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VIOLENT BATTLE RAGING IN NORTH HUPEH AS ENEMY MAKES DESPERATE COUNTER-ATTACK IN AN EFFORT TO BREAK STEEL CORDON

CHUNGKING, MAY 19 (CENTRAL)—VIOLÈNT FIGHT- ING IS RAGING IN THE TSAOYANG SECTOR IN NORTH HUPEH, ACCORDING TO A REPORT FROM FANCHENG, JAPANESE UNITS ISOLATED TO THE EAST, NORTH. AND SOUTH OF TSAOYANG, HAVE LAUNCHED A DES- PERATE COUNTER-ATTACK IN AN EFFORT TO BREAK THROUGH THE CHINESE STEEL RING. A JAPANESE DETACHMENT TO THE NORTH OF TSAOYANG HAS BEEN DRIVEN BACK BY THE CHINESE TO HUYANG ACROSS THE NORTH HUPER BORDER IN SOUTH HUNAN.

Taipingchen on the border where the Japanese field headquarters was situated has been recaptured by the Chinese. Several high Jap- anese army officers are re- ported to have been killed. when the Chinese broke into the town.

With its retreat on the, Slang-

Sir Percy Loraine. the British Ambassador, in Rome,

MONDAY, MAY 20, 1940.

FOREIGN MAILS

HÓNG KONG, MONDAY, 20th HAY 1040 930

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.

Shanghai.

INWARD MAILS

From

Formosa and swatow, 149**

Amoy.

Manila

Manila

Air Mail by "Pan American. Airways Direct Ber-

vice."--San Francisco date, 14th May. Straits.

Due

30th May

2uth May

"20th May

20th May.

20th May

-Hat May,

91st May

Haiphong and Holbow

Rist May

Y

Slab May

Japan.

Air Mail by "Air France. Direct Service" -- Paris!

--date, 15th May...

Mind May

$2nd May

Shanghai and' Amoy

22nd May

Canton

22nd May

Straits.

22nd May

Straits.

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service”

London date 15th May.

23rd May

23rd May

23rd May

· 24th May

24th May

94th May

25th May.

26th May

26th May

28th May

26th May

87th May

27th May

28th May

28th May

20th May

30th May

yang-Huayuan highway cut off a MINDANAO BEAT Japan and Manța.

Japanese unit with about 400 Jap- anese army lorries and 200 tanks and armoured cars has retired to the Tahung mountain range south

TULSA

H

At the Hongkong Bowling Alleys of Tsaoyang: It has been inter- yesterday evening. U. S. S. Min- cepted and attacked by thedanao" defeated U. S. S. Tulsa by Chinese, sustaining considerable 107 pins in a five-men, three- losses."

game duck pin match. Another Japanese unit which fled to Changchiats also in the mountain Tange was Pavo Nurm, the famous Finnish Tahung runner, who is touring the United routed by the Chinese in a Berce rainstorm on States in order to collect funds for attack" during a

the relief of Finnish people.

Thursday night. Sixteen Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner and hundreds of Japanese horses and mules were captured.

Home Soccer And Rugger Results

LONDON, May 19 (Reuter-The following were the results of Home football (regional and cup) and rugby matches played on Satur-

day:-

CUP (THIRD OÜND) Fulham 2, Notts Forest 0. Everton 1, Stoke 0.

Huddersfield 3, West Ham 31 *Coventry 0 West Bromich "1. Barnsley 0, Blackpool 1. Arsenal 1, Birmingnam “ Blackburn 3, Sunderland 2. Newcastle 1, Bristol Rovers 0;" *After extra time.

REGIONAL LEAGUE ..

"South C Brentford 2, Chariton 1. Southampton-3-Tottenham 3.

South D

Aldershot"1. Southend 0. Crystal Pal. 6, Bournemouth 0. Queen's P. R. 4, Clapton O, 0. Reading 3, Brighton 1 Watford 0. Norwin u East Midland

Doncaster 2. Rothernam 1. Notts County 1, Snemeld W. 4. Sheffield U. 3, Girmsby 0.

Midland

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Luton 5, Leicester 1. Wolverhampton Walsall 5

Northeastern Bradford City 1, Middlesbro' 4. Darlington 2. Bradford 2, Halifax 0, Hull 1. York 2. Hartlepools 1.

Western

Chester 4, Liverpool 0.

Manchester C., Fort Vale ̄0.

1

Bandakan. Japan.

Canton

Japan.

Japan and Manila

Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Direct Service"

"London" date. 18th May Manila

U.S.A., Honolula and Japan (San Francisco date.

18th April).

Australia and Manila.. Haiphong

Cpl. Blount and Sg. Wilkins, of the Royal Corps of Signals, de- putised for J. T. Sheehan and D. M. Keplinger, of the Mindanao.

Japan and Shanghai. Scores were as follows:- MINDANAO-H. Blount 387. J. WCalcutta and Straits

Java and Manila, Davis 296, E. L. Emerson 388, A. R.

Canton Wukins 257, R. E. Skiver 254.

Japan. Total, 1,442.

!"

TRAINLOADS OF DEAD “TULSA,—M, J, Green 283, C. T. Reports from north Hunan In-Christiansen 268. J. A. Vasko 260, dicate that the Japanese have W. F. Barney 260, W. B. Hofman suffered heavily in Chinese at 248. Total, 1,335.

tacks at the Japanese outer de- fence points of Yoyang in the past days. Trainloads of Japanese dead and wounded are said to have been sent back to Wuchang.

YACHT RACING

Royal Hongkong Yacht Club's Sweepstake race over 8.20 miles On Thursday night. Chinese troops made ancther successful on Saturday resulted as follows:

Yacht

Corrected. Pos'n the attack at Tanglewtung on

5.07.37 1 Canton-Hankow Railway, 38 miles Artemis

(Mr. G. G. Wood). northeast of Yoyang. They broke

5.12.56 through the Japanese defence Siskin

Mr. D. Humphreys). lines, set fire to two Japanese sup- ply depots., and captured a Japan-True Blue

100 casualties ese soldier. Over were inflicted upon the Japanese. Scandia

Last night the Chinese also broke through the Japanese lines at Tac- in, a small town 18 miles to the southeast of" Yoyang.

LAWN BOWLS

Continued From Page 2

H. Freeman, J. W. Eudson, G, Gow- land, T.. M. Pile (skip) 21. Total: 74.

C.C.C.: A. Hung, M. A. Baptista, 8. R. Solina, G. 8. Ladd (skip) 10: J. P. Lee, F. A. Petersen, C. W. Lám, N. P. Karanjia (skip) 14; E. Mc- Nay, H. G. Foreman, F. X. Delgado, A. E. S. Alves (skip) 17. Total: 41. HLK.C.C. SPRING SURPRISE

OUTWARD MAILS

Registered and Farcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When malls are advertised to close. after 5 pm.. Registered and Parcel malls are closed at 5 pm.

MONDAY

For

Date and Time

Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., Central

South America and Canada via San Francisco-Reg.

2

(No Parcela for Canada)...

Joss

Guri

5.13.17 Mr. K A. Watson).

5,15,42 (Mr. K. K. Jaer).

5.16.54 Capt. G. E. Neve).

5.18.11 (Mr. S. K. Helberg). Wendy

5.18.53 Mr. H. W. Browne).. Widgeon

5.23.24. (Mr. P P. MacCabe).

3

Canton

Parcels only for Haiphong.

4

Haiphong

Baigon.

5

Canton

Fort Bayard, and Hothow.

6"

TUESDAY.

Kwo-CHth

PUPPET TROOPS

DISARMED. LOYANG, May 19 (Central)

under About 500 puppet troops the command of Taul Pel-teh and Chiao

stationed at Shuntéh otherwise known as Ying- At Chatham Road, Hongkong tai, important railway town 67 Cricket Club beat Kowloon Foot- miles south of Shihchlachwang" on ball Club by 7 shots:-

the Pelping-Hankow Railway, were K.F.C.; B. Thomson. B. Williams, recently disarmed by the Japanese. Y. Abbas, J. Smailey (skip) 17; J. for unknown reasons. Boyd, J. Moodle, G. Frost, P. Mor-

Tsui Pel-teh is under détention gan (skip) 14; C. Woodcock, S. while the fate of Chiao Kwo-chih Wong. C. Fuller, B. Evans (skip) is unknown. 18. Total: 49.

H.K.C.C: W. A. Cornell, E. S.

New Brighton 6. Manchester U. 0 Doughty, W. A. Cruickshank, A.

Northwestern

Bolton 4. Accrington "1

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Preston 5, Southport 0. Rochdale 2. Bury 3. Barrow 5, Oldham 1.

SouthwesterE Bristol C. 2. Torquay 2 Newport 5, Swindon 2 Cardiff 2. Swansea 2, FRIENDLY Millwall 2 Chelsea 3.

SCOTTISH WESTERN Airdrieonians 3, Morton 2. Motherwell 2. Albion 1 Partick 3, St. Mirren 1. Queen O'South 2, iyae 2. '..

Queen's Park 0, Kilmarnock 1. Rangera 2, Hamilton 2

EASTERN

Hibernian 2,Aberdeen 0. Dundee 4. Falkirk 2. Dunfermline 2, Dunder United 8.

RUGBY LEAGUE 'Dewsbury 13. Castleford 5. Hull 27, Bramley 2. St. Helen's 11, Widnes 20.

Championship' Fina! Swinton 13, Bradford N21,

East Lancashire Broughton 16. Balford 65.

West Lancashire Warrington 12, Wigan 12,

Friendly Oldham 37, Leeds 11. CUP DRAW

LONDON, May 19 (Reuter)The following is the draw of the fourth round of the Cup. to be played on May 25

Fulham v. Everton,`.

McKellar (skip) 19; W. J. Hansen, F. D. Angus, A. 5. Mitchell, R. A Edwards (skip) 22; B. J. Lacon, La E. N. Ryan, P. S. Cassidy, R. H. Wild (skip) 15. Total: 56.

UP ON ALL RINKS

At Happy Valley, Kowloon Bowl- ing Green Club beat Hongkong Football Club by 17 shots:-

GEN. LI TSUNG-JEN

General Hwang Hsu-chu, Chair- man of the Kwangsi Provincial and Government*.

other high Kwangs! "oficials have jointly addressed a telegram to General ᏞᎪ Tsung-Jen, Commander-in- Chief of the Ewangai forces, whe the directing operations on is Hupeh-Honan front, congratulat- HK.F.C.: A. Watson, B. L. Bick- ford, C. F. Needham, G. E. Stephensing him on the Chinese victory

there, (skip) 19: H. H. Beddow, T. R.

The telegram said that the Rowell, J. 1 Barnes, 8. H. Strange (skip) 15; F. P. Anslow, C. G. Sollis, morale of the Chinese troops and" B. A. Mansell, H. G. Wallington people has been greatly heighten- ed by the success. --- (Central (skip) 18. Total: 52.

K.B.G.C.: F. Wilkinson, W. Or- Newsy.

gan, S. Hammond, J. Dinnen. (skip)

20: H. C. Spong, C. E. Langley, P.

LONDON, May 19

(Reuter) -

A. Peckham, L. Jordan Takip) 24; Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether-

F. Seard, B. Walker: C. Wallis, K. lands on Friday visited an English

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Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu and U.S.A..

Reg. 6.00 PM

by the "Fan American "Airways Direct Service" Ord,

WEDNESDAY

Amoy and Shanghai.

Straits (Parcels) only) and Calcutta. Straits, Ceylon, India, East and

Ord.21st 10.00 AM Parcels 9.30 AM Letters 10.30 AM

South Africa,

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Airmali for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris

and Northern Provinces only) by

France Airways Direct Service”. Sandakan...

Straits.

FRIDAY

Canton Shanghai..

Swatow, Amoy and Formosa."

Menila, Australia and New Zealand via Thurs-Reg

day Island

......... Ord. Tourane, Saigon and Bangkok

SATURDAY

C. Hamilton (skip) 25. Total: 69. south coast naval port where she Straits, Ceylon, India, Mombasa, Belra, Lourenco

Marques, East and South Africa. Inspected Dutch, warships and per- WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reu-sonnel... She also inspected the Parcels only for Tientsin; ..... |ter)-The Anglo-French Purchas-British naval establishment.

substantial ing Mission states a number of aircraft purchased in BERLIN, May 19 (Reuter)-ad-

Raeder, the United States have already mirát

Commander-in-Air Mail for "Imperial" Airways Direct Service" Ord. been delivered, and delivery of the Chief of the German Navy, has remainder is proceeding according visited Norway where he inspected to schedule.

coastal, land and sea defences. He Halphong also visited Trondheim.

PARIS, May 19 (Reuter)-A de- cree creates new Territorial Guards

PARIS, May 19 (Reuter)-The

to protect rear areas from activi-Dutch Minister in Pretoria has

MONDAY

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Beg.

5.00 FM

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tles like parachutists, Frenchmen handed the keys of the German over 10 exempted from military Legation to the Spanish Consul in Straits, Ceylon, India, East and Bouth Africa, Egypt, Parcel service are eligible.

Capetown who has been instructed

by his Government to take charge The charity football game be-of German interests in the Union. tween the Eastern Athletic Asso-

The fortnightly meeting of the ciation and the Combined Services, which was to have played on the Urban Counch will be held to Huddersfield or West Ham Y Navy Recreation Club ground yes-morrow at 4.15 p.nl, when routine

business will be dealt with. Birmingham.

terday afternoon, was cancelled.

Blackburn v. West Bromwich, Blackpool v. Newcastle...

and Europe via Suez and London Bea-Route.

via Long-Reg. 5.00

Ord. 7.00

Thu Anh

8.30 AX

THURSDAY Swatow and Shligha! Printed and Published by Henry Lloyd Murrow, for the Hongkong Daily Press, Ltd), at Marina House, third floor, 15-19 Queen's Road Central Hongkong. London Office: 53 Fleet Street ECA.