THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY,
JUNE
8,
1998.
China to Use Huge Force in Hankow Defence SAFEMILK"
READY R.A.F. Plane LETTERS TO THE High Belgian
"NEW ARMY
TO BLOCK JAPAN'S ROAD TO CAPITAL
Invaders Now Threaten Important Railway City
Shanghai, June 8.
Crashes In Africa Jungle
Capetown, Juac 7.
A military aeroplane disappeared yesterday, carrying three British R. A.F. boxers and trainers and two South African Air Force officers from Duluwayo to Pretoria,
The machine was subsequently sighted from the air in the jungle north of Limpopo River.
Observations from the air
EDITOR
DANGEROUS BEACH
To The Editor,
Hongkong Telegraphs. Sir-In the interest of the bathing public, I beg to ask for your favour to insert this letter in your paper. A rescue party landed fifteen miles
In view of the ever-increasing from the spot and is now cutting a
popularity of sea-bathing coupled way through the jungle.
show
with the Colony's increased popula tion I thinks it is now high time that Government should find it the the
justlauble in spending a reasonable amount of money to improve the condition of the Lai Chi Kok public bathing beach, the only beach avail- oble for middle class people in Kow- loun Peninsula.
that the plane was totally wrecked. A body 18 lying alongside
With Kaifeng lost and Chengchow expected to fall machine-Reuter Special. shortly, the Chinese military authorities are feverishly rushing preparations for the defence of Hankow.
It is understood that the Chinese High Command decisive battle intends to engage the Japanese in a somewhere between Yencheng and Sinyang
This area is said to be highly fortified, and in the anticipated battle there the Chinese are likely to use for the first time the large number of newly-recruited Chinese troops who, during the past ten months, have been going through strenums training in the provinces behind the front lines.
into
west
of
the
Langhai Railway Junction, Chinese forces will con- tinue to strenuously defend the city in order retard the Jupuncae
Ivane possible.
to
DD
Hockow
Jong EIT
near future, chiefly owing for
6
tlic the to
Foreign observers do not anticipate
In any big battle in this area
to
necessity
the Japanese their consolidato
newly-acquired await reinforcements The Chinese and, secully, because
positions and
quite frankly state that they do not
ta, oured cars and other motorised war in good order to the newly machines.-Reuler,
also likely
some
Civilians
Following capital
of
Evacuating
Haskow. June 8
Kallong
the
of province,
Honour For H.K. Resident
The many friends of Mr. J. M. Noronha will be pleased to learn that he has been made Chevalier of the Order of Leopold 11:
honour has This Belgian
been Mr. granted in considemtion of Noronha's lengthy service with the Credit Foncier D'Extreme Orient, with which concern he has been for
over 25 years.
Mr. Noronha was largely instru- mental for the development of this Company's property in the Prince Edward Hond area.
BANISHEE BACK
AS REFUGEE
Dangerous and shell-laden rocks and rubbles are to be found every-
"Because of the bombings in Can- where in the whole beach and it is out of sheer luck and special pre-ton and my mother who is 77 years
the old, I came back to
Colony, caution that a bather can cacape In-
Knowing full well the consequences," swim. juries after a
sald Chau Pak-ling, 40, In Central was charged Magistracy, when he with returning to the Colony, having been banished for life in June, 1937, Sentence of six months' hird
W J. labour was imposed by Mr. Lockhart Smith,
Owing to the intense heat of the thousand summer months, many sen-bathers flock to this beach daily with the result that a great number
fortunate of the less
GICS return home with some kind of injuries; especially in their four limbs.
intend to offer serious resistance to
SIMILAR PLEA the Japanese on the plains of Honan. A few hundred dollars will bo
Blaming the unsettled conditions Instead, the Chinese will withdraw sufficient to make a good improves | of Canton for her return to the
ment and it is highly justifiable for Colony, mountainous
10-year-old woman. Ng the Government to spend even $5,000 Yuk-chan, regions on the Honan-Hopel border,
admitted charge of where the topography is more favoure or $10,000 for this matter of great breach of the Deportation Ordinance
publie ble to defensive strategy,
interest, The
Government before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen sit believe must also not overlook the important the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, Clainese military circles
fact that small injuries will often
Sentence of three nonths hard that the forlifentions built in these
serious labour was passed. dangerous and mountainous reppens during the past result in Twelve months will suffice to prevent uleerntions and may sometimes be the advance of the Japannese along the cause of fatalities.
A SEA-DATHER. the southern sector of the Priping- Hankow Railway Trans-Occan.
The Chinese ture bring
nction acquired war equipment which they have so for used only sporadically.
sheer Unless the Chinese, out o!
the desperation decide to break the
ilonan dykes along the banks of the Yellow River, and loud the vast fat oreu Chinese forces have taken up new Kaifeng THITE between of country known
the Hunan | positions (LS plains, the Japanese are expected to Chengehow, according to reports re- make rapid progress southwards to reived here last night.
Hankow, after wards
taking Chengchow. The Important Lunghat- Peiping-lunkow Fallway junction.
The countryside of Honan province in one of the most favourable arens China for operating mechanised
The fint
Chinese reports slate that, at- sun-baked land unita
strategie
ut the
value stretches for miles and miles without though a single stream or hill to seriously Chengchow as a vallway by-pass has the Impede the progress of tanks, arm been decreased by the loss
in
The reports add that Chengchow, which is the junction of the Lunghai and Peiping-Hankow Railways, is be- ing evacuated by its civilian popuin- tion of 60,000.
of
Destroying Railway
Hankow, June 8.
It is learned that the Lunghi rait- way between Kaifeng und Chiengehow |
systematically destroyed. is being Not single rail is being left behind | by the Chinese who are withdrawing
Reuter. slowly westward
A
RESCUED FROM HARBOUR
On a similar charge, Lom Kwan, 28, unemployed man, was sentenced to six months' hard inbour. He was banished from th Colony year a few years ago.
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