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Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881

No. 15509

四拜禮 號五月五英港香

THURSDAY,

MAY 5, 1938.

日六初月四

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CHINESE CONTINUE SHANTUNG ADVANCE

THOUSANDS

SLAIN IN

OFFENSIVE

Centre Column Drives Twelve Miles Into Japanese Positions

Hsuchow, May 5.

Thousands Face Starvation Outside Shanghai

MURDER

ON PEAK

Mrs. R. H. Challinor

Dies Of Wounds

Husband Badly Injured

CHINESE "BOY" IN HOSPITAL

Mrs. Sybil Ruby Challinor is dead and her husband, Mr. R. H. Challinor, of the Im- !perial Chemicals Industries (China) Ltd, is in the War Memorial Hospital, suffering from stab wounds.

Between 5,000 and 6,000 Japanese troops have been slain in the last two days since the launching of the general counter-offensive by the Chinese on the south Shantung front, according to a Chinese official communique.

Further progress was made by the Chinese yesterday. The central column which smashed through the Japanese line north of Pihsien and recaptured Taliangpi and Siaoliangpi on May 3, has advanced further north, gaining a total ployed by Mr. and Mrs. distance of 12 miles.

Meanwhile, units of Chinese troops are "mopping up" surviving Japanese in the area recovered. The left wing has reached Ching- lingssu, south of Yihsien, whilst the right wing has reoccupied the villages north of Tancheng and is advancing on Linyi,

The Japanese troops endrried at Isolated. Tonchang are completely The Japanese at both Tancheng and Matouchen have remained inactive during the last two days on account of the vigliance taken by the Chinese, They are reported to be

running short of provisions and ammunition.

One hundred truckloads of Japan- ese military supplies were attacked by the Chinese on their way from Linyl to Tancheng and Matouchen. Many of the trucks were destroyed. -Central News,

STOP PRESS

JAPANESE PLANES BOMB PIHSIEN

Bauchow, May 6. In an attempt to check the Chinese advance 14 Japanese planes subjected Pihsien, Hsin An and points in the neighbourhood to a severe bombing yesterday noon.

Hundreds of bombs were dropped. Casualties among civilians are be- loved heavy, though detailed figures are not yet available.

was sounded

The air raid alarm Ave times at Hsuchaw yesterday. Only twice did Japanese planes ap- pear to conduct connaissance. No bumbs were dropped-Central News.

Further Stop Press News on Page-12.)

TUNG WO SEIZURE PROTEST

Inquiry Discloses Member Of Crew Was Bayoneted

Shanghai, May 5. It is learned that the British made repre- authorities have sentations to the Japanese au- thorities against the boarding and detention of the British steamer Tung Wo by Japanese troops on April 27.

The findings of the British Inquiry Into the incident were as follows:

The Tung Wo was lying in the Yangtse estuary when, at I p.m. es April 28, a party of Japanese came aboard and asked the Master for his cargo permit.

The Japanese then went ashore and had proceeded about 200 yards when some Chinese guerillas open- ed fire

on them. The Japanese were evidently under the impres- sion that someone aboard tho Tung | Wo had fired and wet back to the ship and asked the Captain to po aboard a Japanese warship.

The Captain asked the Japanese to search the Tung Wo. This they did, after which they wanted to tako away the Chlef Engineer, who was a Briton, and threo zacmbers of the Chinese crew. The Captain refused.

any firing from the ship.

Lam Chun, house-boy em-

Challiner, is now in custody. in the prison ward of the Queen Mary Hospital, suffer- ing from multiple injuries.

Ja statement to the Police, Mr. Challinor said that he was awokened

his residence at 480 The Peak, at crics from his wife, who occupied a

about 4 o'clock this morning. by

separate bed in the same bedroom.

Mr. Challinor got out of bed und, he alleges, saw Lam Chun attacking!,

is wife.

He seized the house-boy and dur- ing the struggle received several stab! wounds.

Lum Chun then ran out of the room on to the roof of the building, from where he jumped to the concrete paving at the side of the house.

Picked Up By Police

He was still lying on the pave- ment when he was picked up by the Police.

From enquiries made up to the present by the Police, it appears that Lum had a grievance owing to not getting a testimonal from his cm- ployers, who are leaving the Colony shortly.

The condillon of Mr. Challinor. who is suffering from multiple stab wounds, is not considered serious.

Lum Chun, who is in police custody in Queen Mary Hospital, is not seriously injured.

ROOM A SHAMBLES

Two blood-stained table knives1 were found by the police. One officer described the bedroom as "absolutely (Continued on Page 4.)

AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER

He may be from Kwanglung or Shansi, or anywhere in China. This is a typical front-line rogular, who is making history in the Far East,

ROME-BERLIN AXIS UNWEAKENED, BOTH PARTIES DECLARE

But Reassurance Sounds Unconvincing Note

Rome, May 5.

No weakening of the "Rome-Berlin axis" has been been revealed in conversations between Signor Benito

JAPANESE FEAR OF GUERILLAS CAUSE OF CRUEL DECISION.

Refugees Not Allowed To Enter City or Return To Interior Homes

Shanghai, May 5.

The ban placed by the Japanese authorities five days ago against Chinese entering or leaving the Japanese- occupied areas beyond the British-manned western perimeter of Shanghai, has placed thousands of Chinese war refugees in a desperate plight.

Their lives are endangered by the relentless. campaign the Japanese are waging against Chinese, guerillas.

seek These refugees fled from the interior to sanctuary in the foreign areas of Shanghai. Unable to. enter, they are facing starvation, for most of them carried barely enough food for the journey and fresh supplies are difficult to buy, even if they have money. In addition, they are without shelter and have to sleep in the fields.

FRANCE TO STABILISE CURRENCY

Devaluation · Rumour Causes European Nervousness

American. Doubt

Dissipated

Paris, May 4.

The number of persons affected is estimated at fróm 0,000 to 10,000..

father than starve many have tried to return to the interior, but they have not been allowed to leave the "blockader" area.

In addition to the refugees, more than 1,000 native bants, currying perishable goods, are also marooned in that section of Soochow Creek run- ning through the affected district.

Fear Of Guerillas The "blockade" was ordered follow- ing the activities of Chinese guerilins within a few miles of Shanghal.

British and other foreigners living in Hungjoo Road are allowed to enter and leave the "blockaded" area freely, but they have do their own marketing and suffer other incon- veniences because the blockade has been applied to their servants. M. Edouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, in a Guerillas Still Active broadcast to-night, announced that the franc would be stabi-out, the guerillas are active through. Despite all altempis to wipe them lised. But he did not mention out the triangle formed with Shang- hai, Hangchow and Nanking us pointe 1the rate.

M. Daladier said stabilisation of apex.

would be carried out in agree- A Japanese army spokesman An- ment with London and Washing-nounced to-day that the Japanese bud ton, at a rate at which the franc authorities had nipped in the would be safe from attack.plans by guerillas to selze possession of Changchow, In the heart of the Reuter,

Japanese-occupied region.

"FIX" PREDICTED

He said the Japanese were fore- warned of the plot and made a house- to-house search of Changchow, or

Chinese, and seizing a

eating 104 TIN OUTPUT

UNLIKELY

TO CHANGE

Büffer Quota Will Help Producer

London, May 4. The Chairman of the International

Mussolini and Herr Adolf Hitler, according to officials of both sides. A somewhat anxious note, however, may be discerned in this reassurance,

While Italians as a whole received the news of the anschluss between Austria and Germany with alarm, well- informed Italian quarters claim it has not diminished the strategical position on the Brenner Pass, especially if Herr Hitler keeps his word and does not fortify the Austrian side of the frontier.

Paris, May 5. According to. Le Matin, the value of the franc will be fixed by decree between 175 and 100 to the pound

sterling-Reuter.

178 TO POUND

Paris, May 5. It is understood that is now rate of the trane will be between 177 and

178 to the pound sterling-Reuter.

AGREEMENT TO CONTINUE

Washington, May 5.

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary

large quantity of arms-Reuter.

Japan Evades Quota Rules, House Hears

London, May 4,

The attention of the Secretary of

German clrcles do not admit, that in the Mediterranean, Germany has to the Treasury, stated this morning state for the Colonies was directed

now come with a steel helmet on its that the United States and Britain hend to ask for Italy's acquiescence had agreed to continue the tri-partite to any German plan in Central monetary agreement with France. Europe.

Reuter.

in the House of Commons this after- noon to the alleged practice of Japanese Arms of importing into the British West Indies large quantiles four-yard lengths of printed spun viscosg rayon fabric, mode up into bedspreads.

of

The Japanese then took the Tung Wo to Tinngming Island and held Tin Committee issued a statement to- the problem of the Sudete Germans her there for 24 hours.

day, pointing out that na the intention in Czecho-Slovakia has been dis- During the investigation they of the Commitice was to accumulate eussed between the two dictators, stuck a bayonet into the chest of the projected buffer stack in Bix. one of the Chinese members of the months, the quota, would normally except purely in a consultative sense, According to the German belief, it matter does not | Italy con acquiesce to the anschlues

EXCHANGE NERVOUSNESS crew, who

was badly injured. be 15 per cent. of standard tonnages. and declare this There was no evidence whatever of in the present circumstances, and concern any country outside Czecho-

she can have still less interest in

London, May 4. Czecho-Slovakia. assuming that the butter scheme Slovakia and Germany,

Unconfirmed rumours of impending There It is believed, however, that Signor

These lengths of materiël, it was is no confirmation of the In its representations to the Japan- was accepted in the near future, the

alleged. In tho House, wore nat end authorities here, the British au- intention of the Committee is to fix Mussolini, while prepared to adopt rumour that German demands for devaluation of the French frane and allege thorities forwarded a copy of the the ordinary quota and the buffer eventually a polley of neutrality colonies are also being discussed and the realignment of certain other majer controlled by the quotn limiting Inducesi considerable Imports of rayons and slika. After findings of the Inquiry.-Reuter. quetu so that the combined outputs toward moderate German claims, will the subject is scrupulously ignored currencies,

would approximate the.

nervousness in the Exchange Market their Importation into the: Bettlsh present lend his diplomatie support to the by the Italian press.. International quota of 55 per cent. British and French in their attempt it is probable the question of this afternoon, prior to the French Colony, the bedsprends were Thus the present role of production to arrange a modus vivendi which colonies will be regarded 06 not Prime Ministor's stabilisation state-picked and the resulting lengths of would be substantially unchanged. | will postpone, if it will not aplve, the "actual."—Router,

ment.

olath were made up into dress goods,. Roughly a quarter of the production,, issue.

The American dollar and the thereby evading the quota restrictions however, would be held in the buner

majority of European currencies on upon the importation of Japanes countered stock.

Buch fairly heavy selling cloth,...In

munner, 16- pressure.

- alleged, the Japanese were compoting On the other hand, bullon brokers in the West Indies to the detriment. Rome, May 4, sources alato that florr reported a keen demand for gold. It of Luncashire trade....

Secretary and Signor Mussolini have is estimated that nearly £1,000,000 Mr. W. Ormsby Gore, the

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MANCHUKUO MISSION FOR ITALY

ITALY'S HAND STRENGTHENED

Dictators Discuss Spain Situation

Informed

Manchukuo, May 5. The Manchukuo Gvernment has ́decided to return the recent vialt of If the buffer scheme is accepted, It is pointed out that events since

decisions definite the Fascist delegation by sending a

regarding the the lust meeting of the dictators havo mission of friendship to Italy. It amount of the quota will be fixed by strengthened Italy's hand, and instead will pay a visit to Germany also the Committee in the light of the of Italy going to Germany hat in Hitler Trans-Ocean,

position as it then appeara-Kleuter. | hand, so to speak, to 'nak for support

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