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No. 13528

五拜禮 號七十月五英港香

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1938.

日八十月四

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MANY GAINS Intensification of Japanese Campaign Likely

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Further Indications Of Concentrations Of Fleet in South

Chengchow, May 27.

Fighting in west Shantung continues to favour the Chinese.

The Japanese defeated at Hotseh (Tsaochowfu), 70 miles south-west of Tsining, have retired north-westward to Tungkow on the Yellow River. They are reported to have built two pontoon bridges across the river to carry tanks. The Chinese which re-entered Hotseh are pressing on Tungkow and Yuncheng.

Subjected to repeated attacks, the main Japanese force at Kaocheng, on the Shantung-Honan border, has been shattered by the Chinese. During a recent encounter at Hungmiao (Red Temple), 25 kilometres south-west of Kaocheng, over 1,000 Japanese dead and wounded were left on the battlefield.-Central News. Chinese Recapture Chuhsien

Tsuohsien. May 27. While the scene of major conflict has been shifted to east Honan. Chinese forces in undisclosed num- bers are still active behind the Japan- | ese lines in east Shantung.

In a recent encounter at Chuhsier, northeast of Linyi, they succeeded in dispersing the Japanese garrison and re-occupied the town-Central Newa

30 Warships Off Foochow

Fonchow, May 27. Foreshadowing Imminent trouble' along the Fuklen coast, more than 30 Japanese warships are now con- centrated off the mouth of the Mia

River.

These vessels are reported to inve arrived yesterday from Chckiana waters. So far they have remalneil Inactive. Chinese military authori ties are keeping strict vigliance their movements,

00

Japanese planes, lu squadrous of four to ten machines, staged raids | over a wide area in Fukten yesterday, (Continued on Page 7)

CHOLERA RAGES IN POOTUNG Threat To Shanghai Apparent

Shanghai, May 27. Dread cholern is raging in Footung, bringing death to many farmers, according to informa- tion from a foreign overseer at a factory there.

Cabaret Queen

Shot As Spy

In Hankow

The Chinese spy, Llly Han,

arrested who was recently

In Hankow, has been shot, accord- Ing to the Lih

focal Pav, vernacular paper.

Said to be of "striking beauty." sho

*cabaret ******

former queen" in Shanghai,

A check for $60,000 from a certain foreign bank led to her arrest-Central News.

WOUNDED ANIMAL DANGEROUS

London Newspaper Comments On Tokyo Reshuffle

London, May 27.

Tsingchang

ATTEMPT TO

ENCIRCLE

CHENGCHOW

Wuchihsian

Loyang

CHENGCHOW

Heuchang

Welhwol

Puyang

(

Lanteng

KAIFENG

to Hankou, 285 miles.

Yancheng

River

TSAOCHOW

JAPANESE LINES

ACROSS THE

LUNGHAI RAILWAY

KWEITEH

Yonchow

Lincheng

HSUCHOW

"TELEGRAPH" MAP showing the position on the Lunghui front, as reported by Chinese and Japanese News Agencies this morning. Fierce fighting is raging between Kaifeng and Lanfeng, where the Chinese are vigorously opposing attempts by the Japanese divi. The left wing of the Japanese sions under General Doihara to encircle Chengehow. attackers is being firmly held 15 miles from Kaifeng. On the Hsuchow.front, the Japan- ese are endeavouring to complete the Lunghai railway crossing by forcing General Li Chung-jen from Kweiteh, where the able Kwangsi leader is at present firmly entrenched.

GERMAN BOMBERS

CROSS FRONTIER

Prague, May 27.

It is reported that two Ger- man bombers appeared over Herr Henlein's home at Asch, in Czecho-Slovakia, this morning.

The German machines retired as soon as Czech pursuit planes appronched.

PERIL HAS NOT PASSED

German Warning On Czecho- Slovak Issue

Berlin, May 27.

A new warning in connection with the Czecho-Slovakian issue An earlier report states that appears in the National Socialist Voelkischer 24 German planes have crossed Party organ, the the Czech frontier between May Beobachter to-day. 20 and May 26, one proceeding

The paper states that the tension as far as Pilsen, where is the has not relaxed and the peril is not great Skoda munitions factory. past.

After stressing the enlro attitude No protest has been made by the

CHAPLIN TELLS OF STRUGGLE

Dramatic Evidence In Villa Murder Trial

London, May 26. Dramatic evidence by Edward Chaplin marked to-day's pro-) ceedings at the Old Bailey in the villa murder charge case.

ATTACK ON

CANTON NOT

IMPROBABLE

Japan's New Cabinet Shows Militarists

Firmly in

Control

Washington, May 26. High quarters in Washington regard the Tokyo Cabinet changes as a victory for the advocates of a more vigorous prosecution of the war with China, whose pur- pose is to obtain a permanent settlement of the Sino- Japanese problem.

As a result of the changes, it is expected that military effort in China will be intensified, and a more serious effort will be made to seize Hankow, and possibly Canton.

The introduction of new military men into the Cabinet and especially into the Foreign Office, has inten- sified the impression that the military largely dominates. the political situation.

NEW WAR MINISTER IN TOKYO PROBABLE

Itagaki Expected To Accelerate China Campaign

Tokyo, May 26.

Nevertheless, the opinion la held that Mr. Scinan Ikeda, who was formerly President of the Bank of Japan and is a veteran Mitsui business leader, will be the key man in Japan's destiny, because of the great responsibi- lity attached to financing the prosecution of Japan's costliest war amid rising prices.

Mr. Ikeda is regarded as one of the ablest contemporary financlers in Japan. Nevertheless, the impression exists here that all his talents will be required if Japan ta to achieve success in the face of her ever- mounting financial difficulties. Chaplin, 35, a builder's forman, of

The opinion is held here that Abbotsburh Road, Morden is charged with the murder of his mistress's further change in the Japan's polley towards China in the reflect the conf- near future will husband, Percy Arthur Casserley, 68, Japanese Cabinet is likely to dence of the new Cabinet that Japan's retired

I managing director of a London take place on Monday, when tall military, naval und distillery Arm. Casserley was found) dead on the floor of his home in General Seishiro Itagaki, who strength can be safely discharged Lindinferne Road, Copse Hill, Wim- has acted as supreme adviser to at China without interference bledom, on night of March 23. Manchukuo since 1984 and is Mrs. Casserley, who has been sent now Chief of Staff of the Japan-

A

aerlai

from Soviet Russia which, presum- (Continued on Page 7.)

Czech Government, which does not adopted by Germany and the Sudeten to trial on a charge of being an ae-ese Kwantung Army, will prob attach much importance to the inci-Germans in face of alleged are attack ball of £300. The ball has been ably replace General H. Sugi- STOP PRESS

dents.

It is authoritatively stated that the Czech reserves milled last week are remaining under arms until after the elections.

it launches a sharp upon the press of the Western de- provided by her own surety of £100 yama as Minister for War. mocracies for having given the whole and by £200 by the matron of a affair the character of a European nursing home crisis,

of

In view of the continuation It is officially denied that the Gor- Czech excesses it then goes on to say man Ambassador has made repre-that Germany once again invites the The effect of the changes in sentations to the Czech Government powers, Britain in particular, who the Japanese cabinet is to great regarding the mobilisation-United are called upon to act as mediators ly strengthen the military element, says the London Tele- graph.

Preas.

Premier Meets Union Leaders

- ́Acceleration Of

Re-Armament

GERMANY

General Hagaki in belleved to be proceeding with all haste from Chins to Japan. It is believed that the re- Mrs. Casserley is an expectan constructed Cabinet will give him mother. To-day,, in low tones. supreme and dictatorial power to Chaplin adniltled from the dock conduct the hostilities in China, thus at Old Balley that he was respon-ending all dissenslops, sible for Mrs, Casserley's condition, In this matter, to come with the In his evidence-in-chief to-day, certainly accelerate the campaign which, despite greatest possible number of reliable Chaplin said that he saw Casserley towards Hankow observers to the Sudeten German and admitted that he was the father successes along the Lunghai Railway, country in order to form their own of Mrs. Cesseriey's unborn child, has been prolonged for months by

(Continued on Page 7)

Ho suggested to Casserley that he the hold-up in Shanlung.

with should allow Mrs. Casserley to go General Itagaki, together away with him.

General Isogal, participated in the wane when the Talerchwens. Battle Casserley, enraged, took a revolver Chinese emerged victorious.

Hie from the bureau. A struggle ensued in between the two men, during which Proposed elevation to the Ministry scents to lend credence to Japanese the gun went off.

assertions that the loss of Taler "I picked up aft électrio torch chwang was never disastrous from and struck Casserley. I hit him the Japanese point of view-United

The new War Minister will al INVOLVED

GERMAN TRADE MAY SUFFER

The most significant change, the newspaper continues, is the superses- sion of Mr. Koki Hirota by General Ugaidi In the office of the Foreign Minister. Hitherto Prince Konoye, the Prime Minister, has refused to yield to agitation against Mr. Hirota, in- Everyone is strictly prohi-That he has now surrendered

dicates the formidable pressure to bited from entering the area

which he has been exposed and the Across lines defined by the fact is ominous. It means the gov Japanese naval authoritica. erning of Japan has definitely passed The foreign overseer declares that into the hands of the fighting ser- always dying refugees are crawling to the vlees, whose leaders have

Chungking, May 27. "boundaries marked by Japanese sen- been impatient of civilian restraint

Some slight uneasiness is being and foreign claims for consideration. trics, pleading for relict.

It is officially stated that the Pelme evinced in German circles as a re- The changes may also be taken to None is given, however, for the! Japanese have strictly prohibited manifest the patriotte renetion of the Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, suit of the pending withdrawal of

who was accompanied by Lord German advisers from China. all movements beyond the limits of Japanese people to the increasing foreign-owned property unless the difficulties of the war adventure in Hallfax and Sir Thomas Inskip, ilus

Ching.

morning met the General Council of traveller has a pass issued by the Japanese.

It is certain that the temper of the Trade Union Congress on the While the cholera

threat has the war chiefs and the people has question of acceleration of rearma

more rather thon lesa ment. hitherto been confined to Pootung. become

On belialf of the Council, Sir Walter iwo cases have nevertheless been bellicoso and that fact has

lo bo

London, May 20.

It in feared that Herr Adolf Hitler's action will have repercussions upon the commercial activities of Germans throughout Chinn,

The presence of the German mill-

But he released his hold on me.

"WE BOTH FELL”

"We both fell to the floor, and I put my left arm across his throat.

"Casserley thien-said: “Airight. I'm give in," "

Continuing his evidence, Chapfín) said that he released his hold on Casserley.

PreBB.

of

TRIBUTE PAID

TO GENERAL

IN U.S.. SPY PLOT

Now York, May 27. A conference between Mr. Lamar Hardy, Chief Prosecutor in the spy ring investigations, and the Attorney General, Mr. Homer Cummings, has given rise to a report that the United States will demand an explang- tion from Germany for the recent mysterious disappearance from New York of Dr. Ignatz Griebl.

Chungking, May 27,

Dy. Grichl, a former leader of the The remains af Gencel Wang Nazis in the United States, was po "Then I heard the gun ollek. Ming-chen, the Szechuen military important witness in the cass being was Idilled in action at prepared by die spy ring investiga- agalu pounced upon him and forced leader who

on the Tientsin-Pukow tots. his hands back to the side of his Tenghalen,

He disappeared on May 10, when head..

front, were taken to Chengtu yéster-

bo boarded the stoamer Bremen, ol- reported from a refugee camp in reckoned with. Always a wounded Citrine and certain of his colleagues try mission, it is generally agreed,

day. "There was a report and the gun)

legedly without a passport Mrs. Shanghai. As a result of the out-animal is most dangerous, says the raised a number of points concern has gone far to maintain good gela- ing the International situation and tions between the Chinese and the

went off. He went Ilmp,”

The remains will lay in ̈ stato (9) Griebl professes to be mystified re- break, the bealth authorities may de- Telegraph,

proposals for acceleration of rearm Germans, helping to counter-balance

two days at the Chamber of Colf, gording her husband's whereabouts. IMPORTANT RESHUFFLE ment.

any possible feelings evoked by the

Chapila added that he thought of merce. The funeral cortegt, was not i. It now, transpiras that Dr. Griebl Prime Minister Tokyo, May 2).

the idea of staging a burglary in order elaborate, his anti-Comintern Paci.

but evoked sigma cu arrived in Germany, aboard the, Omcial action is unlikely, it is to save pabilelly and to keep Mrs. genuine emotion from enlookers, whic steather Breman on May 11. After As most of Shonghal's farm pro- The reshuffle of the most Important colleagues replied to these points in

to appreciate the night- duce comes from Pootung under Ministerial positions in the Japanese the course of a general discussion. stated, while it is feared in Chinese Casserloy's name out of the affair as appeared

feaned of the occasion na betekening normal circumstances, such action Cabinet is, in the opinion of com- Members of the Council were at ib,trado clicies that official contracts not far as possible. will not be taken until it la absolutely potent circles here, of equal import- Downing Street for an hour and a yet completed may be caricelled.......... The case was adjourned--Reuter | Szechuan's increasing share in the

(Continued on Page 7.)

Raiter, hall-Oritish Wireless,

Spacial. MIČCOLARITY -Reuter.

war of resistance-Reuter Special.

clare Pootung an epidemic aron in

order to prevent the spread of the discoso to Shanghai.

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(Furtier Biop Press News on Page, 11.)