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MILITARY AGE LIMIT ABANDONED

Derlin, Feb. 20, The supremo command of armed forces in Germany has issued a decree abolishing the age limit for milliary service of retired regular und reserve officers. As a result retired officers are liable to service so long as they fulfil medical requirements.

The decree is applicable to inembers of the Imperial Army and the Relchwehr who retired before Nazi control of Germany,

The decree has been expected since Herr Hitler on February 20 intimated that the army would be strengthened. -United Press.

DIET TO PASS JAPAN BUDGET

Tokyo, Mar. 1. Japan's extraordinary budget in connection with the China Incident, providing for Y4,850,000,000, which has been approved by the Cabinet, and sanctioned by the Throne, will be

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY,

SMALL-POX FIGURES Dock Company LOCAL JOURNALIST

SHOW BIG DECLINE

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Pay Dividend,

vious week, there were only 104 Staff Bonus

enses, with 132 deaths.

"The epidemic is definitely on the wane, and noticeable improvements In figures supplied by his Depart- ment should be seen, from now onward,' an official told the Telegraph this morning.

Good Yoar Reported

MARCH

SEES BLACK-OUT FROM

AIR IN R.A.F. MACHINE

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feet, to have picked out any tive during the second flight.

1938.

JAPANESE SHATTER LINGSHIN LINES

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present operations In this area ure 'confined to beating of Chinese objec-guerilla forces.

This sweeping statement should be qualified. The Naval dockyard, for At the forthcoming annual general instance, was rather conspicuous; due meeting, the Board of Directors of the to the fact that an experimental Hongkong & Whampon Dock Co., Ltd. system of lighting was in use. At will recommend the following:--

8,000 feet this appeared to be some- Pay a Dividend of 65%

$121,752 what of a failure, although it pos- Place to Special Reserve

sibly would be effective at greater 350,000 heights. So completely successful 500,000 were the black-outs on warships 160,000 alongside the dockyard that it was 15,000 not realised from the air that they

were present there.

for extensions .....

Of last week's 101 cases, 111 were reported from the residential area of Victoria, 40 from Kowloon, nine from Shaukiwan, two from Aberdeen, one Place to General Reserve from the New Territories, and one Write down Stocks from the barbour, Two of the 182 Pay a Bonus to Staff fatal cases were imported into the and carry forward about Colony,

.

Bringing the total since January 1 to 030, a further 45 cases were report ed by the health authorities this inorning. It was pointed out to the Telegraph, however, that a consider ablo number of these cases should have been included in the week-end tutal, published yesterday as 32 cases, The total for three days is 77 cases, giving on average of less than 20 cases a day.

Over 750 of the 039 cases reported since January occurred in the

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residential areas of Victoria, and other parts of the Colony have been

120.000

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According to Chinese reports, the Japanese have sent heavy reinforce- ments to Pengpu in an attempt to break the deadlock-Reuter,

Casualtics "Only" 500,000

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Shanghal, Mor, 1. "Our casualties are only half a million, which Is comparatively insignificant. Not until the sacrifices reach. 50 or 100 millions have reason to despair," said General Pal Chung-hel, Chief of Staff in address at Hankow. Ho declared that the Sino-Japanese conflict showed it took three Chinese to kill one Japan-

need 100,000,000 to wipe out the en- tire male population of Japan,

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The board will moke proposal dockyards to use screened floodlights ) eac, and at that rate China would

the Meeting to

Increase the by offering to shareholders one

new share at par for every two old shares held and to capitalise the aunount of $500,000 standing to the credit of Special Reserve at December 31. 1037, by issuing, to those share- holders who subscribe for the new issue one bonus share fully paid up for every two new shares taken up.

The attempt by one of the private

also failed.

The Peak and the southern side of the Island of Hongkong were com pletely darkened. Only a few lights, apparently from sampans, were visi- ble at Aberdeen. Repulse Bay and Stanley could not be discovered from any height above 1,000 feet. The Queen Mary hospital was completely lost in the gloom below.

The business section of Victoria was successfully shrouded in dark- ness, but blackouts in West Point, Shaukiwon and Happy Valley left

submitted to the Diet this moralng, comparatively free from the epidemic, Canada, which was in the Talle much to be desired,

by the Government.

Appropriations include the follow- Victoria and one each in Kawloon and Four cases of meningitis (two in ing: War Office Y3,257,000,000, Navy Ministry, ¥1,043,000,000,

Shaukiwan); two enses of dysentery Finance Ministry, Y550,000,000,

in Kowloon; a case of typhoid In Bond Issues in

connection with Kowloon; three cases of measles (one budget total Y4,454,000,000,-Reuter in Victoria and two in Kowloon) and Special,

two cases of chicken-pox (one each in Victoriu and Aberdeen), were also reported yesterday.

BRITISH PLANES

DAMAGED

London, Feb. 20. The Air Ministry announces that damage to two aircraft about to be tested, was recently discovered al Ringway Aerodrome, Manchester. I is believed the damage was malicious ly caused, and pollee are investigating.

Reuter Special,

THE

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EMPEROR OF JAPAN RECUPERATING

Tokyo, Mar. 1.

The Emperor of Japan, who has

been recuperating at Hoyama since February 10, is returning to Tokyo on March 5.-Reuter.

FOUND ABOARD LINER

Found on board the Empress of

Dockyard, yesterday, two unemployed days, when they pleaded guilty before Chinese were fined $10 each, or len Cmdr. G. F. Hole in the Marine Court this morning.

ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. August Foempe, engineer, residing at 10 Chatham Road, and Misy Luise Burkart, typist, also of Hongkong,.

CLIPPER DELAYED

KOWLOON BLACK-OUT FAILED

Whilst Kowloon appeared almost darkened from the completely ground, it was badly visible to neroplanes flying above, the chief offender being the typhon shelter at Yaumati. The waterfront in the

vicinity of the K.C.R. station was completely blacked out.

WART scen

ony

Only one motor-car moving from an altitude of 5,000 feet, and such traffle as continued | during the blackout would be com-

pletely invisible from

great height.

Shipping in the harbour was, on whole, well blacked out, although the ferry lights and junks and sampons were visible.

The China Clipper has been de-

Insofar as Hongkong was complete layed and will not arrive in Hong-ly shrouded from aeroplanes more kong until Sunday. She will leave than ten miles distant, the expert- on Monday for Manila.

last night ment

was A complete success But more stringent measures would be necessary (and, undoubtedly, will be taken during future black-outs) to prevent raid- ers from finding some of their ob- |jectives once they pick up Hongkong

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OFFICERS' KEEN INTEREST

Military and Royal Air Force ab- servers were keenly interested in last night's experiment, and flights were made by Col. N. M. S. Irvin, so, M.C., the G.S.O.1. and Major J. F. Benoy D.A.A.G. who witnessed the black-out from an R.A.F.. machine pilated by Flight Lieut. C. A. Watt, O/C of the flight at Tak Royal

Air Force Station.

General Pal admitted that China was weak, contending that if they balance all the factors, including preparations for a long war of de- fence wille fighting, the final victory would be theirs. Reuter,

Chinese Recapture North Honan Town

Chengchow, Mor. 1. In a counter-attack on February 27 the Chinese forces operating on the eastern sector of the Taokou- Chinghua Railway in north Honan recaptured Hwahsien, off the railway, a report just received here states.

Comparative quiet is prevailing on the Peiping-Hankow Railway front.

Central News.

Japanese Landing Repulsed

Kinhwa, Mar. 1.

An attempt by five Japanese war- ships to land bluejackets at Kanmen, some D miles from Yuhwan on the Cheklang 'coast on February 27, Was frustrated by the Chinese garrison, according to word received here.

80 shells to cover the landing but the The Japanese warships fired about Chinese defenders machine-gunned The Japanese shells caused more than the invaders and drove them back.

10 civilian casualties and the des- truction News.

of many houses-Central

Artillery Duel At Shangyao

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Hauchow, March 1. A fierce artillery duel between the Chinese and Japanese batteries Shangyao, west of Fengyang on the south sector of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, has been taking place dur- ing the last few days.

The Japanese have brought several long-range guns into action, severely bombarding the Chinese positions. The Chinese batteries replied brisicly.

A unit of 200 Japanese soldiers in 10 trucks was attached by a Chinese mobile force whilst its way from Chihhochen to Tingyuan. After a two-hour engagement, the Japanese were routed, suffering some 30

During the experiments, police patrols in the streets of Hongkong were considerably increased to pro-casualties. About 20 Chinese guerilla tect the Colony from criminals.

troops were also killed.-Centrai News.

Cor lights were screened with an experimental apparatus which cer- tainly rendered all traffle invisible from

any great height. Under normal conditions, motor head-lamps are clearly visible at heights exceed- ing 15,000 feet.

Participation in last night's opera- tions was inade possible through the courtesy and permission of Wing Commander A. G. Bishop, .... Flight Licut. C. A. Walt, and with the concurrence of Col. N. M. S. Irwin, D.S.O.. M.C., G.S.O.1. The Officer who so kindly made the fights with the Telegraph representative was Flight Lieut. R. L. Wallace, Adjutant at Kai Tak.

JAPANESE NOW DENY ATTACKING BRITISH

PLANE

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Planes Pursued

Shanghai, Mar. 1. A Japanese naval spokesman, at a press conference to-day declared that he had no information,

сли knew nothing about the alleged at- tacks on the Imperial, Airways incr on February 21. However, he suld that on that day, a strange plane oppeared over the Japanese nuval anchorage 2 considerable distance from Hongkong at a height of 3,500 metres, which was identified twin-engined monoplane.

He declared that Japanese planes puraued the machine to Hongkong until they perceived the British in- signia on the plane. On the same any, another monoplane was sighted over the anchorage and this was also chased until it was discovered to be

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The Japanese authorities hnd drawn the attention of the British authorities on February 22 to ine fact that such flights were "potential enuses of friction," and they requested the British to abandon the practice. The British authorities replied that these were passenger planes. The spokesman_added that this was the Beat time planes had appeared over the anchorage.--Reitter.

TRADE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE CLOSED Owing to the transfer of Mr. G. C. | the Office of 11. M. Trado Com missioner and Commercial Secretary | will be closed as from to-day unti further notice. ***

Situation At Linfen Obscure

Chengchow, Mar. 1. Whilst no confirmation of the fall of Linien, the new.capital-of-Shansi, has yet been received, reports;reach- ing here indiente that the situation

there is obscure.

Fierce fighting, according to re- ports, is going on around the city.-- Central News.

AMBASSADOR TALKS WITII LORD HALIFAX

London, Feb. 20. Lord Perth, British Ambassador in Rome, pald another call on Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office to-day in connection with the impending Anglo-Italinu talks.-British Wireless.

CADMAN COMMITTEE

REPORT EXPECTED:

London, Feb. 25. It is anticipated that the report of the Cadman Committee on civil avia- tion, together with a statement of the Government's intentions, will published early next week-British Wireless.

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