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With more than 250 passengers aboard, including many foreigners, an international express, one of the last by. which foreigners evacuate Hankow, reached Kowloon! station at 8.30 a.m. to-day from the temporary Chinese capital.
Though the date for the "last train
WEDNESDAY,
4 Year Crime
Hunt
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THE rewards offered for Information which will solve the four-year-old "Pyjama. Girl" murder my- stery have been more than doubled and now total £1, 500.
AUGUST
1938
BLOODY BORDER
BATTLE
Chinese Fighting Determinedly
Nanchang, Aug, 3. Bloody fighting is proceeding on border where the Hupch-Anhwel That for Information leading to the Chinese have decided to make a to checic the the arrest and conviction of the mur-determined stand derer has been raised from £500 to Japanese westward thrust to
£1,000, and that for establishing the Wuhan area. girl's identity-never yet ascertained
£200 to £500.
the
Chinese evacuation of Susung on the north bank of the Yangtze River,
from Hankow" has not yet been fix-rom.nged between 23 and 27,30 miles to the north-west of Kiu-|
The girl,
ed, the one which arrived to-day was the last of three specials arranged was found shot in a culvert four for by the international committee miles from Albury in September of foreign residents in Hankow.
to
The train lett Hankow station at 10
I p.m. on Sunday and
Come Hongkong via the Canton loop line.
There was nothing dramatic about the arrival of the ten-coach train at Kowloon. There
were barely П dozen Europeans on the platform when the train pulled in an hour be- hind schedule.
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Among the foreigners on the train were: Mr. D. McKillop, Mr. Foss, Mr. Leading. Wing Commander Molicy, Mr. R. E. Moon, Messrs. Rowland, Hannach, Golovatsky, the Rev. Gatt!, Mrs. Kolla, Miss Verde and sister, and Miss Guievitch,
On the way down from Hankow no acroplanes were sighted, and ex- cept for the crowded train, the jour- ney was no different from one mnde In peace-time.
One
sald that the
ne passenger foreign population in Hankow was in no hurry to evacute and there) had been no rush to secure special accommodation on this train.
1934. She was wearing canary" coloured pyjamas.
Her body is still preserved Sydney Univeralty Medical School.
at
ciang, according to military eireles, was effected on the night of August
for the purpose of drawing the
Japanese farther into the hilly dis- trlets on the border.
Despite the fall of Susang, large contingents of Chinese troops are still Aghting in the Japanese rear around Taihu and Tsienshan. Heavy fcasualties have been inflicted on the
STOP PRESS J
The situation on the Klukiang front is steady. The Chinese are s holding the lino at Shaho, about 17 kilometres south of Kiuklang on the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway.
In
JAPANESE a counter-offensive yesterday
MOBILISE SABOTEURS
Hankow, Aug. 3.
The Sco Tang Pao, official military organ, declares the Japanese ute mobilising spics and saboteure in
Brea
already left
crack Chinese troops repulsed the Japanese at
at Shamoshan and Tung- lingtao, points south of Kluklang. The latter withdrew to Kluklang.
Batches of Japanese troops, push- ing toward Julchang, about 30 kilo- metres west of Klukiang,_are_check- ed on the west bank of Sai Leke- Central News.
JAPANESE REPORT SUCCESS Peiping, Aug. 3.
A Japanese spokesman announced
fled
There were still more than 1,000 East and North China to be sent to that the Japanese encountered 500 foreigners in the
capital, though Manchuria and Korea to deal with Chinese "remnants" at Pingyang, slx many of the women and children had the new situation et Changkuteng.
miles south-west of Chishih in south already been evacuated to Hong- The
He said that the Shansi on July 29. stales two-thirds
defeated and Chinese were kong or to the interior.
the
secret service men south-west. The Japanese "captured Japanes Abourd the train
three the Shanghai were
have British naval men. P. O. Prince, A. under orders for Korea.
Rome B. King and A. B. Bryant.
Contral News
reports withdrawalsame cornses" and also counted The spokesman said that 2,000 men of one Japanese division from Shan- of the Eighth Route Army attempted tung for service in Manchukuo and to recapture Talshin in north Shansi also the switching of some troops from Hopel.
on July 31. They were "armed with
bronch
mortars and eight machine guns."
Foreigners Can't Enter Kiukiang
Still Cooped Up In Sanctuary Ships
Only 2,000 Japanese are left to two defend Peiping, it is claimed.--United Press,
S'hai Cabaret Proprietor Is Shot Dead
Shanghai, Aug. 3. Mr. Albert J. isract of San! Francisco, for 20 years owner and operator of one of Shanghai's most famous cabarets, the Del Monte, was found shot dead in his office this morning, with a bullet wound in the
Shanghai, Aug. 3. Foreigners who have taken refuge aboard H.M.S. Cockshafer,. US.S. Monoency, and the British steamer Wenchow, anchored three miles up the river from Kiuklang, are placed in an awkward position as a result of the refusal of the Japanese authorities to allow them to land to resume charge of their properties, head, although all is peaceful at present et Klukiang.
At present they are unable to move from the vicinity of Klukiang owing to Chinese mines up-river and the booms down-river which are not yet destroyed.
The American authorities and the Shanghai Municipal police present investigating.
are
at
is
It is not yet clear whether it murder or suicide-Reuter,
The majority of the Cooped-up BERLIN FAREWELL
foreigners are employees of the
AP.C., Butterfield and Swire, Jor- TO CHINA ENVOY
dines and Socony.--Reuter.
AMBASSADOR LEAVES
Berlin, Aug. 3. Hankow, Aug. 3. Practically the whole of the Chi- Accompanied practically by lilanese colony in Berlin, and represen- entire staff, the Americani Ambassa-tatives of the German ministries, dor left for Chungking aboard the bade farewell to Mr. Tien Fong- U.S. gunboat Luzon, yesterday- cheng, former Chinese Ambassador Reuter,
to Berlin, when he departed for Copenhagan to-day-Reuter,
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He reported that a Japanese unit of Kuohsten had been warned of an attack and repulsed Communists in the course of three skirmishes at Chungelichkow, Chungchietsun and Changchlatsai, south-east of Tal-
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Sudetens In Conference
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The Chamber met to-day and adjourned sine die after a formal 20 minutes session-Reuter.
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