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HEAVY FIGHTING FOR LOSHAN: SINYANG THREAT Gunfire Now Audible In The Railway City

Loshan Garrison

Reported Still Holding Out

Hankow, To-day. · Fierce infantry attacks, supported and covered by artillery and aerial bombardments are being launched by the Japanese at Loshan, and it is admitted that the Japanese are close to the city walls, which have mostly been totally demolish- ed by Japanese shellfire.

Around Tienchiachen, furious hand-to-hand fight- ing was reported yesterday, the Chinese re- gaining several important hills and points in the region.

Chinese official messages Sinyang state that gunfire was audi- ble in the city coming from

from

the

east, and it is believed that

the

Japanese have managed to penetrate the Chinese lines at Loshan Kwangchow and

and

have advanced

in

task

be-

westwards leaving the troops the rear entrusted with the of occupying Loshan.

SILENT BRIDE IS WON BY A SIGN

Chinese reinforcements are

Gordon pointed to the ringless ing rushed from Sinyang: to-streng- then the Chinese defences east of third finger of Gladys's left hand. the town and stem the Japanese Gladys blushed, smiled and nodded westward drive to the Peiping- her head. Hankow Line.

The deaf and dumb courting was No progress is reported south of lover. Gladys had agreed to be his the Yangtse but violent attacks and bride. counterattacks are being carried

And Gordon Shrimpton

14 The R.A.F. are co-operating with the 66th Anti-Aircraft Brigade, R.A. (T.A.) who are in camp at Burrow Head, Wigtownshire, Scot- land. Photo shows The sleeve target about to be dropped by the towing plane after practice by the A.A. gun crews. (Copyright),

ENGLISH BUT

FORGETS HOW

TO SPEAK IT

ร

HITLER “MEIN KAMPE"

German Sales 4,000,000

According to figures issued by When Mr. Donald G. Kennedy, the Central Publishing. Company for fifteen years the administrative of the Nazi party 4,000,000 copies officer of the Ellice Islands, British of Herr Hitler's book, "Mein

Pacific, returns periodically to many. owned group of coral islands in the Kampf," have been sold in Ger- civilisation, he has almost forgotten how to speak English.

The reason he is the only white man among about 4.300 natives, for and

whose care he is responsible. born Now

on his

way to Oxford out by both the Chinese and the Gladys Gadd; both of them

anthropology Japanese, forces.—Our Own Corres-deaf and dumb, will be married at University to study

St. John's Church, Dulwich, by the for # year, Mr. Kennedy told. Rev. F. H. Sutcliffe, who will con-Reuter's correspondent at Sydney, duct the service in the language of N.S.W.: signs.

pondent.

S.P.C. DRIVE

the

"It is a little bewildering to be PROPOSED IN TRAIN

among so many white people again. I find that I talk English with dif Gladys, dimple cheeked and blue-ficulty-especially small talk. It eyed, is twenty-four and a dress generally takes me about six weeks maker. Gordon, a year or two to become perfectly fluent again. older, is a tailor who lives Oglander-road, Peckham.“

At the last meeting of Women's Auxiliary further arrange ments were made for the Bridge and Mahjong Drive which is to be the held, under

distinguished patronage of H. E. the Governor and Lady Northcote, at the Penin- sula Hotel on Friday, October 21st. Both Auction and Contract Bridge will be played and Mahjong accord-training. ing to both Chinese and American

in

L

Although the work was published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926 respectively, it was only after Herr | Hitler came to power that it be

came a record best-seller. Up to the beginning of 1939 no more than 200,000 copies had been sold.

Some 800,000 copies of the one- volume edition, costing about 138. are now sold every year. In more than 20,000 parishes, a specially bound copy is given to every newly married couple. The work is firmly established as the bible of Nazi Germany.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

"The 4,300 natives under my cares

islands. He has almost regained normal are scattered over nine speech by years of exercise and There is a mail three times a year. When a ship calls I have a chance

"We met in the

HONG

KONG

ST. ANDREW'S

Rules. Many prizes have been pro and Dumb Schon Kent Deaf to talk with the captain and mate SOCIENZ

when we were

a

"Once a year a sloop calls from New Zealand. That is a great oc-

me. "Then I didn't see her for years, casion for Also, the Govern occa but at a wedding last August we ment steamer from Fiji calls

sionally. met again.

mised and a miniature jade screen both in our teens," he said to will be raffled in aid of the funds, reporter. Tickets at $1.50 each (which in- cludes tea) can be had from mem- bers of the Committee, from the Península Hotel or from the Hon. See, Mrs. Overell, 132 Argyle Street

(Phone 60448):

20th Century - Fou DARRYL Y. ZANUCE":

Ciuperb produc IN OLD

CHICAGO

TYRONE POWER ICE FA DON AMECHI "and a cost of thousands

COMING SOON.

TO THE

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the above Society will be Held in the Board Room, South China Morning Post, Ltd., on FRIDAY: 80th September, 1998, at 5.45 pm., for the purposes of "The natives hve been trained to receiving the Annual Report and own affairs, under Statement of Accounts for the a day's outing and we got into an took after their

There year ended 31st. August, 1988, and empty compartment. That's when my general supervision."

are native clergymen, magistrates of electing office bearers- I proposed."

and lawyers schoolteachers..

"A few months later we were coming back from Yarmouth affer

LANGUAGE OF LOVE

him if conversation was He laughed. bord

Gladys

wg every

my lips,

igh no sound comes us +33 20

go alk together, dance and normal outings.

we

can both lip-rend, talkies are easi ly understood.

“And besides, you don't have to go to a school to learn the languáge

Gordon has a twin brother, Leslie,

KING'S who is also to be married at the

same time, but in a different church,

HARPE

DISINFECT

Year:

HARPIC

that it all it needs. Harpic cleans thor" oughly whare no brush can ever reach

AGENTS

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., HONGKONG..