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Violent Cannonades Exchanged With German Forces
REUTER REPORTS FROM PARIS THAT FRENCH
AND GERMAN GUNS
HAVE BEEN
EXCHANGING VIOLENT CANNONADES ON THE WESTERN FRONT. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME, SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, THAT THERE HAS BEEN PROLONGED ARTIL- LERY ACTION ON THE STRETCH ALONG THE RHINE BETWEEN STRASBOURG AND THE SWISS FRONTIER.
AFTER A WEEK SPENT IN CONSOLIDATING GAINS THE FRENCH HAVE MOVED UP ARTILLERY "BAT- TERIES AND ARE NOW WITHIN RANGE OF THE SIEG- FRIED LINE..
The first mention in the Italian press of the possibility of the collapse of the Siegfried Line is contained in the leading article of the "Giornale D'Italia" which was broad- cast on the Italian wifeless, says Reuter from London..
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Complete Agreement Reached
SECOND MEETING OF SUPREME
and nations should bear in
Wounded guerilla being carried to the rear by peasants after being wounded in the course of fighting in Chungshan district which is still continuing. „Other exclusive pictures will be found on Page Six.
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The allied Governments REDUCTION Starhemberg mind that even the collapse OF WARSAW: Leads Legion
of the German western wall
will probably bring the allied armies into contact with stronger German troops," the leader stated.
CLAIM DENIED PARIS, Sept. 26 (Reuter) A semi-official statement denied the German claim that eight French planes were shot. down on Sunday. It is ad-
TERRIBLE BOMBING
Against Nazis
MESSAGES
а
LONDON, Sept. 26 (Reuter) Survivors of the British steamer Hazelside gave story of their ordeal when the ship was fired upon and sunk by a German submarine.
Caulker Killing Sequel:
Counsels' Addresses
THE SHAUKIWAN MURDER TRIAL CONCLUDED BEFORE THE, CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR ATHOLL MACGRE- GOR, AT THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS. YESTERDAY. AFTERNOON. The accused men were Wong Yin, 22,
WOUNDED, SENT boller maker, Tang Loi, 25, blacksmith, Chan Lam, aged 19, paint scraper, and Wong Kee-shan, 23, grocer, charged with the murder of L So, 30, ship's caulker, at Shaukiwan on the night of July 22. The four men were arrested on board a sampan following a`brutal attack made on Li So.
Wong Yin, against whom the jury returned, a unani- mous verdict of gulity, was sentenced to death while Tang Lol was similarly sentenced but in his case the fury re- commended mercy. Both men were defended by Mr. B. C. Macnamara, instructed by Mr.,C: D'Almada, The hero of the affair was
Chan Lam and Wong Kee-j the wireless operator, who, shan, for whom the Hon. Mr. though' wounded in the face, Leo D'Almada, jun., instruct- leg and arm by shell splinters, ed by Mr. F. H. Loseby, ap-
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Chinese Hold
continued to send messages, peared, were found not gulity On Southeast
and had to be carried to the boat when the ship was aban- doned."
and were discharged.
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The prosecution was conducted of Mr. John Whyatt, Crown Coun- sel, assisted by Detective-Inspector L. R w.hant.
Of Tungting
One survivor said that they had first knowledge of the
WITH THE CHINESE FORCES attack when shells fell on The jury, comprising Messrs. V. ON THE NORTH HUNAN FRONT, various parts of the ship... A. Itenson (Foreman), M. A. Prata, Sept. 26-While admitting the ser- The captain steered a zig- HJ. A. Hearne, W. Mok, Cheung tonsness of the situation, a Chinese PARIS Sept. 26 (Reuter)-zag course but eventually had in-lee. U Tat-chee and Hool Yip-bigh commander, directing ppera- CENTRE ALMOST ving in the south of France, don the ship.
Princetarhemberg, who is to stop the engine and aban-beng, retired for 45 minutes to con- tions at the front, told a #roup of
sider their verdict.
Chinese war correspondents yester- When the bearing was resumed day that the defenders are deter-" WIPED OUT
declares that he is forming an The second engineer who yesterday morning formal cymined to fight to the end against. Austrian Legion and will lead LONDON, Sept. 26 (Beuter) it in the fight on the side of had his arm blown off, went dence was given by Mr. F. W the Japanese invaders.
down to the englbe-room to Shaftain, A.D.C.I. (Crime), who The commander stated that up mitted, however," that the The German High Com the allies. Every Austrian
to late last night, Chinese and French lost only two planes mand declared that after all should unite and fight against carry out orders and was attended the identification parade, Inspector L. R. Whant, who LONDON, Sept: 26 (Reuter) Making his fourth state-and that two German ma- efforts to persuade the War- Nazlism and, he says, "I will never seen again.
noticed bloodstains on the cloth-Japanese forces were
ment on
chines fell in French terri-saw defenders that it is hope consecrate my life towards Two of the lifeboats were ing of the first defendant, and struggle on the southeastern banks the international
of Tungting Lake. The Japanese less to hold out, operations this end. I like to follow the smashed by gunfire and all who took the defendants' state- situation since the war began,
RECONNAISSANCE the Prime Minister, Mr.
for the reduction of the city example of the Duke of Wind- had to go in the captain's jolly ments. Inspector W. A Russell, executed a fanking movement by SUCCESS
were begun when hitherto sor in fighting for his country boat which was so crowded Continued on Back Fage” Neville Chamberlain, in the
only military objectives had I cannot imagine the older that they could not use the generation of Austrians fight-oars and had to ball water out ing for the Germans.". with their seaboots.
WAR COUNCIL
tory.
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House of Commons, referred LONDON, Sept. 26 (Reuter) to the second meeting of the -The Air Ministry announces been attacked.
The gallant defenders are Supreme War Council and that the Royal Air Force car- said that it Was a great ried out successful reconnais- now meeting with unrestrict pleasure for them to welcome sance over western and north-ed warfare. The city is being the French Premier, M. Dala-west Germany on Monday.. dier, and his colleagues" to Attacks by enemy aircraft. British shores."
were repulsed the R.A.F. ma- They found themselves in com- chines returning safely plete agreement with the French their bases.
shelled indiscriminately, and
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the centre of the city is al RELENTLESS METHODS OF
GERMAN AIR FORCE
most wiped out by incendiary bombs.
to According to a Warsaw re
port the German attack on DEFEATED THE POLES
representatives on the course to Last night further recon-Praga has been thrown back. be followed to meet the develop-naissance were.
carried out ments which have taken place:
Leaflets were over Germany. since the last meeting on Septem- ber 12 and to give effect to allied dropped and all aircraft land-
Poland.
ed safely.
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Agreement was also reached on the procedure for co-ordinating and perfecting "arrangements to be made by the two Governments on the questions of munitions and supplies.
SOVIET ACTION
Since his last statement on Sep- tember 20 the effects of the ac- tion of the Soviet Government on the position in Poland had become clearer.
The Soviet forces had everywhere rapidly advanced,
Mr. Chamberlain alluded to the demarcation line, referred to in the German-Soviet communique of September 23, and said, "It will be noticed that this line brings
- the Soviet forces up to the suburbe of Warsaw and leaves the greater part of Gallicia and the Polish otl wells in Soviet control”
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R.A.F. DROP 18,000,000 PAMPHLETS
OVER ENEMY TERRITORY
LONDON, Sept. 26 (Reuter) -To date the Royal Air Force has dropped 18,000,000 pam- phlets through bomb batches, says the Ministry of Informa- tion, Strice the war began, night fights have covered thousands of miles over enemy territory and Germany has been penetrated to a consider- able depth,
The Prime Minister said that the, The pamphlets were loaded in Red Army communiques did not, bundles the size of a brick and however, suggested that Soviet released to fall on & particular troops had yet occupied all their area and to reach inhabitants of alloted territory under the agree selected towns and cities. ment amounting to more than crews worked at top speed and as half the total area of the Polish the "bricka" fell the pamphlets Republic.
spread out in a paper shower.
In those circumstances the Polish armles, taken in the rear as well as in front, had naturally been unable to main- tain their ground,
The
LONDON, Sept. 26 (Renter) -A German communique claims that the southern suburbs of Warsaw have been captured and added that the Folish de- fenders have been reinforced by armed women who ate fighting side by side with" the men.
PARIS, Sept. 26 (Reuter)-The French Ambassador in Warsaw Interviewed in Paris to-day said that the Polish Army was defeated by the crushing and relentless methods of the German Air Force which dropped aerial torpedoes and bombs Indiscriminately on any living thing.
Exceptionally Ene weather also assisted mechanised forces whose
EXCHANGE RATES FIXED
FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES ON
MONTH BASIS:
The following official forward ex LONDON.Sept. 26 (Reuter)—
change rates were fixed to-day for commercial purposes on a one month basis: New York, one cent
in a gum
landing on the eastern shores of the Tungting more thần 3,000 troops in 300 armed launches, the landing operations costing them more than 50 vessels.
*The commatider revealed that the Japanese are throwing into their big push four full divi- slons and a part of another, together with several maxine units, aided by heavy artillery and bombing squadrons,
He estimated that alice Sept. 14,
when the Japanese started their drive on Tungcheng and Binsiang. several thousand casualties have been inflicted on the invaders by the Chinese forces.
Japanese landed, have been re- duced to waste and desolation. The Chinese defenders were contesting
Lachioh and Paiya, where the
the German Monument To premium to parity: Montreal, one every inch of the Japanese ad-
On the Eastern Front the com- rapid advance turned the munique said that movement of flanks of the Polish Army. German forces towards the de
He added that where Polish marvation line continues
defeated taken.
and
2,000
4
Calinescu
and 'a half cents premium to vance, and are determined to parity: Paris, parity one quarter check the enemy push to Blang franc discount; Belgium, six cents ying, midway between Yoyang and BUCHAREST, September 26 premium to parity; The Nether. Changahe. ⠀⠀⠀ In the lower reaches of the aun and German forces met on a (Reuter)The widow of M. lands, two cents premium to
Chinese Raid * River a Polish detachment was equal footing the courage of Calinescu, the murdered parity; "Switzerland, four and`a
-CHUNGKING, Sept. 28 (Central) prisoners the Poles proved effective in Prime Minister of Rumania, half cents premium to parity: A Shanghat report reveals that
repulsing the enemy,
will be given a pension for life Stockholm, "four" dere premium
a party of Chinese mobile Aighters "RED ARMY CLAIMS
He concluded by saying and a monument will be parity: Oslu, four and a half ere staged a daring raid on the Jap- MOSCOW, Sept. 28 (Reuter) that widespread espionage erected in the place where the
anese airfield at Klanggan, near Red Army communique reports also assisted in the German Premier was assassinated.
Shanghai, in an attempt to destroy that the towns of Suvalki and victory and every town "at
the hangars here on the night of Goniondz have been reached and which the Polish Government GERMAN PLANE OVER
Sept. 23. the line running thence through stayed was known to the Surazh, Opalin, Dubenka, Podgal Nazis.
chiki, Unistyche, Rybnik and Kozlowa. *
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NARROW ESCAPE - On Other
FOR BRUSSELS EXPRESS
BRUSSELS, Sept. 26- (Reu HIGH DEGREE OF SKILL
ter)-A railway bridge in: a That most of them fell in the town near the border between iight place shows the high de- Belgium and Luxembourg was gree of navigational skill of the blown up shortly after the ex- pilots in choosing, during hours press from Brussels had pass- of darkness, the correct points to ed. Two soldiers were injur drop, the leaflets.
ed and a house nearby. damaged.
The Polish people had not, how- ever, given up the struggle and all
The value of these raids proved the world was deeply moved by the magnifeent heroism of the to be considerable as the leaflets defenders of Warsaw and the Hel gave to millions of people to The cause of the explosion Peninsula who were still holding Germany an opportunity to re- was due to accidental ex- out against surrounding German ceive an authoritative presenta ploding of a mine placed un- forces despite ruthless and con- tion of the allied case. The flights der the bridge for defence.
are also useful as reconnaissance purposes. tinuous bombardment.
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Softball notes
The Services Kowloon Chess Club, Radio prograNZZIES" Entertainment...... Bubmarine piracy continued Rotary Tiffin speech" Leading article: The War.
The Soviet . Z.B.W. Studio talk: Exclusive pictures of
NETHERLANDS.
THE HAGUE, Sept. 26 (Reuter)--
The Netherlands Government has
premium parity,
This announcement regu- larises the situation, existing. recently by which each trans- action is subject to Individual · consideration regarding per- mission and the rate of ex- change.
They clashed with the Japanese guards, slaying many of them.
Train Strikes Mine CHENGCHOW, Sept. 26 (Central Japanese armoured, train, going
instructed Ita Ambassador in Ber- It is understood that control im to make representations to the will continue selling freely if German Government concerning application for forms is satisfactory from Hantan to Anyang on the the alleged dight of a Nazi plane thus delay in securing currency Petping-Hankow Rallway shuck
should never be greater than one Chinese mine near Fenglochen over the Netherlands,
day.
week. Many Japanese officers privates were killed e *There is no suggestion that the
More than 500 Japanese are said size of amounts required, would
to have also been killed when likely be queried provided the Japanese troop trati struck represent necessary
ottier Chinese mine at Tay though naturally the closest watch
VON FRITSCH WAS LOYAL
TO PEOPLE
imports
on all transaction would be con- chen near Anyang lacer
coaches were totally
The Overseas Association In
BERLIN, Sept 26 (Reiter)-Attinued. the funeral of General von Fritachi, General von Brauchitsch, the der- man Commander-in-Chief. made
A verdict of death from natural various branch |an oration in which he said that
there was one great aim in Gen causes was returned at an inquest Philippines, have night-eral- von Fritsch which was held at the Central Court yester eralissimo day into the death of a prisoner, afirming loyalty to the German Fuehner Lau Kuen, aged 54, who was sen- National the German people and the Army, tenced to six weeks imprisonment also denounce
Field-Marstal Goering also atm August 28. He died in the ment of Wang Ching-W tended the funeral and land -
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ing in Chungahan ... Urban Council meeting: Finance and commerce. Finance and commerce..... 10
wreath on behalf of Herr Hitler,
prison hospital on September 16.
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