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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938.

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WHITEAWAY'S

CHINESE FLANK MENACED AT LANFENG

BIG FORCES Britain's Air Raid

MASS SOUTH OF RAILWAY

Major Battle Looms As Chinese Prepare To Meet New Threat

Shanghai, June 2.

Japanese reports state that the Japanese forces have now occupied Kihsien, 30 miles south of Lanfeng.

This move threatens to outflank the strong Chinese forces concentrated in the Kaifeng sector.

The reports do not indicate whether the Japanese troops now in Kihsien came from Kweiteh or from the northern Lung- hal sector. It is therefore not clear whether the troops pro- cceding rapidly to the relief of General Doihara are not also coming up on the Chinese flank.

Japanese reports claim that the occupation of Kihsien following intensive artillery cannonadings and aerial bombings.

Japanese planes zoomed down on the Chinese con- centrations, loosening a hail of machine gun bullets and small bombs, which created havoc amongst their ranks.

FIRST EVICTION CASE

Briton Succeeds In

Court Appeal Coincident with the passing of the Prevention of Eviction Or.

Chinese positions eight miles north of Kihsien are now being subject to heavy artillery and air attacks.United Press.

TENSION INCREASING

Chengelow, June 2

The situation on the Langhai Hail- way has become extremely tease as the Japanese troops pushing west- ward from Kweitch are striking in

several directions in the direction »I Lanfeng.

Violent fighting is in progress af Ningling. Chihsfen, Tsingliangssu and; Liubetaland, points west and south-! west of Kweltch. Heavy Chinese re-j dinance yesterday, an applica-inforcements have been rushed te tion for an extension of time in Mingchuan, 32 miles west of Kweite connection with the eviction on the Lunghai Railway, to check order made against him three the Japanese advance. weeks ago W08 successfully brought to-day by Mr. S. W. Clark.

Meantime, 1,000 Japanese troops at Kuantul ore reported to have crossed | the Yellow River under a heavy. protective barrage. Chinese troops on the south bank are engaging them.

Confused fighting Comescu T

going on north-west of Lanfeng. where the

is

U.S. Examining Nationals' Part In War Areas.

Washluxton, June 1. President F. D. Roosevelt tina requested an Inter-Department Committee to report on the ase of American aviators and flylug equipment la belligerent coun- Iles.

The Curmmittee consists of re- presentatives of the Departments of Commerce, War and Justice, with a representative of the De- partment of State acting in an advisory capacity.

The Report w include the nature and extent of aeronautical participation in all countries "with military complications."— Reuter,

Delivers Protest On Bombing

Quo Tai-chi Urgos British Support

London, June 1.

Precautions Outlined

CHINESE TROOPS SKIRMISHING towards a Japanese position near Isuchow recently were found by a special photo- grapher attached to the Army. These were troops rushed into action when the retreat from Hsuchow was in progress and are said to have fought strong rearguard engagements,

BRITAIN THREATENS

ACTION IN SPAIN AGAINST BOMBINGS

near

London, June 2. Continued attacks upon British ships in and Spanish ports is known to be giving the British Govern- ment great concern.

com-

TRENCH SYSTEM TO PROTECT 1.500.000 IN EVENT OF EMERGENCY

Mass Evacuation From Cities May Be Necessary.

London, June 2. Trenches and dug-out accommodation will be provided around London for 1,500,000 civilians as part of the new Air Raid Precautions announced in the House of Commons to-night by the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare.

Orders for 275,000,000 sandbags have already been given by the Government, and work would be placed in hand immediately they were delivered.

Local authorities in one hundred districts have received for storage a sufficient supply of gas masks for the entire civil population in their areas.

Plans are also in hand for the mass evacuation of civilians from densely populated areas in the event of war. The Commons listened with attention to the Home Secre- tary's speech during the dis- cussion on Air Raid Precautions this evening.

Sir Samuel Hoare reported to the House on the progress of Britain's preparations, and gave much inter- esting information on the problems being

studied by his own and other departments,

and the plans being

made to solve them.

He said they were

getting near half way to the million volunteers which he had appealed a few weeks ag

for

ago.

The Home Secretary forecast an Intensification of the campaign for the enforcement and training of per-

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U.S. WILL BUY MORE CHINESE SILVER

New Shipments Must

Be Completed By July 15

Repeated protests have been made when British ships have suffered damage, as the result either ofsonnel, and announced the inaugura-

Washington, June 1. tion in the course of a few days of deliberate attack or of indiscriminate bombing, and the women's organisation-a non-party

It is learned that the U.S. Treasury Government have reserved the right to

recently reached a new agreement to claim

and non-sectarian organisation re presentative of all large women's Purchase

additional silver from pensation.

societies which would act in closest China. the

local authorities and Nevertheless,

An understanding was reached in harmony with attacks have continued and

provide a clearing house for women

April, calling for new shipments of considerable feeling is being aroused in British shipping volunteers. The new organisation the metal, which must be completed

by July 15. circles. This afternoon a number of Members of Parlia

would

be under the direction of the Dowager Lady Reading. ment and representatives of various shipping_companies were received at the Foreign Office by the Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A.. Butler, and a discussion took place regarding recent attacks on British ships in Spanish waters.

The position of the British Government since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War has been that it would afford naval protection to British shipping on the High Seas, but could not give protection in territorial

Although the application was brought yesterday, before the Ordin-i ance in question was approved, it beleaguered Dollarn troops are still was heard only this morning by Mr. stubbornly holding out as they await Justice R. E. Lindsell, Acting Chief] the arrival of reinforcements. Ku- The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Quo Justice, in his Chambers. As a re-halangal, the stronghold of the Jap-Tal-chi, this afternoon called on the of Lowang station, is Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, *sult, it was learned, opportunity was anese north

taken to base the application on Sec-li closely besieged by the Chinese. Lord Halifax, and delivered a Note Chinese "dare-to-die" corps have protesting against Japanese aircraft tion 3 (1) of the Bill, which states: broken into Kuhslongtsl and also bombing Chinese open towns. If proceedings are "taken against the Tungehwang, a paint north, several person who at the commencement of times, and engaged in bloody close- The Note recalled the resolution of range fighting with the enemy.

the Assembly of the League of Nations this Ordinance la tenant of a dwelling Wielding big swords and hurling on September 28 last year, condemn- house (hereinafter referred to as 'the hand grenades, they kilted many ing such bombardments, and appeals :sitling tenant') for the recovery of Japanese,

The Government, nevertheless, has to the British and other Governments possession of the dwelling-house or ADVANCING TOWARDS HANKOW measures as will restrain Japan from lawfully trading with Spanish ports to "take such urgent and effective no intention of allowing British ships for the ejectment of the tenant there-

continuing the wholesale slaughter of to be the object of attacks from the from, should it appear to the Court) After taking Pohsien on the Kwo innocent non-combatants, largely air, with the possible loss of British that the proceedings are harsh or op- River In north Anhwei, the Japanese comprising women and children." lves and damage to property. pressive or that exceptional hardship column continued its advance in the

direction of Hankow yesterday.

The Chinese Government has sent would be caused to the sitting tenant by the making or giving of an order as halted near Luy!, 15 miles west similar protest to the Lengue of

of Pohsien, on the Honan-Anhwe Nations. **) border, where a bloody battle is

or judgment for possession or eject-i ment, the Court may refuse to make

IL

The Chinese protest says that the

or give such an order or judgment troops are

uraging. Large units of Chinese present bombings of Canton proved or may adjourn the application or suburbs of Pehsten and Kwoyang. than any previous Japanese visita- .or stay or auspend execution ony The Japanese intention to drive tlons by Japanese aircraft.

order or judgment or one the westward into Honan from north

of posses

possession for postpone

still in the immediate even more barbarous and disastrous

date

period or

News.

ure complied with, the

"It is certain that if the Japanese

periods, and subject to such condi-Anwei is apparently to attack are allowed to go on unchecked, such ilons as it thinks proper, and, if suchengchow from the rear-Central air-raids will yet be repeated over conditions

Canton and other cities with oven more terrible loss of human life, and incalculable effects on the future conduct of aerial warfare throughout the world."--Reuter,

court may, if it thinks fit, discharge CHINESE IN HWAIJEN For rescind any such order or judg-

Chengchow, June 2. ment."

According to milliary reports just According to the eviction order. Mr. received a column of Chinese troops Clark was to leave to-morrow, and his has succeeded in breaking into the application, it is understood, was on city of Hwaljen, in north Shansik the ground that he had been unable and is now engaging in bloody street An appeal to civilised nations to to and any alternative premises.

fighting with the Japanese. The check Japan's Indiscriminate bomb- entry followed an all-night battle ings in Chinese cities is contained in

His Lordship extended the time to which was started on May 30 "three months, but ordered that the Central News,

rent be increased from $90 to $110,

in order, to bring it to the level of

the other houses in the vicinity, It was learned.

Chinese Prepare Counter-Attack

It will be recalled that during)

Lluan, June 2

the hearing of the original action, Fighting on a major scale is ex-

ISSUES MANFESTO

Hankow, June 2.

manifesto just issued by the Chin-

ese League of Nations Union.

Recalling the recent visit to Japan

by Chinese planes which refrained

from dropping any

waters.

The Government, therefore is now giving close and active, con- alderation to measures which could

Italy May Sell Planes To Britain

Sir Samuel Hoare revealed that government experts were making a careful-study of the lessons of aerial bombing in the East and Spain, and had been in touch with: Spanish re- presentatives with Authoritative knowledge

of the experiences of Barcelona.

He discussed precautions against high explosive and Incendiary bombs and gas, and emphasised that the Government was by 110 Icons neglecting the first of these.

SURVEY OF COUNTRY Surveys of basement accommoda- tion in several London boroughs, and of open spaces available for trenches and dugouts, had yielded surprisingly encouraging results.

London, June 1.

One of the points mentioned by The Royal Air Force may shortly Sir Hoare was that open spaces in be equipped with Italian Caproni London would provide trench and bombers, according to an exclusive dugout accommodation for about report in the Evening Standard to-1,500,000 persons. An order for 275,- day,

000,000 sandbags had been given.

Government already had 100 The Political Correspondent of the

(Continued on Page 1.) be taken to bring home to those Evening Standard reports that Com-emergency fire brigado schemes, and mendatore Caproni, the Italian air- concerned in these attacks that their continuance cannot be tolerat-craft manufacturer, will arrive in London early next week to submit ed, and that if protesis are neglect | ed they do not exhaust the action Proposals to the British Air Ministry for the sale of Italian planes to the which the British Government

RAF. might be compelled to Lako. British Wireless.

The newspaper asseris that the Italian Arm, with the permission of the Italian Government, will offer immediately to deliver 50 twin- engined Caproni bombers to the Air

and thereafter, K

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Political Intervention

London, June 2. The British Government- is (con-

Intervention in the Spanish Civil (Continued on Pape 4.)

the

sidering the possibility, of political are found satisfactory, to

Woman 1s Killed By

claration are thy bombs, the de- Falling Rock

ing to such civilised unrestrained brutality.

with reply-

action with

Having inflicted no less than,

,3,000

Mr. Clark offered to pay $128 In pected soon on the southern section casualties, including Boy Scouts and order to remain on the premises, of the Tlentain-Pukow Railway where Girl Guides engaged in rescue work, 136 Kennedy Road, top floor, owned the Chinese are preparing for a and rendering over 7,000 Canton Thy Lau\Yik-dheuk,

(Continuat on Page 4.)

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A small land slido at the Tong Siu Keo quarry to-day ontined the death of Ngat Nu-mul, 42, married woman, when several big rocka felt on her. The body เล removed

to the Mortuary.

Publio

further supplies at the sate of three weekly.

with

British Girl On Espionage Charge

Carlsbad, June 2.

In addition to supplying bombers,

It is announced that four the Coproni Aircraft Company will offer to supply framework of bombers persons have been arrested here

engines.

on suspicion of espionage. The offer to the British Govern- They Include William Mueft, ment is being made, the Evening 32-year-old residential student from Standard understands, at the sugges- Chicago and Miss U. V. Freeman- tion of Signor Mussolini.

Mitford, the British girl who is known

young

#

In view of the failure of the as "Herr Hitler's

British Drlush Air Mlasion to secure delivery, friend."

that Miss of a large number of American It will be recalled machines, it is believed that the Freeman-Mitford was badly benton Italian offer is receiving the serious up in Hyde Park on April 10 for consideration of the British Govern- woaring a swastika, which was a gift| mont, and it is regarded as presible from Herr Hitler, at a Spanisia demonstration. United that it will be accepted-Trans- |Loyalist Ocean,

The agreement is for an undisclosed amount.

Treasury ometals admitted to-day that China has purchased some gold with silver. It is learned that most of the gold purchased in the United States by China will remain in this country, to be car-marked for U.S. credits on behalf of China in other countries,

The new agreement is the fourth such in the past two years. It (Continued on Page 4.)

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