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60 SNATCHED FROM DEATH AT SEA

SALVAGE CREW Many Japanese

Japanese Killed

FROM WARSHIP WINS STRUGGLE

Captain and Pretty Daughter Among Survivors of Wreck

CAPETOWN SAVES ALL BUT 9 WHO SWAM FOR SHORE

For the second time in two years, a 21-year-old French girl, Miss Yolande Bertin, is the central figure in a ship- wreck adventure off the China coast.

Her father is the owner-captain of the 3,859-ton French steamer Yolande, which was named after ber.

The Yolande went ashore on the Shantung Promon tory, near Weihaiwoi, at 1 a.m. on Saturday morning. It is now a total wreck.

Although heavy seas continuously pounded the ship, Captain Bertin informed H.M.S. Sandwich that no assistance was immediately required.

Early on Sunday morning, however, the Yolande com- menced to break up. An S.O.S. was sent to the British naval authorities in Weihaiwei, and the 4,200-ton cruiser Capetown (Capt. C. Coppinger, D.S.C.), was immediately despatched to the scene of the wreck.

Heavy north-easterly swells made

it impossible to effect the rescue of the crew from seaward.

A salvago party from the Capetown was despatched on Sunday to Yung Ching Bay, Inside the promontory, and marched across the promontory to Batley Cove,

All efforts to pass a line to the spray-covered ship on Sunday failed, and an additional salvage party was landed from H.M.S. Capetown early yesterday morning.

After several failures, a line was

Man Who Saved War Refugees Visiting Here

Father Jacquinot, the man respon- sible for the saving of at least 200,- 000 Chinese lives by the formation

pere from Shanghai on board

visit

Killed in Chinese Traps

45 DIED IN THESE FLAMES

600 DIE IN LOST WARSHP

tor.

Gibraltar, Mar. 8. The death roll on the Spanish - Insurgent cruiser Baleares, which was pedoed on Sunday, is esti mated at 600, including the Admiral, Commander and senior officers.

The

heaviness of the

Flautes swept through the old College of the Sacred Heart at Ste. Hyacinthe, near Montreal, recently. Seventeen young atudents' bodies had been removed from the wreckage when this photograph was taken; 28 other boys and lay brothers were missing. Survivors leaped from windows in their pyjamas, into la night ten degrys below zero.

QUESTIONS GOVERNMENT ON SECURITY OF H. K. IN EVENT OF ATTACK

Two matters pertaining indirectly to the present Sino- Japanese conflict will engage the attention of the Legislative Council at the meeting to-morrow afternoon.

Of outstanding interest will be the request by the Hon, Mr. M. K. Lo to Government to publish or to state the reasons for not publishing, the local Commission's inquiry into the alleged

on September 21 last year...

MECHANISED FORCES

CUT TO PIECES BY FEROCIOUS GUERILLAS

Desperate Fighting Still Continuing in Shantung And Honan Provinces

Hsuchow, Mar. 8.

Trapped by the Chinese guerilla troops in the hills at Hsiachwang, near Lini, on the right flank of the Tientsin- Pukow Railway, 500 men of a Japanese mechanised unit are reported to have been practically wiped out.

Fourteen armoured cars, three field pieces, 700 rifles, and a large quantity of ammunition were seized whilst three other armoured cars were destroyed,

Another Japanese column was ambushed at Kehkou on the Yi River in east Shantung, suffering some 200 casualties.

Overtures Of Peace Offered?

Japanese May Be Making Fresh Approach

Shanghai, Mar. 8. Officials at the Japanese Con- sulate-General intimate that some effort towards renewing China has been made, peace talks between Japan and

in

The total Japanese casualtics east Shantung during the past few days were estimated by military quarters at about 3,000, whilst the Chinese losses were admitted to be also heavy.

The centre of fighting is at Lini and Jihchuo, which is on the Shan- Lung coast. Heavy Chinese rein- forcements have been despatched, to Lini, where bitter engagements are expected break out momentarily. Yesterday a squadron of Japanese planes subjected the Chinese positions.

to

at Lint to a seveing, but not

much damage was Chinese defence works.

to the

At Jihchao the main body of enemy troops is composed of irregulars under the command of Ching Chung-pu, brother of the late Shantung warlord, tral News. General Chang Chung-chung-Cat

successfully passed to the ship short of a Refugee Zone In Nantao, arrived casualty, list is ascribed to sinking of a fishing junk fleet by a submarine near Hongkong in the Diet by the Japanese the Pelping-Hankow Rollway, In

ly before 11 am. One end of the

line was tied around the rocks on the Tinegara this morning for a brithe crew's refusal to obey

shore in Belley Cove and the other mado fast to the silp, the fore-part of which had already disappeared.

ASHORE IN BREECHES BUOY

Tanks Captured

Hankow, Mar. 8. Commenting on the statement been trapped south of Changteh on' More than 30 Japanese tanks have

Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki north Honan, according to a railway seeking to establish

The official said that the Chinese Sino-

troops had dug deep trenches on the Japanese peace negotiations, rond, covering them with grass. The they admitted that efforts to (Continued on Page 7.) The agenda is as follows: The promote such deliberations were Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan. pursuant 10 under way, notice, will ask the following ques- tions:

The huge supplies of oil fuel at present in Hongkong are the signals of the British considered a possible menace to safely in the event of an attack Hirota, thut a third power was officer who just arrived here. Plant, Manager of the U.S. Steel destroyers, Kempenfelt, and on the Colony and the Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan is requesting that

Boreas, to jump overboard. they be removed to outlying districts.

He was accompanied by Mr. W. I Corporation and a member of the Refugee Committee.

Utillaing an Improvised breeches cuned to make any comment on his Fr. Jacquinot on his arrival de- buoy, the surviving crew, totalling visit or reasons for leaving Shanghai, four Europeans and 54 Chinese in

a week.

The destroyers rescued

addition to Captain Bertin and hits He will be returning north in about about 200 men with life-belts

daughter, were landed one by one on

the beach.

Mr. Plant is here on his Company's The Europeans insisted on rr main-business, as well as to ald Fr. Juc- Ing aboard the ship until the last, quinot, and will teave in about 10 and Captain Berlin was the last mar days time.

to be brought ashore.

Twenty-two aurvivors, Including Miss Bertin, were landed by 12.30 and by 3.30 p.m. the entire p.m., operation was successfully completed, The Capetown's salvage parly and survivors "from the ship were forced to trek four miles across country to Yun Ching Bay, Inside the shellered portion of the promontory, from where they were taken off to H.MS. Capetown.

SWAM THROUGH SURF...... In addition to the 60 people rescued by H.M.S. Capetown, four Chinese (Continued on Page 7.)

United States

To Protect Alaskan Seas

CANTON NOT MOLESTED

and in boats.-Reuter.

Four Mail

SMALLPOX CONTINUES UNABATED

Week-end Optimism Short-Lived

Statistics. for the week-end

However, they were unable to 1. Will Government state what is guess the identity of the third power the number of liquid fuel storage mentioned by Mr. Hirota, In fact, tanks in the immediate vicinity of they did not belleve any third power residential districts, bath Hongkong was involved. For it has been опе and Kowloon, giving the number of the points of Japan's policy that separately and their respective she will tolerate no intervention of localities?

any sort, direct or indirect, In the Sino-Japanese dispute.

2. Does Government agree that these tanks are potential sources of Planes Out

The ofcials refused to expand this danger to the localities, either from statement, but observers believe it accidental fire or from destructive indicates that the Japanese them- missiles in time of war? Of Colony

selves are making an effort to 3. If the answer to question (2) negotiate with the Chinese authorities. issued for publication by the is in the affirmative, will Government It is a fact to be noted that the new medical authorities yesterday the tanks as speedily as possible to Masayuki Tani, former Minister to

consider the desirability of removing Japanese In One Day

Minister-at-Large, · Mr. indicated that the smallpox outlying districts, where they will not Austria, arrived in Shanghai Salur- epidemic was waning. But a constitute a source of danger to the day-United Press. time In the further 61 cases were reported public? history, this morning, bringing the total

Canton, Mar. 8. Canion has just passed one of its quietest weeks since the outbreak of hostilities. With the exception of on aerial visliation on Sunday, in which the main objective appeared to be Colony's

have been absent.

Chinese reports of a concentration

similar rumours, failed to excite the

For the first

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to the

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destroying -80

-DWELLERS FLEE

IN TERROR FROM TUNGKWAN

Hankow, Mar. 8. Tungkwan, covered by a heavy foll the Becca Tigris, Japanese planes four air mails left Kal Tak for dif- for three days past to 81 cash,

[of snow, was yesterday bombarded JUNK ENQUIRY

China Will Win

for the first time by Japanese shells, ferent destinations to-day.

Ita 20,000 city dwellers fleeing ponic- Changsha, Mar. 8. The Hon. Mr. Lo Man-kam

stricken before the attack. "Even if the worst should come! of Japanese warships off Fukien, and America, Chungking and Hankow.

They are on their way to London, and the total since January 1 to pursuant to notice, will

However the ignorant peasants.are Ask the and the National Government were optimistic, expecting a good harvest 1,109 cases.

following questions:

only able to retain the control of In the autumn because of the spring local populace. Chinese officials, and Details of the mails are: Imperial

The daily average is still disturb appointed by His Excellency the whole of Szechwan, Yunnan, Kwei- With reference to the Commission Kansu, greater part of Shenal, the niso foreign sources, expect a further Airways left for Bangkok ant Lon-ingly high, and does not indiente the Officer Administering the Government chow, and Kwangst in the south-west workers in Shans, warmned

snow..

All postal, telegraph and railway respite, and in this connection the don at 11 am, with 021 lbs. of mail; lessening in the number of cases on October 7, 1937, for the pur-and a part of Kwangtung and Hunan,Tungkwan rainy weather doubtless will be an Pan-American

anticipated in official quarters. Airways Clipper rine dally average since last Satur-pose of enquiring into and establish- China would still be able to continue locomotives important consideration on the pari left for Manila and America at 8.30 day is higher than the daily average lieged sinking of certain fishing offering resistance and would win the all telephone lines in southern Shansi.

ing "the facts in relation of the Japanese,

300 coaches, and a.m. with 132 lbs, of mail;. Although the city in carrying on

In any week, excepting the week

Anal victory."

All junks on the Yellow River of China National Aviation Corpora- ending February 19, since the com- Junks the survivors of which were Washington, Mar. 7.

almost normally, a report from ation left for Chungklang at 8 am. mencement of the epidemic. This is

(Continued on Page 7.)

General Chang Chih-chung, Gov-. Tungkwan have been gathered 10- Despite Tokyo advices that Japan magistrate in a country district con- with 34 lbs. of mail; has abandoned a

how it has varied:

ernor of Hunan, who was the first gether on the soulkem bank, except Dabing exploration Arms that military activity and de-

commanding officer of the Chinese

which are used to transport Eurasia Aviation Corporation left fenco preparation proceeding

Daily for Hankow at 11 am, with 300 lbs.

Average the residential areas

night on Saturday, 64 occurred in forces defending the Shanghai-Woo-refugees and wounded soldiers. of mail.

Chinese troops are. of Victoria, sung area immediately after the

vigilant very sixteen In Kowloon and one in the

break of

in order to prevent the imminent the current Sino-Japanese New Territories.

crossing hostilities,

of the river. made this declaration in Japanese

Shanal troops are to smallpox, six cases the course of a speech at the weekly Meanwhile the of meningitis were reported yester memorial service of the Hunan Pro-etermined to remain in Sharis, and.. day. Three of these were reported vincial Government last Monday,

It is impossible to say how many-United Press from Victoria, rye from Kowloon and one from the New Territories.

roops Japan will need ·

and

how There were two cases of typhold much time she will have to take

and three cases of dysentery, two of tonal ares, General Chang said. in Kowloon, three cases (including before the can force: China's de- one imported) of messios in Victoria fenders to retreat to this suppost- which were in Victoria and one in But one thing is certain." China In

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the

and cruise of Alaskan waters, Coast Guard authorities announced apace-Reuter.

that they are assigning to the Bering Sen a patrol of eight cutlers, Includ-

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