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LUNGHAI FIGHTING

AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

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NOTED CZECH

MINISTER

KILLED

Prague, To-day.

The deputy Foreign Minister, M. Bohdan Pavlu, lost his life in a motoring accident near the village of Bosnish-Novi in Yugo-Slavia, yesterday evening, according press reports here.

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The Minister, who was himself driving, lost control of the car which plunged into the river.

The Minister's wife smashed the closed windows of the car and suc- ceeded in reaching the bank of the river but the Minister himself and two other occupants of the car were drowned.

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Air Raids Fail

To Block The

Railway

Shanghai, To-day.

PROMINENT BRITON UNDER DETENTION

Shanghai, To-day.

A prominent Shanghai Briton, late last night the south-west Shantung and north-west Anhwei fronts had flared up into Mr. E. S. Wilkinson, was arrested some of the most desperate fighting for weeks, and detained this morning by Jap- and early this morning the struggle was still

raging unabated. "Very fierce" was the des- anese sentries in the Hungjao area cription given by the Japanese spokesman this on a charge of jumping over a bar- bed wire-barricade into the Japan- morning.

The spokesman stated that practically the entire ese area.

with Thomson and Company.

According to the Japanese

naval air force in China was in action yester- Mr. Wilkinson, who is a York- day, raids being carried out in Shantung, Anh-shireman from Darlington, is wei and in the Yangtse Valley, where the Jap. chartered accountant connected anese are meeting with considerable opposi tion from guerilla bands on the opposite bank of the river from Wuhu. The Lunghai Railway, Kwer- M. Pavlu was until recently-teh, Hsuchowfu, Taierchwang Czecho-Slovakian Minister in Mos-and Chinese troops who had eva- cow.--Trans-Ocean.

Madame Pavlu suffered a frac- ture of the left arm and internal injuries.

HUNGARIAN CABINET CRISIS CRISIS

Budapest, To-day.

Resignation of the whole Cabinet

cunted

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spokesman, the place where Mr.

Wilkinson jumped over is the same spot where a Chinese jumped over a few days ago. and was shot.

Mr. Wilkinson is a keen naturalist The outward Imperial Airways Yuncheng, were

liner is a day late and will not and was on a bird hunting expedi- harassed from the air.

until to- tion at the time of the incident.

Negotiations are proceeding be British The spokesman admitted, how-arrive in the Colony ever, that repeated raids on the morrow. The plane will leave on Lunghai line had failed to dis-Monday at the normal time, how-tween the Japanese and

authorities for his release.--Reuter. rupt the flow of men and muni-

tions along the railway.

Luchowfu, in the Yangtse Val-

appears imminent in consequence ley, where Chinese irregulars are have established| of a crisis resulting from the atti- believed to tude of the Defence Minister, their main base of operations, was General Roeder, and the Minister, heavily bombed last night.-Our!

Own Correspondent. of Interior, Joseph Szell.

It is expected in well-informed circles that Premier Daranyi will decline to assume the task of for- ming a new Ministry, and that the Regent, Admiral. Horthy, will in this case charge the President of the National Bank, Bela de Imredy, with constitution of a Cabinet. Trans-Ocean.

FIRST REFUGEES FROM AMOY IN HONG KONG

WEATHER FORECAST The first batch of refugees

from Amoy arrived in the Colony The Royal Observatory reports this morning, following the land- that feeble anticyclonic areas are ing of Japanese forces on the situated over South China, the Sea Amoy Island on Tuesday of Japan, and, the Pacific to the east of the Bonins, where pressure is highest.

Depressions are situated over Mongolia and, in the Pacific to the north east of Hokkaido..

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The depression of the Philippines situated about 300 miles east of N, Luzon, moving E. N. E.

Eight hundred and seventy Chinese refugees, disembarked from the sis Fung King when anchored off West Point, another 630 having been disembarked at Swatowndon pr

Some of the refugees are to be taken care of temporarily by the Local forecastE. and S. E. Tung Wah Hospital, while others

will stay with relatives. winds, moderate; fair,

ever.

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