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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1939

JAPANESE COLUMN ROUTED ON

HUNAN BORDER: RECAPTURE OF HSITANG BY CHINESE

Heavy Japanese Reverses In Shansi Fighting

·

PINGKIANG, Oct. 19. (Central)--A Japanese column. comprising about 1,000 cavalrymen and 3,000 infantrymen, was routed yesterday by the Chinese atop Kiukung Moun- tain on the Hupeh-Kiangsi" border.

Over 1,000 Japanese were slain in action, 1,800 wound- ed and eight taken prisoner. Chinese war booty included 100 rides. 10 machine-guns, 50 army. horses, six anti-tank guns and a considerable quantity of ammunition..

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Warm Praise For Turkish Loyalty

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reiter) --The Turkish press unanimously ap prave Turkey's rejection of the Soviet proposals which are in- compatible with her own security. Turkey is not surrendering her rights in the Dardanelles,

Turkish loyalty to her obliga- tions to Britain and France are warmly commented on in the

The Japanese column form- successfully drove the invaders Paris press.

a part of the force away. which was defeated early in

the month at Changshoukai,

CHINESE CLOSE IN PINGKIANG, Oct 19 (Central)

Chinese troops are swiftly closing

35 miles north-east of Ping- in on Wuning. 70 miles north-west kiang. in a drive from Tung-of Nanchang.

to

In Germany the breaking of of negotiations between Russia" and Turkey came as a disappointment.

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Tripartite Agreement

cheng to Changsha. Chinese A Chinese column which crossed units in north Klangsi pur- the Slu River on Tuesday has sued it to Kiukung Mountain, forced Its way

the north- where it was surrounded. eastern suburbs and cut the Jap-|

PARIS, Oct. 19 (Reuter)-It la | After three days' bitter fight- anese contact with the rear while officially announced here that the ing, it was dispersed with another column has recaptured Anglo-Franco-Turkish Tripartite heavy losses.

at

and

Japanese

Paoshinho Wangshihtam, south of Tungshan in South Hupeh, are reported to have been dispersed after week's fighting. The Chinese cap- tured an anti-tank gun.

USITANG RECAPTURED

CHANGSHA, Oct. 19 (Central)

*

Liki, west of Wuning."

Liangkow, north-east of Slushul. has also been taken back by the Chinese.

{Agreement will be signed at Ankara

this evening.

GENERALS ARRIVE -- General Wavell, Commander of JAPANESE REVERSES

the British Army in the Near East LOYANG, Oct. 19 (Central)— Japanese forces based at Fencheng, and General Weygand, Comman- der-in-Chief of the French Forces Siangling. Linien, Hellungkwan. Chings angchen, and Shangchih. Syria have arrived in Ankara by air. Their visit is to be taken as a

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NEXT POINT OF GERMAN ATTACK:

CRITICS

DIRECT

ATTENTION

TO

15-MILE PLAIN FROM THE RHINE

*But you told me it was stuffed!" (Daily Express).

ANOTHER BATTLE.

IN N. SEA

A Chinese pincer movement on, che, in South Shansi, launching sequel to former visits which Gen and warships is unknownL Tuesday resulted in the recapture a five-pronged drive on the Chin- Weygand of Esitang,

north-east

of

Sintsiangchen in North Hunan,

ough Japanese reinforcemerits e called in twice, the Chinese

JAPANESE SET FREE SWEDISH

RESIDENT

PERPING. Oct. 19 (Beuter) Despatches from Kalgan state that M. George Boderbom, Life-long Swedish resident of Inner Mon-

and Brigadier-General

TO WISSEMBOURG

Moselle Rising: Nazis Feverishly Strengthen The Siegfried Defences

A REUTER REPORT FROM LONDON. DECLARES THAT CRITICS IN "ATTEMPTING TO FORECAST THE NEXT POINT OF GERMAN ATTACK, DIRECT ATTEN- TION TO THE 15-MILE PLAIN FROM THE RHINE TO` WISSEMBOURG WHICH IS FAIRLY OPEN, THOUGH DOTTED WITH WOODS, WHILE THE RIVER LAUTER

[ADML. BLAGROVE CONSTITUTES THE BARRIER.

LOST LIFE IN ROYAL OAK

FRENCH RECONNAISSANCES WERE RECENTLY AC- TIVE IN THIS AREA AND COLLECTED NUMEROUS PRI- SONERS FOR INFORMATION.

From Pirmasens to Merzig it is almost wholly indus- trial with plentiful roads to "facilitate the German ad- vance but the first weeks of the war enabled the French artillery to accurately plot all this area.

Among the 34 officers, who with 788 other ranks lost their lives AMSTERDAM, Oct. 19 (Reuter) when HMS. Royal Oak was sunk Six warships were seen Aghting last Saturday was Rear-Admiral was $2 and had twelve planes in the North Sea. Blagrove. He

Other sectors are hilly and British lines, had a big surprise according to reports from the served in the Navy 37 years. wooled, particularly between yesterday when they found that s Dutch Island of Schiermonnikoog.

In 1934 he went to the Admiralty the Saar and the Moselle, to party of officers had stopped to The nationality of the planes as Naval Assistant to the Becond the north of Merzig and Inspect their work. They quickly Bea Lord now Admiral of the Fleet Sterck, where thickly clad recognised, among the party, the Sir Dudley Pound, First Ses Lord

"Commander-in-Chief, Lord Gort, hillsides descend steeply to the Duke of Windsor and the Duké

· FIRING | BEARD ~

Three weeks before the outbreak the rivers." COPENHLACHEN, Oct. 19. (Reuter) of war it was announced by the

of Gloucester. The population of Langeland Admiralty that he had been ap-Moselle is rising and the adjoining their obvious surprise and went up

Luxembourg reports say that the

The Duke of Windsor smiled at The present visit will, it is heard heavy dring all day long pointed Admiral Superintendent of country is flooded. The Germans and spoke with several of the men. the Chinese between Pushien and thought, coincide with the signa- yesterday from the direction of Chatham Dockyard as from Octo-are feverishly. strengthening the

'ture of the Anglo-Franco-Turkiah Fehmarn to the north-east of ber 2. He was promoted Rear-Siegfried Line opposite Luxembourg into one of pill boxes held by the The Royal brothers then went. Admiral last January.--(BWS). with deep trenches and formidable British In their sector of the line.

wire entanglements and are cut- They made a through inspection. “ ting down thousands of trees to of it. widen the field of fire.

ese stronghold at Luliangshan since Land made, to

Ankara for con-

October 6 have met with serious saltations on general military mat-

A part of them are surrounded by

reverses.

-

Linien.

Since last Sunday, the Chinese have tightened their encirclement by blockading the mountain passes In the vicinity of Tumen, north- west of Linfen, Meanwhile, unita were despatched to intercept Jap- anese reinforcements from Puhsten, Hellungkwan Kucheng and Fen- cheng.

In north Shansi, "Chinese units

golia, has been released after have re-occupied Yuanping, south three months' imprisonment at

of Kwohsien On the Tatung-

the Japanese Military Headquar-Pucnow Railway. As a result, com-

ters.

Treaty.-(BWS).

Deliberate

Klei.

Understatement By Mr.

Chamberlain Welcomed By Press

· HEAVY RAINS

GERMAN AIRMEN REACH COAST..

PARIS, Oct. 19 (Reuter)The heavy rains on the Western. Front are working on the side of the French. Parts of the Rhine are OF YORKSHIRE flooded and it is reported that Ger-.

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Renter) man soldiers have to pump awaTwo. German airmen reached s water from the main fortifications

Yorkshire coastal town to-day in a collapsible rubber boat. - They No major offensive has been taken by the Germans but activity bomber which was disabled and are members of the German is reported behind the lines which crashed into the sea after the alr

tels stated that one of the munication on the northern sec- GERMAN PLANES Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Commons yesterday of the Siegfried Line. terms for his release is that he tion of the railroad has been dis-

rupted. The Japanese sent bombers

shall not leave Mengchiang terri- from Taiyuan and Tatung to at-

tory,

M. Soderbom's headquarters have long been at Kuelhun He accompanied M. Sven Hedin's last expedition into Central Asia.

ARRESTED ON SUSPICION

tack the Chinese units there both

on Sunday and Monday.

OVER SCAPA FLOW

CHINESE ATTACK.

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter) ---- YUNGYUN, KWANGTUNG, Oct. German

planes

observed were

19 (Central)-Chinese troops have nying over Scapa Flow but no been attacking Sheklung on the bombs were dropped. Canton-Kowloon Railway, 40 milles Kirkwall,

It is recalled that M. Soderbom was arrested on suspicion of work-

the largest town in ing in the interests of an unnamed to the east of Canton, in the past the Orkneys, saw a raider nying third power. It is learned reliably few days, according to military over a great height in the directia now that that power was supposed advices. Some 2,000 Japanese troops of Scapa Flow.

Anti-aircraft fre wÊI to have been Britain, suspicion are guarding the town. Having rested on him because a

.. HANKOW EXODUS

against the raider which CHUNGKING, Oct. 19 (Central) observers declare lurched number of his guests at Kuelḥua had been British, including Lieut.-Foreign reports state that there and may have been hit. Cooper who was arrested with Cal. has been a noticeable exodus of C. R. Spear,

Chinese from. Hankow since the British Military Attache,

LONDON, Oct 19 (BWS)-The deliberate understate- ment which marked the speech by the Prime Minister, Mr.

in dealing with enemy air attacks on Fleet bases is wel- comed by the press and attention is drawn to his observa- tion that the extent of the enemy's disappointment at the failure of these attacks to inflict any serious injury on our ships may be measured by the fantastic nature of the claims they have felt obliged to invent.

The

or

battle on Monday.

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One of them was wounded in the leg. The other two members of the bomber's crew were Hilled."

indicate that the Germans are either reinforcing

relieving front line 'soldiers.

"Daily Telegraph" says: "It is clear that our

ROYAL INSPECTION Government is determined the world shall be given no

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter)- Major-General the Duke of Glou- reason to judge Britain by similar standards.

cester and Major-General the Duke All foreigners are prohibited "Advantages to be got by lying The "Manchester Guardian "of Windsor inspected a brigade" of from proceeding to or travelling are short-lived. If our communi- says: "Reputation for frankmess Guards in the front lines.

in Kwangsi for a period of six ques are to win implicit belief and truthfulness is one of the Viscount dort, V.C., Comman-months except Wuchow, Nanning opened which alone has lasting value they greatest assets we can have. der-in-Chief of the British Forces and Lungchow with effect from

some must lay claim to no successes badly which are not thoroughly estab-ways beat us in volume, in ability

"German propaganda' must al-in France, accompanied them.

October 12. This ruling of the BIG SURPRISE

Kwangs! Provincial Government lished.

and, unscrupulousness. But in a

LONDON, Oct. 19 (BWA)--Cor has been approved by the National RECONNAISSANCE

"Adhering strictly to these prin- long war its very extravagances respondents with the British" and Government, which has instruct- LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter-The ciples the Prime Minister took the must defeat its ends. Air Ministry announces that enemy highest estimate of the number of

foreign forces in France reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs aircraft, apparently in recon- German bombers concerned in the worse the personal abuse, more work digging just

"More vigorous the lying, the that a party of troops, hard at to notify all concerned--(Inter-

behind the national). naissance, was seen to approach recent ralds and reckoned only vainglorious the boasts in these Scapa Flow from the direction of eight machines were actually seen early months of war "the sooner Kirkwall and Duncan's Byhead to have been brought down in ar will Germany bring herself, into CHUNGKING, Oct. 19, (Central) yesterday but no bombs were drop-riving at his statement that universal discredit.”

Casualties inflicted on the enemy exceeded 25 per cent.

recent Chinese air raids: It is M. Soderbom's house at Kuei-rumoured that Chinese forces will hus had for years been the cara-soon launch an attack on the vanseral for foreign travellers of Wuban cities,

all nationalities who visited hotel- iess. Kueihta.

AMICABLE AFFAIR.

M. Boderhom's release appears

to have been an amicable affair,

PATROL UNIT ATTACKED

-A Japanese patrol unit was at- ped. ticked, by Chinese guerillas at Chenklaklao in Hungjao Road be-

"In these circumstances his dry!

as it is reported he has been asked toze daybreak on Tuesday, states a AUSTRALIAN NAVY admission that they may have SUCCESSFUL R.A.F.

to lead a Japanese expedition into Shanghai report

Inner Mongolia in search of In the darkness the Japanes Nestorian remains, in which con-talled to put up resistance. Two of nection M. Soderborn is well-them were killed and two other informed

"taken prismer

SIR VICTOR SASSOON GIVES MILLION DOLLARS TO BRITISH WAR FUND

SIR VICTOR SASSOON, BT., Chairman of E. D. Sas- 500n Banking Co., Ltd., and prominent Far East racehorse -owner, has made a donation of $1,000,000 to the Central British War Fund (Shanghai) on, behalf of the Sassoon interests.

was officially

This was officially announced In Shanghai yesterday, according to a Reuter message.

Sir Victor's donation is to be payable in twelve month-

ly instalments.

* Sir Victor, who was born in 1881, was formerly a Cap- tain in the Royal Air Force.

IN COMMISSION SYDNEY, Oct. 19 (Reuter)--All reserve ships of the Royal, Aus- tralian Navy are now in commission and over thirty ships have been taken over. The personnel has been more than doubled, fum- bering 10,000 men,

All British ships leaving for distant ports from Australia are now being armed for defensive purposes,

HUGE SEIZURE OF CONTRABAND.

Last week the Contraband Con- LONDON, Oct. 10 (Reuter) --

trol authorities detained 23.000. tons of contraband destined for Germany. Total contraband' cap- tured since the war began amount- ed to 338,000 tons,

been higher sets the mind specu. lating on how very much higher: Nazi methods of computation would have made them.

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RECONNAISSANCE

LONDON, Oct. 19 (Reuter) - The Royal Air Force last night conducted · 2 successful récon naissance Aight over north-west Germany. The aircraft taking |part reached their objectives and

all returned safely,"

FOOD RATION SCHEME

2 The Ministry of Food has uD- nounced that arrangements for

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Soldier as Citizen Airport news Harbour..race

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the introduction of the rationing

scheme are in an advanced state

of preparation. Ration books will be issued to consumers at least ten days before the date on "which' fationing begins so that they are given time for registration by con- sumers with retailers of their choice (BWB).

FULLY MANNED are these. anti-aircraft and mac

fences somewhere in Southeast England."