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FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph.

No. 13594

FOUNDED IRJI 五拜禮號二十月八英港香 FRIDAY. AUGUST 12,

1938.

日七十月七

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1938

DUNLOP

SO YEARS OF CHOWIT

DUNLOP Fort

The Tyro with 2,000 Teeth

JAPANESE CHECKED SOUTH OF KIUKIANG

CHINESE CAN Massed Bombers Cause Carnage in Wuhan Area

HOLD LINES INDEFINITELY

Tells Of

Eye-Witness Tells

Bloody Fighting And Attackers' Failure

Mahweiling, Aug. 11.

A Japanese battery silenced by three direct hits from a Chinese battery was one of the first scenes witnessed by Reuter's correspondent as he arrived at the battle-front to-day in time to watch an artillery duel in which the Japanese were trying to force a weak spot in the Chinese defences.

The Japanese are pounding away at what they hope is China's Achilles heel in an effort to end the stalement on the south side of the Yang- tse River that has lasted now for over a fortnight.

The flashes from the Japanese guns were plainly visible as the shells whizzed back and forth over the green landscape, under the shadow of the majestic Lushan Mountain, on the summit of which lies Kuling and its 300-odd foreigners.

Below the hill forming part of the Chinese defences, where Reuter's correspondent crouched,

machine-

engagements.

these

'guns barked viciously as Japanese patrols encountered thin Chinese! defences in bloody

Evidence of

engagements! were glimpsed as this corre

correspondent) was en route to the battlefield, coolies caring bundles containing captured Japanese rifles, gay masks. ele, and also in the constant string of wounded walking of being carried un stretehers alonge blood. bespattered path.

The entire battlefield is visible from the chosen as ** vantage point. Away in the distance is the Yangise River, which appears as a grey line on the northern horizon.

Out of Reach of Navy Guns

Alter retiring from Kiuklang, the Chinese forces aro now holding strong positions in the wooded hills, out of rongo of the Japanese naval guns, and on a front running roughly. north-west and south-eastwards,

The

The right flank of the Chinese lines is based on MI. Lushan. Japanese forces, having occupied the level country to the south of Kiu- kiang, are now facing these positions. Their former superiority in mobi- Hity and mechanisation is gone now, they are forced, to meet the Chinese defenders

practically

and

on

equal terms. In this mountainous region tanks and aeroplanes are almost useless.

battering the polni of the Chinese defences, where the railway 10 Nanchang provides the best point for an attack, but any attempt to storm the ridges occupied by large numbers ot Chinese troops will cost then dearly,

tonese guns are

Guns Silent

TERRORIST BOMBS IN SHANGHAI HURT FIVE

Grenade Bursts In U.S. Marine Sector

Shanghai, Aug. 12.

The first terrorist activity of the week occurred at 840 a.m. to-day when a grenade exploded near a Japanese mill in the U.S. Marine sector, injuring five Chinese.

Another bomb exploded in the

vicinity of Bubbling Well Road: police station without, however, injuring anybody.-United Press,

TWO MORE BOMBS

A third grenade expituted i Japanese milf, injuring ten people. A fourth grenade exploded" in Japanese factory, without causing any

casualties.

D

Both bombs were thrown in the

U.S. Marine sector. United Preas.

LONDON SERVICES FOR BOMB VICTIMS

Protests To Be Sent Japan's Embassy

London, Aug. 11. Churches in London are hold- ing Services of Intercession on

On Troubled Sunday for the Chinese victims

Border Now

Nichi-Nichi's

Tokyo, Aug. 12.

border corres pondent reports that all is quiet on the Russo-Manchukun border.

Both sides are maintaining the positions they held when- the bugles announced the Armistice yesterday.

Japanese newspapers advocate that negotiations for the demaż- cation of the frontier should begin 15 soon

possible. United Press,

ARMISTICE

PLEASES GERMANY

Hopes Provocations

Will Cease

of the aerial bombings in Canton, Included in the Churches announe- ing special services are Westminster Abbey. St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Martin's, and the City Temple,

UPS!

EIRE'S FIRST PRESIDENT-Ireland's grand old man, Dr. Doug- las Hyde, 78-year-old Gaelic scholar, poet and author, inspects Guard of Honour as he arrives at Dublin Castle. Dr. Hyde Was recently elected first president of Eire (Ireland), under the new con- stitution, and the Guard was stationed to receive him as he assumed

his new dutles at the castle.

FRENCH FRANCS UNEASY

Control Board® Forced To Hurry To Support

Paris, Aug. 11.

It is understood that the Bank of The International Peace Campaign France has requested all banks in and the China Campaign Committee are appealing to ministers throughout France to cut down forward dealings the country to held simitur services in franea to a minimum. of Intercession on Sunday next.

A deputation will proceed to the Japanese Embassy on Monday morn ing, and in the evening a protest narch will go through the West End to Hyde Park, where protest meeting will commence at 8 p.m.--- Reuter,

Big German Plane Hops Over Ocean

Lufthansa Experiments With Land' Machine

New York, Aug. 11

A four-motored Focke-Wolfe

TURKISH PROTEST

LODGED

Japanese Parley's Purpose Suspect

Istanbul. Aug. 11.

The "mystery meeting" of Japanese diplomalle ant trade representatives at the Turkish capital has at last aroused the opposition of the Govern

ment.

The semi-official Anatolian News The Foreign Exchange market is Agency announces that the Turkish again nervous and the French Control Foreign Office has sent a note to the Board was compelled to intervene Japanese Ambassador on the subject, and defend the franc by turge sales recalling press reports that the con

ference was directed against Soviet Russia,

of sterling

The intest rumour in the financial district is to the effect that dealings Whilst expressing doubt concerningį

in gold coins may be barred.-Reuter, the accuracy of this assertion, the note goes on to say that, in view of the particularly friendly relation existing between Turkey and Soviet Russia, it would be dimeult to suppose that Turkish soil had been chosen by the Japanese delegates as the venue for a conferent pursuing anti-Soviet nims.

DELAY OF RESPONSE EXPLAINED

680 CASUALTIES IN SEVEREST ATTACK IN WAR'S HISTORY

Fleet of 30 Junks Blasted And Entire Crew Killed

Hankow, Aug. 12.

The heaviest Japanese air attack yet made on Chinese cities occurred yesterday afternoon, 680 being killed and injured and 437 houses destroyed. More than 100 Japanese bombing planes appeared over 13 towns in Hupeh, dropping altogether nearly 200 bombs, most of which fell in thickly populated districts..

Particularly serious was the damage in the towns of Wuhang and Hanyang close to Hankow. Altogether 63 Japanese planes were counted over these two towns alone.

In the bombardment of the munition depots of Hanyang, which had but shortly before been evacuated, a great number of bombs were dropped in the densely populated poorer districts on the Han River. Most of these bombs caused deaths.

A fleet of 30 junks was completely destroyed and the crews killed.

British Ship Struck In Air Attack

Valencia, Aug. 11. Machine-gua bullets struck a British steamer, whose name at present is unknown, and a num- ber of bombs were dropped near her. In the course of an air raid on Valencia to-day.

Three Insurgent planes parti- elpated in the raid. So far as Is know there were no casualties among the crew of the British ship-Reuter.

At, the railway station of Wuchang 50 rélugees who were waiting for the train were killed. An' officiul count of the number of dead is not yet complete.

In

The entire Red Cross sprang into activity Immediately after the bom bardarent began and is now engaged on clearing away the dead and Wounded and looking for injured beneath the collapsed houses, view of the suddenness and the violence of the attack the Chinese anti-aircraft guns could not act effec- tively and were moreover hludered by low-lying clouds.-Trans-Ocean.

Narrow Escape

Hankow, Aug. 12. At least six hundred people were

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DIFFICULT STOP PRESS

TASK IN PALESTINE

Britain Seeking Peace And Justice

London, Aug. 11.

The British High Commis- Apart from that, Turicey could sioner and the British Military neither expressly nor implicitly Commander in Palestine are

within her boundaries

tolerate

conference directed against another facing a task as difficult as any that has confronted the British military authorities in any

State.

No Lack Of Goodwill Among Insurgents

Claim Three Warships Destroyed

Hankow, Aug. 12.

were

Three Japanese warships The Note continues: "If the confer- ence had been purely economic it country since the Great War, sunk and five more badly disabled might have been expected that the and their co-operation inspires by bombs dropped by Chinese air- during another rald on the Japanese Government would have confidence.

men

doy

London, Aug. 11. taken steps to inform the Turkish This declaration was made by the concentration of, war vessels in the monoplane landed at Floyd Bennett

It is authoritatively stated that the Government of the fact.. In the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Yangtse River near Kiuklang yester- Berlin, Aug. 11. Airport at 350 p.ti. EST. to-day. Insurgent authorities have informed absence, the Turkish Government Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in a serie An undisclosed number of Chinese after completing a crossing of the the British Agent in Burgos, Sir feels bound to bring its views to the cast to-night, in which he described bombers took part in the roid. The The armistice on the Russo-Atlantic in 24 hours 57 minutes non-Robert Hodgson, that the delay in knowledge of the Japanese Govern- his recent visit to Palestine. the ships which were bli were seen to

MacDonald said that Mr. Manchukuo frontier is welcomed stop.

answering the British communication ment." The nucline, which has been regarding the plan for the withdrawal The meeting of the Japanese British Government would adminis catch fire, sending columna of black smoke skywards. Three of them in German political circles. named the "Condor", is an all-metal of volunteers was exclusively attri- diplomatic and commercial representer its trust on the basis of justice

plane with a wingspread of 100 feet, butable to the complicated nature of tntives, which was summoned by the between the Jews who were bulding were later reported to have sunk, The officer commanding the Shabu Germany regards a settlement of them.pl.

A semi-offelal statement says that and is capable of cruising at 190 the document, and not to any lack of: Ambassador at Istanbul, is being held | at long last a national home, and the leaving the smokestacks and the

masts above water. area told me: "Unless the Japanese

goodwill.—Trans-Ocean,

in the Turkish capital behind closed Arabs, whose title to the land of The Chinese planes returned bring much greater forces, and troops conflict as desirable and adds: "The It is owned by the Lufthansa Cor-

"I Can Hold Them For

Years"

an experimental

of a higher quality than those they hope is expressed that henceforth on poration and is the first fand-type are using now, I can hold them here the Soviet-Munchukuo frontier Soviet plane lo make Indefinitely for years if necessary.

Atlantic for this Russian provocations which led to crossing of the

orders.

where the nat

oors, usd no statement has been their birth was indisputable. Issued regarding its purpose.

sular

Sometimes, added Mr. MacDonald, man's powers of conciliation and Ambassadors, diplomatie and con-

creation appeared pany, but there and trade representatives representatives were summoned from was a spirit that brooded over Pale- the Balkans, Soviet Russia, the Near sting, and, with God's help, pence East and the Middle East-Trans- would be restored to the Holy Land.

---Neuter. Оссап.

TERRORISTS ACTIVE

Jerusalem, Aug. 11. A Jewish workman was kidnapped by an Arab armed gang on the out- Ένα skirts of Jerusalem to-day,

CORRIGAN STICKS The officer explained that the the conflict will in future cease and German corporation. Chinese withdrawal from Kluklung

a solution based on Justice-which is The "Condor" will leave New York

TO FLYING has been carried out under the undoubtedly the standpoint of the on Saturday for the return non-stop

Japanese-vBL take place."

flight to Germany-United Press.

New York, Aug. 11. "It was necessary to avoid a major battle in an area

The Armalstice, which has removed

SECRET DEPARTURE

Douglas Corrigan, the Irish-Amerl- terrain favoured the Japanese, and some anxiety from business circles, especially where we were within was responsible to some extent for

Berlin, Aug. 12. can airman, who recently flew the range of the Japanese naval guns in the marked recovery on the Bourse The multi-motored plane secretly Atlantic "by mistake," has taken up a to-day. Quotations Increased gener- departed from Stanken Airport at Job as commercial pilot in an air

The Telegrapli's contributor, John Jews were seriously injured in an "We retired in order to avold ally, and prices closed considerably 7.60 p.m. on Wednesday on a non-line service in the United States.

Blunt, has replied to the crities of encounter with Arab bandita. A Post Junnecessary, sacrifices, and came firmer than has been the case for the stop fight to New York, in order to His commercial licence, wiilch Was His comments concerning recent Omce station has been held up by

· down to our new positions, - - from | last two days. Nevertheless, recent "demonstrate Nazi officiency."

suspended following his amazing statements by Mrs Hilde Selwyn-asure it highlights of to-day's

und robbed.. where, the Japanese have unsuccess- | lazaca have by no means been made The plane is piloted by Herr Alfred | trans-Atlantic fight, has now been Clarke. His article is in type and

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good.Reuter.

| Henkel-United· Press.

returned to him--Reuter,

will appear to-morrow.

incidents in Palestine. Reuter,

the Yangtse, he said.

JOHN BLUNT REPLIES

the

10

their base safely-Central News, TEN OFFICIALLY DAMAGED

Hankow, Aug, 12. It is officially claimed that Chinese planes twice raided the Japanese war- shipa concentrated off Kluklang yesterday morning.

Ten of the vessels were damaged by the Chinese bombs-United Pren.

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