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TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1938.

REPORTS FROM BATTLE LINE LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS INDICATE THAT CHINA WILL

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Soldiers In Tancheng Ordered To Hold

On To Posts At All Costs

Hankow, May. 2.°

The main centre of the military operations on the Tientsin-Pukow Rallway front' continues to lie to the southeast of Talerchwang and to the north of Plasion where, sccording to Chinese estimates, the Japanese are attacking, with some 50,000 troops. All attempts, it is reported, to break the Chinese resistance around Talerchwang haye falled.

SHANGHAI SITUATION

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FRIDAY, the 6th MAX, 1938

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At their SALES ROOM, DUDDELL STREET

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Meanwhile the Japanese are re-}Nänyang. Lake, south of Talalar. newing their efforts to cross the The village is likewise' a- position Grand Canal near Pihsten with (of strategic importance and is be- the intention of gaining control lieved to have fallen into Japan- over the eastern sector of the lese hands. Lunghai Railway preliminary to Military headquarters in Hou- launching an attack, upon Hru-chow have asked for reinforce- chow.

ments to recover the village of

7. Comprising --- All reports reaching here yester-Nanyangcheng trom the Jap- day from the front are alike inanese.

arrival of fresh.

Teakwood Bedroom, Diningroom. claiming that the Japanese have troops will, it is believed, frustrate Drawingroom and Office Furniture, gained very little ground during the Japanese, plan to carry out a Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Porcelain the course of the last three days. surprise attack on the Lunghai and Glass Ware, Pictures, Orna- ments, E. P. and Brass Ware. appears that the. Japanese Railway, west of Hsuchow. troops have succeeded in occupy- Significance attaches to the Gramophones and Records, Clocks, SHANGHAI, MAY 2.

ing Lienfanshan, which lies to the fact that this village of Nanyang-Books, Electric Table Fans and A TENSE SITUATION WITH Forth of Plhsien and constitutes cheng is being held at present, by Lamps, etc., etc, INTERNATIONAL A RESULT OP an important position for an ad-a DEVELOPED AS A RESULT OF vance upon the latter, city. YESTERDAY'S NANKING ROAD The Japanese for their part

SEAFORTHS AND

U.S. MARINES FACE JAPANESE

BOMBING INCIDENT.

It

contend that the Chinese" report

few hundred Japanese.

HONAN GUERILLA SUCCESSES

It is reported from the northern Although most of the Japanese jof the capture of the town of Part of Honan Province that Chi- gendarmen have been withdrawn Tancheng is without foundation ese guera forces are still ex- from the scene, half a dozen of They claim that their troops are tremely active north of the Yellow them entered Louza police station still in possession of Tancheng. River. Here they are said to be while a handful of others remained although having had to beat of engaged in harassing the Japan- on duty in the street.

extremely furious attacks launchese garrisons, which have been re- |duced in strength on account of the Major-General Telfer-Smollett,ed by the Chinese forces.

fighting in Shantung. the British commander, is report- ORDERED TO HOLD ON

Guerilla bands are reported to ed to have repeatedly requested

The officers of all Chinese de-have, recaptured a number of vil- the Japanese to withdraw, on the ground that they were violating tachments at present engaged in lages on the Taoching railway.

the immediate vicinity of Tan- The nature of reports arriving the British defence sector.

cheng have been ordered to hold from various parts of the front This morning he vited the scene and posted a detachment or their positions at all costs so as has caused a good deal of optim- Seaforths, wearing steel helmets to ward off as long as possible ism in Hankow. Milliary circles and standing with bayonets axed. the menace of a Japanese Bank are Inclined believe that the com-

attack on Hauchow.

ing week' will

military A stern struggle is reported to operations in Shantung Dro- The US Marines have reminded be going on for possession of the vince take a turn in favour of the the Japanese that Yu Ya-ching village of Nanyangcheng, near Chinese/---(Transocean).

U.S. REMINDER..

Road (formerly Thibet Road) forms the boundary of the Ameri- can defence sector. The stretch occupied by the Japanese last night! was to the east of Yu Ya-ching! Road.

U.S. Marines normally posted at the intersection of Tu Ya-ching and Nanking Roads this morning made their appearance with sub- machine-guns. THO Americans are always firm against encroach- ment on their sector.

By arrangement with the Japan- ese, lorries are allowed to pass, but attempts to take over.patrol would not be countenanced-(Reuter).

EASTERN

witness

BERLIN IS EN FETE FOR

MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS

Mass Assembly Of Hitler Youth Greets Fuehrer

Berlin, May 2.

Germany celebrated May Day yesterday as the first national festival of a Greater Germany. The demonstrations began with a great gathering of over 150,000 boys and girls of the Hitler Youth in the Olympic Stadium at 8 o'clock in the morning.

The ceremony was opened by the traditional fanfare of trum→

MEDITERRANEAN pets after which the leader of the German Youth, Baldur von

TREATY

Egypt, Greece And Turkey To Sign

Pact

Schirach, addressed the assembly, reminding his hearers of "the tasks ahead of the young generation

also

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Czech May Day Incidents

TROUBLE OCCURS IN TROPPAU

Prague, May-2. May Day celebrations" held in

Reichs Propaganda Minister, tyranny "of parties and associa Dr. Goebbels, who followed, em-tions and has realised its unity. phasised the tremendous change When I see the German youth, my which had taken place in Ger- beller in Germany's future is un- many during the past five years. shakeable and unlimited became T Five years ago. sald Goebbels, the know you will fulfil all our hopes. several Sudeten German Com- German youth when assembling You. will and must accomplish all on May Day was split up into in that for which succeeding genera-munities were vetoed by the Crech authorities" yesterday. Berious 10- numerable associations. Today it tions have striven throughout cen- clients occurred on Saturday night

Cairo, May 2. Arrangements have been made, was united.

Chancellor Hitler then spoke. according to

a report published yesterday in the local newspaper. He reminded his audience that at Alahram, ter concluding a tripartite all periods of its history the Ger- pact between Egypt, Greece and man nation had earned the re- Turkey for regulating questions ward corresponding to its unity or affecting the Eastern Mediter-lack of unity.

turies."

in Troppan, where the police dis- HITLER CHEERED

persed a crowd with rubber batons. Deatening cheers greated Hitler

Reports from Jacgersdorf yes-- at the conclusion of his short texday evening state that 10,000 speech.

Sudeten Germans held a celebra- The ceremony concluded with tion there, but although Czechs a counter-demonstration "Today we receive from Provi-singing of the national anthems. staged

Before this grand assembly of The pact, it is stated, will be dence reward for our work and signed during the forthcoming visit our struggie, namely Greater Ger- youth was over, the traditional incidents occured. of King Farouk to the Turkish many. Our movement has liberat-meeting of the Reich Chamber of capital-(Transocean).

ed the German nation from the Culture had opened at the Ger- Czechs gathered outside "the Gez- man Opera House, Unter den Lin-man House," where about 2,000 Budeten Germans held a meeting den.

ranean.

Nineteen Lose Lives In Appenines Air Crash

KING

ZOG'S WEDDING GUESTS AMONG PLANE'S PASSENGERS

Romo, May:: L

A shocking air tragedy, in which 14 passengers and a crew of Aye were killed, occurred in the mountains near Fromia, a village. in the Appenines today.

The dead include Mr. Samuel Bretsaff, a Briton, Miss Holen Lindhein, an American. M. Djater Villa, the Albanian Minister to Rome, M. Franco Gilbo Pagni, the Albanian Consul-General at Rome, a German architect, the director of an Austrian newspaper and two Italian newsreel cameramen.

In Budweis & large crowd of

Leni Riefenstahl was crowned yesterday evening. The police. for her production of the Olympic however, managed to control the film which consists of two parts, Crowd, which dispersed quietly.

(Transocean). "the festival at the nations" and

"the festival of beauty." Dr. Geobbels who conducted the cere- mony, described her achievement

as a supreme, document of film art. was opened by Heinrich George, The book prize of the year was followed by the rendering of Max conferred upon the anthology at von Schenkendorf's Vernal Greet- verse entitled "Song of the Faith-ing to the Fatherland," Dr. Goeb- ful." This small book is a collec- bels said that National Bocialiam tion of verses composed by anony had vindicated its claim to be the mous members of the Austrian true philosophy of life because its Hitler youth and published with a conceptions were profoundly and

Itoreword by Baldur von Schirach. indissolubiy bound up with the

ways of thought of the entire "peo- POETRY, FRIZE

ple. Those problems of life and In former years the crowned destiny, born of the hour, were no bards received a money prize of longer problems of state but of the

twelve thousand marks but on national community, this occasion the community of

For this reason the tie uniting

The air uner was due in Rome found bodies 100 yards apart." at 5 p.m. from Tirana, Albania. M. Diáter Villa, the Albanian young Austrian bards was reward-

An official account of the dis- Minister was only identifiable by a ed with the sum of 200,000 marks the Fuehrer and the people in aster shows that the plane left, gold watch. He had been attend-which, however, will not be shared Germany were deeper and more Brindisi at 11.35 am: and then enjing King Zog's wedding.

individually but will be used for fruitful than elsewhere, countered atrocions: weather in the The plane carried jewellery from the erection of youth hostels in After reference to the overwhel Appérines. It struck the moana Paris firm for Countess Geral- the most beautiful parts of Aus- ming result of the plebiscite. monument will be of April, which affirmed the union tainside at 2.20 pan. and burst into dine's wedding present, King tria. Thi flame: MAHA

ARO Zog's bride had chosen her gift, place of the disposal of the entire of Austria with the Reich as a spontaneous set af popular will, The force of the impact caused and, the rest of the jewellery German youth and

In his addreas, to the gala sesalon Dr. Goebbels turned to cultural the machine to turn over and worth 220,000, was destroyed in peasants, who hurried to the spot, the crash(Hauter).

of the Chamber of Culture which matters-(Transocean).