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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938.

Traitor's Flares Guide Bombers to Canton RELAX

JAPANESE - DRIVE ON

HANKOW

Nazi Ships Suspect In Castellon

CONTINUES Bombardment

Armies Succoed In Effecting Junction

Hankow, June 15.

Paris, Juno 15. Official circles In Valencia announce that Castellon WD8 bombarded before its evacuation The two Japanese armies ad- by the Loyalists. vancing on Hankow from An- The bombardment is alleged king, on the Yangtse River, and to have been carried out by Hofei, west of Nanking, have foreign warships which appeared now succeeded in effecting alto bo German. juncture at Tungcheng.

Tungcheng was evacuated by the

MORNING BOMBINGS TAKE FEW LIVES IN DESERTED AREA

Planes Scatter Handbills

To

Discourage Soldiers

(Special to "Telegraph")

Telegraphic hersages Ordinance, 1894,

Copyright by United Press. ceived by Telephone, June 16, 135 a.m. Published June 10, 10 a.m.

Canton, June 16.

Re-

Officials in Valencia wore re- Chinese in the face of threats from cently informed that a flotilla of the two Japanese armies, and the city | German destroyers passed was occupied by the Japanese Inst through the Straits of Gibraltar

The Chinese forces have with into the Mediterranean.-Reuter during the early hours of the day and heavily bombed

night.

drawn to the hilly regions west of Special. Tungcheng, where they arc now consolidating their positions.

Two waves of bombing plancs flew low over Canton

Warns Traders To Caution In German Trade

Loan Negotiations May Cause Trouble

anture

London, June 15. Referring in the House of Com- Imons this evening to the Austrion

Lown negotiations,

Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, said it was impossible at present to make any announcement with regard to the

of the action likely to be taken by Great Britain. Such action, he said, must clearly depend upon circumstances.

The British Government stlu hoped that negotiations would rench a successful conclusion, but traders must recognise that there might be difficulties in obtaining payments ufter the end of June, and must therefore use discretion in accepting any new commitments which might result in an accumultation of debts

the eastern suburbs, apparently concentrating on the Tien-ho aerodrome. At least 20 heavy bombs or groups in Germany ---Reuter. their west of Welshih are surrounded by of bombs were dropped.

The Japanese are continuing their march towards Hankow in

the Chinese.

The majority

of the Japanese t

It

was

columns, one of which in advancing along the rond from Anking. rull-

a cloudy night. Occasional flashes of ning parallel to the Yangtse River, Chungmnow where the flood situation and the other along the road from is worst have withdrawn to Kaifeng lightning answered the leaping flame of the bomb Hotel to Hsinyang. city on the The small unit still remaining inside explosions and the darting tongues of fire from the anti- miles north of Hankow. This butter with sandbags. But us it is running aircraft batteries. force will probably effect a Juncture with a third Japanese army, operat ing south of the flooded regions in Honan.

Felping-Hankow Railway about 112 the city has burricaded the city gates

The column operating from Hofei has already reached Liuan, 150 miles cast of Hainyning.

Japanese troops on the bank of the Yangtse River have received strong

reinforcements.

The Japanese warship Idzumio has arrived at Nanking.Trann-Ocean,

Chinese Counter-Attack

host of provisions and in danger of Chinese attacks, it is reported to be preparing to withdraw,

Here and there, also, red flares shot into the sky. These were fired by traitors who attempted to guide the

Luyi on the Anhwei-Homan border

corps around Japanese airmen to their targets. One flare appeared to have risen to msist the regular troops have been fired from the roof of

Chinese pensanta

to counter-atlard the invaders, d

are daisuging Japanese communia-Shameen.

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TRADE PACT UNSATISFACTORY

London, June 15. Disappointment with the working

of the Anglo-Russian Trade Agree- ment was expressed in the House of Commans to-night by Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade.

a building in castern proportion of re-exports to exports

kilometres west of Kweitch, on June sounded. The planes, however, didReceived Published June 10, 10

Sullisien, 50

14. WithdrawinK

westward

they Chinese

querMas

Sony at Potigɩsi.

Chengchaw, June 18, Taking advantage of the Bood, Chinese regular and guerilla troops were ambushed by 1,000

Replying in the debate on Trade, Mr. Stanley said that the letter of the Agreement was being observed but it was being carried out in the

manufactured in Great Britain, which did not represent the spirib in which Great Britain had believed the Agree- ment was going be carried out.

Mr. Stanley disclosed that he was how discussing this most important question with those whose interests were inost affcted by the course of Trade with Russia. --Renter,

Propaganda Pamphlets A Japanese smit of 300 men was 3.45 m. and the "all clar”

(Telegraphie Messages Ordinance, routed by Chinese troops at ale-rounded at 431 am

United Press. was 1884. Copyright by alarm At 5,30 kang. south-east

by telephone, June 15. city. Hut th.50 pra not come over ron of their bombs could be heard.).

"all At 7.15 m

Canton, June 15. pre counter-attacking isolated Japan-Japanese were killed,

in the distance.

Foreigners at Linnan University versation attributed to them: clear" was given.

During yesterday's ralds a whole picked up scores of handbills, pre- A Japanese detachment stationed Forty anay trucks of Chutsi rail-block of houses in Chhuignan Blood sumably dropped by Japanese nero-but for the military and the Com-

destroyed without il

single planes.

These to-day at Nanpeitsno, nouth of Weishih, 50 way station near Kwortel were des- | was kilometres south of Kanteng.

fortnight aro there novel type, two inches by four, with has troye and many Japanese killed by casually. A

"We are not paid and we are poor- been compelled to withdraw north guerillas in a surprise raid on the would have been hundreds killed in a picture in three colours on one side.ty fed. Many of our comrades ore blast. Now the congested This represents two wounded Chinese killed or wounded and we are half cun- se tiny. The Kurillas also des-such

deserted, soldiers standing on a scarred battle-dend," the second answers. Between 600 (troyed sretions of rails before they

practically

Held. On the other side is a con- in the

United Press, villages withdrew.---Central Netos,

ese units in Honan,

weat after being subjected to stant Chinese attacks. and 700 Japanese

areas

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Bomber Shot Down

Canton, June 15.

It 15 confirmed from military sources that one of the three Japanese bombers reconnoltring over Yuyuan, 40 kilometres west of Shiakwan, after a raid on Kwellin with six more Japanese machines last Tuesday, was | badly damaged by Chinese anti-

aircraft fre

on the outskirts of Yuyuan and fleally fell in the vicinity of Yungyun, BB kilometres south- cast of Shiukwan-Special,

Three Visits

Cunton, June 15. The city received three visitations from Japanese air raiders last night and this morning. The first raid this morning was at 1 m., subsequent raids being made at 2.30 a.m. and before the moon went down at 5.30 a.m.

The 2.30 am. rald was the heaviest, and a large number of planes came over the city, dropping their bombs

various localities.

on

It is significant that the rolders carried riding lights which could be seen quite plainly in the elty, and their appearance occasioned outbursts of rifle shots from all quarters in the faint hope that a stray shot right find a

target,

The other two raids were not so intensive and appeared to consist only of three or four planes on each occu- sion, bombs being dropped inter- mittently on the outskirts of the city. --Reuter,

School Struck

Canton, June 16. In the course of last night's raids two bombs were dropped in the com- pound of St. Hilda's School for Girls, which

is the property of the Church Missionary Society.

One building was directly hit by a bomb, and was completely demolish- ed, while other buildings attached to the school were seriously damaged.

Fortunately there were no casual- ties as the school had been evacuated because it was in the danger zone.

Almost all colleges and universities in Canton have now been emptied. Lingnam University, which previously housed 600 students, now contains only sixty-Router.

Questions In Commons

London, June 15. Questioned in the House of Com- mons regarding the effects

of the Japaneso air attacks in Canton the'; Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, said the official estimates of the casualties received up to the present were incomplete, but reports Indiented that between 3,500 and 4,000 persons were killed and wounded between May 28 and June 10,

"As the House is aware, HA Majesty's Government has protested to the Japanese Government against the indiscriminate bombing of civi- Ilan area and thickly populated cen- tres", Mr. Butler said.

Asked in a supplementary question it a reply had been received to the British protest, Mr. Butler sald cer tain preliminary observation had been made to the British Ambassador in Tokyo by the Japanese foreign minis- ter, who had promised to send a con- sidered reply.--British Wireless.

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