THE HONGKONG.
BRUARY
JAPANESE NIGHT ATTACKS SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURE BY SIR
REPULSED.
THREE TIMES NEAR
TO SUCCESS.
HEAVY GUN-FIRE ALL
DAY. A
THREE TIMES HURLED BACK
YESTERDAY MORNING.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
SHANGHAI, Feb. 7, 12.12 p.m. THE JAPANESE chose last night for another big offensive, but again every effort to break through the Chinese lines collapsed. Fierce attacks launched on several strategic points simultaneously, but the heavily reinforced Chinese hurled them back! with heavy losses.
were
As on Friday, the Japanese commenced the offensive with as terrific prefbinary bombardment with the object of shaking the morade of the Chinese troops,
The shelling commenced at midnight and as soon as it died down, an hour later, the attack was launched. The positions of the forces are to-day relatively unchanged. The Chinese have maintained their ground, despite heavy bombing by aeroplanes in
vo-operation with the attackers.
WOOSUNG FIGHT
THROUGH FOREIGN EYES.
NO REPLY FROM THE FORTS.
U.S. WITNESSES' STORY.
The headlong awooping flights of a dozen Japanese bombing aeroplanes from high in the air to within a few hundred feet of the ground, the detonation of ex- ploding bombs, the spray of mud and water, and later the scream and boom of heavy shells from Japanese war- ships was the thrilling and somewhat alarming spectacle for passengers and members of the crew of the a.s. Proai- dent Van Buren, when they watched in amazement the attack on Woosung Forts. The Van Buren, which arrived in Hongkong on Saturday, was. at the time of the incident. just leaving Shanghai and abreast of the forta, when the Japanese planes thunched their attack.
It came without warning and an are could be seen from the ship, without provocation.
Rifle Shot nt Planes.
To the intensive and merciless bombardment of the forts and the surrounding distrlet there was no Clearly to he spen from reply. the Van Buren, the muzzles of the forts' guns protruded. but were atvered and not a single shot was
fr from them.
The chief objective of the Japanese appeared to be the Paoshan Rond and the North Railway Station.
Three times the Japanese reached the Paoshan Road and three times they failed to hold the positions they established. The Chinese also refused to be moved from their positions the North Railway Station.
The Japanese guns at Honkew j
Park are introducing heaty shells
every few seconds on the tailway SHANGHAI AERIAL
Station sector this morning. Follow.
ing Ta
terrific
bombardment
throughout the night. Te tonations are Jadre than any hard)
MAILS.
before, suggesting that newer and] SERVICE NOW BEING heavier guns are being employed.
Three New Fires.
RESUMED.
In
THE CAPTURE OF HARBIN.
CORDON THROWN, ROUND CITY.
Mukden, Feb. 7. Following the occupation of Harbin, the commander of the Japanese forces has stationed the majority of his troops outside the city, form- ing a cordon round it.
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The Manchurian leader, General, Ting Chao, who all along has op posed the Japanese, fled to Hulan, while the main body of his troops have retreated in the direction of Pinhaien.
They are being heavily homb ed by pursuing Japanese planes, which have, it is reparted, in flicted henvy ensualties.
The attitude of General Ma Chan-shan, famous defender of! Manchurian interests at the Nonni. River and Tsitsihar battles is re- ported in Mukden to be very un
present at rertain. He is at Hallon, though it is rumoured that he plus an attack on the Japanese at Tsistihar.
Passenger traftle 1721 the Chinese Eastern Railway section Iron Changchun to Harbin, was resumed yesterday after being in terrupted for a week or
Renter.
Sir Harbert Samuel.
EVERTON BEATEN BY ARSENAL.
FLURRIED BY AN EARLY GOAL.
CHELSEA'S WIN.
London; Feb. 6. Owing to Everton's important position in the lengne, their match with the Arsenal attracted 50,000 spectators, who saw the London Deum win by three goals to one, Everton were furrled as a resalt
britt of an early
goal by Hulme, but the Arsenal halves were mainly responsible for their
AERODROME ON victory
RACECOURSE.
FOR INTERNAL DEFENCE.
At West Ham, Phillips scored a rent zou in the first half, while Yew added a second two minutes after the restart. Aston Vill fought desperately but failed to retrieve the position.
With Chelsea and Leicester both still in the Cup, a crowd of 30,000 was attracted to Stamford Bridge, where Gallacher was absent from the Chelsea ranks, Chelaen played
H. SAMUEL.
CABINET'S TARIFF BATTLE.
FOUR MINISTERS WHO ACTUALLY RESIGNED.
PERSUADED TO CHANGE THEIR MIND.
(Reuter's Special Service).
LONDON, Feb. 7.
A FIRST-CLASS SENSATION has been created
by Sir Herbert Samuel, the Home Secretary, who, speaking at Southport to-day, in the course of a studied retort to the Conservatives who have expressed them- selves displeased with the vigour of his attack on the Government's tariff proposals, revealed some of the inner history of the bitter battle waged in the National Cabinet.
The high-spot of his disclosures was that he him- self, Viscount Snowden, Sir Donald Maclean and Sir Archibald Sinclair, all actually tendered their re- signations to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald during the dis- cussions on the tariff plan.
Sir Samuel added that the four members of the Cabinet who wore unable to give their assent accepte:1
DARTMOOR PRISON the Prime Minister's invitation
MUTINY.
the better football, though their GAOL UNSUITABLE. attack neked sting-Our tha Correspondent.
Landon, Feb. §.
het, aveording to one mom- her of the crow, the only response single rife shot from a Chinese The Japanese attack effeited was a few hundred yards junk only from the liner.
For fifteen minutes. twelve Japanese flying machines, which came front un afrecal carrier at anchor; showered bombs at the forts, the majority landing in the paddy fields and on the river bank. where their explosions sent up
It is probable that the Shang-Bolton clouds of dirt and water.
Some of those registered, how-hai Council of Defence will arrange Chelsea in the next few hours for the erec- Derby tion of an internal defence aero- | Everton
Grimsby drome on the racecourse.
Manchester C Wednesday Sunderland West Brom West Blam
(Our Own Correspondent),
Shanghai, Feb. 7. 12.32 p.m. The Japanese military
and
A trenchant report issued fol- naval authorities are engaged in The results in all divisions of
the the English and Scottish League lowing the Home Office inquiry, preparing an aerodrome in Yangtszepon District just beyond follow. With the exception of the substantiates the suspicion that
Division. they the Dartmoor mutiny was Scottish Spond the Settlement boundary.
cerled with persons outside
·Russian workmen are engaged were cabled by Router.
prison with a view to helping the FIRST DIVISION.
convicts to exenpe. in leselling a large area and four Japanese land planes are already
Nanking, Feb. 7. Chapel is rapidly being reduced | It is announced that the air to ashes. This morning three new muit service between Shanghai, fires were in progress, one of them) Nanking and Hankow is being! in the Fusan Road dangerously resumed as from to-day. The server must have caused consider
the settlement boundary.
Vier ceased at the outbreak of the able damage to the forks.
DONAT
Heavy Tol of Life,
It is believed that the bomba andj Artillery took a heavy toll of the Chinese yesterday.
pirt and Water,
down the going were
one traveller to a Telegraph representative "And Houston just
The Chinese gitm in Markham trouble. Road are extremely active to-day! In order to avoid the mail planes |
"We audit serras that both sides are being mistaken for military air- now preparing for new activities, raft, they have been sperinity river", said mustering men and mitions at painted green. the front line and Miser defemeri The service on the Shanghai- passed the US.S. posts,
Nanking Railway has been resunt before reaching Woosung. We
to within twelve miles cod
of were abreast of Woosung when Shanghai-Bruter.
the bombardment broke out. The first intimation was the appear- ance of three machines which new
and Buren for'ard of the Van started to direct their hamba at the forts. When
we came abreast, nine other aeroplanes joined in the engagement. They flew directly FOR over the ship at a height of about 2,000 feet. Each machine drop- Iped one to three bombs' at a time.
Concealed Defence,
Japanese JAPANESE NAVAL
planes are to-day sentating Chapel and Chenju.
over
It is understour that two squa drons of neroplanes are coming to Shanghat
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ORDERS.
Canton with REINFORCEMENT
General Chung Wni-cheung in com- mand.
- It is now attempting to snow,
but it is not supposed that this will affect military operations,
The Shanghai Municipal Council, the Consular Body and the Defence Committee, are all
meeting to-day'; ~
NANKING.
Shanghai, Feb. 7. 9 p... The Japanese cruiser Yubari and i
The transport Mamiya left Shang-1 "There was definitely no reply hai tatu. yesterday and it is befrom the forts, but when the Heved that they have been ordered to Nanking.
Seven additional Japanese des troyers, one torpedo-bout and one transport arrived this morning and anchored of Yangtazepoo.
His Excellency the Governor has;
Admiral Taylor, the commander appointed the Hon, Sir Shonson Chow, in-Chief of the U. S. Aslutic Fleet, Kt., to be an additional member of arrived this morning in the yacht
Council of the University liongkong for a period of three years, Taubel.--Our Own Correspondient.
the
Af
Powers' Peace Proposals.
New Line of Action Probable.
Lundon, Feb. 7.
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took action.
It is understood that it will be The Sino-Japanese situation
for presentation to the Kiven considerable prominence in ready
Japanese and Chinese Governments the Sunday papera.
According to the Observer's New as soon as a statement has been York correspondent a second peace received from Japan regarding the proposal is now being negotiated withdrawal of the reinforcements by the four Powers who originally-Renter.
planes launched their first attack, they were met with rapid are from small guns apparently concealed in the fields around.
"The crash of the bombs as they exploded shook the Van Buren, and one of the crew, stalling on {hባ intense vibration, a batch, was unsteadied by
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Tour
there.
RUGBY CHAMPIONS' GREAT WIN,
WALES BEAT SCOTLAND IN GRUELLING TEST-
Birmingham
Blackburn
1
2
2 Huddersfield 1 Leicester
Con-
to remain in the Government, only because. it Wae accompani ed by an offer of real liberty in speech and in vote of expressing their disagreement.
The understanding in the Cabinet was that this liberty should not be "the somewhat restricted. Freedom of a bird within a cage."
Sir Herbert's plain speaking the was a hect reply to Tories who
The report condemns Dartmoor as an unsuitable prison in which to confine prisoners of the dan Middlesbrough 2 gerous modern type, largely com reckless motor-
1
Arsenal
Liverpool
7 Blackpool
2 Newcastle
1 Sheffield U.
3 Porismouth
SECOND DIVISION.
Barnsley Bradford C. Burnley Chesterfeld
Leeds London, Feb. 6. On the Murrayfield enclosure to Millwall day, 50.000 spectators saw Wales, Notts Farest last year's international rugbyPort Vale
Southampton champions, beat Scotland by six Preston N.E.
Swansea points to nil-Reuter,
FRESH FOOD AND NO FREEZING.
EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW PROCESS:
(Reuter's Special Service).
London, Feb. 7.
0
1
used
1
young,
Bandits and gangsters.
Nevertheless, the mutiny did
o not arise through prison admin- Oistration. All the officers are i
loyal
and efficient, although very small number were guilty
2
Aston Villa
1
1 Notts County
1
2 Oldham
0
2
1 Manchester U.
1 ̈ ̄ Bristol C.
2
Bury
1 Tottenham
3 Bradford
3 Stoke
4 Wolves
1 Charlton
4 Plymouth
3 Watford
→ Brighton
9 Thames
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH). Bournemouth Bristol R. Cardiff Clapton 0. Coventry
| Gillingham
Luton Northampton Queen's Park R
Reading
Torquay
THIRD
Barrow ¡Carlisle
4 Swindon
8 Crystal Pal
D Exeter
1
Brentford
Fulkam Mansfield
Southend
2 Norwich
DIVISION (NORTH).
A new vacuum process which Accrington may displace freezing as a means of keeping food fresh in transit is being given trials in New Zealand. Darlington Up to the present, the tests have Gateshead not been suelently rigid to give New Brighton absolute proof of the efficacy of Stockport
but there are Walsall
Wrexham the new method, grent hopes.
The shipping of perishable pro- for ducts without the necessity freezing opens up great possibili.
2 Tranmere
0 Hull
2 Southport
2 Doncaster
3 Rochdale
1 Chester
2 Lincoln
1
Rotherham
22 Hartlepools. 2 York
SCOTTISH LEAGUE (FIRST DIVISION).
"No sooner had the aeroplanes completed their work, than three Japanese cruisera and two do- stroyers passed us. We could see their guns broadside all trim- med for netion and as soon as we had anchored a little way further down the river.we heard the of the guns and could see them firing broadside on to the forts.
"Still there was no reply from Woosung, and after about half antics. hour of shelling, the ships re- turned down the river.""
illuminated with Hamilton whole sky was Mlle Long Conflagrations. the glare he was told.
Kilmarnock River traffic, Ja, of course, prac-Leith Our representative also learnt how, for a mile down the river, tieally at a standstill, and in Morton
addition, incoming ships have Rangers could be seen the fire and smoke orders to pass the fortu before Queen's Park - 2 Cowdenbeath of the ruine of., Chapel, The
Our photo, taken from the deck of the ua. Proildon t Van Bursa, showe the affect of the Japanses shell- Ing of the Woosung Forts, with huge clouds of dirt and smoky golig op en ike aholis burst.“
dark.
It is not without interest that
all on the Van Buren who witness-
1 Third Lanark
Aberdeen Clyde Dundee U. Falkirk
0
Dundee
1 Ayr
22
Celtlé
2 St. Mirren
3 Partick
0 Motherwell
2 Airdrie.
4 Hearts
SCOTTISH LEAGUE (SECOND DIVISION).
ed the attack on the forts were Albion emphatic that no firing came from Arbroath
the that Woosung, and
guns, Brechỉn which were clearly visible from o'ness the decks of the Van Buren, were Dumbarton
Dunfermline naver uncovered.
Hibernians
To them the attack suggested East Fife premeditation, but the same, even King' Park
It is understood, a wireless Queen O' 8th. Ing. message was picked up from Tokyo
to America, which reported the at- tack, stating that the bombing and shelling were carried out in self- defence and were the result of ug- gression on the part of the Chinese holding the forts.
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Edinburgh
3. Montrose
3 Armadale
1 St. Bernards
of irregularities and worse."
Brave Convicts..
#
Viscount Snowden and (right) Sir Archibald Sinclair,
suggested that he should not have
The report pays tribute to the made the very real difference of great bravery and loyalty of opinion, in the Cabinet so obvious.
many of the convicts, and declares
that very few of the prisoners had
3 murderous Intentions.
Governor Roberts, the report PRISONERS OF THE
says, has been an excellent ad- ministrator who, however, does not possess un exceptionally strong character which might have enabled him to quell the 3 growing disorder by force of per- 4sonality.
The
report reveals that the de- ielsion to call in the Plymouth Police to quell the mutiny was
JAPANESE.
NOTHING TO EAT FOR
7 DAYS.
(Our Own Correspondent). Shanghai, Feb. 7, 12.12 p.m.
seventeen One hundred and
taken by a gate officer named Dowse on his own responsibility.
The report also finds that the belief that a man had been as- Chinese plain-clothes agents, who the have been taken prisoner by the saulted on the morning of
nuval authorites As disorders made many men resent Japanese ful, who would, otherwise, have hestages or for some other reason during the recent operations, were
z been loyal.
The Governor had been just in handed over
last night to
2 his dealings. He, however, made | Settlement Police.
the
The Police at once brought tha drinks and and captives food cigarettes. It was found that many of them had not had a bite to eat. for days. They were in an ex- tremely nervous condition and were anable to eat their.congee.
o an error of judgment in address- 1ng the men in chapel on Satur 2 dny. Colonel Turner and the 1Governor should have foreseen the possibility of trouble on the parade ground, and should not have taken the risk of letting out all the prisotter" for normal exorcise. Colonel Turner, how- ever, acted with great courage pointed during the disorder.
A Consular Board has been ap- to see to these people. They will exercise no Judicial That there were no escapes and nuthority over them, acting in a 2 that few were seriously injured rarely benevolent capacity.
duo Wan
+
to the
coolness
Q and discretion of the officers.-
Renter and British Wirelan.
Allos
East Stirling
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St Johnstone
A
0
Raith Rovers
7 Sten*muir
2 Forfar
ANOTHER INDIAN
OUTRAGE.
ATTEMPT ON SIR, STANLEY JACKSON.
Calcutta, Feb. 6.
An unsuccessful and dastardly
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. H. R. B. Hancock to fact as a Member of the Court of the University of Hongkong, during the absence on leave of Mr. H. B. L. Dow bigin.
His Excelfoney the Governor has appointed Professor R.K.M. Simpson, M.C., M.A., to be an additional mem- ber of the Council of the University of Hongkong for a period of one year
attempt to shoot Sir Stanley Jack- Dr. W. B. A. Moore has been ap-
1 son, Governor of Bengal, was pointed Deputy Registrar of Births
made to-day. His Excellency for and Deaths.
tunately escaped all hurt.
Illa assailant
WAB
Lieutenant R. K. Valentine. Armour.student. She red five times at Printed and Published, for the Pro- od Car Section has boon transferred His Excellency, and when arrested prietors by Frederick Percy Franklin, to the Reserve of Officers, Hongkong was still grasping a smoking at 1 and 8, Wyndham Street,, in the
City of Victoria, Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps.
ravolver--Router.
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