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FINAL EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

FOUNDED 1881.

No. 18540

一拜禮 銚十二月六英港香 MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1938.

日三十月五

JAPANESE IN

CHINESE

HARASSING

INVADERS

Only Skeleton Units Holding Hard Won Strong Points

Chengchow, June 20.

Hampered and menaced by the aggravated flood situation, the main body of Japanese forces, hastily extricating itself from the eastern Honan quagmire, has started a general retreat to Kweiteh along the Lunghai Railway.

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Throughout the last few days, large numbers of trucks, loaded with men, animals, military equipment and provisions, hurried in continuous stream toward the railway Many Japanese troops which had crossed the Yellow River at Fongkiu, have also started moving back to Kweitch.

city,

At Chungmow, outpost of the Japanese army, only a skeleton force of about 600 remains, assisted by about 2,000 Manchukuo and Mongo- lian troops,

South of the Lunghui line, a mixed regiment of 1,300 Japanese infantry and cavalry has passed Chusienchen to reach the small town of Kuhsien, about twelve kilometres north-west of Weishih.

On the eastern bank of Chaoknu,, where a wide gap has been forced by of the Yellow

the surging

waters

River on the main dykes, the Japan- ese have retreated to the cast.

Two thousand Japanese at Yel- kikang, a small railway station cast of Lanfeng

were forced to retreat

towards Chengchwangchai following a vigorous allock by Chinese troops. At the same time, about 1,000 Japan- esc, recalling from their southward advance on Kihsien, have

withdrawn

to the Honan-Shantung border

To the north of the Yellow River along the Twokow-Tsinghua Hall- way, 800 Japanese are concentrated at Sinhistang and 2,000 at Tackow.-- Central News.

Landings Frustrated

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BOMBERS SINK FOUR JAPANESE WARSHIPS

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Hankaw, June 20. Four Japanese warships were

Hankow, June 20. sunk yesterday afternoon in the Although the Japanese fleet has Yangtse River, near Anking, by proceeded up the Yangtse River to a Chinese bombers, according to point 60 miles west of Anking, atan announcement by the Chin-1 tempts to land Japanese troops have ene Aviation Headquarters last been frustrated.

Several attempts have been made night.

to effect a landing on the south bank (Continued on Page 4.)

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WAR MAP OF THE YANGTSE AREA.-Two Japanese armies are advancing on Hankow from Nanking, one army advancing through Hofe and the other through Anking, capital of Anliwei Province, which was captured by the Japanese last week, after a landing from Japanese warships. Japanese efforts to land on the south bank of the Yangtse have, so far, been frustrated, but the Japanese have succeeded in establishing communication between their forces at Hofei and Anking. A daring Chinese air raid on the Japanese naval concen- tration in the Yangise at Anking, reported to total 50 vessels, met with considerable success on Saturday, and the Chinese claim to have sunk four Japanese vessels.

Lord Halifax

To Travel With Monarch

London, June 20,

The only member of the Cabluct accompanying the King and Queen on their forthcoming State visit to Paris will be Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary. It was revealed yesterday,

Royal entourage

will Court

The otherwise consist only of afficials and Ladies-In-Waiting.

Their Majesties will arrive at Boulogne on Tuesday next week aboard ILM.S. Enchantress, yacht of the Commander-in-Chic! of the Atlantic Squadron, and will immediately begin a round of visits, inspections and banquets that will

four days.— Trans-Occan.

ARANDA'S FORCES ADVANCE

Trying To Prevent Destruction Of Castellon

SHIPPING

MAGNATE

ACCUSES JAPANESE

Britain Must Not Expect Fair Treatment

QUERIES ON HAWKER PROBLEM

Matter Raised In

Urban Council

Flood

at Crest

CONTROL OF WILD WATER IN SIGHT. EXPERT DECLARES

30,000 Missing, 100,000 Homeless In Honan

Shanghai, June 20. Japanese reports from Kaifeng quote Mr. Chu Ching-hai, the expert of the Yellow River Affairs Bureau, as saying that he believes the flood waters have reached their crest, and that the breaks in the dyes will be repairable in the near future.

It is estimated that 30,000 people are missing and 100,000 are homeless in Honan alone as a result of the floods.-United Press.

Claim Dykes Repaired

SERIOUS RIOTS IN VANCOUVER

Unemployed Battle Police And Smash Shop Windows

Vancouver, B.C., Juné 19. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, assisted by provincial and city police, battled for two hours | to-day with Vancouver's un- employed.

Over fifty people were injured in the riots, which caused damage to buildings exceeding $200,000. Buildings damaged included the Post Office and Art Gallery.

Questions, apparently arising from the recent remarks made by the Enforcing the evletion of rioters; senior magistrate at the Central and sit-down strikers at the Post Magistracy concerning the number of Office, the Mounties used clubs fell- Itinerant hawkers, and of theng many, after which the mob, stij methods of Issuing hawkers' licences, battling fiercely, retreated down the Mr. G. W. Swire, principal ofore to be asked by Mr. W. N. T. Tam street,

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they retreated they smashed Messrs. Butterfleld and Swire, in at the meeting of the Urban Council

Londo, June 20.

to be held to-morrow.

shop windows and fixtures, and

Shanghai, June 20. The Japanese military authorities claim to have succeeded in patching the dykes of the Tsinho River, an important tributary of the Yellow River which was overflowing.

Efforts to repair the mait: dykes in the Yellow River, however, have been so far abortive-United Press.

STOP PRESS

NEW H.K. GOVERNMENT HOUSE BEING BUILT

It is understood the first part of

at the Art Gallery, from where the the Government House and City

a letter to the Dally Telegraph Mr. Tam, pursuant to notice, will eventually joined 200 demonstrators and Morning Post this morning. osk says that the article by Mr..

alall

E. M. Gull in the June 13 issue!' of tho

paper presents fairest picture of Japan's activi

the holder, Issued since the beginning hospital, Including Steve Brodic. the ties in China.

war

(Mr. Gull charged that Japan, continually used an o pretext conditions for

barriers creating against British trade, despite repeated assurances of the "open door" and that British interests would be respected).

In his letter Mr. Swire states, how- ever, that Mr. Gull seems not to have made aumcient mention of the ad- ministration of the Chinese Customa, and emphasises the Importance of an impartial enforcement of the Customs regulations.

"With any undud. proportion of Japanese in the Customs I cannot conceive of fair treatment for any competitor of

Mr. Japanese," Swire's letter mida,

the

Experience during the post ning onths shows that the only way to

preserve our interests in the

Far

East is to resist to the best of our

on our rights, and to keep constant

of this licensing year?

(1) WHI tho Chairman kindly combined mob was finally routed Development Scheme, authorised by sivė the number of hawker's with tear gas bombs.

Legislative Council in September licences, (a) ilinerant.' (b)

Thirty-six rioters were sent

to 1034, has commenced,

Preliminary work has already been leader of the Post Office demonstra- begun on a new Government House tors, who was clubbed severni times, at Magazine Gap, which will be Three policemen were injured, in- official residence of His Excellency cluding one who is suffering from the Governor when it is completed (3) It is fact that many

old concussion and one who has a broken some time next year. people are refused licences while is estimated that 1,000 plate ment House, it is estimated, will cost

(2) What are the qualifications usually required for obtaining an Itinerant hawker's licence?

many young people are given them?

Construction of the new Govern-

If not, how would you explain the glass windows were broken during $2,000,000, which includes $120,000 assertion by the Senior Magistrato the street rioting.

already expended for an

approach

that many young people who are The riot leaders have been im-road. brought into Court usually appear prisoned, and the sit-down strikers The City Development Fund al- to be able to obtain Ucences? now plan to send a delegation of a ready has surplus, balance of

(4) Would the Chairman care to hundred members to Victoria pro-] $1,200,797, which was derived from make any abservations the vincial capital, to seek a compromise, the sale of the old City Hall. No 'hawker problem?

-United Press.

further financial vote by Legislative Council is therefore required at pre- sent.

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CHINESE AGENTS BLOW

UP JAPAN OIL BASE

Canton, June 20.

Hendaye, June 20. General Aranda's spearhead anti-aircraft fire, the Chinese rained drove three miles to-day acroнa below. Four of the Japanese war the Seco River, 30 miles north ships were seen to sink, according of Valencia, in an effort to save Closure of the Yangtse to ese vessel was seriously dunaged.

to the communique. Another Japan-Castellon from destruction by ability all Japanese encroachments Island was destroyed by the Chinese, when six natives of the For the second time Japanese petroleum depot in San Cho British and foreign shipping engaged the Chinese bombers shortly

Twelve Japanese pursuit planes Loyalist artillery.

pressure whenever they show signs Island, dlaguised as Formosan workers, stole into the secret has affected at least 20 British after they dropped their bombs. Ing every inch of ground, and are to regain what we have been forced the rebuilt oil base. It had been demolished by Chinese bomb. The Loyalists are bitterly contest-of hesitation and weakness, in order depot at 8 o'clock on the evening of June 17 and dynamited ships, the Hongkong Telegraph The superior speed of the heavy continuously bombarding the Insurto give up. is informed.

machines, however, allowed them to gent Unes with artillery and

ings during a raid on the Japanese positions in the island on British ships are not allowed make good their escape, and they neroplanes.

"If this had been the policy from] all returned safely to their base.

May 11. Heavy

This message from Chungshan district is given hand-to-hand Infantry the beginning. British interests would Reuter.

Aghting is raging on the highway he not have suffered so heavily," prominence in the vernacular press to-day, tween Valencia and Castellon. The Reuter.

beyond Yangtzo.

Neot,

Five Hit, Four Afire

Hankow, June 20, Four Japanese war vessels

Insurgents succeeded in occupying

the strategic heights above the village

of Onda, 11 miles Inland from

ammunition.

Approximately ten ships of the China Navigation Company's and a similar number of the Indo- China Steam Navigation Company's j fleet, have been affected.

Three of the Alilpa are now

were Villareal, and have now commenced ed to be gravé following the Hongkong, where they are tem- seriously damaged by a Chinese air Itself.

met oud took fire while another, was to hammer the fortincations of Onda arrival of foreign ships with food and pararily employed on the Hongkong-quadroh which conducted extensive Canton service,

Simultaneously, the Insurgents The hospitals are overcrowded, and Two ships of the Chinn Navigation terday afternoon.

bombing raids on the Yangtse yes inve commenced the encirclement of food in rapidly diminishing as the the seaport town of Burriana, ond It result of an influx of 40,000 refugees Company's Beat have been ten- The attack, participated in by an is reported that several squadrons of from Castellon. porarily Immobilised. The, remain undisclosed number of crack Chinese tanks succeeded in effecting on entry der of the two fleets are employed fliers, was concentrated on Japanese after imprisoning 3,000 Loyalists.

The refugees from Castellon in- elsewhere in the China waters.

clude 2,000 wounded Loyalist soldiers The sifuntion at Valatiela is report- | and civilians.--United Press.

(Continued on Page 4.)

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After the previous destruction of) to an adjacent hill and forced them the depot by the Chinese planes,to take off their uniforms and badges stated Chen Chiang, the only survivor to be used in our adventure,

the six daring lalanders, who

"As the Japanese guards, thinking escaped to Chungshan district, the Japanese officials Imported fifty we were a party

of Formosan! Formosans to rebuild the depot and workers, did not identify us, we went forbade the Chinese to step into the straight into the depot, which was area.

deserted, and carried out our plan," "However, we succeeded in making | suld the survivor,, ourselves acquainted with six Two of his comrades were killed Formosan workers." Chen continued, by the explosion and the other three and in the late afternoon of the day were arrested by the Japaneko, ne- we induced the Formosana to come cording to Chen-Special.

When the new Government House is 'completed, it is unofficially stated, the old residence will be used 'us' p museum.

(Further Stop Press News on Page 12.)

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