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NOTHING SACRED

CHARLES WINNINGER

WALTER CONNOLLY··

TECHNICOLOUR

CARTOON "SUMMERTIME"

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NEWSREEL

United

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TECHNICOLOUR NOVELTIES

'BATTLING BETTAS

THE HONGKONG

DISGUISED JAPANESE ATTEMPT LANDING

Canton, June 3. Dressed as Chinese Ashermen, party of Japanese marines last night made a daring attempt to land in Kuntou Gulf, in the Chungshan dia- trict.

TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY,

no

positions in Kumtou Gulf took notice of the junks as they approach- ed the Bay, and It was not until they were only a few hundred yards dis- tant that auspicions were aroused.

Machine-gun fire from coastal pill- boxes was withheld even then, until the Japanese were about to land.

Then, at almost point blunk range, the Chinese commenced a withering

fire, and the Japanese crati.

were helpless-

ly caught in their

1

JUNE

1988.

Telegraph

War Map

For Monday

A specially prepared hall-page

to

so badly map of the War Zone in China will One of the junka was smashed by the Chinese machine-gun be published in the Hongkong Tele- are that it had to be abandoned, the graph on Monday, in response

to the numerous requests. survivors swimming across

The map shows the entire war other junk.

The remaining vessel disappeared zono norili of the Yangtse, including the Lunghai Railway area where in the darkness,

sur-severe fighting is now in progress. Ammunition, machine-guns, Two fahing junks had previously

Coples of the map, measuring 15 and veying instruments and a telescope been seized by the Japanese,

the damaged by 11 inches, and printed on these were used for the operations, were abandoned in

Junk, which was recovered by the paper, may be obtained from according to Chinese reports.

Telegraph office at a cost of 20 cents.

Chinese soldiers manning defence Chinese Special.

STOP

FIRST TELEPHONE

MAKER DEAD

The mall

London, June 3.

whe made the world's

first telephone has died at Bedford at the age of 92.

PRESS

Peak Hotel Demolition

Now Certain

was

NEWS

He is Mr. George Forrest. When Graham Bell Invented the telephone, Mr.

Forrest

made the first receiving

The Hongkong Telegraph and transmitting set.

officially informed to-day that the For nearly 40 years Mr. Forrest contract for the demolition of the oid;

with the Woolwich Peak Hotel has been let. amocinted frm of Siemens Bros., and took a Mr. J. H. Taggart, Managing Direc- prominent part in the earliest devetor of the Hongkong and Shanghai lopments of electrical engineering. Hotels, Ltd., made the announcement He helped to Iny the first French this morning. Iran-Atlantic

cable and also took Whether or not the site will be part in the development of automatic used for a new hotel is not disclosed. ielephone exchanges.-British Wire-nor is the actual date for the com-

mencement of demolition.

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The ill-fated machines were two of four which appeared over Hopam and dropped more than ten bomba on the south bank of the Pearl River, demolishing a textile factory where hundreds of workers were working,

Chinese

The sources. say

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