1938-07-05 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 6, 1938.

CHINESE

ON THE

Page

IN PENANG

THE RAMPAGE

Soya Bean Cargo Causes Day Of Disturbances

HANKOW TO BE DEFENDED AT ANY COST

Hankow, To-day.

"The entire Chinese Nation from Chiang Kai-shek to the man in the street will defend Hankow at any cost," declared the Chinese spokes- man yesterday afternoon.

He said further that the

Patriotic FRENCH Demonstrations

Penang, To-day.

OCCUPATION OF PARACELS

shops, amusement parks and cabarets were -closed yesterday to prevent looting following day long disturbances which followed the arri-cupation of the Paracels Islands, val of a consignment of soya beans, alleged to be Japanese, received by a local Chinese mer- chant.

Chinese Military authorities had While the beans were being transported from a godown yesterday, a party of Chinese ripped open some of the bags, scattering beans all over the road.

concentrated the pick of Chinese forces to defend Hankow and had mobilized the Chinese Air Force to bomb Japanese warsnips and troop concentrations along In the Yangtse. They had con- being conveyed to the Headquar- structed. fortifications and booms ters of the Chinese Relief Fund]

points along

the afternoon, the beans

Yangtse; below Hankow, and had posing to auchiere they were pro- POSSIBILITY

auction off on tentralized the control of land half of the Fund and river communications.

Objecting to this procedure, The spokesman said that in the the crowd broke into the build- forthcoming battle for Hankow, ing, smashing the windows, and the Chinese would inflict heavy eventually the beans were trans- losses on the main strength of the ported in lorries through the Japanese forces and the operations straets and dumped into the sea would mark the beginning of amid cheers from assembled China's decisive battle with the mob, after which the troublel Japanese.

subsided. — Reuter.

AIR BATTLE-

In a furious aerial battle which took place over Nanchang yeater-

day afternoon when over 50 Japan- SOYA BEAN DUTY

ese planes rained several hundred bombs on two Chinese air fields in an effort to destroy Chinese air- craft there, according to Chinese reports. Chinese" pursuit planet went up to engage the raid- ers and simultaneously Chinese bombers took off for the Yangtse to bomb Japanese warships and troop concentrations,

IN

ENGLAND

London, To-day, Owing to the rise in the average price of imported soya beans, the Treasury has ordered a further in- crease as from July.6.

The drawback in respect to the and rates is that the soya beans are used "The results of the battle bombing operations along the for the manufacture of soya-bean oil Yangtse are as yet not available.and flour.-Reuter. Reuter.

JAPANESE TRYING TO REMOVE- BOOM

HANKOW, TO-DAY,

THE JAPANESE YANGTSE FLEET WHICH IS PROGRESSING SLOWLY UP THE RIVER ARRIV- ED AT A POINT 60 KILO METRES EAST OF KIUKIANG AND SHELLED THE CHINESE POSITIONS AT THIS LOCATION.

.so.

Japanese motorboats have succeed- ed in passing through the Matang Boom which is being removed with the greatest possible rapidity that larger ships may pass. While the Japanese are engaged in streng thening their positions along the south bank of the Yangtse under the protection of batteries from

their ships Chinese succeeded

in forcing

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Japanese troops on the north bank of the river back as town of Tsienshan where

were quartered.

erves

Trans-Ocean.

Mr. G. T. Padgett, of the Hong Kong Electric Co., has reported the loss of a quantity of tools from a sub-station in Kennedy Roadber tween Saturday and Monday.

OF FRESH

INCIDENTS

*

Shanghai, To-day.

The possibility of fresh incidents between Japanese troops and for eigners in the International Settle- ment is foreseen by foreign ob- servers with the arrival here of a Japanese Division straight from Japan to supplement the Japanese drive up the Yangtse.

Paris, To-day. The reports of the French oc- south of the island of Hainan, which arrived here yesterday via Tokyo and London, are not denied by the French Foreign Ministry.

It is declared that the Para-. Arinamese Kingdom at the be cels were in possession of the ginning of the 19th century and for this reason must be regarded as part of Indo-China.

The Government of Indo- China; it is further stated, has placed lighthouses and beacons on this island for the guidance - of ships and detachments of An- namese police troops have been sent to the island to guard these constructions as well as the Me- teorological station also located there.

A London report to 'Intran- sigeant" declares that the French Government informed the British Government of the occupation of the island.-Trans-Ocean.

Summoned before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Police Court this morning, Mr. G. B. Beer, of Kumaon Rifle Mess, Cameron

Road, was fined $6 for allowing his dog in Granville Road on April 11 without a licence..

This division is raw and com- of further incidenta. pletely fresh to the complicated The new division has already- and delicate situation in Shang-begun arriving from Tokyo and hai as compared to the troops will be conveyed up the Yangtse already here, whose behaviour within three days or so after recently has taken a turn for the setting foot

in Shanghai. better, as evidenced in the lack Reuter.

One place at least In Britain has a true Air Raids Precaution scheme,

Cuxton, near

has:

han

Jag found means of providing shelter for its entire population of 300. A yolunteer labour

avening until nightfall;: has dug 20 feet into a hill side and built - huge cost £4, and the total cost shou'd not exceed £20. Photo shows Village: barrows, laden with chalk, from one of the entrances to the village air-raida shelt