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六拜禮 號五廿月六英港香 SATURDAY,

JUNE 25, 1938.

日八廿月五

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TWO JAPANESE

CHINESE

AIR RAID

SUCCEEDS

Ten Other War Vessels Reported Damaged

Hankow, June 25.

At least two Japanese warships were sunk and about 10 others suffered damage yesterday when a strong force of Chinese planes raided Japanese vessels in the Yangtse River at Tungliu, about 40 kilometres south of Anking, according to the Military Aviation Headquar- ters.

Four raids were staged on the enemy warships during the day. In the first raid tons

of explosives were dumped, drawing heavy fire

from a concentration of some 10 vessels.

In the second raid a large-size warship was

sunk by a direct hit, whilst four smaller ones anchored nearby were damaged.

In the third raid another warship was seen

to sink.

The extent of damage done in thef fourth raid could not be ascertained by the Chinese alemen, Immediately after they dropped their bombs Japanese pursuit plates took to the air to engage them Chinese planes returned to their base safely-Central News

ASSASSINS ABROAD IN S'HAI

Two Attempts At Murder Fail

All

JAPANESE AIRMEN ACTIVE

Strategic Chinese

Points Raided

Hankow, June 24.

A number of Japanese xero- planes this morning made a con- centrated attack on the Mndang forts, on the Yellow River near Kiukiang. According to reports received in Hankow no material damage was done.

It is added that the boom across

the Yangtse and the fortifications on

the banks of the river are still intact,

Shanghai, June 24. Police of the International Settlement were kept busy yes- despite the fact that the Madang terday afternoon with two daring forts have been under incessant fire attempted political assassina- Trom Japanese warships, 30 of which

are stationed at Tungliu und tions.

other 30 between Tungu and

Relative calm prevails

the front between Hofel and Liuan.- Trans-Ocean.

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WHITEAWAY'S

WARSHIPS SUNK

Floods Allegedly Check Japanese Activities

DWYER

GOING

"HOME

Leaving Aboard Rajputana

Able Seaman Edwin Dwyer, who was yesterday abquitted of a charge of murder arising out! of the shooting of Lending] Seaman Robert Dickinson. 13 going "home" to-day.

!

The naval authorities made this brief annuncement this! ¦ morning. No expinnation was!

given.

foreman of the jury announced that they had found Dwyer not guilty, there was a demonstra-i tion in this court. A number of seaman applauded.

Yesterday afternoon, when the

No Privileges For Foreigners, Japan States

CAU

Shanghai, June 24.

In view of the new incident Involving a foreigner the Japan- intathorities emphatically declare that foreigners enjoy no privileges in China and are sub- Jeet to the same regulations as Chinese.

No special extralliy rights could be conceded to torciguera in territory occupied hy the Japanese,

The Incident which led to the controversy between the Ameri- can and Japanese authorities prompted by an alleged

WILS nasault on an American doctor In Nanking by a Japanese sentry who, however, denied the charge. The Japanese authorities de- clare that the sentry was perfect- ly entitled to control foreigners under the present elrcumstances, -Trans-Ocean.

RUSSIANS EXERCISE DEFENCES

Chief Cities To Test Organisation

WARFARE IN SHANTUNG--Chinese soldiers shown in a

YANGTSE ALREADY INUNDATING LOW- LYING TERRITORY

Grand Canal Threatens To Over-Run Banks

Shanghai, June 24. Breaking its banks in the vicinity of Taihu, the Yangtse River has inundated

between a large area Anking, capital of Anhwei, and Kiukiang, where the Chinese have a strong boom across the river.

The floods, as in the Yellow River areas, have compelled the Japanese completely to interrupt their military activities.

Floods are also reported at Hukow, between Kuikiang and Hankow, and also at Wuhu.

Japanese military authorities deny that they have received any information of large-scale inundations in the Yangtse valley and, according to latest reports, their military operations are still progressing favourably.— Trans-Ocean.

French Deny

tow

GRAND CANAL MENACE

Unless the torrential rain pouring on the Nanking-Hangchow- | Shanghal areo ceases within 40 hours. a terrible Grand Canal flood will be

patch in the Lili Pao.

trench somewhere along the south bank of the Yellow River, Landing Plan undable, says & Shanghai des-

in Shantung province. This is the locality where Chinese and Japanese have struggled for weeks and where guerilla warfare is expected to develop further. The Chinese have been operating here with much success. Such trench mortars 48

these are most effective.

JAPANESE CHECKED AT JILIM

Despite Destruction Of

Coast Positions

After the arrival of reinforce- ! monts from the mainland the Chinese defenders in Jilim, on the coast opposite Namoa, close to Swatow, have halted the ad- vance of the Japanese units which succeeded in landing last Thursday. Yat Po.

Strong defence works and troop concentrations at Wongkong and Suntsun, points to the north of Jilim, are being rushed as preliminary mea sures against a further Japanese ad- It is revealed that the local Chi-

vance.

says the Wah Kin

the

.. ! ......

Deprive Jews

Of All Means Of Earning

Vienna, June 24. Jews will no longer be allowed to enter Vienna's parks.

This decision has been reached "In order to spare the population of a constant source of provoca- tion." But there is something worse

verse in store. All owners of factories, including Jewish cm- ployers, must dismiss non-Aryan employees by July 1, according to a new deeres issued to-day. As a result of the new measure,

with coupled

antl previous Jewish measures, practically every Jew in Vienna vill be without visible means of support by the end of next week... Reuter.

SHANGHAI TRADE DESTROYED

War Responsible For Great Slump

In Hainan

Paris, June 24. French diplomatic circles emphatically deny the report that the French Government has Informed London that in the event of a Japanese landing on Haluan Island, France will Jand an equal number of troops.— Renter

PLANS WAR AGAINST AFGHANS

Religious Leader Causing Trouble

Meanwhile, water in the Canal con- tinues to rise at a rate unprecedented in the past twenty years. A number of low-lying villages along the Canal, It is reported, have already been in- undated.

STOP PRESS

33 PLANES ON RAID IN KWANGTUNG

Canton, June 25. Thirty-three planes took part in extensive ralds on the southern, see-

Simla, June 24. The Government of India is carefully watching the situation in Waziristan, where the general situation has received a setback because of the activities of a mystery Pir, believed to be ation of the Canton-Hankow railway native of Damascus.

yesterday, Their bombs damaged The Pir recently entered Waziris- stations and tracks and caused 60 ton with the intention of settling casualties among villagers, religious difficulties. He has now The train service has been suspend- declared his intention of raising aed it is announced, owing to floods. force of Waziristan tribesmen und Reuter. proceeding to Afghanistan. In order

From reliable quarter the Tele-

to overthrow the reigning dynasty graph is informed that the Japanese there.

planes scored a direct hit on a train The Government of India is taking near Canton yesterday afternoon, special steps to prevent the influx of setting fire to ofl-tank enra The lino Waziristanis into Afghanistan. was damaged, extensively

enter Special.

pairs are being rushed.

and re-

In the first case two gunmen armed Madang, with Mausers entered the offices of Mr. Wu Zang-yee, a well-known Shanghai Chinese, and sald to be one of the founders of the Kuomintang

Moscow, June 24. together with Dr. Sun Yat-sen and,

Intensive air and chemical Mr. Wang Ching-wei.

A mass air raid was launched on drill, involving the entire civilian Finding Wu was not in the butid- the Chinese Government explosives population, will be carried out at Ing. the gunmen opened fire, wound-factory near Foochow to-day,

cording to a Japanese naval report. Heven strategic cities in Soviet nese defence forces made four ing two of his partners,

between July In addition, the Chinese Naval Russia

1 and bayonet charges against the Japanese The second attempt took place at 11 Arsenal at Namoi Island, five miles October 1.

| blue-juckels before their withdrawal

under a heavy p... when four gunmen entered a from Foochow, way severely bombed.

barrage from The cities involved are Moscow. Japanese warships. This bombard room In a Chinese hotel in Nanking: The railway station at Swatow was

Kiev. Minsk. Leningrad.

Baku, ment completely destroyed the Chi- Road and wounded the four Inmates, the subject of Another attack,

Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, In both cases the gunmen escaped, Japanese bombers causing consider-

nese positions on the const. despite the fact that the streets were able damage the terminus.--

With the exception of Moscow, all to crowded.-Reuter,

Trans-Oceani.

of these cities are in the Soviet's JAPANESE LAND NEAR MATANG border zone, and the declalon to hold TROOPS BOMBED

Tungliu, Anhwel, June 25. the drills has been taken by the

Over 1,000 Japanese troops landed Shanghai, June 24,

Central Council of the Civilian Air at Sianglow, on the south bank of The Japanese Naval Air Force and Chemical Defence organisation. the Yangtze ·River, about 20 INSURGENTS again displayed the greatest activity Self-defence committees will be kilometres below Matang yesterday,

WANTS TO REGAIN the Yangice to-day, when organised in every office, house and along

The Japanese landed under a naval troop concentrations on both banks factory, and the work, which will barrago from their worshipe of the river between Anking and be based on experience gained in the anchored in the Yangtse.. The Chin- A vivid reminder of the wor's de-

CITIZENSHIP

IN COLLISION Kluking were subject to violent wars in Spain and China, will in-ese put up a stiff resistance, playing vastating effect on Shanghai's trade

A fatal traffic accident occurred in bombing attacks.

clude mock air ralds, fire-fighting, about 200 of the enemy. Other in provided in statistics relcostal tox

London, June 21. Lai Chi Kok Road at Ca.m. this A Japanese report states that

is reported that Countess first aid, and gas mask drills-Renter. Japanese who attempted to land today by the Chinese Customs, Chinese minc-lyers several

morning. Cheung Chun, 23, a cyclist, and

These statistics show that imparts Inquiries regarding the possibility of down by a taxi driven by Leung Chi-

ix Haugwitz-Reventlow

making reinforce their comrades were pre-

living in Austin Read, was knocked Junks operating in the sector of the

vented from approaching the bank during the month of May totalled Yangtse were forced to ruin ashore

by intensive Chinese fre.

$18,207,000 compared with $85,300,000 regaining American citizenshin. yue. | near Klukiang.—Trans-Ocean,

American her

the Kowloon Fighting continued "ni Sinoglow in the corresponding month lat year. Inte Just night; As the place is Exports In May this year were citizenship in 1935, shortly after her Hospital an hour later.

einmed in. by the Chill Lake in the $11,955,000, compared with $57,715,- marriage to the Count worth and the Tapai Lake In the 00 in May, 1837.—Reuter Special.

IN It is believed that she south, it is balleved that the Japanese

seeking

onnulment of the there can be "inopped up."--~Central

renunciation, due to her fear that the Count will deprive her of Lance, her Nets.

DRIVE ON

Varela's Infantry Takes Sarracon

Shragosen, June 24. The Insurgent offensive on both aldes of the Sagunto-Teruel highway made further progress yesterday,

After the Loyalist positions had been heavily bombarded by Inpurgent crtillery the Castilian infantry brigade under General Varela attacked and succeeded in capturing the village of Barracon, despite stubborn resistance, There has been increased activity on the front between Saarrion Mora de Rubiolos Linares and Lucens. del Cid-Trans-Ocean.

REORGANISING GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT

Cairo, Jime 21. The Premier, Mohaned Pushin, has resigned as a preilmtory to forming n new Government,

Following his resignation, King Farouk requested Mohamed Pasha to form a National Government Router.

QUEZON GOING ON TOUR

Monita, June 25. It is announced that Mr. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines, is sating by the Japanese freighter Kongo Marú this morning for Kobe for a fortnight's rest.

JULY 2 HOLIDAY

Government

It is notified in

Two military aldea will accompany Gazette that His Excellency the

Shanghai, June 24,

She

renounced

נוח

U.S. BATTLESHIPS OF two-year-old son.-United Press.

35,000 TONS

Washington, June 24,

110W

the US. Fleet will be approximately (30,000 tona' each.

Admiral Lenty added that the D.Navy would nsk for bids in the mid-

the President on his trip, which, it Governor in Council hne, under After visiting President F. is emphnalaed, is purely unofficial. section 7 of the Holldays Ordinance, | Ruosevelt. Adıniral William D. Leahy,}dle of July, and hopes that the con- Mr. Quezon may visit Shanglial 1912, appointed Saturday, July 2, Chief of Naval Operations, expressed |struction of all four vessels can be and Hongkong on the return voyage. 1938, to be observed us " general the belief that the four new battle- started before the end of the year. -Unlled Preu.

holiday.

ships contemplated an additions to-Reuter,

CYCLIST KILLED

and died

in

{Further Stop. Press News on Page 10.)