan, has heavily shelled the Chinese positions that year when the index stood at
136.4.
WUYUAN, Suiyuan, Aug. 17 (Cen- The cause of the shooting is tral).-A serious clash between unknown. Chinese and Japanese forces in the Changtaikwan Recovered (Central)A Japanese unit from
vicinity of Protow and Tashuwan in
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