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FIRST EDITION

Supreme Cont

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1801

No. 13434

一拜禮·光七月二英港香 MONDAY, FEBRUARY

7. 1938.

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DUNLOP

TYRES

make every road

a SAFER road

TOWN NEAR MACAO BLOWN TO PIECES

WAR SPREADING Chinese Guerillas Continue

TERROR, DEATH

THROUGH

SOUTH

Refugees in Portuguese Colony Tell of Havoc Of Bombs and Shells

(Special to "Telegraph")

Macao, Feb. 7.

Japanese aircraft and warships have completely destroyed the modern town of Heung Chau in the Tong- kawan district, on the southern section of the Canton River Delta.

There has been much activity by bombers and war. ships in the Chung Shan district and along its coast and rumours are widespread of the havoc wrought there.

The destruction of Heung Chau was completed by u heavy barrage from the sea during the past few days. Casualties are not known but it is believed there were a number killed and many injured.

At Tongkawan proper 20 houses have been destroyed by Are resulting from the Japanese bombings. Many refugees have entered Macno by way of Keikwan's motor road, and all bring reports of havoc and death spreading in the surrounding country.

It la further, learned that a landing of Japanese troops took place yester- day afternoon in the Kel tuo area and several of the landing party were killed by the Chinese défenders be. fore they fell back Inland.

At 1.15 p.m. Saturday heavy firing was clearly audible in Mucao und à little earlier Japanese boinbers passed "over the Colony's environs Their destination was unknown and as yet no reports of damage inflicted

by them have come to Macao---- Our Own Correspondent.

Still Occupy Island

Canton, Feb. 7.

Japanese troops who occupied Chl Kiau Island, near Tongkawan yes- terday morning, are still there, ne- cording to Chinese official reports.

Seven Japanese warships remain in the vicinity.

STRONG BRITISH ΝΟΤΕ ΤΟ FRANCO

"Patience Thoroughly

Exhausted"

London, Feb. 6.

A strong worded Note

ROYAL WELCH FUSILIERS LEAVE S'HAI

After weeks of sometimes arduous and dangerous service int Shanghai, the Royal Welch Fusiliers left by the troopship Dunern.

and are now in Hongkong. Above, led by Sikh luncers of the AMERICA march to the transport. Below, a close-up of the battalion's miles WILLING

International Settlement Police and U.S. murine band, they

coming down upper Rubbling Well Road."

PARIS HEARS OF PLOT

TO RESTORE GERMAN PRINCE TO THRONE

Paris, Feb. 6.

A remarkable story of a Royalist plot in Germany is expressing dissatisfaction at told by the Basle Correspondent of Le Temps, who states the repeated attacks on British shipping has been that he received his story from people who left Berlin- despatched to General yesterday. Franco by the British

The correspondent states that the crisis in Berlin Government, following yes-was brought to a head by Herr Himmler, Chief of the However, no further bombardment terday's meeting of the or other activity has taken place

Secret Police, who, on January 30, handed Herr Hitler a since yesterday, which seems to con- Cabinet. firm the earlier supposition that the Although the text of the Note dossier purporting to show that General von Fritsch and lauding was merely for reasons of will not be disclosed until the other generals had formed a secret organisation for

Meanwhile, no further reports of Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony attacks on Becca Tigris forts have Eden, makes a statement in the putting the second son of the ex-Crown Prince on the been received. No Japanese vessels appear to have been operating in this stretch of water during the week end.

exercise.

Reuter.

PICKABACK PLANE HAS SUCCESSFUL TRIALS

For Atlantic Route

London, Feb. 6.

House of Commons to-morrow, throne. it is believed that it will indicate clearly that British patience has

The correspondent's informants

been thoroughly exhausted.— referred to the well-known animosity Reuter,

Christians Pray For Salvation

between Herr filmler and the Reichswehr, and asserted that Himmler last summer gave the Sovlet Ambassador Information, with regard to secret contacts between certain

German generals and the Soviet General Staff, which resulted in the

and others.

Fears Felt

TO DISARM

Cordell Hull Appeals To "Hermit" Nations

Washington, Feb. 6.

The willingness of the United

States Government-to-limit-or

reduce armaments was ex- pressed by Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, in. a broad- cast over a nation-wide network

to-day.

Grim Warfare

SET RING OF FIRE TO DRIVE JAPANESE FROM HILL-TOP POSITIONS

Kwangsi Troops Praised For Gallant Defence of Lines

Nanchang, Feb. 6.

The semi-official publication, Wu, Han Jih Pao states that Chinese mobile units have surrounded the hills in the vicinity of Hsuenchen, south of Nanking and west of Kwangteh, and set fires which are slowly creeping towards the summits, where Japanese troops are station- ed. The Japanese positions are in turmoil.

Japanese defending Hsuenchen used light field pieces to shoot from the towers of the gates in the low city walls.. Chinese troops threw ladders up to the walls, attempted to scale them but were driven back. They then sat fires in the hills and claim the Japanese are in a grave plight.

China Keeps Wary Eye On Nazi Policy

Fears Changes With Von Blomberg's Retirement

Hankow, Feb. 8. Chinese officials and newspapers are reserved in their comment on "While, in a world in which in the "hake-up" in the Relch, creased construction of armaments is engineered by Herr Adolf Hitler, the a regrettable fact, we are compelled | majority feeling it is too carly to to render adequate our military and foresce whether the re-shuffle vi naval establishments, wo are ready | officials presages a change in at any time to join other nations in a German polley towards China. general limitation common effort to bring about a The Takung Pao, one of the most or reduction of influential of Chinese newspapers, armaments," Mr. Hull declared.

avers the German foreign policy henceforth will be the Nazi Party's The Secretary of State attacked policy. what he termed "hermit nations,"

meaning nations which were secking

economic self-sufletency.

the

will go to extremes or even cuust "We cannot say the German action war...But we can definitely say that German intervention in Spain will be

for

China,

lle declared that economie warfare more active, and Germany and Italy was largely responsible for the re-will draw closer together." cent alarming disintegration of Inter- "General von Blomberg was national relationships, and war, and many years sympathelle to the fear of war, were gripping the We regret his removal. China waits minds and stultifying the spirit of and hopes that Germany's policy

mankind.

won't turn out to be favourable to Feverish preparations for potential

Japan."

The local army armed conillets were sapping the Herr Hitler's swiftness in reorganis

prasises

health of many nations.

organ

For American already badly impaired economic after and suggests the Chinese ought

Missionaries

execution of Marshal Tukachevsky Hankow Not Informed

Of Report Of Woman's Kidnapping

There were rumours in Berlin of the imminent arrest by the police of certain generals, whereupon, it is

Hanków, Feb. 7, statod, General von Fritsch called: a

The American Embassy and secret meeting and on the morning missionaries here have not heard

of the of February 28 sent a company of anything

_report of the regular troops to occupy a house on kidnapping of Miss Helen Boughton, the Wilhelmstrasse, near the Chan- of the Northern Presbyterian Mission cullery, This was done, the report at Ilulayuan, close to which fighting states, in order to show Herr Himmler between Chinese and Japanese troops that von Fritsch was ready to meets raging at present.

Chinese Ask British Archbishop's Support For Poace Parley The Mayo composite aircraft, known as the "pickaback" plane

Hankow, Feb. 0, because it consists of the small,

Inaugurating "Pence Week", Chin- ese Christians in the Wuhan district long-range land plane, Mercury, held special prayers for national perched on the back of the larger salvation to-day, senplane Mala, successfully Foreigners and numerous white

upper plane in surpileed Chinese girls sang hymns force with force.

at the services.

Inunched tho mid-air over Rochester to-day,

Speakers Included Mr. Wang

in

This mission included six women and one man, Miss Boughton, of J. one of them. The

to imitate such swift determination, "The world desperately needs in- It draws attention to the replacing of ternational order based on the re-officials of an average ago of seven vitalisation of international law" Mr. years younger than those retired, Hull declared,

thereby hinting at the capabilities of Junior officers.

He concluded his broadcast by Most fee! Herr Hitler's action to offering as one means of peace his be the outcome of the European | programme of trade agreements. | situation, and that it is only indirect- Reuter.

INDIAN KILLED Struck By Kowloon

Locomotive

Various strategic measures were Trenton, NJ., This was the first separation flight Chung-hual, and General Feng Yu-se en in different polls others at the mission are believed to of this revolutionary aircraft, whichhslang. The latter called upon his Berlin, atter which Herr Keltel began be Miss Mabel Hall, New York, Missin K.C.R. locomotive, and died later) Is destined for the trans-Atlantic hearers to fight a Crusade against here on one with liore Hitler on be- Eilsabeth Turner, of St. Alban's,

service.

China's Invaders.

The weight of the Mercury when Generalissimo Chlang Kal-slick.j loaded with passengers, mail and who is himself a Christian, in 0 fuel, is insufficient for It to lift itself measge to the Christian Chinese of from the ground and the more cum-Wahan, said: "Let us strive to serve bersome but powerful Mala is used our country and nation in a Christ-. In the launching process. The come spirit of love and sacrifice," bined fting power of the two The Chinese Christians have tele- planes is more than sumcient to graphed the Archbishop of Canter- | take the Mercury from the ground bury, requesting his Intercession in an effort to gain world-wide support And

launch her in mid-air. The two unita, fastened together, for a Landon Peace Conference. took off from the water as ona alr

United Press.

:craft to-day and at a height of 3,000

fost the two pilots simultaneously as two separate aircraft. pulled the release lovera and the The Mercury has a speed of over Mercury and Maia separated They 200 miles an libur and a range of finally alighted on the River Medway 4,000 miles-Reuter,

half of the Army-Reuter.

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JAPAN PLANS AMNESTY

K

An Indian was knocked down by Injuries received yesterday West Virginia, Miss Harriet Stroh, of afternoon. Wheaton, Illinois, Miss Hattle Mac-

niore

The Eighth Route Army reports having attacked

ten than Japanese trucks loaded with some 200 Infantrymen the vicinity of Yuanping, 80 miles north of Taiyuan. Shanst, and to have demoralised the columit with hand grenades.

The Japanese leaped from the trucks and hid behind them, and reinforcements came from trains at Yuanping to their rescue. Fighting continued two hours, the Chinese finally retreating westward.-Japanese artillery-pound- ed their retreating lines.

At dusk the Japanese returned to Yuanping and the Chinese followed them, surrounding the elty. The Japanese are reported to be in a precarious position following the occupation of the hills around the

throughout the night,

Japanese lost 100 killed and Chin- ese only 20, while the latter captured war

and supplies

documents, machine-guns and rifles, and destroy- ed six trucks."

city, where fighting continued

Dizzy War Circle The war in northern Anhwei goes

Tientsin-Pukow Railway and fighting around in dizzy circles as the Chinese and. Japanese play tag across the rages north and south of Pengpu.

and stung the rear and flank of the (Continued on Page 12.)

Chinese mosquito units flew south

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STOP PRESS

IMPORTANT POINT RECAPTURED

Important

ly connected with the Far East at present. The only known factora

Chengchow, Feb. 7. are that General von Blomberg was captured Shouyang, an

Chinese guerilla forces inve rc- friendly to China, while Herr von town on the Chengting-Taiyuan rali- Ribbentrop, the new Foreign Minister, was the author of the anti-way about 40 miles west of Talyuan, Communist Pact—United Press.

Over 300 Japanese were *lain. International News Agency.

Out TOWN AGAIN IN

Clouston

For Another Air Record

CHINESE HANDS

Anking, Feb. 7. After changing hands twice in the past four weeks, Wanchik, on the Klanghan Railway south-east of Wuhu, was recaptured by the Chinese forces on February 5,

Curdy, of Madison, NJ., who has dullah, metal and

The unfortunate man, Shelk Ab-

London, Feb; 6. Canadian relatives, and Miss Miriam employed by the Kowloon

cool overscer Firing Officer Clouston, who took As a counter move, the Japanese Petchner, whose home address is not Company and residing at No.

Wharf off from Gravesend Airport al 4 mm. are attacking Fangchang, which is known. Dr. R. J. MacCandliss,

53 with Mr. Victor Ricketts, Daily Ex-belt by the left wing of the Chinese China-born mission doctor, is the Pilker St., was walkiox towards press reporter, in an altempt to "By forces.—International News Agency. only man at the mission,

Chatham Road across the railway to Now Zealand and back in 12 days, Mr. David D. van Dyke and his apparently unaware of the approach Turkey, according to news received in reserve shortly after timn. Being has arrived at Adana Airport - in wife

at present believed to be of locomotive No, B, he proceeded London this evening. Tokyo, Feb. 6.

attempting to reach the station atto cross the line at a

The sirmed sure

reaming point just

their The terms of the amnesty to be Huniyuan. proclaimed on Japan's Empire Day,

opposite Mody Road and was struck | Bight, variy to-morrow morning. February 11, were decided by Cabinet Huaiyuan, stated that the place was

A foller dated January 31, from by the engine.

Clouston is flying the famous de The driver immediately stopped | Havilland Cemet in which he and at an emergency mealing yesterday, “quiet, with few Chinese soldiers the locomotive and assistance was Birm. Green recently broke the record will have to sectire Imperial approval from aircraft but no bombings to the Kowloon Hospital, where he The machino has been, christened Before the measure is announced it about. There had been many visits summoned, Abdullah was conveyed from London to the Cape sad back.

died at 4.30. pin..

“Auriesīlim Anniversary."---Router.

(Further Stop Preta Nows on Page 12.)