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WARSHIPS MASS OFF CHUNGSHAN,

Tension In South Revives

Macao, May 23. The altuntion along the South Chion const has become tense follow ing the arrival of more Japanese warships near Macao.

The Chungshan milliary author-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938.

School On Fire: Two Women

March

Boys To Safety

TANK CORPS MEN ON ROOF

OF BURNING HOTEL

Fires involving a boys' school, an hotel in the Hardy

ilies consequently declared martial country, heathland on the outskirts of London, and a farm faw to-day.

All able-bodied men are forbidden in Kent caused excitement recently.

to leave and the militias have been While a hockey match was being played between Kent Col- armed and held ready for action at lege, Canterbury, and the Maori Club of the New Zealand Ship- There was a heavy stream of re-ping Co., London, on the College ground, it was suddenly noticed Jugees into Macap to-day-Wah Ku that the school building was on fire.

→ moment's notice.

Yat Po.

FUKIEN ATTACK

Canton, May 23. Delatis of an attempt by marines from 13 Japanese warships, support- ed by 18 heroplanes to land on the Fuklen mainland south of Changchow from The A report are given by Tat Chung agency. The Invasion was attempted on Saturday night,

Only one group of 300 manines got where after the Chinese infantry and artillery hnd find to retire from their trenches which the supporting aerial and naval bombardment had des- troyed. For an hour they held!

and reached the deserted trench-line. A Chinese counter-attack prived

Ateressful, and the Japanese delven off the land with a loss of BD

Chiness Inst 30 men.

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The match was immediately nban- doned and the players joined with pupils, montere, and visitors in fight- Ing the flames.

A bucket chain was formed while others fought the flames with chemi- el extinguishers.

WOMEN LEAVE LAST

The top of the building was soon a blazing mass and a 251, tower crash- ed to the ground.

Meanwhile the school fire bell had been rung and all the boys In the bulling were got out, the matron. Mrs. Jones, and the sister, Miss Ashwelt, being the East to leave.

Fire brigades from Canterbury,

under

12 SQUAWS BEAT UP WHITE MAN

FULL WAR PAINT

AMERICA'S

In-

New York.

Red dians-an unromantic race, except in "western"

men, Witsable, Faverstauti, Sturry and films, since the gin supplied aeroplane horuba accounting for most Bridge were called and got the out by carly colonists and the of them. During the engagement break over 1,000 shells were -hore by the Japanese

thrown oth

$109.

within TWI

FIREMAN HURT

Not & Kwanglung sites be left! The dormitory, hubbzles room, wires across the Pulcien-Kyningtungt bortess room, and Birce of the masters' der. With the coming inte kaklen (ruoms were burned out of many regiments from Yunnan and Szechuan, they have all been sent home to be ready for any mivastons

ABOUT THESE RED-HEADS

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Hollywood Bevy

OUTSTANDING Marie,

The vhlung hockey team Jost

their clothes and were left in their playing hit.

One of the Bremen, Second Offierr!

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supplied

the

by riches United States Government

weakened them--responded recently for the first time in

First president of Ireland under the new constitution 15 70- year-old Professor

Douglas Hyde,

Ireland's mnost distin- gushed lying Guelle scholar, shown abuve. His election, without a contest, was assured by an agreement between the De Vatera and Congrave factions. Dr. Hyde is a Protestant, son of a former Protestant rector Frenchgurk, County Roscom- 110B, where he lives with his daughters in a small unpreten

He in known tious bene

for his lemn bead and full bushy grey mustaches

ut

forty years to the throbbing R. N. Marriage

of war drums.

| Port, of Sturry, was badly injured by Dự reservatu at Cass

falling glass.

ARMY HELPS

The thatched-roofed Seven Stars |Hotel, un the River Frome at Wool, Dorset, near Wellbridge Monui, im- nortalised in Hardy's Tess of the

| d'Urbervilles," was damaged by fire.

Lewis Bulson, superintendent ર્યું :

Lake, Minnesota, where remnanta of the Chippewa tribe now live, called a pow-wow around the front steps of lus office to tell the chiefs that the "Paleface Government" hart ordered them to be transferred to Duluth, 120 miles away on Lake Superlur.

SEIZED BY 300

Braves and their gunws whooped When the alarm was given offirers | and raved when they heard his aZ- am men of the Royal Tatia Corpanouncement. Dresster was another threw off their tunes and helped to red-hand. Billie Burke and Fay tight the flames Compton have been both pr Sutne climbed an the roof, but were and post-war red-heads. Led and Elizabeth Pollock main- tain the tradition.

Anna

At Hollywood there's a bevy of the first flight: Hepburn (freckles no longer an obstacle), Janet Gaynor, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers-probably the best known of all the red-heads to-day-Clara Bow, Francine

strictly Larrimore. All turals."

"na-

The director of a large New York agency for photographers' models declares: "Woe to her or him who tries the synthetic business! I can tell them at a glance because they lack the pep, personality, and glamour of the natural sorrel-top. You can dye the hair, but you can't dye the soul"

One would like to hear Carlos Valentino on that. Inventor of the platinum blonde, Carlos has now evolved, in keeping with the new craze, the "champagne glo-kend," a blondish-red.

driven back.

They went back to their homes, put on full war paint, und, to the beat- ing of drums, returnezł to Balson's

Spertal precautions had to be taken | office. to prevent the heath round being ignited by flying sparks.

ACRES LAID WASTE Lighted cigarette ends, carelessly thrown down, were responsible for:

Two acres of furze rul under-

growth being laid waste at Bostall Heath, near Abbey Wood, S.E,

Twelve

elimbed the porch steps, surrounded Balson, and beat him, Three hundred Indians then seized Baison and held him prisoner.

Throughout Northern Minnesota

Grants Disappoint

Some May Decline To Draw Them

By Beeter C. Bywater

Naval officers as a whole are dis- appointed with the marrloge allows ance scheme announced lust

week. Many will accept it on the grounda that half a loaf is better thus bread. But the general feeling the Service is that much Cry has

produced very

ry little wool.

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It seems probable that number of nhleers, especially those with private means, will decline' the allowance as a matter of principle.

CHINESE

BREAK THROUGH

Union Of Forces Noar Hsuchow

Hankow, May 23.

Army Headquarters has issued the following communique:

"Conforming to the new policy of holding positions only so long na strategically worth while, suchow was given up on May 20 with hardly ппу nghting in the Immediate vicinity. The retiring troopy broke through the investing Japanese armies on the southern Tientsin- Pukow front almost nt will, without any loss, and have taken up new positions according to pre-arranged plans.

corres-

The orderly nature of the retreat, now confirmed by Reuter's pondent with the Japanese armles at the front, sets at nought previous fantastic Japanese claims or nfty Chinese divisions trapped Around There was no rout with Hsuchow. tremendous loss of men and material retreat such as happened in the trom Shanghai and Nanking: Insteed the Chinese armies have learnt to manoeuvre with disciplined precision over the vast chess board."

from their When

withdrawing

communique original line, the noumees, some of the units in elever sorties smashed a few straddled de- tachments of the Japanese {ns୮୯୯୨, and achieved "unexpected military success."-Central News.

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LANFENG OCCUPIED

Tokyo, May 23. Lanfeng on the Lunghi railway, was this evening occupied by Ja-

according panese culumus,

to in- Icrmation from the front,

The Japanese forces batlered the walled town from three directions. the south, west and cast, until they entered the town from

the castern ante foward evening.

The general attack on the lown day and the proceeded the whole altuation was said to have improved remarkably for the Japanese us they succeeded in currying out a flanking movement.

A Japanese column made a circuit from the south-west and appeared suddenly due south.-Domei,

Tension Eases, But Remains

London, May 23. Easing tension regarding Czecho- Stovalla was maintained throughout tɔ-day, and both British and foreign circles in London feel that while there

respite in the crisis at any rate, has been secured.

The chief cause of resentment 15 the · reduction of 24: ʼn day in the full the throb of wor drums sounded, pay of almost all officers drawing the and similar demonstrations were allowance. As the marriage grant la no ground for undue optimalsm, a staged in reservations housing 13,000 for officers below captain's rank is to Car-Chippewa Indians.

be 4s. 8d. A day, the net accretion will be only 25. 0, or 17s. 6d. weelt.

A Are on Putney Heath. A tree ablaze near the North riage Drive in Hyde Park, W.

At Bostall Heath there were three outbreaks.

FARM IN FLAMES

The farms of Mr. John Chaplain at Lower Bockenden, St. Mary Cray. Kent, was completely burnt out.

Hundreds of ton of hay, the whole of the summer stock, and a fac granary full of bats, all his farm in- piements, including hts Jurries,

wagons, ploughs, and harrows, were destroyed,

BLAZING MILE

Within a few hours yesterday a square mile of downland on the secuncock Mills, West Somersetshire, was a mass of Rumes.

Many trees were destroyed by the flames.

To-night the tribe stopped beating drums and adopted palefice methōds. They staged a sll-down strike in

Baison's office.

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A married officer without children will, in fact, be recelving only Cd, a week more intrelage allowance then Insta tower-deck rating.

*The Culppewas were the tribe of Indians to resent the white man's Invasion, In 1809, after Indian Bghting had been кир- pressed in most of Americu. the Chippewas staged an uprising and scalped seven American suliers.

ROYAL AIR RAID SHELTER

TUNNEL lending from the pri vale sector of Windsor Castle to outlets in surrounding country may reopened as un air raid shelter. be

Royal treasures were hidden in it

MASS EVACUATION during the war.

OF CIVILIANS

London. May 23.

The tunnel would be used as a re- fuge by the Royal family in the event of an air attack on the castle. AL present it is being reinforced with concrete.

the

Finally, sport provides whizz- bang, red-head Budge; ab rona latest diplomacy yields "the Pompadour," the Lupescu; and Ambassador Kennedy was all red on top, and seems to corres- pond to that delicious descripment Intends to establish a depart tion I once heard of a carroty mental committee to examine the The tunnel, huilt at The request of friend "a locomotive in pants." whole question of evacuation of the Queen Victoria, in addition to being We'll let him close this gallery civilian population, either in whole or an impenetrable safeguard against of red-heads.

arts, from cltles and towns threaten- oir raidera, provides several ways of

***ly ralds in war-time-Reuter, escape.

KING'S

COMING SHORTLY

A CLARENCE BROWN Production

No Picture Has Ever

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BOYER

“MARIE WALEWSKA”

with Raginal Ogren, Bian Marsbet, Henry Utapkansom, kulf Eriksde, Dame May Wiity, C. Hory Gordon, Masiule Bohofet! A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Piloture

It understood that the Govern

Castle servants would share sheller with the King and Queen,

DON'T

LODGING ALLOWANCE LOST

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Until the Czech elections are over in June-they are being held on three erate days--a certain amount of anxiety is bound to exist.

The fact that Herr Henlein saw Hodza to-night is welcomed in A really serious defect

the! London. scheme is the abolition of the long- ing allowance of £80 a

for year,

Ad. officers holding dock-yard or miralty shore appointments.

In future only those officers 100 short courses or rowing tempormi, appointments of 143S than three moutes with couinue to teccive bo.....

ne marriage and louging grants.

The others will for.elt the sati. Unless they have severul children ey are likely to be definite loss under the scheme.

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aquiries in London and local in- veigutions over the week-end re- ed that recent rumours of exten- sive troops movements towards the ch frontier are not substantiated. and It is pointed out in authoritative

is

that Germany, Poland and Ingary have all denied any un- movements of troops are taking e in the direction of Czecho- vakia.

It is learned that the British Am- dor to Rome. Lord Perth, dis-

It is worth pointing out that

alowances paid to Arm,cussed the situation with the Italian in Minister, Count Ciano, and it and Royal Air Force oilcers involve

believed that he gained the Im- Ina reductions in pay or the aurtų...

n that the Italian view was that un existing glanis.

itation was not likely to lead hostilities.

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Another anomaly is that wura. Bera of the Navy are to suffer cut in base pay. Taty are to

ve marriage nowance of 35 day.

it, however, the warrant offer reerives a commission his py, it i s married, will at once be cut by 1 lo Is. 8d. arou

Despite a momentary casing of the dation it is evident in Rome that any fresh incident might have grave fects. It is felt that the Czech Government is fully aware of the danger and is doing ni In its power

Avoid -Reuter.

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