Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 13, 1940.
NANCY
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HEH, HEH MR. JOLLYBEAN HAS GONE ON A LONG BUSINESS TRIP. NOW YOU'RE IN FOR IT WITH
THAT CRANKY WIFE OF HIS!
I'M THE CENSUS TAKER MA'M -- HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE
HERE?
WELL--MY HUSBAND AND I --- NINE: SERVANTS AND A BOY --- THAT'S
TWELVE
By Ernie Bushmiller
MAKE IT ELEVEN, MISTER----I
USED TO
LIVE HERE!
Jel. 28151.
THEY'RE COOL
Two Women And A Boy Die From City Building JAPANESE SUFFER
Terrible Chopper Wounds
WHITSUN TRAGEDY
AT WEST POINT
Ablaze
Occupants Escape To Safety
Fire pulted a three-storeyed build- ing in Hiller Street; city district, carly this morning, but so far as is known, there were no casualties. THREE PEOPLE, two women and a boy, are dead The premises affected were No. 5 its rear of the building. It rapidly as a result of terrible chopper wounds, alleged inflicteder Street, and the blaze broke out as a result of an attack upon them in a house at Hei Wo..great to the upper floors, causing the
yoof collapse. Terrace, West Point, last night.
The Police believe that the tragedy was the outcome of
a domestic quarrel.
When the Police arrived onl the scene they found 85-year-old
FAFAL FALL
Overbalancing when drying clother)
hanc, No. 4 Pak Tal Street, yester
Au Sze, and Chiu Yik-wah, over : verandah balustrade of her 11-year-old boy, deal, with their heads and bodies horribly mati-day. lated with chopper wounds, Iwoman, suffered spynfe injuries from which shathed in the Kowloon 11s-
Dies In Hospital
They also discovered nunther wo- matt, Lam Hin-kwal, aged 32. suffer- ing from severe, lujuries to the hea1 She was still alive, but he died early this morning at thi Queen Mary Hospital,
Tung Ying-keung, married
The alarm was raised in time, and all the secupants were able to make their escape to safety. The přemes were used as a shop and dwelling. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Fell Over Cliff: Man Dies
MAJOR DISASTER
THE JAPANESE drive on Siangyang, from Hupch and Honan which gained some initial success early in the month has turned into one of the major disasters of the Sino-Japanese war, says a "Central News" message from Fancheng.
As a result of this dehacle, the Japanese ambition to clear Chinese field forces in north Hupch and south Henan, and to extend their control to the upper reaches of the Han River has
been definitely shattered.
Sheet Of Flame
Burns Stoker
A Chinese military.communi- ¡que released late last night re- Ivealed that Japanese losses were even heavier than were estimat- ed in earlier reports.
While starting a fire in a boner on board the steam launch Ah Bo 20,000 Troops Wiped Out
n, the barlour yesterday, Chan Fo,! An authentic checking-up shows 30. stoker, was burned in the face, that on Saturday and Sunday some cek and hands when a sudden sheet 20,000 Japanese, comprising about 60 at tame shot out and caught him.'weattered units along their extenles Au unknown Chinese, aged about He was treated in the Queen Mary, Hines, were rounded up and wiped sui in a sweeping" counter-drive by the 34, was found near the Taipo Police spital.
Alse admitted to hospitul, suffer- Chinese on all sectors, Kwan Lai-chum, a 3-year-old Station. New Territories, yesterday.
It is also claimed that one of the Woman ke beng detained in the Ab-¡The man had ruparently fallen over from burns, was Choi Yu-kan, a
She suffered her injuries greatest hauls of the war was seized. the Queen Maryja cliff, and had suffered head In-woman. servation ward of
to Kowloon hit: cooking her evening meat in This haul, it is stated, consists of 64 armoured trucks, 333 inotor cars, 52 Hospital, suffering from à wound to Jarles. He was sent her It hand.
Hospital, where he died this morning.er home in Bay View,
guns, over 2,000 war horse, a countless number of rules and a large quantity of ammunition.
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Field despatches froi Tinoyan Tungpel. Tangho, Sins
Sinych and other Centres of operation report thai
hundreds
dead and wounded
| Japanese soldiers were picked up by the Chinese. West, of Sinyang, the base of Japanese operations, 4,800 Japanese were surrounded at Miyang and "practically wiped out."
Chinese Onslaughts
Chinese advance troops are report- ed to have reached points only a few miles from the outskirts of Sinyang. The Japanese
ments from Yinging reinforce- Repeated Chinese attacks have re- sulted in the recapture of a number of strategic points around Suthalen, In north Hupeh. These points in- elude Chunchwan, Anchu, Huanton and Maping.
off,
It is stated that with their rear eat
the Japanese forces operating in north Hupeh have been experiencing extreme difficulty in obtaining their supplies and have resorted to the use of planes. However, the supplies dropped from these planes have mostly been captured by the Chinese.
Japanese Losses
SPECIAL. TO THE "TELEGRAPH' CHUNGKING, May 12 (UP),~~~~The Sighting in Central China has deve- loped into one of the biggest Chinese victories of the war as an additionul 20,000 Japanese casualties were, re- ported from the Miyang, Tsaoyang, Chunghsiang and Suihsien sectors between yesterday noon and up 10 late this afternoon.
Adding these to the previous 30,000 Japanese casualties which have al- ready been reported, the invaders have suffered the loss of 50,000 men, or one third of the Japanese troops
operating in that aren.
The report said that the Japanese defences everywhere have crumbled, due partly to the vigorous Chinese at- tacks and partly to the fast dwindling ammunition und supplies. A big effort is now being made to send up supplies to the front.
Brutal Nazi Methods
Helpless Civilians Machine-Gunned
LONDON, May 12 (Router). -German airmen appear to be carrying out a campaign of frightfulness at the expense of the Belgian civilians, saya "Reu- ter'a" special correspondent with the B.E.F. in Belgium.
"Two examples of this were given. me to-day," he says, "by an eye- witness who can be regarded as un- Impeachable source. In the Arsi cone several German aircraft Dew Just over the housetops of a large Belgian town and went up and down over one of the principal streets Aring machine-guss,
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Fatal Tram Accident
Harbour Rescue
22-year-old woman, Young Chuen, was rescued from the har- bour by Fan Kam, seaman of the ferry launch Man Ching, after she Numerous traße accidenta were re- had jumped overboard from the ported yesterday from different dis- ferry launch Man Hing off the Kow- tricts of the Colony, Including one loon City Fler yesterday. She wan Attacked In Motor Cars
which ended fatally...
taken to hospital, suffering from the "The accond case happened on 1
An unknown Chinese, travelling effects of immersion. country road where three private on a trumcar alighted from the third motor cars, obviously not militorscinas compartment while the car was the Queen Mary Hospital with injuries. vehicles, were travelling. The car will in moilon in King's Food near to his right temple. were filled with refugees including the Cathay Hotel, and fell.
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women and children. Two German suffered severe injuries to, the head, A woman, Lam Yuk-chi, 49, was warplanes dived down and dropped and was sent 10 Die Queen Mary knocked down by a lorry driven by bomb which uprooted a tree, which Hospital, but found to Bo
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dead Lai Sau-ho, In Poktulum Rondi, crashed across the road.
She ran across the rond with a- Joach "The cars were forced to pull t
upon arrival.
A 12-year-old boy, Io Fong,, who of wood on her shoulders, when sho and the German planes dived down tried to steal a ride on a tramcar. In was struck. She was ndmilited to the and riddled the cars with machine- Des Voeux Road West, misced his Queen Mary Hospital with sacloum Hun bullets,"
footing and fell. He was admitted to l injuries.