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A THRILLING STÓRY OF A "HUMAN FLY" BURGLAR I DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR, and VALERIE HOBSON
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THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH,
STOP PRESS
CENTRAL BANK NOTE DISCOUNT
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938.
RAIDERS RETURN TO DESTRUCTION
IN CANTON
(Continued from Page 1.)
of destruction is re-commenced.
All the tension and features of the May and June holocausta are present in to-day's ralds.
Peiping, Aug. 7, (Delayed). Despite the fact that the Provisional Government in February stated that Central Government bank notes would be allowed to circulate for one year at par with Federal Reserve notes, an order issued to-day slates that, as from, to-morrow, such notes must elreulaic at 00 per cent, face of value. Ville · accompanying
An
SOVIET AID.
ARRIVES
Four Hundred Pilots
The
+
In Hankow
Shanghal, Aug, 0. Terrided crowds are miling along
There are at present about 400 the Bund opposite the Shameen, Soviet air pilots at Hankow und where the barricaded French and scores of Soviet military advisers British bridges are heavily guarded operating in China, according to in- against a possible rush of refugees, formation received here from a te-
The formations of four machines
planes are now flying in liable foreign source. instead
Information further states that the
usual 3-formation. They have)
Soviet heavy bombers and fighting passed over.
are being Imported Into China plumbers. xxanation the fant femeen four times in
minutes. states that Federal Reserve notes One plane released a bomb directly These Soviet pilots, however, are
Central over Shameen, and newspapermen Chiang Kai-slick.
asting independently of General Government notes have deprecated, and other observers on the roots of Chinese pilots in Hankow has de- The number of It is pointed out, however, that even Shamern buildings Instinctively clined to twenty or thirty. Japanese establishments accept ducked as the heavy missile screamed Hankow notes at par with the yen, through the air
It is also revealed that about 600 Just above their wille Chinese business catablish heads.
tonks of Soviet make have already nents always give five to eight
I landed.
been assigned to the Hankow-Wu- with per cent, more for Hankow notes detonation that shook the entire
deatening chang area.--Domel, Reuter,
Island, less than 500 yards away, in
hinve appreciated, while
+
A
on area that has never previously street of crowded tenements in which
been bombed-Salkwan.
the bomb detonated.
PUBLIC IGNORES ORDER
Peipinų, Aug. 8. The new currency order appears more deaths than dozens dropped in largest I have seen-has torn up the This one bomb has probably caused An enormous crater-one of the to carry no weight with the Federal other areas. Belleving that Saikwan entire strect. It is at least 40 feet Reserve Bank, which flatly refused a non-military area-was immune.deep and 50 feet across. to give "depreciated notes in ex-Chinese have flocked there in an change for its own currency.
I reached the scene before the Red As a result, dally dealings In Han-buliding is packed-United Press.
effort to seek sanctuory, and every Cross workers and many wounded kow and Federal Reserve notes have ceased entirely, the Chinese refusing to part with their Hankow notes at the decreed rate,
28 Machines Involved
Canton, Aug. 9. The general public is ignoring the A total of 20 planes are participat- new order, which appears to be still-ing in this morning's+ rald. Eight burn.-Reuter.
| machines.
also bombing the Canton-Hankow Railway.--Reuter.
CHINESE SCORE SUCCESSES
Mafruiling, Kinngsi, Aug. 0. Following up their initial suc- eessex, Chinese troops on the north of the Yangtse River have now re- captured Lion Hill, and are losing.
on Hwangmel, 25 kilometres west of Taihu on the Hupeh-Anhwei border, according to military ad- vices,
Another Chinese force operating in the Taihus sector has reoccupied Szechangchien, Lungshankung and Chutoushan, three heights of strate gie impurtance, and is now attacking Talhu
u from the south. Japanese reinforcements dispatch- ed from Taihu to
from
Hwangmel were Intercepted at Huallangting and Chuchkachiao, lying midway between the two cities. Japanese troops were alsa rushed from Kiukiang to re lieve their comrades hard-pressed at Hlwangel. Six hundred Japanese lunded yesterday at Chinkow, op- posite Klukiang, and advanced as far Kunglungchen. south ot) Hwangnel, where they were cheek-
Japanese warships concentrated in the Yangise River at Ifsuchinwan, west of Kiukiang, bombarded and machine-gunned the Chinese post-. Blots on the north bank, yesterday! Chinese land batteries: inted with heavy fre. Fighting on the Kiukiang front! yesterday was not as severe as the day before. There was comparative in the Kuling Fector... But place in the Shako setor. Several villages south-west | of Shaho, 17 kilometres south of Kiukiang, were abandoned by the Chinese after their defence works had
crumbled under
three
took
hours'
bombardment. Tatlenshan, a strate le height in the vicinity of Shahb, was also taken by the Japanese in the morning. But the Chinese re- captured half of It In a counter- attacks in the afternoon. The con- tending forces now cach possess half the hill-Central New..
SUDETEN KILLED
Prague, Aug. 8.
A Sudeten-German supporter of the Healein Party is reported to have been lied by a Sudeten German Democrat, after a political discussion In a town in Bohemi,Reuter.
are
Scenes Of Horror
Canton, 9.45 a.m.
The bombers have disappeared.
1 left Shameen as soon as it was
possible to get across the canal and
were sill crawling about seeking sanctuary. Several were buried under the masonry-you could hear their cries.
Bricks were flung more than 200 feet away by the force of the explosion.
The ambulances arrived within few minutes and in 10 minutes had excavated ten injured people from the ruins.-United Press,
Bombers Back Again
Canlon, 9.55 a.m.
♫
The Japanese have re-appeared for
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district, hitherto unbombed, where an enormous torpedo bomb fell from across Shameen.
absolute horror
It is hard to describe the scenes of the pervade
that
telephone this message from
Shameen, to where I returned only a minute or so ago.
Heavy anti-aircrafi fire is greeting the raiders.-United Press.
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