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SITUATION IN SOUTH SHANSI

IS AGAIN TENSE: JAPANESE

· RESUME OFFENSIVE

Financial Crisis

Chinese Score Victory In Germany

At Yangchiachwang

Tungkwan. August 18.

The situation in south Shansi has again become tense following the resumption of the Japanese offensive yesterday by two routes.

Advancing to Pinglu from Chinhslen in, the south Japanese troops were repulsed by the Chinese after a three-hour battle. Other Japanese units are pushing from Linchin on the east bank of the Pen Rlyer in south Shans! to Yungtsi (Puchow).

Chinese forces are concentrating/

in Linchin. Yungeht and Pinglu,

forming a triangular area in order JAPANESE

to check the Japanese, advance on Tungkwan on the southern bank of the Yellow River.

The Chinese at Yangchlachwang, east of Huohsien, in south Shansi, scored a victory over the Japanese after fighting for several days.

More than ten Japanese officers and 150 soldiers were killed, and eight, officers and 300 soldiers wounded.(International).

Namoa Island Radio Station Destroyed

Swatow, August 18, That the Japanese on Namon Island · recently des- troyed the radio station there by dynamiting it was revealed by wounded Chinese guerillas brought here for treatment yesterday.

This accounts for the lack of reports on the situation on the Island recently.

་

A

ARRESTED IN

SHANGHAI

Hankow. August 13.

policemer of the bogus govern

Japanese and four Chinese

ment in mufti were arrested by police whilst searching the Hua Hsin Printing Press in Haining. Road in the International Settle- ment yesterday morning.

LABOUR CLASSES »

'HAVE LOST THEIR FREEDOM

STRINGENCY OF CREDIT

rom-

Berlin, August 18. The Financial News, menting on Germany's finan- cial crisis, states that while a variety of factors contributed to the decline, the basic factor, has been the real and sudden stringency of credit resulting from a major change in An- ancial policy, but the present difficulties cannot necessarily be interpreted as

sign of capital and labour in Germany at last revolting against the increasing burdens imposed on them.

Additional pressure on the Ger-

FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1938.

FOREIGN MAILS

Air mail letters may be posted in the ordinary posting boxes. They should be clearly marked "By Air Mail" and bear sufficient postage. In- sufficiently prepaid letters may be taxed with double the deficiency or forwarded by Steamer Service, at the discretion of the Post Ofice. Air Mail Services to Shanghai, Nanking, Taingtan, Tientsin and

Peiping are temporarily suspended.

Letters and Postcards for Europe and South Americs re forwarded “via Siberia" f.so superscribed.

From

INWARD MAILS

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Shanghal and Swatow...

Per

Due

Direct Service"-London

date, Imperial

14th Anguist.

Airways Plane

19th Aug-

Shanghai and Swatow

Taiyuan.......

20. Aug

Klungchow.

20th Aug.

Haiphong. Pakhol and Hothow... Shanghai

Kianggu.....

20th Aug.

Conte

Biancamano...

Shanghai and Swatow.

Hupeh...

Straits

Ruys

Titan...

Shanghai and Amoy

| Shanghai

Japan and Shanghai...

Straits Salgon

U.S.A.. Honolulu. Japan and Manila

Soochow

(San Francisco-date, 29th July) Pres. Coolidge..... Air Mail by "Imperial Airways

Service "--London date. Imperial

Direct

17th August.

Straits

Marila

Calcutta and Straits....

Kumsang.

52nd Aug. 22nd Aug.

and Aug" 2nd Aug.

Aeners...

22nd Aug.

Cremer.

23rd Aug.

G.G. Paul Doume.

$3rd Aug.

93rd Aug.

Airways Plane

24th Aug.

Eumaeus

24th Aug.

Pleasantville

S4th Aug...

26th Aug.

41

Emp. of Russia... Shirala.....

26th Ang.

25th Aug.

Gneisenau.

25th Aug.

Japan. Shanghal and Formosa Japan

Conte Rosso, Hakusan Maru

"26th Aug

28th Aug.

Kamo Maru.......

28th Aug.

Direct Service"-San Pan-American Francisco data, 20th August. Straits

Airways Plane

27th Aug.

Kasima Maru...........

27th Aug.

Questioned by the police, they man capitalist will doubtless pro-Canada, U.S.A.. Japan and Shang- said that they were searching for vide a solution to the inancial hai (Vancouver B.C., date, 6th books about Generalissimo Chlang problem while by a forced labour August) Kai-shek.

decree,, labouring classes have al-Japan The Japanese was later handed ready entirely lost their freedom. over to the Japanese gendarme headquarters arid the four Chinese

to the First Special District Court.

(Central News).

CHANGSHA AIR

RAID CASUALTIES

Changsha, August 18. More than 200 persons were killed and over 500 wounded during The soldiers were wounded in yesterday's Japanese air raid over the course of a counter-attack on here which was described as Tuesday night on Lungoa, on the the severest so far. west of coast of the Island when Over 100 missiles were rained in several flerce hand-to-hand over the densely populated sections combats over 100 Japanese soldiers of the city, razing about 300 houses. were slain.(Central News).

to the ground (Central Newa).

WOUNDING CASE Gen. Vuillemin

AT KOWLOON.

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By this time her cries for help had attracted the attention-of | several members of the European staff of the Airport. They had come to her ald, meeting her at the gate of the house. The police were called to the scene and Mrs. Lafleur was sent in an ambulance to the Kowloon Hospital. "An Emergency Unit squad, led by Police Bergeant W. McLeod, had

·later found, in the adjoining hills about two miles away, two men hiding under a rock. One of them had a stab wound in his arm and incised cuts in his band,

His jacket had two buttons miss、 ing. A third button appeared to be sewn on with a different kind of thread.

BUTTON FOUND

At Bavarian

SEEKING TRADE TREATY WITH AMERICA Indications that Germany is seek- ing again German-American Trade Treaty is evident in the ap- peal for better trade relations between the two countries made by the Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economics, Herr Brinkmanni.

Speaking in Berlin yesterday. before the American and Ger- man Chamber of Commeres, he remarked that the United States had land with surplus raw materials which Germany was lacking and could take up.. The United States wished Im- provement in the German debt service which Germany would effect if she could sell more. goods on the American market.

On the other hand; Mr. Cordell Hull's broadcast provoked an angry retort on the part of the semi-

'Plane Works official, organ, Diplomatie Corres-

Berlin, Aug. 18. The Chief of the General Staff of the French Air Force. General Vuillemin, and his en- tourage, were received at the Bavarian aeroplane works in Augsburg by the works' Direc tor and

Chief Constructor, Prof. Messerschmidt, yesterday afternoon.

Japan and Shanghai.. Straits

Air Mail by "Pan-American Air-

北

OUTWARD MAILS

REGISTERED AND PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes esclier " than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 3 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5p.m. on the previous day.

#

For

FRIDAY

Samshut and Wuchow...... Sandakan Kongmoon Swatow, Amoy and Foochow

*Straits and Calcutta Air Mail for Slan, Lanchow,Chang- sha and Chengtu, etc. (via · Han- kow) by the "Eurasia Airways Service" (To further points by surface transport as Servicos per- mit). Manita

pondence, which remarks that Mr Hull was conforming with the pre- sent trend in American foreign

SATURDAY policy which "diverges more and Samshut and Wuchow.... more from the proclaimed prin- Air Mall for "K.L.M. Airways Direct) ciples of neutrality and non- intervention in the affairs of other States and, particularly other con tinents.

"America's efforts to play the part of moral instructor to the The visitors were particularly in-whole world, which offers a pre- terested in the two-motored heavy text for political interference in pursuit planes "BF 110" and made Cistant lands is becoming learer a thorough inspection of the fac- and clearer adds the paper-. {tory.~~~(Transocean),

AN AIR PACT?

London, Aug. 18.

(Reuter).

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS

London, Aug. 18. The unfavourable indications of The visit of General Vuillemin German economic conditions have

Per

Date and Time

3.15 AM " Bay ast 10.00 AM

Friday, 19th

Tai Ming.. Mausang

Op Lee..

3.00 PM

Par. Ord.

LOJ PH

5.00 PM

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Yuensang.

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Eurasia Plane

Heg, Ord.

4.30 PM

5,00 M

Gertrude Maersk

6,00 FM

Saturday, 20th

Kongso

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Service"-due Amsterdam, 30th. August. Kongmoon

Naldera

Beg. Ori

8.30AM

10.00 AM

Fook On

10.00 AM

G.P.O. & K.P.O...

Par. 19th 8.60 FÍ

Straits, Sandakan, Ceylon, India. E. & S. Africa, Aden, Egypt, Malta and Europe via Marseilles-due Marseilles, 18th September Haiphong ..........

Naldera Canton

Lycemoon......

Airmail for “France Orient Air- Ways Service "due Marseilles. 4th September: Marilia. Straits, Ceylon. India,{"

Egypt and *Europe via Naples | Conte- due Naples, 12th September.. Saigon..

Amoy

SUNDAY

Blancamano.. Lyeemoon... Anshun..

to Germany and the friendly re-been somewhat relieved by the fol- A button with some thread on ception accorded to the French eign trade returns for July, show- Japan and EUROFE via Siberia... Kutaang... it, found at the scene of the assault, General is given much prominence ing exports of Greater Germany appeared to match the buttons and in the London press.

for that month to amount to 470. Swatow and Shanghai...... thread of the man's coat. This The opinion is voiced that the 000.000 marks, representing an in- man. Cheung Tak, was taken into visit of the French General might crease of custody by the police He was sent possibly initiate an understantng June. to the Kowloon Hospital; from of the Western Powers regarding where he was discharged on, August an air pact.

2.

33,800,000 marks over

Imports totalled 472,500,000 marks, a decrease of 13,100,000 The Daily Express learns, in this marks. On August 6, at the Kowloon connection, that the British Air City Police Station, Mrs. Lafleur Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, will trade balance has thus beer re

Greater Germany's unfavourable identified Cheung Tak as the man De Invited to Beriin in the near duced from 49,400,000 in "June to who had stabbed her.

future, and will accept such an 2,500,000 marks in July. invitation(Transocean).

Evidence was heard yesterday from Sgt. T. G. Mackay, Police Photographer, Mr. R. H. E, Marks, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kowloon; and Mrs. Lafleur.

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FRENCH SCIENTIST

in

.......Kingyuan........ *Swatow. *Shanghai and Tientsin... Wingsang... Air Mail for Wuchow and Chung- klar by the “CNAC. Airways Direct Service.

MONDAY

C.N.A.C. Plane

Air Mail for “Imperial; Airways

Direct Service "-dne London. Imperial 29th August.

Finished goods dominated the in- crease in exports, with a rise of 34,700,000 marks. The decrease in importe la mairily, in foodstuffs, though purchases of raw materials Airmail for Malaya and Australia

and semi-finished goods, increased.

These Agures, however, are not considered sufficient to warrant the supposition that there is a change"

Reg. 20th 9.45 3x Ord.20th 10.30 AM +.00 PM G.PO.KP.O. Beg, LOUPE Ord. 4.30 PM GP.O.&KPO.

Beg, Ord.

415 32 5:00 PM

6.00 PM

5:00 PM

1.00 PM

Sunday, 21st

9.00 AM

$8.00 AM

G.P.O. & K.P.Q.

Key Ruth 5.00 PM Ord Slat Noon

Monday, 22nd

K.P.O Beg. 5.00 PM Ord. 530 PM G.P.O.

Reg 4.00 PM

Airways Plane.

urd

7,00 PM

KPO

Bea, OnL

$.00

5.30 PM GP.O.

Airways Plane

Ber..

5.00 7

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· 7,00 M

by Imperial Airways Direct Imperial Service"-due Sydney, 29th Aug.

TUESDAY

in the general tendency for imports Manlis, Makasser and Sourabaya... Tylnegara. to increase and exports to contract A Mall for "KLM on contractions of the worla market(Reuter},

BRITISH EXPORTS

Airways Direct Service”--due Amsterdam, 4th September, Straits, Ceylon, India, Aden. Egypt and Europe via Marseilles due Marseilles, 24th Sept. and Lön- don Parcels dus London, 1st October.............

Tuesday, 23rd

9.30 M;

G.P.O:&KP.0.

Aeneas

Ord

Mrs. Lafleur stated that prior to (Continued from Page 1) the incident she was in the sitting

he was in Shanghal, be conveyed room, talking with the gardener, when she had noticed three men in the greetings of the Director- the garden. She had ordered the General of the Institute to mem- gardener to mop up the door at a bers of the branch and encourager spot from where some furniture them in their work. had been removed, He had left the ANTI-RABIC RESEARCÚ room and, shortly afterwards, she]

The French authorities had been attacked by the two men. Shanghal are giving generous sup-

Further hearing of the committal proceedings against Cheung Tak port to the Pasteur Institute there will continue through the afternoon and are contemplating the building of September 2.

of a new pavillon near the present-

London, August 18. premises, said Professor Bernard. British parts to Spain have 'Hothow, Pakhoi and Haiphong....Taiyuan.

The anti-rable research section Increased during recent months, it swatow, "Shanghai and Tientsin... Yatshing.. of the Institute in Shangnal was revealed here yesterday. The Swatow

................... | Klangsu. visited daily by some 20 to 40 per-total for the first six months of Air Mail for Wuchow 'and“ Chung- Bons and, when the new pavilion 1938 is over £1,000,000 higher .king. by the "C.N.A.C. Always is completed the first floor of the than for the same period last Direct Service.”

Haiphong

JAPANESE SHELL

HEUNGCHOW

Chungshan, August 18.

TO SPAIN

A Japanese warship and two building is to be entirely set apart year, pinnaces shelled and machine- for: research,

Imports into Nationalist Spain gurined Heungchow, in the Chung- The Institute in Shanghai is totalled #2319,000, shan district, yesterday, No equipped with everything necessary Coal, machinery and chemicals damage Was caused.— (Central to fight local diseases and to min- are the principal goods in de- News),

ister to the city's sanitary needs. mand.(Transocean),

Aeneas....

C.N.A.C. Plaue Hangsang #Superserthad Corregsondence Only.

8.31AM 9.00 AM

G.P.O.&K.P.O. Far. 22nd 5,00 P Beg 23rd 8.45 AM Ord, and 8,304 M

11:00 AM 110 c

G.P.O.&XP.O. Reg. 4:30 PM Ord

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