HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
CABLES
DISASTROUS AIR RAID OVER KAIFENG
MORE THAN 50 CIVILIANS Canadian KILLED AND WOUNDED And American
Several Houses Are Damaged
Kaifeng, May 23.
A squadron of eleven Japanese planes rained death and destruc- tion on Kaifeng in a raid at 10.55 am. yesterday, killing and woand- ing more than fifty oivillans and damaging a dozen houses in the vleinlty of the railway station and the south gate.
A total of thirty-seven bombs were dropped by the raiders, most
of which landed on open spaces.
Earlier in the morning, two ather Japanese planes attacked Chihalen, thirty kilometres south of Lanfeng, and dropped nine bombs on the outskirts, inflicting minor damage.....
GRIM CONTRAST
Students Oppose Aggression
SYMPATHY FOR
CHINA "WIDESPREAD
WORLD WAR FEARED
LOCAL CHINESE COMMENT ON CZECH SITUATION
Grave apprehension that the Czechoslovakia' issue might deve- lop into a world catastrophe was expressed" by leading local Chinese papers 'yesterday.
*
Great
The Shun Pao comments that the present European question Hankow, May 23. hinges on whether Herr Hitler is The people in Canada are sym-bent on applying his anschluss pathetic with China in her present methods to Czechoslovakia. -resistance against Japan, accord- Whether or not Czechoslovakia The tense situation has been re-
ing to Mr. Frank H. Latbe, Cana-will follow the same fate as Aus- lieved with the improvement in the
dian representative of the World tria cannot be predicted," it saJS. situation along the Lunghai line.
Students' Association, who arrived "But one thing is certain, that is, According to military reports, a
Hankow, May 23. small detachment of Japanese A grima contrast is offered by the here from Hong Kong yesterday by if German troops cross the Czecho- cavalry which made its tippearance different loads in incoming and plane with Miss Molly Yard, Ameri-slovakia border a second on May 21 in the vicinity of Pall-outgoing trains passing through can representative of the same War may ensue."
THREE REASONS wan and Tullangchal, west of Lan-Tientsin during the last few days. organisation. reng, has now been routed.
Mr. Lathe said that committees The journal observes that Herr While a continuous stream of The situation at Lanteng. se-Japanese troops poured in from for the support of China against Hitler times his action
been forated cording to latest reports, has also outside the Great Wall. to be ces. Japan have
in all juncture because of the following shown Improvement. Repeated patched to
large cities in Canada since the reasons: Firstly, as a natural con- the Tainpu front Japanese attacks on the railway numerous
the outbreak of the hostilities.
Isequence to the German-Austrian uras containing city have been repulsed with heavy ashes of dead Japanese ghters Canadian sympathy is further anschluss the Germans in Czecho- were sent by coastbound trains to manifested by the nation-wide slovakia are anxious to join their Kwelteh, important rallway city be shipped back to Japan for boycott against Japanese goods Fatherland. which has been the coveted goal burial..
and the campaigns for the pur- Secondly, rearmament in Ger- of less complete, while it will take still one or two years for Great Britain and France to complete their armament pro- grammes.
losses, to the invaders.
of numerous Japanese attempts. The Halkwang Temple in Tien-chase of medicine for Chinese many is more remalna firmly in Chinese hands. tsin, where Chinese soldiers made wounded soldiers, he said.
A strong column of more than 1,000 a gallant stand last August at the Japanese equipped with twenty beginning of the Sac-Japanese armoured trucks, launching an at-war, has been turned into a cre- tack in the vicinity of Kweiteh and mation ground.-Central News). Tangshan, was driver back in dis- order.
In the engagement, numerous! Japanese were made captive while a large number of their armoured trucks were taken by the Chinese.
(Central News).
GENERAL DOIHARA
INJURED
Shanghai, May 23. Leut.-General Kenji: Dolbara, in command of the 14th Division operating along the Lunghal Rail- way, was again reported today to have been seriously injured in a tank unit.
The 14th Division is said to have sustained heavy losses east of Lanfeng.
Kuelteh on the Lunghai lime in north-east Konan remains Chinese hands, and the Japanese advance on this point from south- west Shantung has made little progress. (International,.
MILITARY FUNERAL "FOR OFFICER
Lost Life In River Collision
Canton, May 23. The remains of Lieut-General Chen Chih-halang, superintendent of the Military Academy here, were brought back to Canton this morning. A military funeral will be given to the late officer, who died by drowning as the result of a collision between the launch`on' which he was a passenger and a Wachow-bound steamer.
Members
General Chen's family and several aides on his staff also lost their lives in the ac- cident.
of
The Academy post left vacant by Gen. Chen's death is likely to be filed either by Lieut.-General Lin Sze-chips. former Comman- dant of Gendarmes, of by General Li Yang-ching, former..command- er of the Third Army. Both of- cers are on the reserve list(In- ternational).
Facts Prove Missionary Murdered By Japanese
Peiping, May 23
MDM, CHIANG'S="
GIFTS TO HER CLASSMATES
Hankow, May 23. Madame Chiang Kai-shek has sent a consignment of 600 tea sets, 600 packages of special Chinese tea and 600 Chinese flags to her classmates at Wel- lesley College.
Madame Chiang graduated trom the well-known American girls' college in 1917. This year she was voted an honor- ary member of the class of 1938. She has sent the pre- " sents to her classmates of both years, (Central News),
A MESSAGE TO
THE EMPIRE
at this
AMERICAN SYMPATHY
According to Miss Yard, more than a million college students in Lastly, the solidarity of the Ger- the United States walked out from many-Italy-Japan tripartite axis their universities last January anis now established and Germany
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938. —PAGE
CALDBECK'S
Amontillado Fino
SHERRY
OBTAINABLE AT ALL THE LEADING
HOTELS AND STORES
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
2, CHATER ROAD.
THE EXCHANGE MARKET
a protest against the Japanese in- believes that she will not be for-Demand For Dollars
vasion in China. They also ap-saken in the event of any emer pealed to the United States Gov-|gency.
erament to change its non-inter- The Tai Kwong Po thinks that vention policy.
the present. Czech question affects Miss Yard and Mr. Lathe were not only Europe but the whole greeted by a large number of "stu-world. The spark that started the dent representatives and other last World War came also from delegates when they arrived nere. that part of Europe, "It says—
Central News:
(Central News).
Japan Has No Intention Of Jeopardising Rights And Interests Of Third Powers
Shanghai, May 23.
"It is ridiculous to think that Japan has any hostile inten- tions towards Great Britain or any other third Power, remarked General Hata at á tea party given at his headquarters today in honour of the three foreign newspapermen, including Reuter's cor- respondent, who were visiting the Japanese lines on the southern
query or his views of Anglo-212 LAWYERS FOR
THE DEFENCE
Japanese relations,
Japan, Genera! Hata said.
hao
"On Empire Day the Chairman | Tsinpu úines. and Council of the Royal Empire The remark was prompted by aj Society send cordial preetings to their fellow members both in the United Kingdom and overseas. They trust that the Royal Empire Society, will Increase in strength and influence and thus continue no intention of jeopardising the to play its part in biriding togeher rights and Interests of third in the spirit of unity and mutnal Powers. It was understanding all subjects of His he declared, to think Majesty wherever they may be."
MISSIONARY
DIES WAVING UNION JACK
Error Leads To Tragedy In North Shansi
Pelping, May 22.
It is now confirmed that Dr. B.
G. Wyatt and Miss Buelah Glasby,;
of the British Baptist Missionary | Society, were killed by a Chinese mobile unft in North Shansi.
The party of five missionaries. including Mr. and Mrs. Jasper and Chinese
1
chauffeur, left
Taiyuantu in a car. At a point 80: miles north of Taiyuan a bulleti fired from "a hlil amashed the chauffeur's wrist and the car was stopped.
Miss Glashy was killed as obej sat in the car. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper took refuge beneath, the
It is authoritatively learned that| car... Frederic Fourre, the French mis- sionary who was killed at Chanelo on April 22, met his death under
CHINESE APOLOGISE-
Dr. Wyatt helsted, the uncon- circumstances entirely different sclous chauffeur on his shoulder from those given in the Japanese and ran across the bullet-swept
road towards a nearby ditch." version.
,"
He was shot as he fell into „the | The Japanese account claims that Fourre was killed during a ditch. Nevertheless, he continued house-to-house search for bandits feebly to wave the Union Jack by Chinese..militiamien and Japan- until he died ese"pacification", agents,
Authoritative cireles now eategorically state that Japan- ese troops at Changlo forced their way into Fourres' mission school for girls, and when Fourre attempted to protect his pupils he was shot in, the head
The latest version also states
The Chinese who captured Mr. "and"Mrs. Jasper apologised when they found that their victlens were British, stating that they: had ired on the car in the belief that it was Japanese. The British flag, they said, was not recognised.”
They provided. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper, with food and mules, and the couple rode 80 miles' through.
that the Japanese troops killed mountains back to Taiyuanfu-
three: "Chinese nuna(Reuter).
(Reuter).
hostile!
Bucharest, May 23. The ex-leader of the banned
And Sterling
"
London, May 23. The city reassembled this mor- ning prepared for a "black Mou- day" but owing to energetic Bri- tish diplomatic activity on the Continent over the week-end, in- vestors together with the general} public were not disposed to 'panle and apart from usual precaution- ary markings down of certain stocks and shares nothing untoward oc- curred on the stock exchange.
Moreover, as the morning pro- “more... confident feeling became apparent. Lively. "con- ditions, however, prevailed on the foreign exchange market where nervousness regarding the Euro- pean political tension found re-
gressed a
TELEPHONE 20075,
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
KONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSH BAY HOTELS
&
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTAL;
HOTELS
LIMITED.
In asliociation with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita, Peking.
CZECH MILITARY
PLANE OVER
flection in the general continental GERMAN BORDER
demand for dollars, sterling and to a lesser extent gold..
The demand for American cur- Crashes In Flames
rency was especially heavy from
Holland and Switzerland and the
exchange controls of both coun-
1
Berlin, May 23.
An official German news agency
TRAGIC DEATH OF SHIP'S ENGINEER
Verdict At Inquest
Changking, May 23.
tin-
A verdict of death while of tries had the support of their reports today that a Czechoslovak | temporarily unsound mind was respective currencies.
military plane appeared over the returned at the Inquest today on Offerings for francs were not Czechoslovak town of Welpert the body of Hugh Alexander Mor- close to the German rison, Scottish Chief Engineer of Iron Guard, Cordreneau, is being particularly heavy but with French which is
authorities holding off and the frontier, and subsequently flew the B.'and S. L. Wanliu. Mr.
Was discovered undertone of the whole market over the frontier to the German Morrison
sales town Baerenstein.
conscious" in his cabin on May 19 en route to very nervous only small auriced to drive down spot rate Several inhabitants of the latter while the ship was to 178.84 as compared with 177.60 town, it is added identified the
Changking.
at the close
on Saturday—plane which carded a
After the Wanliu had moored (Reuter).
ΚΑΣΣΙ as a military machine, after | at Chungking on May 21, Mr. E. cruising for some time over w. P. Mills. British Consul- Baerenstein the plane continued | General, boarded her and an on its aight in the direction of inquiry was held immediately. It
a. misconception.jined for treason. The trial which that the began today is expected to be conducted on a large scale in which 212 lawyers, it is reported, have Obeen briefed for the defence.---
(Reuter Bulletin).
Japanese army had any feeling against British troops British people.—(Reuter);
AT "THE VALLEY RACES
Photographs taken by our candid onore at the ruth? Zuma
afternoon. Race meeting held it. Happy Valley on Saturılı
ا
machine
PINGHAN RAILWAY Pressnitz which is in Czechoslovak appeared that the vessel was be
וו'
OPERATIONS
RESUMED
Fire broke out
territory, but for some unknown low Wanhsien and proceeding up reason, crashed just after recross- | stream when a shot was heard Ing the frontier.
shortly after 7 o'clock on the
The Chief Hankow, May 23.
and although morning of May 19. Big scale operations on
the bridge the Czechoslovak frontier guards im-Steward hurried to Pinghan Railway resumed today mediately rushed to help they do and reported that Mr. Morrison with Chinese staging
had been wounded. a coun- not appear so far as could be ter-pensive.
observed from the German side Paotingfu is being besleged by a of the border to have been able to large body of Chinese troops and rescue the two occupants of the
the town was set on fire in more machine.--(Transocean).
than ten places. Due to the
heavy pressure of the Chinese
troops and the increasing activi-
The master of the Wanliu, Capt. a. W. Torrible, accompanied by he First Officer, R. E Belwyn- Jones, went to Mz." Morrison a cabin, and found him with a bullet wound in his temple." A revolver, was beside him. Without
ties of guerillas the Japanese" are several nocturnal raids on the recovering consciousness Mr. Mor- prepared to abandon the town. Japanese outposts.. A state of son died at 745 am.
Fleice aghting is now taking profound consternation was creat- place at Liangsitng.
ed among the Japanese military: It was revealed that Mr. Morri- Chinese mobile units are exceed-circles and fresh reinforcements are son had been in a highly nervous ingly active around the outskirts being 'dispatched from Manchukun, state and he was known to have of Tientsin, and have carried out it is learned.—(International)..
CHINESE GUERILLA ACTIVITIES NEAR TIENTSIN
Bankow, May 23.
Extending their activities over a wide ares east of Tientsin along- the Halhó from. Koku' to Talku ́at the mouth of the river, ChinesG guerilla forces have cast a het fryeast. Hopel to work havoc with Japanese military operations, ....
consulted a doctor at Ichang r cently on the condition" of his nerves.~(Reuter!.
CALL-OVER FOR
THE DERBY
London, May
call-over
The latest Derby is as follows:
"
important towns on both banks, where Chinese entry is forbidden, of the Halho, weakly held by Numerous Chinese farmers were Pasch to 4. and o. Golden Japanese garrison forces, are sub-forcibly evicted from their farm-Sovereign 100 to 15 og 7 to 1 ti Jected to frequent fight raids by steads inside the area and render-Scottish Union 19 to 2 0 10 to Chinese mobile units whose activi-ed homeless and destitute.
14. Port Marnock 100 to 8 t. and
ties have forced river crafts entire Large supplies of military pro- Found Foolish and Mirza 100 ly to suspend nocturnal plyings visions, it is learned, have been to 6 o., 18 to 1 t., Bois Rousell 20 Sporadic Bghting between Chi- stored at Sinbo where a machine to 1'o., 25 to 1 t.. Faroe 28 to 1-0 nese guerillas and Japanese sen- shop has also been establish to do 33 to 1 t.; Flyon 33 to 1 t and o tinels" were ⠀ nightly occurrences general repair work for damaged Troon 33 to 1 o., 40 to 1 £; Valerian Binho, about eighteen miles from tanks and armoured cars
and Manorite 33 to 1.0 Olympus Tangku, has now been cordoned off In the nearby serodrome, more and Tahir 40 to 1 a; 50 to 1 t.; by the Japanese as a military zone than a dozen military planes are Bland Star 40 to 1·0-(Reuter).
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.