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五拜禮 號十二月五英港香

MAY FRIDAY,

20, 1938.

日廿四

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CHINESE AIRCRAFT "RAID" OSAKA

LEAFLETS,

NOT BOMBS,

SCATTERED

Neither Planes

Planes Nor Guns Even Attempt To Intercept Fleet

It is officially reported that, for the first time in history, Chinese planes have crossed the China Sea and flown over Japan.

The machines, which flew from a secret rendezvous in Central China, made a flight over Kyushiu and Honshu islands in Japan, including the city of Osaka.

They made no attempt to bomb Osaka or the other places visited, but scattered thousands of handbills.

The official statement said)

that the Chinese planes flew to

Japan late last night, spending Vast Chinese

several hours over Japan in the carly hours of this morning.

No Japanese planes took off to meet the invaders, and there no Japanese anti-aircraft

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fira.

The only sign of any air raid precautions Was 11

blackout of Osaka.

Army Facing

Annihilation,

complete Japan Claims

All of the Chinese machines returned to their base safely.

"WE HAD YOU AT OUR MERCY"

It is officially stated that the Chinese pilots were instructed to refrain from bombing-

They dropped Innumerable pam- phlets which, written in Japanese, stated: "We had you at our mercy. China is strong and un- defeated."-United Preas,

OVER NAVAL BASE

A Reuter message, confirming the United Press report adds that the -Chinese planes flew over the Sasebo

Naval Base near Osaka.

CHINESE BESIEGE PAOTING

Guerillas Active At Hopei's Capital

Chengchow, May 20. Reports received here to-day con- firmed the Chinese siege of Pootinglu, provincial capital of Hopel.

Shanghai. May 20.

Fifty Chinese divisions, includ- ing ten divisions of Generalis- sime Chiang Kai-shek's crack troops, are facing annihilation In the Hsuchow area, where they aro completely surrounded.

This claim was made to-day by Japanese official sources.

After the occupation of Isu- chow the Japanese claim They found 3,000 dead Chinese troops inside the elty, and the bodies of another 4,000 on the surrounding

Bls. Reuter.

Union Party Has Clear Majority

Capetown, May 20, The results of the South African elections up till now show that the United. Parly, now in power, bas secured a clear majority over all the other parties taken together, having won 77 seats while the four parties have so far only won 141 sents together.

Furious Fighting Continues Around Hsuchow

His Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote on May 18 visited Cheungchau to inspect the Haw Par Hospital. But the distinguished visitors were keenly interested, too, in the Pai

Tek Temple, and in this photograph are studying a mural.

JAPANESE

BOARD AMERICAN VESSEL

Shanghai, May 20. A group of Japanese soldiers yes- terday afternoon boarded a Texas Oil Company launch, No. 1, which was moored down-river from Shanghai, and beat the Chinese crew,

The object of their search was not disclosed.

The seventeen Chinese aboard ap-| parently bothered the soldiers, who set upon them, in spite of the efforts of four foreigners in the ship to pre- vent them.

All the Chinese have been adimtted to St. Luke's Hospital. Two of hem have broken arms.-United Press.

having Inquiry Into

Among those re-elected is General-

Tragic Mine

Smuts who, in his constituency in Explosion

Transvaal, polled 75 per cent, of the

It is stated that more than 00 total number ot the Japanese soldiers have been killed as

a result of Chinese guerilla activitica

In the vicinity of Pooting during the past few days.

an

Suspected of being guerillas who had altered into the city, 400 Chinese civilians have been executed by the Japanese, it is alleged.

encounter Following

with the outskirts, Japanese units in Chinese, guerillas have succeeded in breaking into Shihchinchwang, im- portant city in west Hopel, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Street

fighting is reported,

Trans-Ocean.

voles...

SPY TRIAL

WITNESS VANISHES

Former German In

U.S. Important To Prosecution.

New York, May 20.

MORE

LAMA'S

JEWELS

STOLEN

Precious Possessions Of Late Tibetan Ruler Vanish

Shanghai On Watch For Suspect Gang

Shanghai, May 20. Shanghai Municipal Council| detectives have been instructed | to keep a lookout for two Tibetans and a Chinese who are

alleged to have stolen the jewels

DESPERATE

CHINESE RESISTANCE

Japan Claim City Wholly Occupied

Shanghai, May 20.

The Japanese Army authorities are going

belonging to the late Panchen to settle, once and for all, the confusion regarding

Lama,

It is alleged that the jewels were stolen from the personal effects of the spiritual leader of the Tibetans

during March, the three men cecap- when the theft was reported to have

ing 40. Shanghal from North' China

taken place.

The two Tibetans were formerly personal servants of the Panchen Lama, while the Chinese suspect is

thought to have worlied for the Lamu

as a secretury.

Although the exact

value

of the

jewels alleged to have been stolen is unknown, they are stated to include several valuable gems, as well as a priceless rosary collection belleved to be worth a considerable fortune. Reuter Speclat.

REFUGEES Childhood

COMING

Friends Wed Shanghal, May 20. At Cathedral

The B. I. Line steamer Talma

A quiet wedding took place

is reported to have left Kulangsu, the Foreign Settlement at Amoy, with 2,000 refugees for Hong-at the Chapel of St. John's kong-Reuter Special,

Thousands

Of Mummies Discovered

Cathedral this, morning, when Miss Mary Frances Turner be came the bride of Mr. Leonard Everett. The Rev. J. L. Wilson, Dean of the Cathedral, officiated. The bride is the niece of the Misses Ethel and Alice Allen, of the old Shanghai family of Dr. Young Allen, The bridegroom, who is connected with the General Electric Co. of China Lid., is the elder son of Mrs. Everett, and the late Mr. Leonard Everett, of Shanghai. The bride and groom have known each other from childhood days in Shanghai, where they went to school together. Cairo, May 20. The matron of honour was Mrs.

Ancient Underground Passage Found

Hsuchow.

Official Japanese claims are emphatic that the entire city has been occupied. Chinese Army sources are equally emphatic that the Japanese are far from their objective.

At 9.15 a.m. to-day, a Japanese plane, Carrying four responsible foreign journalists, left Shanghai to visit Hsuchow and the Lunghai Railway war fronts.--Reuter.

Franco-Italian Tension Tale Firmly Denied

Paris, May 20. Authorised circles in Rome declare that the Franco-Italian negotiations are following their Tual course, says. Havas message. It is dented that a state of grave tension

exista

between Italy and France-Reuter, Reuter,

RUSSIAN AIR ACE KILLED

Disastrous Crash Near Archangel

Moscow, May 20. Babushitin, one of the Soviet's Selim Haasan, Professor of Egypt-S. D. Bagg, of Hongkong, and the leading sirmen, and three other filers, lant History at the University of Cairo, best man was Mr. Paul Dietz, an old were killed when their plane crashed- charged by the Egyptian Govern-Shanghal felend of the bridegroom. in a take-off from an aerodrome near ment with conducting excavations on Mr. Ö. Cueves gave the bride away Archangel to-day. the River Nile, announces the dis-in marriage.

The filers were returning from an covery of a subterranean passage the After the ceremony the wedding expedition to Franz Josef Land, walls of which are covered with hun-Udin was served in the private din- where they had been on an explor dreds of inscriptions, and painted. Ing room of the Gloucacter Hotel. ntion and map-making flight. London, May 10,

frescoes of scenes of ancient Egypt, The function was very quiet, and Reuter. The Recorder of Leicester, Mundoubtedly the greatest collection of was attended by only a few of the P. E. Sardlands, who became a King Egyptian Inscriptions

bride and over foundIntimate friends of the Councillor in 1935, has been appoint-hitherto,

'groom. ed Commissioner to conduct the

Mr. and Mrs. Everett will leave The pussage stretches Inquiry Into the causes of the ex Valley of the Temple to the tomb of this evening the Empress of plosion at Markham Colliery on May King Unas in Skidra, 20 miles down Josan for a short honeymoon in

lost their 10, in which 70 men lost

They expect to return to the Nile, and has a width of about 10 Manila. The Chief Inspector of Mines will

Hongkong cù the same steamer, and ጉ metres. act as assessor to the Commission.

Moreauer; a Royal Mausoleum has will make their home here. This

question been discovered containing thousands addressediment recalls

to the Secretary for Mines of mummies. Trans-Ocean, when he first announced the disaster to the House of Commons on the day of the explosion. A miners member asked if, to give fullest public confidence that most searching would be made into the

Ive

lavesilgation was

of accident, an Independent causes of chairman would be appointed to con- duct the inquiry.

In informing the House of Com-

In Chahar, Chinese mobile units are pressing on Hwallal, on the Palping-Sulyuan Rallway. They succeeded in routing the Japanese troops in a village in the immediate vicinity of Hwallal and captured a large quantity of Japanese munitions.

Taking the Japanese by surprise, a Dr. Ignatz Griebl, former German Chinese mobile column descended on intelligence officer and a naturalised mons of his decision to-day, Captain! Cholu, south-east of Kalgan, recently American, an important witness in Crookshank added that the appoint- and kafileted heavy losses-Central the impending trial of seventeen ment did not imply any intention to members of an alleged international discontinue the practice by which, spy ring, has mysteriously, disap-in a normal way, such inquiries are

conducted by the Chief Inspector peared,

British Wireless,

AIR DEBATE NEXT WEEK.

It is reported ho has gone to Ger- many, aboard the liner Bremen, with- out the knowledge of his wife.

from the

Aid For Herring Industry

on

NAVAL ESTIMATES

FOR COMMONS

Surrey Site For Physical Training

London, May 19.

A site at Merstham, in Surrey, has been selected for the National College of Physical Training to be creeted London, May 10. Supplementary Navy estimates, in under the Physical Training and Re- which the House of Comraons will be creation Act for the purpose of train-

ing teachers and leaders. asked to approve the necessary provi-It consists of 220 acres on a very sion for commencing the new ship attractive part of the North Downs. building programmes for 1938, will Part of the site forms an almost level be presented before the Whitsun plateau nearly 600 feet above sea

level.

recess.—British Wireless.

Expect Further Withdrawal Of Chinese Government

Tokyo, May 20.

The fall of Hsuchow will render future defence of Hankow and the Lunghal Railway impossible, mill- tary observers here slated to-day.

They believe that Chinese ad- ministrative offices at present in Hankow will be compelled in the near future to remove to the hinter- land.--Domet,

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Gallant Stand

Hsuchow, May 20. The Chinese are still making gallant stand at Houchow.

Fighting desperately, the Chinese are attempting to dislodge the Japan- ese artillery units of Pawangthon in the western suburbs, from where they are continually bombarding the city,

Bitter fighting is said to be taking Hieng, Lichwang,

place at Lanfers east of Tangshan

Litsal and

on the Lunghal Railway, where Japanese ralding parties have re- appeared in an attempt to cut the railway line,

Nethuang station, east of Lanfeng on the Lunghai Railway, was IQ- (Continued on Page 4.)

STOP PRESS

MORE RAIN EXPECTED

Hongkong was several degrees. cooler this morning, following the thunder storm, the Royal Observatory reading at 10 o'clock" being 16. But humidity had advanced to 02 per

cerit,

The Royal Observatory wcaller report stated that the anti-cyclone is unchanged over Chino, and the depression is moving into the Pacific

Local to the east of Japan.

forecast: South

winds, moderate; cloudy generally, occasion- al rain.

SMALLPOX CASES

London, May 10.

SHOW INCREASE Lord Colville, one of the two

There are several neres of wood-

Smallpox in Hongkong showed an land and alderstead heath to which other increase during he

past 24 Ministers promoted to Cabinet rank this week as Secretary for Scotland,

HIGH CINEMA POST

a public open space is adjacent, hours, ave new ensos being reported moved the Second Roading. In the

while close by are areas acquired in bringing the total to 2481-**Ince Commons this evening of the Herring

London, May 19, Industry Bill, which gives a large

London's Green connection with

1. January measure of

It is announced that Sir Frederick, Belt.

The Health authorities aled ro assistance to whyte, who was President of the

The college, when built, will be ceived notification of three new ORIGS London,

May 10.

this indust. fancial

Indian Legislature Assembly from national centre for the study and of measles, three of maningur, two of debate on the Opposition

IMPROVING

tended to continue to assist "export AwAir Defence; which wak

London, May 10. - trade and

also to develop home con- the national Government of China tapecies and wat supply vesahurs of forentoria feveris to-day on acount of she declares he is on a business Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who has sumption,N

from 1920 to 1932, will be chaman Physiosiraming for romanierypandi taposition," "Will take i trip and wil frotum in three weeks, hear suffering froin a mild attack of The measure was welcomed. In of the films

abe did not know gout, was stated to be much better gcheral by both sections of the Op- Megapa

to-day British Wireless,

position. Brillah Wireless.

PRIME MINISTER......

Mrs. Griebl scoffs at reports that

her husband was spirited away.

He doclared that Government in- 1920 to 1928, and political advisor taj practice of physeal training, it all dysentery, four of diphtheria and one