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Hongkong Telegraph.
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No. 15302
五拜禮 號九廿月七英港香 FRIDAY, JULY 29,
1938.
日三初月七
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1938 OUN LOP
SO YEARS OF GROWTH
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyre with 2,000 Teeth
SWEEPING REFORMS IN BRITISH
ARMY
PROMOTIONS Chinese Launch Determined Counter-Offensive
SPEEDED
BY
NEW RULING
2,000 Officers To Get
Higher Rank
Rank August 1
London. July 28.
The new conditions of service for combatant Army officers, announced by the Secretary of State for War, Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, in the House of Commons to-night, contain revolutionary proposals.
In future, promotion will be by time instead of by
vacancy.
The complete democratisation of the Cadet Colleges Sandhurst and Woolwich is provided by the grant of 100 per cent, scholarships to successful candidates whose parents' means make the remission of fees necessary.
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The system of half-pay has been abolished and the maximum rates of retired pay will be attained at younger age than hitherto, In future મૈં Regimental Major will be able to earn his maximum retired pay at the age of 56 if he has had 23 years' service.
The promotion to a captaincy will be after eight years' service and a majority after seventeen years' service. Promotion to higher ranks will be by selection.
The new mensures will be issuan
in glefall to the Army during the first work of August.
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The temir of command mart Ï appointments generally will be duced from both to three years.
The retiring age of Generals and Lieutenant-Generals will be lower- ed from 67 to 60, Major-Generds from 62 to 57, Colonels from 57 to 55, Lieut. Calonels from 55
and Majors from 50 to 47.
thereby giving increased lower age.
RANGOON RIOTING KILLS 40
British Regiment Called Out
Machine-Guns
Streets
In
London, July 28. The continnation to-day of:
Explorers Plan serious clashes between Bud-
dhist monks and Mohammedans
Flight Over at Rangoon is reported in
despatches rereived here
Southern Pole night.
Chicago, July 28.
The effect of this will be to een- siderably
necelerate promotion. United Airlines announce hist
Sir pay at a
Hubert Wilkins, veteran Australian explorer, is en route
with Jo Vancouver
complete plans for an experimental flight over the South Pole.
Subalterns receiving Is. to ta. 2d. per day will receive substantive in- creases in pay.
Private Means Unnecessary
One hundred scholarships, valued al £100 per annum, will be distrl- buted each year among subalterns of the first sqmmission needing them. "I can thus be cloned that an Army career throughout all stages will be possible for an officer with- out private means," said the Secre- tary for War.
The reforms will enable the maxi- mum rate of retired pay for each rank to be generally earned before the retiring age, and nothing will be lost from periods of unemployment, which from now on will be on full pay instead of hal puy."
Mr. Hore-Belisha gave Cumple
major, aged 40, with 23 years' service. He would receive retired pay at the rate of 2407 per annum, whereas an officer of the same ago with similar service might
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Sir Hubert is accompanied by Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth.—United Press.
FATE OF ITALIAN JEWS IN BALANCE
Rome To Preserve "Racial Purity"
Rome. July 28.
to.
REPRESENTING THE GREATEST ADVANCE in science of neronauties since the Great War, the Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft, pictured here, has justified the hopes and plans of its builders. The top half of the craft, aided. into the air by the lower portion, has made a return trip over the Atlantic-to Canada and the United States. It broke the westward record. This is Imperial Airways' initial bid for leadership in fast, trans- ; ocean service,
REAR OF JAPANESE AT KIUKIANG NOW GRAVELY MENACED
Lion Hill Sector Still In Defenders' Hands Is Claim
Nanchang, July 29. Embittered by the loss of Kiukiang, Chinese troops hurled themselves upon the Japanese in a furious counter-attack yesterday.
Violent fighting raged on the whole front, extending from Pengtseh to Kiukiang. The Chinese right and left wings in the Hukow-Pengtseh sector made a vigorous advance, recapturing a number of points, including Shilpoling, Meilangkow and Laotashan. The rear of the Japanese occupying Kiukiang is threatened.
Chinese reinforcements dispatched to the Poyang Lake sector, meanwhile, succeeded in cutting the Japanese communications between Kiukiang and Kutang,
AMERICAN WOMAN ON about seven miles south-east of Kiukiang on the west
AIR ADVENTURE: COMING TO COLONY
Miss Margaret Schuler, American Staff Writer of
the Christian Science Monitor, hopes to be the first woman reporter to fly around the world by commercial airlines, without using any other method of travel.
on her adventurous She has already started off travels, which will soon bring her to Hongkong,
"I am out for no speed records," said Miss Schuler, targe number injured in the clashes, just before she left the United States on the commence- ment of her flight. "To go around the world in a mere nandful of days may be dramatic, but such deeds are for pilots.
Many persons were killed and a
tu
The Yorkshire Regiment has been
callud out
keep under, and) machine-guns have been placed position in the streets.
Traffle is reported to be almost at
IN
"I am going by air on a leisurely
¦a complete standstill.--Trans-Ocean, jaunt of the live continents because
40 NOW DEAD
Rangoon, July 28. The casunities in three days rioting now total 40 killed, including five Indian women, and over 200 injured, Ninety per cent. of the injured are Indians.
it means that within a few weeks i can stand on the Acropolis, walk through the streets of Cairo, hear the ions rour near Nairobi, and watch the Taj Mahal in the moonlight.
few
"I can learn whether Singapore and Bangkok and Rangoon are as Sporadic rioting still continues, picturesque as their names, drop In but the authorities are tightening on fur-away Australla for their control. District Magistrates days, get a glimpse of China from are promulgating orders prohibiting the assembly of more than five Hongkong, and above all span the
Pacific Ocean.
persons.
A Government communique an-
"The crossing of the Atlantic by nounces that the police have been passenger airplane will be a triumph further reinforce by detachments of
equal the the Royal Burma Rifles, the Third but even that will not Field Brigade and a Company of 11,500-mile trip acruss
Pucifie
and patrolling the streets in the she said. armoured cars, which are picketing from Hongkong to San Francisco,"
have to retire as captain at £271 Two foreign Correspondents, Mr. per annum under the present regula- Arthur Paul Cremona, af the langer zones.
tions.
to all combatant corps of the Army,
Christian Science Monitor, and Mr.
thu
Burma REDS ARRESTED
The regulations, which will apply Kleinlehrer, of the Jewish Telegraphic Extra detachments of the Burma
Agency, whose expulsion was recent-Auxillary Force and the ly decreed, left Rome to-night for Rifles will be available for duty France and London respectively,
will come into operation on August
1.
12 Months' Warning
to-morrow.
Calm was restored in the city after According to the Jewish Tele-midnight, but stray fighting continued graphite Agency, the U.S. Ambassador on the outskirts. Business houses,
No officer on full pay will suffer to Rome called on Count Ciano, the banks, jewellery shops and other
IN ATHENS
"Tipperary's" Author, Jack Judge, Is Dead
Wrote Famous Song In Five Minutes
London, July 28. The composer of onc of tho world's most famous marching songs is dead.
He is Jack Judge, who wrote "It's a Long Way to Tipperary."
Judge died of meningills to-day, at the age of sixty, in a West Bromwich Hospital.
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His famous was composed during the early days of the Great War in a West Bromwich tavern.
The song arose out of a bet for a small wager, that Judge could not
bank of the lake.
Chinese military reports claim that heavy Chinese vinforcements are stiil guarding the Lion Hill sector,- A
Japan Combats Japanese attack yesterday was re- Japan Combats Tendencies
pulsed. One hundred res and five machine-guns abanrioved
their upon retreat were captured by the Chinese.
Assisting in the counter-offensive, Chinese air squadrons repeated
To Socialism devastating raids on the Japanese
Tokyo, July 28. Since last December over 400 leaders and members of the Popular Front have been arrested throughout Japan, I is revealed.
Nine former University pro fessors and seven proletarian writers will be indicted af the sessions on July 20 on charges of violation of the Peace Mainten- anco Act-Bomet.
Two Killed In British Merchantman
Shrapnel Flew In
Air Raid
Madrid, July 20. A Danish Non-Intervention Officer named Albert Moyell and o sailor aboard the British steamer Kellwyn were killed and four others of the crew were wounded when the ship was struck by shrapnel during an air raid on Madrid by Insurgent planes. The Insurgents dropped 110 bombs, -Reuter.
INSURGENTS CHECK DRIVE
Hendaye, July 28. In an effort to stem the Loyalist Insurgent advance in the Ebro sector, engineers blew up the power dams nooding the in the Tremp sector, Ebro River and destroying the Loyalist pontoons ncross the stream.
The
however, Loyalists, continue
their lines
to hold
from compulsory retirement as a Italian Foreign Secretary, to-night,places were heavily guarded by the leading members of the Trotskyite compose, play and sing a song within United Press.
four to three years will not occasion
the displacement of any officer with out twelve months' warning.
menning of the
Burniese women were also among
Athens, July 28. Twelve Communists, allegedly
organisation, were arrested by five minutes. He won his, bet and political police in Athens yesterday; the British and Dominion armles
The group distributed a
secret
plant of which was discovered. to the beat of a song that is still as Large quantities of illegal revolu- tianury leaflets were also confiscated. popular throughout the Empire as it was during the years of the war.-- United Press.
result of the reforms, and the reduc- and made friendly enquiries on be milltary. tion of the tenures of the various half of the United States Government commands and staff officers from with regard to Lite
present anti-Jewish campaign in Italy, the Injured and Burmese shops were newspaper called Protetralos, the marched through the mud of France
The Ambassador recalled that voted.-Reuter. Count Clano had previously assured concluded: that there was room "Perhaps the immediate effect of the for anil Semitism, and sold he was proposal can best be Illustrated by seeking a strailar assurance now. the statement that over 2,000 officers will be promoted with effect Count Cinno is understood to have from August 1. In one day over repiled that the racial problem was quarter of the subalterns and cap-being studied by the Government and corps of the Army) it was too early to say to what extent it would affect the Jews in Italy, It
ining of
will be comba
In reply to a question, Mr. Hore-principally afmed, however, at pre- Bollsha said that the cont of the serving Italian racial purity in con- measures was estimated at £300,000 nection with Italy's imperial roelal per annum. This will increase to polley-Reuter, £600,000 per annum over twenty to
twenty-five years. After that period
of omcers is adjusted.
Sabotage On
Vancouver's Waterfront
Vancouver, B.C., July 28,
| ---Truns-Ocean.
JAPAN RE-OPENS
CONSULATE
Tokyo, July
ly 20. The Japanese Consulate at Kiu- kinng, which closed on August 7 last Saboteurs are believed to be res-year, was reopened yesterday,
Mr. Shoichi Tanaka, Japanese ponsible for the waterfront fire here Consul, raised the fog over the Con- to-day,
the cost will decrease as the number from the point of view of the Terri
The fire bralce out in the decks torial Army, to see whether any The proposals. Mr. Hore-Beliaha advantage could be gained for the and, after it was extinguished, evid announced, were being examined Territoriais,Reuter,
once of the Incendiarism were ap- parent-United Press,
KINGSTON FEARS DISORDER
ulate building which was found to
Kingston, Jamaica, July 28. be 'undamaged after the Japanese Tear-gas and riot guns have been occupation on Tuesday. Mr. Tannica distributed to Kingston police as a arrived in Klukiang from Nanking result of fresh disorders arising from yesterday.Noutor.
plantation strikids-United Press.
Suspect Plot To Restore Hohenzollerns
Berlin, July 20.
Herr Reinhold Walle, at one time a Rightist deputy of the Reichstag, and his 27-year-old wife, have been arrested on suspicion of monarchist activities. Several other persons, at present unnamed, have also been ar rested.
Herr Wulle throw his support be-
hind Herr Hitler after the Nazi as- sumpilon to power in 1983-United
Press,
warships in the Yangtze River. Seven of a concentration of 78 war- ships at Hukow sustained heavy dainage when tons of explosive ware Purled on them. Casualties among the Japanese aboard were heavy.
After firing their anti-aircraft guns Ineffectively, the rest of the Japanese Vessels dispersed as the raiders con- tinued to zoom overhead and unload missiles of destruction. Богло steamed up-river and some down- stream.
their
Three Japanese pursuit planes inter arrived and
challonged the (Continued on Page 41
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LITTLE BOY FLUNG
OUT OF CAR
Escaping with only a few abrasions when he fell out of a sedan car driven by his father, David Edward Brand, aged three, is now in Kowloon Hospital.
Mr. C. W. Brand, who is attached.
WCB to the Mongkok Fire Station, turning into Salisbury Road from Nathan Road, Kowloon, when tho accident occurred. Fortunately, the car was burety moving as it made the turning.
The boy was on the back seat of the car and opened one of the doors just as his father was making the turn.
the The door few open with momentum and the child, who was grasping the door handle, was flung out onto the roadway.
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His injuries are only slight, and were confined to abrasiona "on face and legs.
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