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FIRST EDITION

Supreme Court

Hongkong Telegraph,

No. 10312

FOUNDED 1001 一拜禮 號九月五英港香

MONDAY, MAY

9, 1938.

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MOTORISTS

WHOSE MOTTO IS

Safety

First

ALWAYS FIT

DUNLOP TYRES

JAPAN AIMS AT HSUCHOW FROM SOUTH

BUT SUFFERS Foreign Doctor Tells of Bombing Horror

HEAVILY IN HONGKONG

SHANTUNG

Repeated Attacks Fail to Penetrate Chinese Defences

Shanghai, May 9.

Continuing their drive ng

wards.

where

Hsuchow and the Lunghai Raik.panese officially claim to have captured Siuk. the High River crosses the Tientsin-Pukow railway, and 30 kilometres north of Pengpu.

Further east a supporting column is stated to have completed the occupation of Fowning.

Siukiao and Fowning are

both ap- proximately 60 miles south of the Lunghai Railway, the former due south of Hsuchow and the latter due south of Haichow, terminus of the line.-Reuter.

2,000 Japanese Slain

Talerchwang. May D.

More than 2,000 Japanese troops are estimated to have been stain in action by Chinese force at Yuwang- shan on the centre of the routh Shantung front during the last three clays.

Be

Repeated night attacks Chinese line at Yuwangshon, which in The communds strategle points

Tajerchwang, hilly terrain east were repulsed with heavy buses.

of

On the evening of May 6 and the

GERMANY ANGERED

Sudeten Problem Causes Outburst By Newspapers

Berlin, May 8. The visit of the British Am-

KETCH

EVADES

TYPHOON

ふ

Ma On Shan Safe, Coasting South Towards Saigon

The $2-feet Hongkong yacht, Ma On Shan, with Squadron Leader G. Francis and his wife aboard, is safe.

Welcome news has been re-

ceived in Hongkong that the little ketch-rigged yacht which left Hongkong on April 30 for Slagapore, evaded the typhoon which raged in the China sea un Monday and Tuesday last, and had since been sighted by two

ships.

The Jardie steamer, Islami. bound Jor Saigon and Hongkong from Singapore, reported passing a small

white vecht, flying the Red Ensign, position then being Lat. 12.43 N. and

at 5 p.m. on Friday, May 6, her

Long, 100.48 E.

This placed the yacht, which in practically certain to have been the Ma On Shan, neurly 700 miles south

hugging the ut Hongkong.

Indu China coast, and approaching Saigon. She was reported to be sailing south-south-west. No distress signals were made.

A German sleamer, the Crofeld,) also reported that she had sighted a yacht nhout 1 pm, on May 6, but This vessel was near the North Reet (north of the Paracels) and it seems doubtful that she was the Ma On Shan, as the ketch could not have made up such a lot of mileage in a

few hours.

The German ship said that the

following morning. the Japanese bassador, Sir Neville Henderson, Yacht was about five miles away.

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forces launched six attacks and lost to Dr. Woermann, Under-Secre- RA.F. RECEIVES REPORT more than 300 killed. The Chinese

Air Force Base this The Royal subsequently attacked the Japanese tary for Foreign Affairs, to dis-

had received flank and forced the invaders to turn cuss the subject of the Sudeten morning stated it from the centre.

minorities, has been made the signat from the Islaml reporting the Early yesterday morning, Japanese occasion of violent attacks by sighting of a small yacht which is generally belleved to have been the artillery in the vicinity of Linchwang. German newspapers.

Ma On Shan The Telegraph Fangchwang and Tanochwang, to the, cast of the railway, opened barrage on the Chinese positions.

attucit infantry subsequent repulsed by the defenders after hour's encounter.

wistlon

was

that

MA ON SHAN

The little Hongkong Ketch which Squadron-Leader G. Francis and his wife are sailing to Singapore, and which was feared to have run into the typhoon last week, is safe.

CHINA FIGHTING EPIDEMIC BEHIND MILITARY LINES

Director of Red Cross Tells of Work With Wounded Soldiers

Hankow, May 8,

base. for

One hundred epidemic prevention units have been

The Chinese Government has established 386 in an article on the "most unbeur- informed that when sighted by the able position in Czecho-Slovakia," the Islami, the Ma On Shan was off Cape A Nacht Ausgabe gives a vivid descrip-Varela, close to the Indo-China coust.

hospitals, with accommodation of 200,000 beds of the alleged attacks by Czech

Oficial circles are sceptical an police and

nr soldiers on the Sudeten

the yacht reported to have been seen wounded soldiers. Germans.

In by the Crefeld was the Ma On Shan, Angrif says that excitement

as her position falled to tally with At Hsichchwung, in the vicinity Sudeten German territory is nearing that of the vessel Inter observed by Pihsien, the Japanese Hashimoto Regiment suffered a crushing defent boiling point, yet none of the Czech the Islami. Further indication that organised in various parts of the country.

ministers cun

suficient Summon

the Jardine ship did sight the Ma On yesterday when the Chinese forces stormed the numerous

(Continued on Page 4.) blockhouses courage to admit Dr. Karl Henigin's and succeeded in killing and wound-eight points are the last possibility ing 1,000 Japanese The Japanese of restoring order in the country.-- ure now rushing_reinforcements from Reuter Special. Chungfang and Matouchen.

A general hull prevailed on must

of the south Shantung sectors yester-

day

Central News,

BRITAIN, AMERICA SHOW WAY

Joint Jurisdiction Over Disputed Isles Washington, May 8.

Czechs Seek

Roosevelt

Freedom From On Errand Reich Shackles Of Mercy

LOAN TO OPEN OTHER FOREIGN MARKETS

Prague, May 8.

Czecho-Slovakia's answer to

HIGH SEA DRAMA IN U.S. CRUISER

Charleston, S. Carolina,

May 8.

These figures were released yesterday by Dr. Yen Fu-ching, Director of the Chinese National Health Administration and former Director of the Shanghai Red Cross Hospital.

Describing the work of attending to China's sick and wounded, Dr. Yen said that wounded soldiers were carried from the front line trenches to a first aid station by stretcher bearers of the Army Medical Corps, who were attached to every division.

-After receiving treatment,

the

wounded were sent to field hospitals

where serious cases were attended Chinese Customs

to. As soon as the men were in a condition to travel they were sent to base hospitals.

Wounded from the war fronts la

the Yangise area were sent to base hospitals in Kiangsl. Those from the Tientsin-Pukow and Peiping- Hankow Railway fronts were sent to

the British and French How President Roosevelt par- demarches regarding minorities ticipated in a dramatic errand and suggestions for economic of mercy on the High Seas was assistance to the Danubian states told here to-day by radiograms fupeh and Honum, while those front:

from the cruiser the fronts In Stund and Sulyuan will probably be a request for a received

were despatched to Shansi.

'The reply will point out

Dr. Yen disclosed that ten per cent." of the wounded die before they reach base hospitnis, where the denth_rate is only 4.7 per cent.

MEN REJOIN UNITS Bixty per cent. of the wounded sent to base hospitals have already been cured and discharged, Ninety per cent, of those discharged havo rejoined their original regiments at The frosk

It is understood that the terms loan by the Western Powers to Philadelphia, in which the Pre- of a new Agreement between Tree Czecho-Slovakia and her aident has been holidaying on a

United neighbours from Germany by trip to the Bahamas. Great Britain and the

The eruiser picked up a radio States, which will be signed new trade agreements,

Under these proposed agreements message from the Norwegian freighter Immediate asking for shortly, will provide for joint

the Marathon, part

the trade between Of

an injured Jurisdiction over the two dis- Danubian states and Germany would medical assistance for

The U.S.S. Philadelphin,. puted islands in the South Sens. be diverted to Great Britain and seaman.

distant ility miles WAB which France. These small pln-points on maps of

that immediately turned and headed at tho Pacifc-Canton and Enderby Czecho-Slovakia has frozen credits full speed for the Marathon. islands are of strategie importance amounting to 35,900,000 marks, while President Roosevelt, who had been! in vlow of the forthcoming network those of the other Danubian states watching a movie performance, went of commercial air services between

Although ninety per cent. of the Whs an work was done by the Chiriese Gov- ship the United States, Canada, Australia, are even farger, and are still increas-on deck immediately the Norwegian

was sighted, and New Zealand and New Guinea.

In lieu of payments for exports to interested spectator as a boat was ernment Army Medical Corps, Dr. the choppy sen and Yen emphasised the valuable assis- According to the New York Times Germany, the Danubian states are lowered in

tance given by the Foreign Mission negotiations will be extended to cover obliged to accept goods of German took a doctor to the Marathon.

The Philadelphia's doctor removed Hospitals, the Red Cross, the Red the Antarctic regions, where huge manufacture, and their foreign trade areas are at present in friendly dis-la thus tending to become more and a steel splinter from the eye of the Swastika Society, and others. The

(Continued on Pape, 4.) pute between the two countries more restricted to Germany-Reuter scaman, who is reported to be pro- Red Cross Society, he said, has fifty

Special

greasing favourably-Reuter, Reuter

Ing

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Employees End

Protest Strike

Shanghai, May 8,

the Chinese Employees of Customs Department havo decid.. ed to discontinue the strike and to continue, work temporarily under Japanese jurisdiction.

The decision was taken at a after- mass meeting yesterday

noon.

Work will continue "under protest,"

Instructions pending from Hankow--Reuter,

JAPANESE RAIDERS KILL HUNDREDS IN CROWDED HOSPITALS

Harrowing Scenes Follow Repeated Attacks; Streets Machine-Gunned

(Special to "Telegraph")

Hsuchow, May 9.

Doctor R. B. McClure, the American bicycling Red Cross field director, returned to this city fom Nanhsu- chow, 50 miles south of here yesterday, and described the Italian Catholic Mission there which was bombed on May 5, as "a horrible shambles of blood, misery and terror."

He estimated that 370 were killed in the bombing of Nanhsuchow, of which 100 were in the mission.

"I have never seen a small town so done up," Dr. McClure related. "Nine planes came over and terrified crowds rushed for the supposed santuary of the mission. Three demolition bombs struck in the compound.

An

RUSSIAN SUSPECTS ARRESTED

Japanese Report Terrorist Group Seized in China

"The plans returned and dropped incendiary bomby, one going right through the Italian flag on the roof- top.

The chapel went up in smoke. Mat-sheds burst, into flame. People in dug-ouls were burned out. One hundred and forty rooms in the hospital were destroyed. Scarcely anc puri of the compound War untouched,

"The plates came as low as they the pleased and machine-gunned

streets.

"Nunhsuchow wes of absolutely no miltury importance. The mission was a mile from the station."

Few Foreigners Present

Father. Paul Gnavi was the only at the foreigner in the compound time of the attack.

The American Presbyterian Miss- on, outside the walls, was untouched. of New Miss Dorothy Claussen,

known ala the "Anhwel (Continued, on Page 4.)

Tokyo, May 9. Eighteen Soviet citizens and

unrevealed

of number Chinese, who had penetrated into Japanese-occupied territory in China allegedly to disturb the Jersey, rear of the Japanese forces, have been arrested by the Japanese, the Tokyo Asahi, a leading daily, reported to-day.

This sensational charge was con- Lained in Shanghal dispatch which

has not yet been confirmed.

The Russians and the Chinese, the paper said, had engaged in espionage (Continued on Page 4.)

FAMOUS JURISTS WORK FOR ETHIOPIA

Acting At League Session Against Italians' Claims

STOP PRESS

BRITISH PROPOSAL ABANDONED

Geneva, May 8.

A few hours after the arrival of Lord Hullfax to attend Monday's meeting of the League Council, Britain abandoned efforts to seek a Council resolution which would have opened the

the way to recognition of the Italian conquest of Abyssinia.

The proposal originated when it became evident that Emperor Haile Selassie's right to regain the throne of

Abyssinia became

direct challenge to British diplomacy. But since an unanimous vote of the Council would neccasary to adopt The Ethiopian Legation has proposals releasing League States announced that Emperor Haile from their pledges not to recognise Selassie has directed Ato Taeziz, the conquest.

London, May 8.

Great Britain will, it is believed, permanent representative of

be satisfied with a statement by the Ethiopia at Geneva, to attend the President of the Council, the Agn Council meeting to-morrow. Khan, Bummarising the viewpolats of Eto Ephrem Medhon will act as nations favouring recognition of the Italian conquest. Britain, and prob- substitute representative.

bably France, will then announce. Sr. Norman Angell, the famous recognition of the conquest, thuis-

POLITICAL CRISIS author-Journalist who was awarded fulfilling in principis Britain's pledge

IN EGYPT

8,

(Further Stop Press News on Page 12.)

the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933: Pro- to Italy in the Anglo-Itailan Agree- fessor J. L. Brierly, the famous in- ment United Press. ternational jurist and Chichele, Pró- fessor of International Law at Al Souls College, Oxford; and Professor Stanley Jevons who founded the fis famous Manchester Guardian, Hon Treasurer of the Abyssinia Associa (Continued on Page 4)

the

Cairo, May Ali Maker Pasha, Chief of Royal Cabinet, has tendered

The resignation has not yet been resignation to King Farouk. accepted.enter.