1939-09-16 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939.

NAZI SHOCK COLUMNS PERSIST IN LARGE-SCALE ENCIRCLEMENT STRATEGY

London, To-day. SHOOTING

THE GERMAN FORCES in Poland are trying to drive

around Warsaw in a great circle and yesterday INCIDENT they claimed successes for both ends of the pin- cer movement.

The northern section is said to have reached Brest- Litovsk, 100 miles east of Warsaw. The Ger- mans say that the forts have been blown up and the Poles are still holding out in the citadel. Motorised columns which have reached the city,

the report be true, were those which forced their way past the Polish lines on the Nareb and Bug

rivers.

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The bottom half of the pincer- movement is driving in a north-eas- terly direction, circling Warsaw the south. Yesterday, the Germans the road claimed to have crossed between Lublin and Lvov, which, if true, means that they have crossed the Vistula and are due south-east of Warsaw.

The Poles admit heavy fighting near Lublin. The west and south are still in Polish hands.

DEFENCE OF WARSAW

FATHER AND GIRL SHOT DEAD ON FARM

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Father and daughter were shot dead in a sensational murder on an isolat- ed Welsh farm recently.

IN KOWLOON

Considerable excitement

Road, in the vicinity of

STEAMSHIP FARES INCREASED

London, To-day.

Owing to additional expense, due to war risk insurance and other factors, passenger fares on eastern routes, including to and from India, Australia, New Zen- land and South African routes, have been increased 33-1/3 .por cent. Reuter..

was caused in Prince Edward PAINTER Grampian Road, early this BOYCOTTS morning, when a detective opened fire on an alleged HIS

ged HIS OWN iron-bar thief who was re- ported to have hit the detec- PICTURES

tive on the head with a brick.

Mr. A. J. Munnings, R.A.,. famous for his pictures of race-horses, refused to

According to an eye-witness account of the incident, the detective accosted iron two men who were removing bars from a nearby building, where-be present as guest of honour at the opening of an exhibition of his work upon one of the men picked up brick which he threw at the detec-at Bury St. Edmunds, because he con- siders the collection in no way repre- tive.

sentative of his work.

The detective drew his revolver and shot his assallant through the left calf.

him.

ONE ESCAPES

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The Mayor of Bury St. Edmunds, Mr. H. 1. Jarman, accompanied by his wife, opened the exhibition, in spite óf Mr. Munnings's protest,

Mr. Jarman considers the exhibition Despite his injuries, the injured to be a "splendid show equal to any- man succeeded in making a fair turn thing in London," but Mr. Munnings Police were scouring the mountain- of speed in his efforts to evade ar- said he thought it "disgraceful." He The Poles in the western part of

side round the little village of Llanty-rest but was caught eventually by even doubted whether one of the pic- the battle-zone are said by the Ger-silio, near Llangollen, for a man who another police officer who intercepted tures was his work. mans to be desperately trying to get they think may be able to help them out to the south-east. It is a very in their investigations into the crime.

Maurice The victims were strong Polish force but according to the Germans their efforts have failed.

lands, a farmer, and his 30-year-old On the other hand, a Belgian cor-daughter, Sarah Winifred. respondent in Warsaw says that some part of this force has forced its way through to the capital. They feted by the population

then took up their posts for the defence of

Warsaw.

and

were

The Dame correspondent says that no street in Warsaw is with- out its ruins. Many six-storey buildings have collapsed as a sult of air-raids.

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LVOV HOLDS OUT Another German line is advancing its towards south-eastern Poland,

of Lvov, objective being the town The Germans have attacked this town

and units

air- with mechanized craft but the Poles have so far beaten off all attacks.

South of Lvov, Gorman chanized units are trying to through to the Polish-Rumanian to have border. They claim already entered the Important oll- field in Polish Galicia south-east of Lvow-Router.

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NINGHSIA RAIDED

Lanchow, To-day. Ninghsia, capital of Ninghsia, was raided by 28 Japanese planes yester- day.

More than 40 missiles were drop- ped, inflicting over 30 civilian casual- tles and wrecking some 100 houses.

The raiders later turned south pre- sumably to attack Lanchow, but fail- ed to arrive.-Central News.

WIDE AREA IN KWANGSI BOMBED

Kwellin, To-day. Some 34 Japanese aircraft bombed

POLICE SEARCH

Row-

The Rowlands family were standing'] in their farmyard when they saw a man shooting two dogs. Mr. Row- lands asked him what he was doing. Immediately a shot rang out and Mr. Rowland's fell dead.

His daughter, Sarah Winifred, who was standing nearby, became hysteri- cal. Then another shot rang out and she fell fatally wounded.

bodies of

Mrs. Rowlands, who went in search of assistance, had to travel along the got to some mountainside until she farm labourers.

These went to a nearby village and notified the police. On reaching the farmstead they found the Mr. Rowlands and his daughter.

Police reinforcements were rushed to the scene, and they began an inten- sive man-hunt of the woodlands and the mountainside. They found no trace of the man, however, who was still armed when seen leaving farm.

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The injured man was removed to hospital but his companion succeeded in making good his escape.

INDIAN CONGRESS ATTITUDE

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LOAN COLLECTION

Some 46 pictures, borrowed various people, including Mr. Anthony Rothschild, Sir Raymond Greene,, and Lady Gurney, were hung by the Cura- tor, Mr. Frank. Leney, assisted by a committee.

"When the idea. of the Bury show was first mooted by Mr. Leney I tried to dissuade him from holding it, but finding him determined to carry it out, I agreed to help," said Mr. Munnings. "With borrowed works and some of my latest efforts, I had selected and begun to hang, on Saturday, a show which I thought representative of my work. has

Wardha, To-day. Deferring the final decision on their the war, the Con- attitude towards gress Party working committee invited the British Government to de- clare its war aims in regard to Democracy and Imperialism.-Reuter,

BAHAMAS VOLUNTEER

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"Returning on Monday I found that nearly all had been taken down and replaced by the present jumble of bad frames, shockingly hung, and looking out of place.

ROOM LOCKED

"My protests, with those of others in the town, were useless.

"The Mayor and the Curator were, adamant. The room was locked and

the key taken away. London, To-day. "I will not go near the exhibition, Although five-sixths of the popula- and as for attending the opening I The farm is situated on an isolated

be there hillside in the famous Vale of Llan- tion of the Bahamas is not of Euro- could not trust myself to gollen, about three miles from Llan-pean descent, many are eager to en-without shouting out my protest. We

list and fight for Britain.

are prone to forget our worst perform- gollen itself.

One of the most fervent messages of ances and remember only the best, but A gamekeeper named Hall had been staying on the farm for some time. loyalty yet to be received by His I am not allowed to forget, and having The police are searching for him in, Majesty the King was received from blushed once at my young efforts I the belief that he may be able to the Bahamas yesterday.-Reuter.

throw some light on the tragedy.

Hall was employed on the estate of Major Tottenham, at Plas Llangollen.

Gerwin,

SOVIET TEA PARTY IN CHUNG KING

Chungking, To-day. ' The Sino-Soviet Cultural Associa

tion gavė a réception. yesterday to welcome M. Panaouchikine,; the new Soviet Ambassador to China.

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Over 300 prominent Chinese and were also Invited. Soviet loaders. » Among them were General Feng Yu-

THANKS TO CHIEF RABBI

London, “To-day.

His Majesty the King has sent a message of his gratitude to the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, who recently conveyed the hopes of Palestine Jewry for Britain's victory over Nazl Germany-Reuter.

S.M.C. DISCUSS ROAD QUESTION

"Chungking, To-day.

have now to blush again.”

Mr. Jarman replied that the exhibi- tion was intended to give an account of Mr. Munnings's remarkable deve- Ionment. It had been décided to dis- play Mr. Munnings's works because they were all proud of him as a local artist. He was born in Mendham, Suffolk, in 1878:

"The pictures which Mr. Munnings brought were modern works," said Mr. Tarman, "but we wanted his early pictures to make a show. I expected Mr. Munnings to see me on Sunday, and waited at the exhibition-room for three hours, but he did not come

"He came on Monday and wanted the whole of the exhibition scrapped. None of the old things was to be on view.

"As a compromise we offered to An informal discussion on the have the new stuff in the centre of the a wide area in Kwangsi province, in- cluding Fingslang, near the French Hsiang, Vice-Chairman of the Na-extra-Settlement road issue took place room, but unless we could scrap. the Indo-China border, Lungchow, Wuh- tional Military Council, Dr. Wong between Mr. G. G. Phillips, of the suen, Pingyang and Ishan.

Wen-hao, Minister of Economics, and Shanghai Municipal Council, and the Lamgchow, which was raided twice the manager of the Tau News Japanese authorities yesterday. Cen-

tral News. suffered most heavily-Central News. Agency-Central News,

early works he would have nothing to do with it. I am sure our exhibition. which will be open for six weeks, will be a great success,"