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· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938.
BELITTLES
CHINESE STOP PRESS NEWS ALHAMBRA
RESISTANCE
Japanese Commander Says Communists Losing Ground
But Evidence Conflicts
Taiyuan, Apr. 14. Lieut-General Styusun, Japanese commanding ofmeer of the Central Shans troops. interviewed at his headquarters, which is one of General Yen Hsi-hau's houser at Taiyuan, with its abandoned vases, curios and the room, stated
Bintings decunists were losing |
that the
headway in Shanal due to the innate miserliness of the Shanai people, and also owing to the Communists' con- spicuous lack of successes recently.
He claimed that, the "bandits are much caster to catch and annihilate and nanihilate than in
In Manchuria because they are new at the game, and not so clever." He said that General Fu Tso-yl wits remaining In
mountains western Shansi, where General Yen lisi-shan was also reported to have returned, after originally fleeing to Shensi. General Shiyusan said that General
Was anxious to surren-
Ten
the
der, but General Fu was
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London, Apr, 13.
TRIED TO GET - TOBACCO INTO STANLEY GAOL
Stopped and searched by Wurder Webber when entering the main Referring to the treaty under- gates of Stanley Prison on his way takings existing between the United to work early this morning, LI Man, Kingdom and Portugal the Under-atter employed by the gnol, was Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mr. found to have a large slab of tobacco R. A Butler circulated with the strapped around a leg. He was ar official House of Commons report, a rested and later appeared before Mr. that such undertakings H. R. Butters nt le Central Magis- statement,
concluded trney, charged with Introducing were contained in treaties cone respectively in the years 1378, 1386, prohibited article into the
the prison. 1042, 1080, 1001 and 1703 which had
Detective-Sergeant Souter sold Li further been reaffirmed by Articla Three of the Treaty of January 22, was arrested at 2.40 am. The man 1813, the Declaration of delober 14 had been employed at the prison for 1899, and the arbitration agreements a year, and received wages of $30 November 19, 1904, and November per month and free quarters. De- 16, 1914-Briliant Wireless,
fendant will lose his job.
although small
in
was preventing Hroups of General
They
Fu' men were deserting and stir- rendering to the Japanese. were being made into policemen.
He .said that 00,000 Chinese civi- linus are
A
the
are now living at Taiyuan, where the population was formerly over 150,000. He stated that the line of communications to fatung were safe.
by Chinese employed Japanese military in Taiyuan stated that all territory north of Hsichtow. which is 40 miles north of Taiyuan, is in the hands of the Reds. and General Fu Tso-yi, who were en- operating closely. He said that the Japanese dare not venture north of Ilsinchow unless they have a large convoy of 40 or 50 trucks. He also stated that there was renewed acli- vity a week ago near Taoku, where the Japanese would not venture in small convoys. Foreign scurces at Taiyuan amply confirm this report.
THE BLACK ARMY
Foreign and Chinese sources say that the areas between the Japanese garrison towns and the Chinese troops are harassed by bandits, as well as the "Black Army", consisting af desperate villagers, who put their Inces black, and scour the country- side at night, using red-hot poliers to torture the farmers from whom they extract money.
is understood that a large per- centage of foreign hospitals have cuses which consist of gunshot wounds and poker burns.
More Japanese soldiers are in the streets than Chinese civilians, and less than half the shops are open,
aporinuloing about 10 per cent.
of
trude,
A score or more of General Yen Is-shan's factories at Taiyuan, In- cluding an arsenal and a new steel plant.
been have
occupied and Military Factory
inbeled "Jupanso."
Number
The battered gates and walls are littered with shell fragments and hundreds of half buried Chinese soldiers lie about, whose corpses are mute reminder of the stubborn de-! fence they nude, and the terrife) artillery and aerial attack on Tai- yuan five months ago-United Press,
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GETS AWAY Only seven cases of smallpox were David Charles Choa, 14, a student, notified yesterdny. Two were in reported to police to-day that at 8.10 Hatton Victoria, four in Kowloon and one a.m., while cycling down
he WOA There were four Road,
pushed In Shouktwan.
off his cases of meningitis, three of measles bicycle by a youth of about 20. and three of dysentery also reported. young robber then jumped on the rider and tore away his wrist watch, valued at $70, and ran down Kate- wall Rond, towards Robinson Road, Chon gave chase and eventually caught the robber, but was unable to hold him.
Washington, Apr. 13. While Mr. Marriner S. Eccles told the House Banking Committee that de-sterilisation would be paychole- gically inflationary, Wall Street ex- perts drew attention to the develop- inents, pointing out that the release of inactive gold into the credit struc TO
Increase ture would
the surplus banking reserves, thus exerting a renewed force for the expansion of credits. Reuter,
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