1938-03-08 — Page 9

TAKING THE DRAGON

INTO THE AIR AGAIN

Chinese Airmen Fly On To Victory

Chinese

the Dog Aght over Shanghal! We watched them as bombers dived from the clouds over hhe Japanese alr-field in Kiang- wan. They looked slow. They were slow. And it was sheer deter- mination that sped them to their objectives and then sheer courage to fight their way back again to their base.

Our pursuit planes-we watched them. Covering the bombers. Intercepting the enemy planes, shooting down and being shot down. And while we mourned our dead we praised the glory they had won for themselves by TAKING THE DRAGON INTO THE AIR AGAIN.

CH

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH

HUGE FIRES RAGING IN PINGLU

Japanese Attempting To Cross Yellow River

Hankow. March 7.

With Chinese forces scattered in all parts of southern Shansi. fighting in that province has developed into a "free for all" without any definite defence or set position. The chief centre of fighting is in Pingin, on the north bank of the Yellow River, opposite Shen- halen, on the Lunghai Rallway between. Löyang and Tungkwan. Fighting is also taking place in Yunchlen, Eslahsien and Chawu, all

in southern Shansi,

In eastern Shansi, severe fighting is taking place in. Asiang- yaan, Singshui and Tangliu, west of Tungkwan Hure fires arc raging in Pinglu the flames beiar clearly visible from the south bank of the Yellow River, according to inhabitants of Shenhsien who add that gun-fire may also be heard.

The main body of the Chinese forces in southern Shansi are concentrated in two groups: one defending the western bank of the Feng River, and the other group massing in the mountains to the cast of the Tungpu Rallway,

the

Japanese forces in Shansi are east with the mountains on attempting to cross the Yellow north bank of the Yellow River River at Ave points The opposite Shenhsien. Honan, as the northernmost column. with Its objective.

base at Plenkwan, near the Sul- The crossing At Fenglingtu is yuan-Shanst border, on the east closed, and Chinese troops in bank of the Yellow River, to the Shansi are remaining in that pro- south of the Great Wall, is strik: vince. Bridges and the railway lag westward for Hoku with the tracks of the Tungpu Railway intention of crossing the water have been extensively destroyed in way where Sulyuan, Shens and order to hold the Japanese ad-" Shansi provinces meet.

vance. Locomotives and coaches,

Another column, with its base gathered at Fenglingtu, have also at Fengyang, having captured been blown up to the same end.--- Lishih, is heading for Chtuntu. (Reuter).

The third column, based at Hsien- hsten, is striking westward for Futangtu. The main body of the Japanese forces is pushing down the Tungpu Rallway heading for Fenglingtu near Tungkwan.

PUCHOW CAPTURED

Shanghai, March 7, The Japanese officially claim the capture of Puchow. the terminus of the Tatung-Puchow Railway, in The Afth column, based at the southernmost. corner of Shamısı Chalsien on the Tungpu Railway, at a bend in the Yellow River.-

is advancing towards the south-(Reuter).

TWO JAPANESE

CONVICTED

TRESPASSING IN CAPETOWN

today.

.

GERMAN TRADE

IN FAR EAST

ACUTE ANXIETY

Berlin, March 7, Speeches at the banquet of the Hamburg-Bremen Far Eastern A5- sociation revealed the acute anxiety

1938.

Successful Singers

M

STICK TO SHERRY!

Amontillado Fino lealdbeckmacqegur thre

Mr. Bennett.

Capetown, March 7. Two Japanese charged in the police court under the De-

for German trade in the Far East. fence Act with trespassing on for-

A Government bidden territory, appeared again Helfferich, said, "The future of official, Herr

German business houses in China

Mr. R. B. Bennett, ex-Prenifer, of Accused, who were unable to

alls us with anxiety and we are

Canada, has resigned the chair- [ustration by T. Ting:3

speak English, came ashore from

also concerned for trade with manship of the Dominion Con-

owing ese air force, the mightiest in the the steamer Rio de Janeiro Maru.

are friends of both servative Japan. We Far East.

"They were found walking inside countries and, therefore, only de- health, states a Reuter Bulletin During all this. the young Chin- the military enclosure at Lion sire the restoration of peace." message.

area

fenced with

Not enough planes! More planes! Sabotage! Watchfulness! Battle of Tazang! Doomed Battalion! then withdrawal and bloody sacrifice. ese dragons are flying and flying, Battery, on Signal Hill, which is The wings of the dragon. newly carrying with them bombs which a prohibited sprouted, could not lift the body not only destroyed a Nippon fleet aloft. The enemy bombed. machine of 40 planes but exploded their gunned, slaughtered. mutilated, be- claims of superiority in air might. reaved. orphaned, and like vul- tures feated on the festering flesh of China.

Was it skill that allowed the enemy to destroy? Five hundred raids in Kwangtung alone. Dally bombing of the rallways. More than 3,000 bombs dropped. But the rallways continue

working.

The Canton-Kowloon railway out ct commission for maximum stretch of 12 hours. Was it cour- age? Chungshan University bomb-soared to the skies, flames burst out

As the young Chinese dragons

(Reuter).

Party

to

bad

The Executive Yuan, at a regular FOUND IN RUINS

barbed wire.

Both accused were found guilty.weekly meeting held on February One was fined £3. In default one 22, appointed Mr. Shih Tze-chow month's imprisonment, and "the

to be a member and concurrently War Could Not Rout other, who was a youth, was re- Educational Commissioner of the primanded...

Ninghsia Provincial Government.

be more

been

Pair From

ATTACK ON FORMOSA Like a thunder in the blue, the Chinese dragons suddenly ap-

The magistrate sald there was states a dispatch to the Sin Wen peared. Before the Japanese alr defence forces had time to sound nothing to indicate they wanted Pao. Mr. Shih is aucceeding Mr.

Harried District their sirens and load their anti-to ascertain military positions and Tung Yuehhwa, who has aircraft batteries, the Chinese suggested that the Japanese Con- nominated to another high post. Perhaps there is no district any dragons swooped down, laying sul warn Japanese to

where in Shanghai which was their "cs"-writing a new page careful in future.-(Reuter),

Provincial Government, General harder hit by the 1937 war. Yet, The Chairman of the Honan Cheng Chien, has been appointed it one follows a certain devious in the history of the latest Far

to the concurrent post of Com- path among crumbled walls and Eastern strife.

VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN mander of the Peace Preservation charred beams and steps over dis- Carps in the province, states a discouraging piles of bricks, one patch to the Hwa Mel. Páo. Gen comes suddenly upon-life! eral Cheng is now directing mill- Every house that still stands in Memorion BY PERCY CHEN machines, neatly scourge, the Iccal authorities have tary operations along the Peiping the terrace, off Julkin Road near

Hanków Railway,

East Yuhang Road, has been damaged by shell or fire and has Tions to the people. Approximate- been looted. One day Chiness

vaccinated at ly 10.000 were

soldiers were in possession of the

may still be seen-and the next day the Japanese marines occupied

ed.

Sun-Yat-sen

Hall

"

Mission School

on. the ground,

The Japanese

"anchored "*

CANTON

Canton, March 7.

To stamp out the small-pox

In decided to extend the vaccination campaign for five more days till March 12.

Twenty seven stations

every

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WILL

FIGHTING IN SHANSI

DEVELOP TO ADVANTAGE OF CHINA IN NEAR FUTURE

·

"Hankow, March 7. High Chinese Army officials who have just returned to Hankow

from the front declared to a Transocean representative that the

fighting in Shansi province would develop to the advantage of 'China in the very future.

The officers' conviction seems to be confirmed by reports from the front stating that the Chinese are determined not to retreat southward to the Yellow River.

Whereas the Japanese claim to have taken complete possession of Talung-Puchow Railway and to use it shartly for the transport af troops. the Chinese report that Chinese troops, destroyed all the rail- way material, tracks and bridges so that the Japanese will be un- able to use the railway,

The situation on the northern bank of the Yellow River is still completely undecided.—(Transocean)..

| NEW NOVELS TO WORLD EXPERTS

COST MORE

Shilling Increase On 7s 6d Books

IN STUDY

OF MAN

Congress In Denmark

New books are to cost more. An

Que of the biggest scientific increase in the cost of practically congresses ever held in Denmark all materials used in the publish-will open on August at the Uni- Chinese watchman and his 7-yearing business has caused the rise versity of Copenhagen. This is

bombed. And while the young rows on the field, are reduced to Gasoline depots are aflame. fledglings of the Dragon breed astes. were being nurtured in the bosom Before the Japanese officers recover- of China, the Japanese dwarfs re-ed from their shock, the young Chi- various parts of the municipality day during the past week-Cen-block-their sandbag barricades velled in their mischief and malice. nese dragons dropped more bombs will continue to give free vaccina-tral News).

and caused more damage to the Ja- DOG FIGHTS Dog fight over Hankow!. Five panese airdromes in Formosa-the Japanese planes shot down. Dog air base ranking as important as fight over Nanchang: Eight Ja-the naval base in Sasebo, Complet- panese planes shot down. Dog-ing their missions, the young fight over Nambung: Eleven Ja-Chinese dragons proudly and safely panese planes shot down. THE

To the world, Tokyo announced YOUNG DRAGONS ARE IN THE with some embarrassment the sur- AIR.

prise attack. The Chinese bombs, Instructs the Japanese squadron they say, fell far away from the leader: "Fly high--drop bombs airdromes. Six killed, 11 wounded watch for Chinese planes." Timid--ali-

closed

returned,

elvilians. Behind

the Formosa raid shows loopholes

Alleged Insistence Of Negrin's Resignation

Paris, March 7. ly they come again. Over Canton doors, radio tubes burned. The

The Barcelona correspondent of Le Jour reports today that a two silver spots in the afternoon Formosan military received the sunlight; 4.000 meters, altitude. severest reprimand. Caught nap- serious Government crisis has arisen in Red Spain which is due, 12.000 feet. Chinese anti-aircraft ping! The entire Japanese air de above all, to the fact that the Red population has completely lost batteries greeted them and from fence needs improvement because confidence in the present Government. nowhere appeared Chinese pursuits

-shooting both of them down.

Dog fights here, dog fights there. Every time Japanese raiding fleets returned home with two or more "falling to reach home bases," as the Japanese spokesmen

say.

would

SCENE SHIFTS Defensive at almost all of these months, the young dragon mađe

a sudden move. Early one morn-

In the system,

F

DRAGON FLIES ON!

What shall Japan do if the Chinese dragon eventually visits Tokyo, Osaka, Sasebo and others? Of course, the people shouldn't be told of the menace and the rovernment feels it. Retaliation, and retaliate immediately. Large fleets took the air with

Jag, 30 machines took off one by orders to bomb Hankow. Off they' one from an undivulged fleld.go: 20. 30......large squadrons leave The engines zoomed with their to avenge the Formosan raid. Not propellors heading for the East. only Hankow but also Canton are

the targets, They flew towards the sea. The scene now shifts to Formosa.

Again the young dragon of China their displayed its skill in attack as well Japanese are boasting of aerial successes in China. Troops as in defence. In Hankow, 11 ma- wiped out. Air squadrons destroy-chines were shot down. In Can- ed. Cities razed to the ground. ton, about 10 within a week. The These are the feats of the Japan- Young Dragon of China is showing

The young dragon files onl

Its prowess,

Senor Negrin.

But through it all an elderly

old daughter remained and are

stands, daylight even showing where a shell sheared off a part of its outside wall near the ceiling. states a special writer in the North China Daily News:

Only for a day or so did Foo Soong-ling and his tiny daughter, Blau Voong, leave their abode and, hide in other houses to keep out of the actual hand-to-hand fight

They never left the district, how- ever, and they have not been "south of the Creek" since last

The broadcast message which the 18. Premier, Senor Negrio, delivered on February 28, in order to allay the anxiety felt by the overwhelm- ing majority of the Red population, failed to accomplish its object, stace the address merely proved

summer.

in prices.

88 6d instead of 75 6d, and the

with

the

second International

An-

still living at 117 Juikin Road, of" The type of book most affectes (thropological Congress. It will last which now only the ground for s the longer novel, which costs until Aug. 6.

2x 6d reprints which, in some London in 1934, and it is regarded The first congress took place in cases have been put up to 3s 6d.

here 1.3 a Mr. G. Wren Howard, of Jona-Copenhagen should have been great honour that

than Cape Ltd, president of the

chosen for the second meeting. Publishers" Association, stated

King Christian will probably that the extra cost of materials

open the congress, which will be had to come from somewhere.

"Everything has gone up. paper the Prime Minister: Mr. Joergen- presided over by Mr. Stauning.

printing, binding, cloth boards, cotton," he said. "In addition. Dr. Munch, Foreign Minister. The ¡sen,' Minister for Education; and there has been the agreement chairman of the organising com-

last the printing trade

mittee is Mr. Thomas Thomsen, October reducing working hours,

jone,of. Denmark's foremost an- per week from 48 to 45., This was thropologists and inspector of the bound to affect costs."

National Museum. The Greenland Mr. Geoffrey Faber said: "The explorex, Dr. Kaj Birket-Smith, increases are slight and Jargely

profit on a novel is much smaller

It is expected that between 800 than "on the higher-priced books of

and 800 scientists from all coun- general Interest. There is an untries will attend. The correspondent asserts that eurious intruder sometimes comes derstanding that the longer novelsHERRY DES the present Red War Commissar, upon human bones, attesting death will be priced at 86 6d. The shorter Genor. Prieto,: demands that by violence or from starvation,

land Sons Ltd. sald that their Old Foo and his child escaped SIXPENNY BOOK COMPETITION "Everyman" series was not, affec- Premier Negrin should offer his resignation and that the Ministries unscratched.

Mr. Walter Harrap sald: "The, ted, and at present there was no rise in the price of the cheap increase in their educational reprints is not only due to higber|series as Senor Negrin's successor to the A linen shower was given to Miss cost of materials. The compétition There would be a slight increase Premiership.

Stella Lee, last night, at her home, of the ed editions has hit the 2s in some school books and in in- Senor Prieto allegedly insists on 56, Caine Road, by her numerous ad editions, and to make them dividual educational books. The Senor Negrin's definite and per-friends. Miss Lee's wedding to Mr. an economie "proposition it has firm would now hesitate before manent Tesignation (Trans- Frank B. Grose will take place on been necessary to raise the price." issuing 25 6d edifiona involving ocean).

Thursday.

A representative of J. M.. Dent heavy expense.

They are the only family that the area through the stayed in to the Red masses that the setback weeks of shelling, bombing, close-confined to fiction, because the has been appointed general secre-

are still which the Red Army zuffered at fighting and fires, and

there. Teruel is due, above all, to political

In other houses near-by the dimeulties.

of War and Interior and Finance

be placed under his own control

novels will still be 7s ed."

tary.