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No. 13330

一拜禮 號十三月五英港香

MONDAY, MAY

30, 1938.

日二初月五

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TRANSPORTS HEADING FOR SOUTH CHINA

REFUGEES

POUR INTO

HONGKONG

Panic Started Before Japanese Raiders

Shattered

City

Chiang Plays Trump Cards in Lunghai Battle

FLIGHT FROM

CANTON

Thousands Seek Safety

Here

Thousands of refugees are coming to Hongkong from bomb- shattered Cantor. Last night the express from the Chinese rity brought 2,200 persons. And a train which left Canton

at

2 a.m. and was not supposed to) he carrying passengers, de-

posited 500 here at 8 am. Shanghai, May 30.

Foreign military sources believe that the long-awaited Japanese invasion of South China is imminent.

Thirty-eight Japanese warships and trans- ports are already concentrated off the mouth of the Pearl River. Many are just outside Hongkong territorial waters. This is the largest concentration of Japanese vessels off Hongkong since the beginning of the Sino- Japanese conflict.

It is believed to be only the nucleus of a Japanese armada which will be concentrated in South China waters within the next few days. Several Japanese transports are stated to be en route to South China now to join the warships concentrated there.

This large concentration of war vessels, coinciding as it does with the intensified Japanese raids on Chinese shore batterics, airports and railways throughout South China, makes it appear certain to military experts here that Japan is about to commence her invasion of the South.

to

Such an invasion` would tend relieve the Japanese forces operating In the Lunghal aren of the pressure from overwhelming Chinese forces under Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek.

would

divert It

ndditionally

con- Chinese warplanes, which are stantly harassing the Japanese on the Lunghai front, and would put on Immediate stop to the reinforcement of the Chinese in the Lunghai area with fresh well-trained troops from Kwangtung, Yunnan and Kwangsi

It is believed in foreign military sources here that the Japanese have gravely over-extended their lines in the Lunghai area, and will not be able to withstand the tremendous at- tacks launched by the Chinese, as instanced by the collapse of General Dalhara's offensive in the direction of Lanteng and Kaiteng-United Prela.

Anticipated Trouble

As though they anticipated Satur- day's bombing of Canton city, no less than 000 passengers left Canton by the Tung On Steamship Company's Sal On carly Saturday morning, ar- rived safely in Hongkong during the

afternoon.

Owing to the serial activity of the Japanese, none of the Company's steamers salled yesterday, but the Tung On le scheduled to make the trip to-day, and is expected to reach Hongkong this afternoon.

The local offices have no knowledge of the number of passengers aboard, but it is likely they will exceed those brought here on Saturday by the Sai On,

30 Bombers In Raid

Shanghai, May 30.

Canton.

Nothing Done To Control Refugee Influx

Questioned this morning as to whether it was proposed to close the border road to Canton or to exercise spino similar control upon the influx

refugee ot Chinese, the Hon. Mr. N. L Smith, Colonlat Secretary, stated that nothing had yet been done In this direction.

He added that tho necessity for adopting some measures might arise.

Rain Spoils Eucharistic Procession

Cardinal Tries To Talk Against Storm Turmoil

Bucharest, May 20.

AB ship te envrying capacity. loads. out of Caulon,

pussenge According 10 information tros Canton, there are thousands

more

people waiting for transportation to rome to Hongkong.

AG p.m. last night, according to the finited Press, the mall clear" signaði

Canton, was sounded authorities W°TTཋཱY able to catirante!

of the day, roughly the casualties

41 the lekh

Some offieta; cireles

l at 300 and say it is still mount- ing, for scores are burled under the

debris of their burned homes.

One of the most pathetic and ghastly sights was the removal of the charred bodies of chlid vletims from the ruins of the primary school. Hundreds wandered through the streets night carrying their scanty belongings. azing with mute longing at the Shameen barriers where British bluejackets were on gund

to stem an uncontrolled influx of terrorsstzieken people.

last

In many parts of the city fires sull blazed late into the night. From thei ruins of the Wongsha Station great This

columns of smoke billowed.

was the chief Japanese objective, t appears, and the destruction is com- | pleke.

PACKED TRAINS

Over 2,200 passengers packed the late train from Canton last night- the only train between the bombed city and Kowloon since Thursday- and the majority of them werti refugees.

The train got in al 10 p.m. and hundreds of anxious relatives were crowded into the Station for hours before, waiting to greet relatives and friends who were seeking a safe retreat; Many of the arrivals had lost their homes and relatives in the terrible bombing of Saturday and Sunday: they carried what was left to them in parcels and bags slung ocross bamboo poles.

Cantik Jankow

SHAMEEN

French Air

Experts On England Visit

London, atay 29.

A French Ale Mission headed by General Vulilemin, Chief of the French Air Staff, arrived at Croydon to-day in a French Air Force plane.

The Mission is visiting R.A.F. squadrons and depots a the invitation of the British Govern- ment-Reuter.

CZECH ELECTION GOING SMOOTHLY

German Factions In Sharp Clash

Prague, May 29.

The second phase of the An unscheduled train left Canton Czecho-Slovakian elections

is

at 2 a.m. to-day. It was not sup being held in 2.700 districts posed to carry passengers but when

it drew in at 8 a.m., over 500 Chinese during the week-end.

disembarked. They

were another

batch of evacuees, swelling the grow- ing tide that is sweeping Into the Colony from several parts of China.

Arms Store Discovered In Belfast Discovery. Follows Explosion

Belfast, May 20.

Cold and wet weather is pre- Vailing throughout the country,| and so far there have been no incidents between Germans and Czechs.

GOVERNOR'S

OFFICES

İNT

POWER HOUSE

River

TUNGKWAN

MILITARY SCHOOL

Honom District

THIS SPECIAL "TELEGRAPH” MAP shows the areas in Canton bombed by the Japanese during the week-end. Over 1,000 civilians were killed, and as many were wounded during the five raids on Saturday and Sunday, Densely populated residential areas around Wongaha Station, terminus of the Canton-Hankow Railway, were the principal satterers. The bombed area is only a few hundred yards from the Anglo-French Settlement on Shameen Island, and foreign residents watched the onc- rided battle from roof-tops on the Island. Bombs were also dropped on the Governor's Offices and the Tungkwan Military School, shown on map above.

Foreign military sources in Shanghai belleve that the intensifica- tion of activity in South China presages the jong-awaited Japanese attempt to invado Kwangtung. Thirty-eight warships are concentrated between Hongkong and Macao, in the Pearl River delta, and a number of transports are said to be enroute from the north,

مم

GERMANY'S PEACE IS ARMED PEACE,

GOEBBELS WARNS

Berlin, May 29, "What is one to say to these continual violations of the frontier by the Czech Air Force?

"Shouldn't this exhaust our patience? We

are

75,000,000 people: they are 12,000,000. They act as if it

were the other way about."

MASTER

STROKE

FORCES

JAPAN'S RETREAT

Peiping, May 29. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, who is now personally directing the Chinese forces from Chengchow, is playing his trump cards with telling and crushing effect in the Battle of Lunghai,

His personal troops-the flower of the Chinese army -which have been drilled to perfection by German mili- tary instructors, have been thrown into the fight.

This fact has been borne out by the finding of several Cadets of the Chinese Military Academy among the dead near Chuisingehl.

In a thrust that has forced tho Japanese back to the Yellow River, and has cleared them from the Lunghal Railway west of Kweltch, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek displaying the leadership for which he became famous when he seized power in China in 1925.

Twenty-ave hundred crack; Chine.

troops launched a fierce attack: cn the Japanese positions at Cheallukow from the west, and reached the southern end of the pontoon bridge, erected across the Yellow River by General Doihara when he captured Lanfeng last week, at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

Dolbara's back is to the Yellow River

captured last week, was

miles from the city which,

10 have controlled the Lunghal Railway.

The Japanese spokesman herc udmits that Generál Dolhara has been forced back to the Yellow Alver (Continued on 'Page 4.)

Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister for STOP PRESS Propaganda, made these remarks when he addressed 150,000 Nazis at Desau to-day.

"I am aware that I am not using the language of diplomacy, but in this critical hour outspoken words are more useful," he added.

armed

"Germany's peace is án peace protected by the sharp sword," Dr. Goebbels dcclared.

"pretended to be penco-makers", Dr. Addressing his words to those who Goebbels sald that Germany did not want to be continually told what to do by the "governesses of world A number of Sudetens and three democracies." German Socialists were seriously The best thing they can do for Injured in a disturbance this morni- | peace to-day is to remove every con- ing between these two factions in the dition in the Treaty of Versailles village of lehenberg, in north-west | which includes the causes for future Czeclio-Slovakia,

Wars," he said.—Reuter,

Order was restored by the Czech authorities after seventy-five persons had been detained. The German prefect of the district is enquiring into the affair.-Reuter.

GERMANY PREOCCUPIED

Berlin, May 29. A thunderstorm, with torrents of Considerable quantities of cx-

Colmness was noticeable in political rain, led to the abandonment of an plosive, and arms including bombs circles to-day, in contrast to last address by Cardinal Pacelli, the Papal and revolvers, were found in the Sunday, Legate, on the closing day of the house in Belfast in which Eucharistie Congress.

an

tx-

-Reuter.

TROOPS WITHDRAWING

plosion occurred on Saturday night. occupied with subjects entirely un- The Berlin newspapers seemed pre- A cloudburst occurred while the The explosion seriously injured connected with the Czech elections. final procession, in which stream of two women. A Japanese military communique devout worshippers several miles long Following the incident, police 'slates that 30 Japanese bombers participated, was progressing from the rushed to the scene in motor tenders. participated in Sunday's raid on Basilica of St. Stephen to Heroes and threw a cordon around the area.

Square.

Two men have been detained. Despite the storm, Cardinal Pacell The communique claims that Wong sat on the Throne of Ceremony and explosives belonged to the Trish Re- The police state that the arms and sha Railway Station, (the terminus began his address.

publican Army-Reuter, of the Canton-Hankow Railway), the| Kwangtung Government Omees, the Eventually, however, the pilgrims Cantonese Army Headquarters, rail- attempted to gain shelter, and the way cars and military godowns were Papal Legate decided to issue his heavily damaged by Japanese bombs, speech through the newspapers.

Earlier, half a million pilgrima

DOCK-WORKERS' STRIKE ENDS

A direct hit was scored on one asambled in the Square for the Chinese anti-aircraft battery, situated Pontifical Mass of the Papal Cardinal on top of the Government sugar) Legate, one of the greatest events of

Kingston, Jamaica, May 20. factory in West Tungiwan. The the Congress.

Dock-workers returned to work battery was silenced and the factory,

this evening, after accepting new was act on fire.

Thousands took up their positions rates of pay. in Horses Square overnight, and| The concessions were outlined to All Japanese planes participating in others flocked to the scene in scores the men at a meeting addressed by the raide returned to their basos sofo- of thousands before 4 o'clock in the the labour leader,

(Continued on Page 4.3

Reutor.

moming-Reuter.

NEW CHINA RAIL LINK WITH SEA

Tapping Trade Lanes Through Annam`

Spain Seeks Safeguards Against Raids On Civilians

MURDER HEARING DATE SET

Edwin Moreland Dwyer, 10, sea- man of H.MS, Dorsetshire, appeared on remand at Central Magistracy this. morning, charged with the murder of Leading Seaman Robert Dickinson aboard ship while on the way from to Hongkong. He was remand- Sydney ed another week.

June 7, 8 and 10 have been set as dates for the hearing, and the case will be confined to the afternoons of

British And French Intentions Questioned those days.

Barcelona Hard Hit By Bombs

London, May 29.

CUMBERLAND

SAILS NORTH Boginning of the China Fleet's summer cruise to Welhalwel, H.M.S. Cumberland, flagship of the Com- mander-in-Chief, Sir Percy Noble,

north.

The Spanish Government has left harbour this morning for the sent notes to the British and

H.M.S, Medway and the sub- French Governments, asking if maring flotilla also leaves for Wel- It has been announced here that the they intend to adopt appropriate haiwel to-day, while on June 3 the Central Government has approved of

Chengtu, May 29,

the construction of the projected measures to stop the bombing of Destroyer Flaillin is expected to anil railway linking Szechuen with Yun- open towns by. Insurgent planes.

Vienna, May 29. It is reported that Czecho-nan. from the frontier in the Pressburg Slovakian troops are withdrawing reglon-Renter.

LONDON RELIEVED··

London, May 20.

The quiet with which the second phase of the Czecho-Slovakian elec tions passed off was received with relief in London as a further proof of an easing, at least on the surface, of the tension in Europe.

It is belloved that the quietness of the elections should facilitate the negotiations between the Czech Burla Mente. Premior, Dr. Milan Hodza, and the

(Continued on Page 4.)

China an alternative route to the sea, This railway will give western

through Annam and Yunnanfu.

The terminus of the line will be Haiphong. in French Indo-China. The new line will be inaccessible to Japanese bombers and well oval afected by the Japanese blockade of the Chinese coast.

Construction, which will be

-Router.

EIGHT RAIDS IN

TWELVE HOURS

Barcelona, May 29.

for the north.

H.M.S, Adventure left on Friday last for Shanghal, taking with her rellofs for the Yangtse patrol, and-- other vessels to leave the harbour are the Cicala and Westcott..

It is belloved the Clenia has gone to Shameen where the. Moth, and

raids in twelve hours to-day with any emergency that may arise Barcelona suffered eight air Tarantula are already, stationed. These ships will be prepared to denl But damage was slight, and consequent upon the Japanese Inten- As there were few casualties. speedy as possible, will involve the proved anti-aircraft defences

Im-sifted activity at Canton. employment of hundreds of thousands of coolica.

kopt the Invading Insurgent Preliminary surveys have already bombers at a great height. been carried out.-United Press.

Heavy supplies of rullway materials Allconte was less fortunato when have passed through Hongkong It was ralded on Saturday, and ro- recently en route to China.

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