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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1938

HANKOW TO BECOME THE MADRID OF FAR EAST

Chinese Leaders Confident Of Long Resistance Railways In North MAX SCHMELING LORD WINTERTON

China Disrupted By Guerillas

Shanghai, To-day.

IN SPLINTS

New York, To-day.

It is reported that Max Schmel- ing will sail for Germany on July two 2. Owing to an injury of small bones of spine necessitating the use of splint bandages which he will have to wear for 8 weeks, he will be taken to the steamer on

a stretcher.

TO AID HOME SECRETARY

London, To-day.

The Prime Minister announeed

in Commons, that in view of volume and importance of the work of the Home Office in connection with air raid precautions, the Earl of Win- Lancaster, has agreed to help the terton, Chancellor, of the Duchy of other According to Dr. Brennan, the Home Secretary with the

The capture of eight important cities in central and southeastern Shantung by Chinese guerillas is claimed in Chinese dispatches, including Taian, on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, and Lingyi, the pon his arrival in Germany, scene of severe fighting in April, just before the capture of Hsuchowfu. Activities of the guerillas, it is said, has completely disrupted traffic on the Tientsin-Pukow and other railways in north China.

The Chinese also claim the re- capture of Chungkou and Yushih, southeastward of Chengchow, following simultaneous attacks launched by the Chinese troops while wading through the Yellow

Reuter. River flood waters.

Loyang, To-day. With its strong defence lines, the Wuhan area may be defend- ed as Madrid has been defended by the Spanish loyalists, pre- dicted a Chinese military spokes- man in an interview with a Cen- tral News correspondent.

The Japanese Command; the spokesman revealed, has concen- trated the best fighting units in north Anhwei, where they are at- tempting to drive westward to envelop the Wuhan cities.

the

Though operations along Lunghai Railway have been halted by the great flood. they have not yet abandoned their design of cut- ing the Peiping-Hankow Railway and driving southward to the Wuhan cities.

menace

TRANSFERS TO SHANSI

Hankow, To-day. Ten thousand Japanese troops have been transferred into Shansi during the past few days, according to a Chin- ese military communique, which adds: "These troops have been withdrawn from the Peiping-Hankow and Lunghai Railways for employment in west Shansi."

The communique adds that the Japanese at Houma have, been reinforced by some two thousand troops and those at Chuwu are still besieged by the Chinese.-Reuter.

ITALIAN NAVAL

MALTA VISIT TO

Schmeling will undergo further

treatment.

surgeon who examined the German work of his department, both at boxer, Schmeling has suffered the the Home Office and in the House, fracture of two bones which con- thus enabling the Under Secretary, nect the spine below the kidney Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, to devote prac- with the lumbar muscles. The tically the whole of his time to as- treatment of a fracture of this kind sisting the Home Secretary in con- is a complicated matter and will ducting A.R.P. business.—British require a good deal of nursing. Wireless. Schmeling's general condition, how- lever, gives no cause for anxiety.

Reports appearing in the Amer- ican newspapers to the effect that Schmeling has been paralysed by the injury to the spine are incor- rect.--Trans-Ocean.

VICTIMS ARE BORN

NEW ADVISER SENT TO AMERICA

London, To-day.

Mr. G. G. Fitzinaurice, Third Legal Adviser in the Foreign Office has been attached to the United King-

Newest pronouncement in cancer of Dr. research is the opinion George S. Foster, of the Lucy Hast-dom Trade Delegation to the Unit

ed States, in an advisory capacity, ings Hospital, who affirms that can-.

cer is a condition present in the and sailed for Washington yester body at birth, some have it, others day-British Wireless.

now

BRITISH GUIANA TROUBLES

ît. After twenty are free from years' investigation of the disease, Dr. Foster says cancer is not some- thing that is contracted. Under the right circumstances it will develop London, To-day. in the body which has carried the

the to a question in

germ since birth.

machines, In reply

-Million-volt_X-ray

Georgetown, To-day. Commons regarding- the-visit-of the Italian 1st Squadron to Malta, radium and similar weapons

Fresh labour trouble has occurred; the Under Secretary for Foreign used in the fight against the scourge Affairs said in April 1937; the Com-are doomed to obsolesence in a few on the uugar plantations outside mander-in Chief, Mediterranean, years, according to research worker the capital where the workers are The spokesman confirmed reports that the bulk of Japanese troops Paid an official visit to Spezia. This Foster. Education of men and wo-on strike. The telephone line from

visit was now being returned by men to seek early treatment is the a town nearby has along the Lunghai Railway and in

the Commander-in-Chief of the Ita-most important force in the current doctor. One east Honan has been transferred to

is the big development forecast use of serological tests to ascertain |if an individual is a potential can-

cer victim.

Anhwei, whilst others have crossed lian 1st Squadron.-British Wire-technique, avers the

less.

the Yellow River to reinforce troops in north Honan and Shansi.-Central News.

the

south

JAPANESE ADVANCE

STEMMED

Tsienchuen, To-day.

ALLEGED THREATS

Sums up the doctor, in the light Appearing before Mr. W. J. of his life-long research, "If you're Lockhart Smith at the Central going to have cancer you've got it Magistracy this morning, Li Chiu, now."

The advance of the Japanese 26, Fung Lam, 32, both shop fokis, south-and Ng Kwong, 45, unemployed, column from Tsienshan in west Anhwei has been stemmed by were charged with threatening So the Chinese after furious fighting Pat, 21, waitress, to induce her to in the outskirts of Taihu near the become a member of a certain so-

ciety for her protection. Anhwei-Hupeh border.

The case was adjourned to June Taohua-29 at 2.30 p.m.

The main force of the Japanese troops at Tsienshan and

chen (City of Peach Flowers) has béen withdrawn to Tungcheng. Central News.

WARSHIP AT MATANG REPULSED

EMPRESS THEFT

Reuter.

been cut.-

DEPRESSED?

No matter what the reason for your low spirits

of

t

try

to-

what a little dose Pinkettes, to- night, will do! Al- most surely morrow you will feel brightes, more cheerful, and more ready to face the

Arrested with ship's cutlery in worries. and trials his possession on leaving the of the day.

yes- Empress of Canada's pantry

PINKETTES was sen-" terday, Lau Cheuk-yan

are tiny laxative kenced to two months' hard labour pills. As gently as

tract, boarding, at Kowloon this morning. the intestinal

congestion therein being a common For sounding his horn unneces- cause of depression. The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is highest over the sarily near the Hong Kong Hotel Pinkettes tone up It at 3.17 p.m. on June 13, Li Lin, a the liver and other digestive. organs, East Indies and the Carolines.

and keep you re- Nanking, To-day, is low over China generally and de-public driver, was fined $5 by Mr. Several Japanese warships which pressions are situated over the H. R. Butters at the Central Ma-gular in the daily habit. Obtainable at steamed to Matang on the Anhwel-Eastern Sea and to the east of the gistracy this morning. Kiangsi border yesterday were forc-. Balintang Channel, the latter pro- ed to retire by the intensive fire of bably moving slowly north-west- the Chinese land batteries, accord- ward. ing to a telephone message from Forecast:-S. and S. W. winds, Kiukiang.-Central News.

moderate; fair to showery.

FAIR TO SHOWERY for theft and 14 days for unlawful nature they cleanse

The P. and O. s.s. "Rajputana" left Shanghai on the 21st instant and was due here this morning at

6.a.m.

all chemists they banish biliousness sick headache, help to ward off col relleve piles, in short, they keep

CHEERY AND