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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1938.
PLANES ATTACK
PAKHOI
Machine-Gunned
+
And. Bombed Streets
Delayed messages have been received from private sources by the Hongkong Telegraph telling of a furious attack by Japanese
nir-craft on Pakhoi some days
ngo.
ON TRIAL FOR LIFE,
RUSSIAN DENIES PLOT TO KILL LENIN
Moscow, Mar. 8.
In the course of cross-examination during to-day's hearing of the new treason trial, M. Bukharin declared that the Trotskyite plotters had prepared to conclude a military alliance with Germany on the basis that they surrender certain Soviet territory to Germany, and would rupture pacts of mutual alliance between the Soviet, France and Czecho-Slovakia.
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M. Bukharin's self-defence continued to dominate the evening session. Although he admitted general responsibility on all counts of the indictment, he Since this is the first intimation of any raid at this persistently denied that he plotted to kill Lenin, worked for a foreign intelligence service, or ordered members of his organisation to organise peasant insurrections.
port in many weeks, and since Pakhoi has been beyond the war- area during most of the period of hostilities, Hongkong autho- rities were most surprised to learn of the bombing.
The source of the
is report unimpeachable, however, and al though the information coming from the southern port is very limited it Indicates that the raid was a severe
one.
Japanese planes appeared on Murch 13, It is stated, und flew low over the city, firing into the streets with their machine-guns. They also dropped a number of bembs. It is inevitable, from the information available, that casualties were numerous.
BRITAIN PROTESTS OVER CODE CABLE BAN
Peiping's Orders To Chefoo
London, Mar. 6. The British Consul at Chefoo has reported that the Chinese telegraph uffice, under instructions from the Feiping Provisional Government, is refusing to accept code telegrams. This was revented by Mr. R. A Butler, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in reply to a question put by Commander A. Marsden (Cons),
He added that a protest had been lodged and arrangements made for British commercial messages to be passed temporarily through other channels.
Mr. Butler, replying to another question sald there had been
no change in the British Government's friendly policy in China. The Lea- Auc Council's recent resolution in" favour of all available help being ac- corded by League members to China was being considered, but he was not at present in a position to statement.Reuter.
Seven Die
In French
Air Crash
make a
New Delhi, Mar. 8.
A French acroplane, Hying be- tween Paris and Indo-China, crashed shortly after leaving Allahabad to-day and was des- troyed in flames. All aboard, in- cluding a crew of four and three passengers, were killed.-Reuter Bulletin.
LONDON STOCK MARKET IDLE
London, Mar. 7.
The London Stock Exchange was Idle and prices were generally lower to-day apart from glll-edged holdings and Far Eastern bonds,
which hardened. An advance in Indian
Irons relieved an otherwise dull mar- ket. Industrials and diamonds were flat, but olls showed some resistance.
Commodities were featureless, and foreign exchanges and the franc eased on nervous offerings induced by un- certainty in connection with the Government's plans for financing re- armament.
American dollars were firmer with commercial buying.—Reuter Special,
DUTCH NICKEL FOR KRUPPS
Berlin, Mar, 0.
The Dutch Indies is going to ship between 1,000 und 1,000 tons pot of nickel ore, containing from three 'to five per cent. of nickel to Krupps, to the newspaper Metal chaft
A second consignament will follow
in the middle of March, and Kruppa
will experiment with it to decide how
much can be imported from this new source in the future-Reuter,
M. Andrew Vynahinalty, Attorney- General, announced that a committee of medical experts would be called te testify that M. Maxim Gorky, M. Menzhinsky, former chief of the Oppu, and M. Kulbyshev, were poisoned by the three physician defendants under the instructions of members of the Bukharin bioc.
Yakovlevo, former Madamne Finance Commissar of Russia
proper and, until her recent arrest, the only women member of the Government, alleged that Bukharin in 1918 plotted to overthrow the Soviet and to KHI Lenin, Stalin and Sverdlov.
that M. Bukharin admitted
the 1018 plot embraced the arrest of these three men, but denied he Intended to kill them. He said that Trotsky initiated the plan-Reuter.
MURDER BY SLOW POISON
by slow polson, when
the treason
JAPANESE HARD PRESSED
Honan Lines Cut By Chinese Heavy
Losses
Inflicted
Chengchow, Mar. 8.
Surrounded and
constantly
A group of medical experts testified] that the Commissar of Secret Police, harassed by an overwhelming Nikolai Yezhov, was suffering from number of Chinese "Red Spears," the effects of attempts to murder him guerillas and regular troops, the trial was resumed to-day. They na- Japanese remaining at various swered in the affirmative to M. Vyhin- points along the Taokou-Ching-
Question: "May
It be said that hus Railway, in north Honan, Yagoda and Bulanov,
sky's
the
used
of polsonerous and effective means are reported to be panicky.
against Yezhoy, and may
The recapture of Sinsinng, Wel-
it be said that Yezhov's health was hwei, Tnoku, Po Ai, Tsinhsien and considerably damaged?"
IIwahsten severed the contact be
the line.
They also replied affirmatively lo Bie question: "If the criminals had, tween the various Japanese units on not been discovered would his death have resulted?"
Japanese military supplies near M. Vyhinsky read a letter from Dr. Sinalang, it is said, are being trans- Bellestolzky of the Kremlin, which ported back to Changich, their base inferentially accused the defendants of operations in north Honan, by the Levin and Pletnev of contributing to Peiping-Hankow Hallway, for fear Maxim Gorky's described the death room, saying that
death, and which of their being seized by the Chinese.
Fighting is in progress at Chlaotso, had administered unusual quan- the mining town, and Hochin, a town they lities of drugs. The letter said that east.--Central News. Levin ordered Bellostalzky to make conferred with other doctors who dis- additional
HEAVY LOSSES injections, after which he regarded Bellotsatzley's advice. The
Slan, Mar. 8. Indicating the heavy casualties letter added that 10 minutes before sustained by the Japanese troops Maxim Gorky died, Pletnov saldi during the present southward drive "Let a sick man die quietly. Why in Shansi, 4,000 bodies of soldiers administer more medicine?"-United killed in action have been trans- Press.
ported to Talyuan from the front Central News,
PUCHOW'S CAPTURE CLAIMED
Pelping, Mar. B. The capture of Puchow in the south-west corner of Shansi, and the terminus of the Talyuan-Puchow railway, is claimed in official des- patches, which state that Japanese iroops entered yesterday afternoOA. This gives the Japanese possession ΟΙ the entire railway, but large areas on either sido are still in Chinese hands, and it is expected they will need considerable time and many men to "clean up.""
STOP PRESS
Hochu, on the Yellow
!...
River In
north-west Shansi, it is claimed, was captured yesterday by the Kwan- tung Army in operations from Tai- tung, and Japanese artillery con- tinues to pound the Chinese positions on the Lunghai railway from post- tlons north of the Yellow River. The Kungen and Szeshui stations have suffered severely.
No
Japanese
ese attempt to cross the river in Honan has yet been made, but their artillery also bombarded ull Chinese concentrations and boats
on
the
river to prevent attempts to re-cross the river to attack, while the majority of Japanese forces are engaged in Shansi.
The train service on the Felping- Hankow railway line has again been disrupted by guerilla troops who are fighting the Japanese forces
of Chuchow. The last down- train which left two days ago, was attacked north of Tootingfu, when two Japanese passengers were killed. Travellers returning by road declare that large sections of the railway south of Shilchlachwang have been destroyed by guerilla troops--Reuter. BOTH SIDES REPORT SUCCESSES
Hankow, Mar. 8. The Chinese press reports that Japanese troops have reached the Bouth-western end of Shansi, and started
bombard the arted yesterday to Tungkwon and Lunghal railway from across the Yellow River,
Chinese troops in Shanat are all beside the rallway, but organised moblie units under
Yen Hsi-shan are
scattered
General
directing warfare in the
western corner of Shanel,
still south-
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HAILE SELLASSIE MAY RULE AGAIN
IN ETHIOPIA
NEW OFFICE FOR CHIANG'S NOTED BIOGRAPHER
Shanghai, Mar. 8. London, March 8.
Mr. Hollington K. Tong, veteran Halle Sellassle, former Ethiopian Emperor, denied that he was prepared newspaperman of Shanghai, has been According to the local Chinese to discuss any agreement Incom formally appointed Director-General with his Abyssinian of the Publicity Department by the press, there was aanguinary fighting patable
Central Executive Committee of the on February 6 at Linyl, 200 miles, sovereignty. south-cast of Tainan, in which 500 The rumour was aroused by news-National Government. Japanese troops were killed and three paper reports of his recent visit to Mr. Tong is a former director of It the China - Press, Shanghai, ・ and heavy guns, 14 armoured cars, 700 Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office. Fides and 300,000 rounds of ammuni- ja reported that he will be reinstated author of the well-known blography tion were seized by Chinese troops, to rule a small part of Abyssinia with of Generalikimo Chiang Kai-hak,-*- Severe fighting is going on in the the support of Italy.--Reuter Bulletin. Reuter. Linyi area, casualties on both aldas | K being...severe. : Between three: und
------- Printed and Published for the Proprietors bý Ferndarek PERCY FRAMELES four thousands.. Chinese troops areat 1 and 3, Wyndham Street in the City of Victòria, Hongkong holding Linyl,m United Prew.
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