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EDITORIAL

TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1938.

CHI LUK FORTS CHINESE AVIATORS TELL OF

BOMBED

Machine-gun Fire On People

ENCOUNTERS WITH

THE JAPANESE

The Chinese Air Force, did not come to the limelight until its furious clashes with the Japanese air raiders over" Hangehow and "(Front Our Own Correspondent)

Nanking last August, but still tile has been written about it. Canton, June 20.

Now, with the object of making this world know more about the Chi- A Swalow report this morning nese air feet and its crew, the Chinese People's Foreign. Relations Bir-As the very wide scope of stated a Japanese plane bombed Assocaltion is attempting to translate a series of articles written by this Ordinance does not appear to Ch! Luk. Forts and machine- Chinese aviators who actually participated in bombing and fighting be understood by certain members gunned the people in the vicinity. In the past year. Two articles have been' freely translated, and of the publie, I am writing to say

Japanese planes from Kimai.

the first is given below. that its previsions apply to every Island, opposite Amoy, carried out tenant of every sub-division of extensive reconnoitring over Melh- domestic building, even down to slen. Taipo. Chinghai and Yew-: the occupier of a cubicle or bed-ping important towns north-east i space. which is the subject of a of Swatow, Twelve bomba #were separate letting.

dropped at Koc Tang Tan, near Methsien.

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H E POLLOCK Hong Kong. June 20.

NEW GOVERNMENT

HOUSE

WORK NOT YET COMMENCED

Construction work on the pro- posed Government House in Magazine Gap has not yet been commenced, "the Dally Press was Informed by the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith. C.M.G.. Colonial Secretary yesterday...

The Hon. Mr. Smith added, how- ever. "that the big scheme for the development of the Central Area which was held in abeyance by Sir Andrew Caldecott has now been revived and will begin. at some future date with the build-

The report added that several Japanese warships appeared out-

side of Swatow harbour following shelling of Nan Ac Island yester- day afternoon.

All the gunboats and destroyers blockading the South China coast have left for the Yangtse River.

Japanese cruisers are patrolling the Kwangtung coast.

MODERNISATION

OF CHENGTU

CIVIC REFORM MOVEMENT

(By Our Own Correspondent) Chengtu, capital of

NEW SZECHUEN ARMY

800,000 May Be Immediately Mobilised

Chungking, June 20. Eight hundred thousand able- bodies men in Szechuеn have Not until the afternoon of August undergone military training dur- 14 did an order come to the ing the past year according to anxious Chinese, aviators. Im General Wang Tan-shu, Chair- SINO-JAPANESE mediately following that, they hop-man of the Szechnen Provincial

START OF

AIR CLASHES

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ped off in 25 pursuit planes. Roar Government. ing in the air. the machines flew These men who are from various east along the Yangtze River and walks of life may be mobilised at soon passed over the Purple Moun- any time to defend the country tain en

the

General invaders... route to the skies of against (BY TA FENG)

Kwangteh, the important town of Wang said, Last year from July 7 to the Anhwcl close to the border of Upon instructions from General- beginning of August the whole of Cheklang. and Hangchow, the issimo Chiang Kai-shek. Szechuen troops under Genera! Wang-Ling- Japan was in a str. Feverish action capital of Chektang. was taken to recruit new soldiers. In Tokyo. Yokohama. Osaka, was reported that squadrons of are already on their way to the Nagasaki. Sasebo and other prin- Japanese aeroplanes, were crossing front, General Wang revealed.

Fired by patriotism, nine girl cipal cities all kinds of industries the Strait of Formosa and traver- showed signs of unrest and even sing Fukien on their way to Hang- students in Chengtu, have joined chow, where the Central Aviation the troops to fight the Japanese. disorganisation. Arsenals turped

Academy WAY established, and-Central Nëws). out arms and ammunition day and Kwangteh. On their mission they

01 transportation night Train

had with them great hopes of suc- troops was incessant. They werecess, but the moment they ap-

At the same time of the day it chi- and General Teng Kuo-chang

leaving their homes and set out

proached Hangchow they found for a so-called "expedition" to the triemselves face to face with the shores of Cathay. The ministers gallant resistance of the Chinese of the Cabinet under the premier-Air Force.

ship of Prince Konoye busily and A fierce battle ensued and con- Stechuen, secretly met to discuss affairs. It sequently six. of the raiders were

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50-PASSENGER AEROPLANE FOR U.S.S.R.

A huge passenge: aeroplane, pur-

ing of the new Government House. some 330 kilometres from Chung- was proposed to mobilise a million brought down, while the rest ded. chased by the Soviet Government king, which is the wartime capital soldiers to settle all the so-called on the following day another feet in the United States and capable of the Chinese Republic, is one of pending questions with the Chinese of Japanese heavy bombers came of carrying 50 passengers has pass- KWANGSI HAVEN

those ancient. cities of China tast nation. becoming most modera. FOR REFUGEES

150,000 HORSE-POWER Chengtu, recently given the Canton, June 20.

status of a municipality. is having To synchronise with the move Negotiations are under way be- ja city planning commission work-ments of the army and navy, two tween the Central, Kwangtung and ing for a five-year improvements the best Japanese air fleets Kwangsi authorities to transfer re-and extension programme, but two formed and trained for the Dar fugees in Kwangtung to Kwangsi item are now under consideration. oose of meeting the second world' In do reclamation work.

at raids.

through the press that the Reds

had made remarkably rapid pro-NEGOTIATION gress in producing order. out of RATHER anarchy in the so-called "occupied" THAN FORCE

areas.

than by armed force and mak-

Missionaries who have been

health authorities

attention

York.

from the aircraft-carrier off the ed through Helsinki en route to coast of the Hangchow Bay, ob- Leningrad un board the American from New viously with the object of taking freighter "Southlure" revenge. A battle fiercer than that!

The machine was so vast that of the previous day took place, and again the air raiders were repulsed it occupied the entire after-deck of the vessel. The aeroplane is with heavy casualties.

said to have cost 4,000,000 dollars RETALIATION

approximately £400,000).

SMOKING AND SPORT

Harmful Than Alcohol"

Dr. Adolphe Abrahams.

Dean

mission, the Chinese machines re-speaking in London recently, sald

said

their

one being the inauguration of a war were prepared to go into ac- As a retaliative measure, several It has been suggested that Kwelclty-wide bus system, another, the ton These two air feets, com-squadrons of Chinese aeroplanes ping, on the Hsun River, Lalpo. erection of a waterworks plan.

posed of about 100 machines, were south of Yangso and Yunghsien, on In the meantime. Chengtu, still mostly heavy bombers and had passed over Hangchow and reached the Yung River in Kwangsl, be surrounded by a wall some 25 11 about 150.000 horse-power in to Shanghai on the 16th of the same month. They tried to bomb the ORDER OUT OF marked off for refugee settlements. long, has already started preparing Those aeroplanes stationed in

Japanese warships lying in the It is expected that the Central for the summer.

North Formosa-were ready for or Whangpoo River and those lying ANARCHY Government will give the refugees Under the recently inaugurated ders. With these gigantle. "Iron

Their pre-"Less every available facility in their mi-municipal government, the local eagles," the younger generation of the Woosung coast.

sence brought forth furious Are THE CHINESE people have always gration. (Central News).

are guarding Japanese, militarists thought of

trom Japanese anti-aircraft and been renowned for their

against epidemics. Watering of destroying all the most important machine-guns. It was the first The engagement is announced

streets on hot days, taking men-fortified places in China within 48 timme in history that the Japanese ability to improvise during emer- between Robin Edward

work-house. Leghencies but reports from the north 2otect themselves against night dicants Into

better hours. As a matter of fact, they invaders actually felt and feared of the. Westminster Hospital Beardsworth: of Canton. China, show

to public lavatories. thought that ther wanton bombing the attacking power of the Chinese Medical School and Medical Officer eldest son of Mrs. Beadsworth, organisation in the face of the From the areas in which they beautifying the city through better could force China to submission Air Force. Having completed their to the British Olympic Athletic.

have established their authority, regulations in buildings, improve overnight. Residents in the chief northern the Reds are gradually impinging ment of the sewerage system, a On August 13, 1937, war in turned safely to their base in that the ill-effects of light smek- cities, ranking under d-domination. were

Japanese on the districts in which unaffillat- better lighting arrangement for

Ing. if any, on athletes might be agrecably sured bodies of armed men

and all the streets, normal classes for Shanghai flared up. Sino-Japan-Nanking.

In the afternoon of the same day outweighed by its psychological

benefits. prised recently when they learned bandits still hold sway, increasing Primary school teachers daring the ese relations reached the breaking

their spheres of summer when children are to be point. The whole Chinese nation squadrons of Japanese planes at-

He was speaking at the meeting given a vacation, all are now rose up solidly behind their Gov-tacked China's national capital. Influence by negotiation rather either in progress or to be put into emment in the inevitable struggle One, two, three, four, ave, the air of the Society for the Study of

against encroachment. At the raiders were brought down by anti-Inebriety. Jeffect.

time, about 30 young Chinese "fly-aircraft gunfire, and columns, of Many great track athletes, he" ORGANISATION SYSTEMį

throughout smoked One of the important Items now ing men" were waiting anxiously smoke and fire illumined the sky. The extent of this reorganisationing it very difficult for the existing being carried out in the present in an old monastery in Honan, It was estimated that in the training There was. however, an ean be gauged from the fact that magistrates serving the provincial civic reform movement in Chengtu They were reading newspapers and three-day air raids the Japanese increasing tendency for young mer the Reds have established government in Tientsin to hold

over the had lost about 50 planes, either to abstain from tobacco. possibly Hupeh 3 settled and effective their own districts, let alone ex-is the division of the permanent got extremely excited regime in 17 districts, with its pand their area of authority off residents into groups of tens and news about the war in Shanghai. damaged or totally destroyed. The as a reaction against smoking by

hundreds in accordance with what They were exceedingly anxious to Chinese also suffered losses, but the women. capital in a hŝien in the heart of the railways.

There was no foundation. Dr. is known as the Pao and Chia leave for the Shanghai front, but losses were comparatively light. the Province.

In this area banditry has been marooned in this area declare that system of organisation for mutual then no. order was issued for their The clashes in the air gave new Abrahams declared, for the dea hopes to the whole Chinese nation. that alcohol was a good food jur HARLEY-On June 10, 1938, at suppressed completely, primary the territory is being administered aid, surety, protection, and service departure.

-an ancient Chinese institution Rickdon. West Clandon, William schools have been opened, and the by keen and active young men still found practical and useful in

arming and training of the masses They will permit no oficial of the modern China, especially in this WORLD STUDENT Frank Harley, aged 60.

are in full swing.

puppet regime into their territory time of national emergency. A Red military academy has been and have, executed every magis-

Following this Pao-chla organi- set up and a self-defence corps trate who has fallen into their sation, every ward with a hundred soon expected to number half a hands,

households or establishments will million, has been formed purely for The Reds are basing their policy have a bead or chang nominated local defence purposes. This corps not only on wholesale anti-by its constituency and confirmed is augmented by a force of regulats Japanese campaign but on an

by higher authority. Each Pao is to and guerillas, all violently anti-economic plan, the chief point bebe again divided into ten Chlas,

released by the Chinese autho-HOW THE PRINCESSES Japanese,

ing the declaration of a mora-each consisting of ten households

ritles here. this morning in con- air torium on all debts for three years or establishments with a male

the Japanese Mr. Lán Sen, Chairman of the nection with Desai's address. at the London THE PEOPLE of both sexes and of and a differentiated scale of re-person to be assigned as chlachang National Government, personally raids in Kwangtung province. Majlis, whose largely attended all ages below 60. are being suisitions up to 90 per cent. In the These paochangs and chlachangs received the four members of the From August 31, 1937 to June 7, meeting was a great sutiens, was organised with a thoroughness this case of the richest people.

are jointly responsible for peace World's Student Delegation now his confident assertion that India part of the country has

and order within their jurisdiction. in a goodwill tour to China, at will achieve her freedom in five known.

THEY HAVE vowed to attack any

The writer the other day was in the National Government Head- years' time-the statement being Communismis rarely, if ever. and every Japanese economie Hrinta, a model district north-east quarters this morning. greeted with prolonged cheering mentioned, and the movement and project in the north and as a be-of Chengtu, and he was much im.

During the interview, in which theme of all the ginning have ordered a reduction pressed by two rooms within the the members, Mr. Grank Lathe, intensive pro-by 20 per cent. of cotton plantings magistracy. One of these contains Miss Molly Yard, Mr. Bernard paganda now car this year. Grain is now being hundreds of maps showing the Floud and Mr. James Klugmann, ried

every grown instead to ensure self-sum-exact whereabouts and the size of paid their respects to the vener. Into village is based on ciency in food-stuffs. (“

land for which a deed with

a able Chairman, Mr. Lin was very Throughout the areas controlled drawing has been issued to every much pleased and highly praised resistance to Japan.

The political agents of the ath

by the Reds, the owner.. Mr. Desai said those who" had

the ideal which prompted their Kuomintang na- The other has a household or framed the constitution and ar-Route Army assert that this is but KUOMINTANG

their visit to China balke A tional dag fajfamily record of every one within ranged the franchise thought they one of five areas in which regional FLAG FLOWN

The delegates left Chungking flown with theja district. could play on the ignorance and administrations are organising the

by plane this afternoon for Chengtu is now having a new Chengtu, from where they will Illiteracy of the peasant, but were people in the northern provinces. Soviet hammer and sickle beneath

census taken and some social in- mistaken.

North Shenai is the base of the t.

In their successful fight against vestigation is also being done, by continue their tour to Bian and franchise really gave one whole movement while similar The vote in two for the effective male areas are being created in North the Japanese, the Reds have divid-experts from the University of re- Nanking, now temporarily holding voting population and the pea and South Bhansi as well as ined their mobile units into

giments of 1500 men (three batta-[its classen on the campus of the sants voted in their strength, Hopeh.

It is a fact that in the whole of Kons) while the smallest unit con- West

University, China Union showing conclusively that they were quite politically conscious the interior bounded on the east by sists of 14 men, with a machine-outside the south, gate, of this and shattering forever the fallacy the Tsinpu line and on the west gun for each such unit. Graduates Széchuen capital. that the Cougress did, not speak by the Yellow River, the Japanese of the Red academy are in charge for India or was unrepresenta-hold nothing but, the thin lines if of the troops. tive of workers and peniants.

ADDRESS TO LONDON INDIANS

Freedom In Five Years

A feature of Mr. Bhulabhai

"Our freedom will be won in India by Indians. Young Indians COMMUNISM abroad can best help by maintain- RARELY ing the highest standards of In-MENTIONED dia's honour and

showing

country determination".

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DELEGATES.

Personally Received By Mr. Lin Sen

Chengking, Jane" 20.

ather northwest cities.

KWANGTUNG AIR® RAID FIGURES

Canton, June 20.

The following are official figures

1938:

muscular work. His experience of athletes showed that hero-worship led them to "follow blindly" the methods of outstanding sportsmen.. "The beer-drinking habit of a Inspire famous performer will them to imbibition of draughts distasteful, perhaps ever causes ing." he said.

BECAME GUIDES Enrolled By Their Aunt In a message to the annuaÏ" Number of air raids over Kwang-'meeting of the Imperial Council of

the Girl Guides' Association, the " tung, 1.400 times,

Number of air raids over Canton Princess Royal, president of the Association, referred to the forma- City, 800 times.

Number of Japanese planes tion of the 1st Buckingham Palace raiding province, 5,986.

Company. Number of bomba dropped in "In December," she wrote, "I

Guides enrolled several

and province. 10.292.

Number or houses destroyed in Brownies. In the 1st Buckingham province. 5.027.

Palace Company and Pack, among Number of civilians killed in whom were Princess Elizabeth and province, 4,595.

Princess Margaret. Number of civilians injured in province. 8,555.

Casualties in Canton City from 28 to June 7, 1938:

Number of civilians killed over 1,500.

Number of civiliana Injured 5,500 (Central News).

"I am very glad to hear that our world total has increased by. over 55.000, though there is still a decrease in this country and a great need for more Guidea" ;

SIAN PREPARES

JAPANESE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION Blan, June 20. Preparations are preeding

Shanghai, June 20.1 with space here it connection

The American sysem of educa the welcome to members of the

tion as adopted by most middle The reported discovery of hema-World's Student Delegation who

Canton, June 20. schools has been abolished inter- Cantum suffered a heat wave ritory under. Japanese control and The Reds are fighting a war of tite (from ore) a hundred miles are expected to arrive shortly

today with the temperature soar-is being replaced by the Japanese liberation similar to the Germans northwest of Fort William is to be from Szechwan

The delegates whi inspecting to 92 degrees. Cold drinks system. against Napoleon In 1812. Their investigated and a survey made at gress would reaist the Federal

It is suggested that schools in scheme which made a joke of GUERILLA bands have percolated organisation is trully excellent and once by the Ontario Department various national salvation work, were prohibited as a sanitary

hot the International Settlement should throughout the countryside lunder, the present circumstances of Mines, according to Hon. Paul and will also meet representatives measure. The unusually democratic government by denying India's right to manage her own and the invaders have been forced the Japanese can have no hope of Leduc Minister of the Depart-student bodies here. (Central weather has given rise to dysen-follow the new systern-Interna-

ment.

tional). tery (International). (News)..! to build concrete piil-boxes and to defeating them. attaire

railways that

run through this

Mr. Dess emphasised that Con-area.

少

HEAT WAVE IN CANTON