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The

Hongkong

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EIGHTH ANNUAL

AMATEUR

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

June-September, 1938

CASH

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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

CHINESE STRONGLY · COUNTER ATTACK

Hankow, May 22,

Chinese forces fighting along the Lunghai Railway at Lanfeng captured Yenchikang east of Lanfeng on May 20 in a vigorous counter-attack, according to a Chinese military communique. It states that the Japanese at Huangkow are moving eastward, leaving a small body behind which is busily erecting defence works in the vicinity of the railway station-Reuter.

DRIVE TO CONTINUE

Shanghai, May 22.

Hankow.

"Our next objective is Preparations are now being made for the drive," an army spokesman nnnounced at to-night's press con- Ierence.

were

driving Japanese columns northward from Suhsien on Friday, he stated, 35 kilometres from Hsu- chow.

Llufeng,

Disturbances

In Loyalist Spain Cities

Channahang Women Parade, Shout

"Down With War"

Nelluang, and Pelkou, and the district between Lanfeng and Kweitch were occupied. Air combats in the vicinity of Lanteng on Friday resulted in three,

of

attacking Chinese seven planes, being shot down.

out

The bulk of the Chinese forces, he sald, are now massed south-east of Hsuchew and include between

200,000. 150,000 10

forming nine armies and five independent divi- sions. This force Includes two armies and three divisions east of Welshan Lake, north-east of chow.-Domel,

JAPANESE AT NEIHUANG REPULSED

tisu-

Paris, May 21.

The Right Wing paper Le Jour, reported serious disorders in various towns in Loyalist Spain.

Loyalist Spain has decided to pre- pare with great haste un "iron girdle" In the outskirts of Castellon de la Plana and Valencia.

sus-

MAY 23, 1938.

GERMANS KILLED ON BORDER

Incident Claimed Accidental

Prague, May 21. Two German farmers named

Boehm and Hoffmann were fired' on and killed by Czecho-Slovale National Guards early this morning when motor-cycling from Eger to Fran- zensbad.

The shots were fired from barracks where a detachment of frontier guarda is lodged,

Hoffmann was killed on the spot. Boelum, although severely wounded, was not transported to hospital untif two hours Inter.

ATTEMPTED REVOLT IN MEXICO

Mexico City, May 20, The Railway Union has received a telegram reporting that fighting has flared up at San Luis Potosi between "bandits" and the, Goverment alr force.

The report states that the railway between Tampico and Ban Luis has been cut.

the

Acroplanes machine-gunned

General Saturino bandits whom Cedillo armed. Milltary authorities to the in- aitach no importance eklent.-United Press.

ATTEMPTED REVOLT

Mexico City, May 21. An official communique reports an after-attempted

revolt by General Saturino Cedillo, virtual ruler of the State of San Luis

In spite of an immediato operation, Bochm succumbed shortly words.

According to Bochm's account, the phots were fired without the alightest warning,

Tense excitement prevails in the town of Eger, where the streets are patrolled by armed Czecho-Slovalt. National Guards

An official communique states that the two persons who were about to cross the frontier were challenged by a sentry.

As the motorcycle

continued on

is way the sentry fred with the result that one person was killed outright while the other was severely injured-Trans-Ocean,

United Press adds that the police are charged with having restrained other Sudeten Germans who en- deavoured to respond to the cries for help made by two dead men.

Potosi,

whorn

President Lazaro Cardenas recently dismissed on the ground that he had engaged in subversive activities.

It to announced that an aeroplane last evening flew over the clly of President San Luis Potosi, where Cardenas is at present staying, and

bombs four dropped aerodrome.

There were

no casualties. Gov- ernment planes vainly chored the raider.

The incident is regarded as n rc- the part of volutionary move on

General Cedillo.

The

on

the

SUGAR AS CLUE TO MURDER

New York.

ARTHUR CHALMERS. New York

mounted polleeman, was POD- tenced to a term of from twenty years to life imprisonment for the murder last summer of his sweet-, heart, Irma Pradier.

Irma was found dead on a roadl in Harlem. Six lumps of surar were in her porse. Pollen Inspec« for Kear, reasoned that the mur¬ derer must have owned a horse. Since most New York riders sto mounted pollcrmen, he suggested that their ranka should he searched.

G HAD GREEN CARS

Then inquiries about Irma revealed that she planned to go to Los-An- geles to marry a man with a green sedon car and a une tenor volca.

The recorda of 1,000 mounted policemen revealed six who owned green sedan cars. Only one of the six liad q lenor voice Chalmers,

Chalmer's, car'

examined. When a skilfully patched bullet hole was found he broke down and con- fessed.

wax

Apparently what had happen ed was that when he and Irma were in the car he told her he could not go to Los Angeles with her. She tried to pull his revolver frem is holster, and in tho struggle he shot her twice. A third bullet entered the uphols- tery of the car,

Chalmers is married, and has two

In Almeria several hundred women marched through the streets shouting

War Minister, General "Down with war." Troops dispersed the women

with drawn bayonets,

Cernacho, stated that Federal troops, with the aid of planes, dispersed 300 children. wounding 30 of them.

aimed rebels who had ambushed a in Madrid and several other cities

Verde. cavalry regiment at Rio the mobilisation of young men aged

Fifteen of the rebels were idled. INQUIRY INSTITUTED 16 and 17 has caused the greatest

Three rebels were killed and three indignation among the population.

Prague, May 21.wounded in a skirmish near a he A large number of persons

An immediate inquiry was in- on the outskirts of San Luis Potos pected of Insurgent sympathies have stituted into the deaths of the two

where a dynamite bomb was dis- been arrested and summarily shot in 40-year-old Sudeten farmers, who Madrid. A special tribunal set up were cycling very fast near

covered and a considerable amount of arms and ammunition seized. in Madrid for treason trials pro-Czecho-German frontier. They dis-

Federal troops drove off the re- The Chinese launched a determin- nounced the death sentence on 82 regarded a police order

to stop,

bels who attacked the Federal After a

fred on the persons during the last few days whereupon the police ed attack in the morning.

Prisoners soldiers at Cludad Malz. bliter

and sentenced a number of others machine. 4 tasting 11 engagement

but accidentally hit the

stated that they had been ordered to o'clock in the afternoon, the Japan to long terms of prison.

blow up the ridge and railway to the ese were defeated and retreated in,

United States frontier, west and north-west directions.

the

Lanfeng, Honan, May 22. According to a telephone message from the front, Chinese troops re- pulsed the Japanese occupying Nel- huang station on the Lunghal Rall- way, 15 kilometres east of Lunfeng yesterday.

A Japanese cavalry unit of 200 men which attempted to push to ward Kaifeng was checked by the Chinese at liomutsun, south Lanfang, yesterday morning.

"attacked A Japanese unit which Chuantão, 10 kilometren eust of Lan- feng was also repulsed by the Chi- nese yesterday. The Japanese fee to many farm houses to their retreat.-Central News,

se!

The paper also reports that the Basque member of the Catalan Gov- ernment, Senor Irujo, has offered his resignation because the Negrin Gov- crument has forbidden the holding

off religious services in Barcelona.

The paper published reports de- scribing the hopeless situation of the

Division 43rd. Loyalist

which is surrounded by Insur- completely

The Division gents in the Pyrenees. is expected to seek refuge in French territory within the next 48 hours.

The French authorities have ni- ready made comprehensive prepara- tions for disarming and quartering these troops. Trans-Occan,

cover

CHINESE SURRENDER

Pelping. May 22, Reports from suchow state that up to Saturday evening 10,000 Chin- ese soldiers with their officers had surrendered to the Japanese furces in the 11suchow area.

At Pingshantow, Japanese columns encountered 1,000 Chinese troops 25 miles south-west of Hsuchow, on Saturday morning and routed them, the report stated-Dorci,

on

LANFENG DRIVE

Shihchlachwang, May 22, Chinese defences at Lasteng, the Lunghat line, were penetrated by a Japanese column on Saturday evening, it is reported.

The Jupanese are pushing their drive towards the outskirts of the town.Domet

LUNGHAI SITUATION

Hankow, May 22.

of

Japanese troops are advancing southward along the Lunghui rail way in an attempt to cut the Pel- ping-Hankow rallway south Chengehow, Important railway june- tion, according to Chinese despatches, It is stated that Japanese detach ments appeared yesterday at Hiul- shiuts!, between Chichzien

and Chengilu Chinese forces were sent

to attack them.

LOYALISTS STRENGTHENED

Hendaye, May 21.

For the fourth week in succession snow and rain continue to intensify the ordinary horrors of war for the troops battling among the labyrinth of valleys on the Teruel front,

With the capture of Eseriche, ten miles north-east of Teruel, the In- surgents have made a breach in an- other section of the miniature "Maginot Line" which the Loyalists built with headquarters at Corbelan. The capture of the village of Ares del Maestre, further east, is claimed to have given the Insurgents com- plete possession of the road running from Teruel to the coast.

riders-Reuter.

APPEAL FOR CALM

public order was broadcast

placed the

Prague, May 21. An appeal for the maintenance of semi- Czech Melally to-night.

quarters think that Germany may demand satisfaction for the shooting of the two Sudeten Germans at Exer

Reuter.

STORY OF VICTIM

Prague, May 21. Niklas Boehm, one of the Sudeten Germans shot at Eger, according to a report made by the Deputy for Eger, Dr. Koellner, made the follow- Ing statement after being taken to the Eger hospital yesterday morning about 4 o'clock in the morning:

"Iloftman (the other Sudeten German shot) and I were riding at 21 moderate speed on motor cycle along the Franzensbader Rond in the direction of Goldberg.

"When we came to the border guards barracks, a shot was sudden- ly fred and both of us fell from the machine.

Mr. Owen O'Malley, British Ambassador, had

escape. He decided at the Inst minute to travel by sea to the United States instead of by train.—Reuter.

strategically Troops have been

throughout the Stato to. disarm followers of General Cedillo adds United Press.

DECLARED A REVOLUTIONARY

Mexico City, May 21, It is officially announced that the Government has branded General former Snturino Cedillo a revolutionary.— A narrow United Press.

Chosenfromthellorld's

MULLARD

RADIO

Hoffman's ANDERSONI

"I saw neither a policeman nor any kind of a warning signal nor did I heat any ery

On the wound received by Bochm, it would appear that both were kill. ed from behind.

The officer in charge of the guards barracks refused to hand over to Dr. socliner the corpse of Hoffman which with the wounded Boehm had been taken into the barracks.

The Loyalist army, concentrated in a triangle between Teruel, Sagunto and the sea, Is now numerically stronger and better equipped than when the Insurgents push towards The report then deals with the Valencia began a month ago.

declaration made by the chief of The increased activity of Loyalist police, Dr. Jacki, to Dr. Koellner to aviation and artillery is in marked contrast to their importance during bidden anybody to leave the city at the effect that the police had for- the Insurgent advance.

night by any kind of vehicle, con- including sequently the police had acted in

accordance with Instructions.

Much war material, columns of tanks and lorries, are cre- dibly reported to be reaching the Government Spuin Across the Japanese aircraft, it is reporicd, French frontier. While there is less heavily bombed Weish! and Tung- doubt than ever in Insurgent Spain shu southward of Kalfeng

of General Franco's ultimate vielory, Chinese forces are pushing east-

there is less anticipation of a quick ward on the Lunghat railway from

nish than at the time Lerida fell, Lanfeng. Chinese military des. and there is little expectation of the patches claim the capture of Lal-sudden collapse of the other side. hunne by Chinese forces and report-Reuter, ed occupation of several cities on the Lunghai railway between Hst- chow and Lanteng. Japanese van- guards on the Tientsin-Pakow rail- way are said

MADRID SHELLED

Hendaye, May 21.

The report states that the popula- tion had not been informed "of this and the streets had not, except in one case, been barrleaded. It is, however, quite possible that in the darkness Hoffman had not seen the "Hall" signal and owing to the noise of the motor had not heard a challenge to stop.

of

Experis declare that the shot was fired at a distance of 15 to 20 paces but it is difßcult to believe that a skilful police shot should hit the It is reported that Loyalist planes motorists in the back instead have reached Shan-effectively bombed Insurgent supply their pneumatic tires at such a short kou, south-east of Hsuchow,

transport on the Teruel front, where-distance.-Trans-Ocean. While offelal information is lack- tag, it is understood

upon the Insurgents shelled Madrid, that ChinerC forces at Hsuehow proceeded west-ing 12 and wounding 120.--United ward and then turned south-west- ward to join their comrades attack- FOREIGN PROPERTY WRECKED ing Yungchen-Reuter..

CHINESE BREAK THROUGH

Shanghel, May 22.

resa.

Madrid, May 21,

The Insurgents, for the first time, shelled a neutral zone in Madrid

Reuter's special correspondent with when they wrecked the Venezuelan

STOCK MARKET REPORT

the Japanese reports that the Chi- Consulate and killed the brother of The Hongkong Stock Exchange DESC

estimated by the Japanese vart-the ex-vice consul, Eduardo Lozano, ofcini summary, issued at 12.30 p.m. ously at 100,000 to 250,000 strong, and three servants. Damage to the which had previously withdrawn Legation was

also

Saturday reads:

caused-United

Hsuchow have: now Press. eastward from succeeded in breaking through, west-

VALENCIA BOMBED word across the Japanese line along the Tientsin-Pukow railway towards

Valencia, May 21. Valencia was bombed yesterday the remainder of the Chinese armies.

cse military authorities re- afternoon by five Insurgent planes. Japanese

The bombs fell for the most part fuse to divulge the extent of the break, staung merely that several in the suburb of Grao and on the

harbour-Trans-Ocean, columns have succeeded,

The possibility that the whole or majority of the cut-off Chinese armies have rejoined their comrades westward of the Tientaln-Pukow rell- way is not denied by the Japanese. who admit that in view of the numerical strength of the Chinese and providing they can atrike

en masse they should be able to and a weak spot in the long and numeri- cally weaker Japanese lines along the rallway-Router.

Fence 154 Miles Long Pasadena, Cal

Skin-Grafting Cures Heel

Windsor, Ont. Elizabeth Garrie, a comi-invalid since 1931 when a truck ran over fier

foot, is walking again following an operation in which skin was grafted from her abdomen onto her heel,

He Lost The Bet

Vallejo, Cal. Charles T. Harris, city employee, bet California's biggest fenco is being he could put a lighted match in his bullt. It will be 155 miles in length mouth while it was filled with gaso- and 0 feat high, and will protect open line. Immediately following the de- canols in the Metropolitan Water monstration, he was rushed to the sity, Dlatelet.

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