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SHELLS IN HEART OF SETTLEMENT Japanese Bombard Doomed Men

Shanghai, Oct. 31.

The "Doomed Battalion" suffered 40 casualties while evacuating the "Alcazar." Many shells landed in the heart of the Settlement during the Japanese bombardment of the doomed men. Three shells hit the North China Daily News" build- ing on the Bund striking a balus- trade on the eighth floor of the cipolar roof and shattering all the windows nearby. Several "Chinese were badly cut. Two members of the foreign staff who were on the roof said they heard the shells

an express train. coming like and ducked hurriedly. A shell struck a house "near the British Consulate while another fell in Nanking Road" which was deserted owing to the curfew. All shells are believed to be three-inchers..

FOOD FOUND

The Japanese naval authorities In a communique say that large quantities of "fresh foods such as milk, bread and other perishable goods were found in the "Doomed Battalion's stronghold after eva- cuation" and add "The Japanese naval authorities cannot repress a

feeling of wonder and displeasure at the presence of these provisions which must been smuggled through the British defence lines."

The communique claims they found approximately 100 bodies in the "Alcazar.”— Reuter.

CONTRIBUTION TO REALISATION

Of Effectice

"

Non-Intervention

London, Oct. 30. Although M. Maisky, the Soviet delegate, rejected paragraph 2 of the draft resolution dealing with granting of belligerent rights, he announced that his Government. accepted paragraphs 3 and 4 of the non-intervention plan.

M. Malsky added that the So- viet was willing to support all measures which "were conducive to establishment of an effective non-. intervention policy, and was there fore willing to accept any decision. of the committee which could be regarded

contribution to realisation of effective non-inter- vention.

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M. Maisky sald granting of bel- ligerent rights had nothing to do with non-intervention, and added that Russia would put" forward fresh proposals at an opportune moment.

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REARMAMENT

Gigantic British Programmie

London, Oct. 30.

- Thirty-two new warships have been completed thus far this year and have already been placed in commission, as part of the gigan- tic British rearmament pro-

gramme,

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They consist of 8 cruisers, 9 des- troyers, 3 submarines, 14 mine- sweepers and many smaller craft.

Next year's building programme will comprise one aircraft-carrier, Ave cruisers. 18 destroyers, 10 sub- marines and 16 smaller craft.

In 1939, according to present plans, the following warships will

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY,

"DOOMED BATTALION"

'NOVEMBER 1, 1937.

TELEVISION GOES AHEAD

THREE HUNDRED MEN REACH SAFETY Programmes Received

Relentless Japanese Barbarity

SHANGHAI, OCT. 31.

PREPARATIONS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED FOR THE EVACUATION OF THE “DOOMED BAT- TALION" UPON WHOM PRESSURE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO BEAR, A SERIOUS SITUATION, HOW- EVER, IS THREATENED BECAUSE THE JAPANESE HAVE POSITIONED TWO MACHINE-GUNS COM- MANDING THE ROAD THROUGH WHICH THE CHINESE MUST PASS AND THEY ARE ALSO PLAYING SEARCHLIGHTS ON THE ROAD.

the two

Japanese Shanghai, October 31 (6.40 a.m.): Running the gauntlet of bullets from machine guns commanding the road over which they had to pass and on which the Japanese search- lights were playing, members of the "Doomed Battallon" in Chapel are now pouring in batches of 30 into the International Settlement. Up to the present three hundred of them have reached safety, A' number of wounded were alded by British troops and then handed over to the Settlement police.- Reuter.

thrilled The selge which

the four days came to a world for dramatic end in the early hours of this morning when the "Doom- ed Battalion, in obedience to the Generalissimo Chiang orders of Kal-shek evacuated their strong hold under à hall of bullets 'from Japanese machine guns.

In order to reach the Settlement safely the men had to cross the 20-yard wide Thibet Road separat- Ing. "Alcazar" from the Bank of China warehouse which is used by a British post

would never have left but we had orders to do so and could not

disobey them.”

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munition, baskets of clothes, bed- ding and other possessions, but the best of all was that they carried 20 wounded comrades along the

An hour before the evacuation was due to start the Japanese | primge of fire, trained two machine guns on the road which they lit up with search | Ughts and during the entire eva- cuation they poured a withering stream of machine-gun fire into the stronghold and along the road,

The men ran the gauntlet of fire in batches of thirty. As they stumbled to the British post, they smilingly shook hands with the The entire battalion, except an British soldiers who warmly con- undetermined number who were gratulated them on their courage. killed, safely negotiated the pass-The Chinese handed over their age of fire for two hours.

LAST TO LEAVE

rifiés and equipment to the British tommles and to the admiration. of the "Doomed Battalion" brought r their weapons along with them-about 400 rides, two light machine-guns, six heavy mLA- chine-guns, many cases. of am-

The last man to leave "Alcazar" { all was the regimental commander Hsieh Chin-yuan who was crying sorrowfully when he told Reuter that "we have lost face. We

**NON-INTERVENTION | GERMAN EXPLORERS

IS A SWINDLE”

Paris, Oct. 30. "Non-intervention is a swindle," was the theme of a proclamation in favour of Republican Spain made to-night in the Paris Cycling Hall by the Popular Front.

A Left Wing Socialist leader and

Communist Senator, M. Cachin, both delivered long and impassioned addresses on Spain.

to

re-

M. Cachin criticised the attitude of the Socialista, whom he called upon to abandon the policy of

and "non-intervention" examine their position regarding the proposal re-open Pyrenees frontier.

Another Left Wing deputy de- clared that the Pyrenees frontier must be opened forthwith.

to

the

His remarks resulted in a re- markable demonstration, the audience shouting "Re-open the frontier" and then singing" the Internationale.-- Transocean.

"BLACK ARROW"?

Salamanca, Oct. 30. General Franco to-day confer- red a number of decorations on Italian volunteers serving with the Nationalist armies.

The ceremony, which took place in Northern Spain, was held in the presence of almost all of General Franco's commanders and high officers of the Italian divi- slons.

Eighteen members of the Ita- be completed: 4 aircraft-carriers, an "Black Arrow" division re

7 cruisers, 24 destroyers 7 sub-celved the Bronze Medal, twelve marines and 11 smaller craft.

others the Silver Medal and the

In 1940, the first two battle-Military Cross, and 40 wounded. ships, King George V and Prince Italians the "Medal for Miltary of Wales, in the new series of Sacrifice." battleships, completion of which will take several years, will be put in commission-

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DEATH SENTENCES

Paris, Oct. 30. Two death sentences, one on a woman, were passed in France yesterday.

One sentence was passed at Doual on Josephine Mory, who murdered her fancee, and the ..other on Lucien Hiolay who had abducted and then murdered a nine-year-old girl- Tranistean.

BRITISH DELEGATION

London, Oct. 29. The Foreign Secretary, at the head. of the British delegation to 'the Brussels Conference, will leave Londen on Monday night, reach- ing Brussels on Tuesday morning. This will enable him to make con- tact with other delegations before the conference opens on Wednes- day British Wireles

Both General Franco and the commandant of the Itailan divi- sions made speeches, in which Italo-Spanish friendship was atressed.- Traniocean.

IN DELHI

Delhi, Oct. 30. Two German explorers,

DI. Herrlich and Dr. Lingens, have arrived here on their way to Tehri, in the Garhwal district of the United Provinces.

There they will study racial characteristics of the various little-known ethnological groups in. the central Himalayan region,

The two explorers expect to have completed their task, which is being undertaken on behalf of the German Council for explora- tion, in about three months- Transocean..

PRICE

REDUCTIONS IN GERMANY

Berlin, Oct. 30. Price reductions in a number of everyday articles are to be instituted on November 15. says an announcement,

All the wounded men were given

·£rst ald-treatment by the British troops after which they were-re-

ambulances moved by

to the British Military Hospital. Those that were not wounded were taken before dawn to the Race Course where they will be placed in a con- centration camp for the duration

of the war

A trench mortar shell fell amongst a group of British soldiers Who

On Liner

London, Oct. 31. Television pictures from Alex- andra Palace, London, were re-

board ceived yesterday, on Cunard White Star Uner Britannic in the English Channel,„

the

The television set had been ir- stalled in one of the shire's state rooms and both morning and after- noon transmissions were received. The afternoon transmission ended when the ship was 30 miles south of Hastings.

The first telephontogram to a ship at sea-a visual message of greeting to the master of the Bri- tannic, the ship's officers, passen- gers and crew-was-received-from the London station.

British Wircles Service.

PLANES SEND PROVISIONS TO

:

TROOPS

Tainan, Oct. 31. -Japanese planes. are actively supplying provisions to detached Japanese troops in various parts parts of north Shantung where communications have been dis- rupted by Chinese mobile unita, from Information

according to military sources.

Chowhalen, and Lincheng on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway in Shan-

tung were putting the Chinese soldiers into lorries but provident- fally it did not explode.

Two shells struck the damaged | Gas Company's building adjoining the gasometer but there were no casualties.-

Heuler

STRIKE THREAT

and the Tsining-Yenchow branch line of the same, railway were bombed yesterday by differ- ent squadrona of Japanese planes. The damage was understood to be slight . Central News.

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SUBMARINES, OUTSIDE

LIENYUN

Tunghal, Oct. 31. Two Japanese submarines ar- rived outside the Lenyum Harbour the Klangsu coast yesterday Farls, Oct. 30.

ncon. but left shortly afterwards. Rumours of a strike by State-intral News. employees, Dwing to the in- creased costs of living and the failure to restore pay cuts, are again appearing in the news- papers.

November 4. says one report, will be declared the day for a strike by state employees unless their demands are complied with and salary adjustments made.

Another report says that while the employees will not come out on strike, they will curtail their working hours in an endeavour to force the Government's händ Transocean.

**ITALIAN YOUTHS OF LICTORS FASCES".

Rome, Oct. 30. The Secretary of the Fascist Party, Signor Achille Starace, has by order of Signor Mussolini,"as- sumed the supreme leadership of at Fascist youth organisations. of

The reductions, which will be made for the purpose of increas- ing the purchasing power workers, will lead to a saving of 100,500,000 marks a year, Transocean.

GERMAN RED CROSS

To Send Supplies To China

The

Berlin, Oct. 30. German Red Cross has I taken, steps to despatch to China as soon as possible large supplies of medicines, sérum, surgical in- struments, material for bandages and similar articles.

The supplies will be placed at the disposal of the Chinese Red Cross.

With over、:7,000,000 members,. the organisations will henceforth form a homogenous whole, to be known as the "Italian Youth of Lictors Fasces."

Their motto will be "Faith, "Struggle, Obedience."

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FRENCH PROTEST

Shanghai, Oct. 30. The French authorities have lodged a protest with the Japanese on the subject of shells which ex- ploded yesterday in the French Concession.

Several shells again exploded

in the

The gifts have been contributed following the appeal by the Chinese to-day

International but it is not get Government to

na-Bettlement, European tions to help relieve the suffering known what damage or loss of life caused by the war.-

was caused. Transocean.

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Unequivocal Reply To Japan's "Feeler"

ULSTERS STRENGTHEN DEFENCE

Shanghai, Oct. 31. New defence works have been bulit by the Ulsters in the British perimeter of defence. reported a Central News correspondent who toured the area this morning.

A new sandbag redoubt has been constructed on Keswick Road where Rifleman W. McGowan was killed by machine-gun bullets from a Japanese plane.

Rifle shots are clearly audible In the area- Central Neur

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Forces Of Negation Christianity Triumphs

Rome, Oct. 30.

Over Conflict.

The official part of the visit to Rome of Herr Hitler's Deputy,

My London, Oct.29. Rudolf Hess, was concluded last

Prayers in Japanese and Chinese were offered in Wesminster Abbpy German Ambassador.

to-night on the occalon of, the In a statement to an Italian Festival of Thanksgiving organised news agency, Herr Hess stated: by the Anglican Communion in the "The forces of negation in the Far East to celebrate the Jühilse world will be wrecked by the posi❘ of the Japanese Church and the tive forces of the anti-Bolshevik | Silver Jubilee of the Chinese-

Church.

AT TSING HUA "U“

Changsha, Oct. 31. Japanese troops. have turned the campus of the Thing Huaight by a reception given by the University into temporary bar racka to keep a vigilant watch

the suburban districts over Peiping. where Chinese guerilla units are active, according to a message from Tientsin.- Central News,

of

movement.

"Fascists and Nazis, by forming a comradeship, have made history, not only for Germany and Italy, but for the entire world.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding, referred to the war and said no suffering could break the fellowship of prayer existing be- en-tween the Japanese and Chinese churches. It was hard to the con- Clicting loyalties, but with prayer this difficulty could be overcome.

STUDENTS MISSING

Changsha, Oct. 31. Frequent missing of students has compelled the Yenching

"It is of importance for the University. Pelping, to close down

tire world if the "strength growing temporarily, according to a letter received here from Dr. J. Leighton from this comradeship will pre- Stuart, President of the University.vent the forces of destruction The letter says that as many as from taking possession of Europe 20 students were kidnapped by and from annihilating civilisa- unidentified persons on October tion."~~ 12.-

Central News.

"DOOMED BATTALION” COMPLETE EVACUATION

Shanghai, Oct. 31. The

who "doomed battalion" barricaded themselves in a godown

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REGRETTABLE

INCIDENTS

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Tokyo, Oct. 29.

In a press conference at the at Chapel had safely completed, their evacuation to Chinese terri-Foreign Office to-day, a Japanese this spokesman, aided by a Shanghai tory by 2 o'clock early

map and photographs of the morning.

sandbag barricades on The evacuation was ordered by Chinese

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the border of Nantac and French who finally yieleded to the opinion Concession, stressed, the Japanese that the sacrifice of these 800 diiculties in attacking Nantao.

be- heroic warriors in holding a

He pointed out that the situa- sleged post would not help much tion was so complex that he fear- militarily whereas their survival ed, despite every precaution, un- would enable them to continue expected and regrettable incidents their efforts in the prolonged re- might take place ́sistance to Japanese aggression. Reuter.

Upon receipt of the Generalis- simo's secret order tranmmitted to who barricaded themselves in a them by General Yang Hu, Gar godown at Chapel, and refused to rison Commander for Shanghai, withdraw until they received and General Sun Yuan-llang orders from the

Generalissimo

China Stands Firm To Generalissimo's Policy Commander of the 88th Division himself.

(SPECIAL TO "THE DAILY. PRESS'')

Nanking, October 31.

Replying to the official Japanese statement to the effect that Japan was ready to enter into peace negotiations following the capture of Shanghai, a spokesman at the Chinese Foreign Office reiterated Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's stated policy, namely, that hostilities with Japan was not a local question but a vital issue concerning the whole of China, and that as long as the Japanese were in occupation of even a foot of Chinese territory, China would continue to fight.—Transocean.

to which they belong, the "doom-Central News.

ed battalion" started "the evacua- tion late last night, which they completed by 2 o'clock

morning..

Gentral Nevi

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JAPANESE PLANE DOWN,

Foochow. Oct. 31.

The Archbishop quoted a men-” sage from a member of the Chinese Chutch saying, "I and loyal Chin ese hate the policy which Japan is carrying out in China with all my soul, but I shall go on working the Christian ----brotherhood between our people." The Arciv bishop said it was in that spirit that Christianity would triumph over war,—

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British Wireless, Service.

DANGERS OF AERIAL WARFARE

London, Oct. 3D.. Air defence questions were dealt with by Br Frederick MUS, Conservative member for Eas Leyton, in the House of Commons. yesterday.

Sir Frederick said he had been in Germany a few weeks ago, and had been deeply impressed by the thorough organization of German. aiz defences. Y

He had been shown all over the Hamburg air defences.

Sir Frederick spoke of the work A direct hit scored by a Chinese done by General Hermann Goezi anti-aircraft shell caused the desing, the Reich Air Minister and said that in Germany 12,000,000 truction of Japanese plane and WU TE-CHEN PAYS RESPECTS the death of its three occupants civilians co-operated in air defente

Bhanghai, Oct. 31.

rald during a

on Changchow under 2,400 experts, while there were 600.000 fully-trained opéra- behalf. of the $6,000.000 south Fukien yesterday morning. populace in Kwangtung province, Four Japanese planes took part tives General Wu Te-chen, Chairman of in the raid, dropping a number of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern bomba in the city and on the ment, sent a telegram yesterday bridge spanning the Chang River.

On

to General Bin Yuan-Hang, Com- After one raider was brought mander of the 88th Division, pay-down, the other three hastily ing respects for the bravery nad flew away-- heroism of the "doomed battalion” ·Pentral Neun.

These mags, he stated showed very early what mea sures were being taken in Ber- many for profection of the clvi- lian population against the gers of aerial, warfare--- Transocean