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五拜禮 號六廿月八英港香

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1938.

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TENSION

Guerilla Force

ARMS BOUND Powerful

FOR SUDETEN

AREA SEIZED

Germany Speeds Up

Border

Defences

Berlin, Aug. 25.

Political circles in Berlin are anxiously awaiting news from Prague regarding the progress made towards reconciling the two and extreme viewpoints between Sudetens Czechs, but the protracted dispute is causing increasing nervousness.

Political circles vary in opinion from doubtful to despondent. The general feeling among well-informed foreign observers here is that the Czechs and Germans have committed

themselves so deeply that they have made retreat without loss of prestige difficult, if not im- possible.

Observers here are of two minds whether the German demands for autonomy would stop at their fulfilment or whether they mask an ambition to control the whole Danubian basin,

Meanwhile, latest reports from the, frontler districts Indicate that rapid progress is being made with the new fortifications. The general scheme of པ་ defence apparently is the erection of Blockhouses of reinforced concrete complete with gun emplacements at tactical points. The scheme should be reasonably near to completion by the end of September-Reuter,

Halifax In Conference

FRENCH EXPECT NO NEW PLEDGE

Paris, Aug. 25.

quarters

Prague, Aug. 24. Important meetings of Ministers were held this morning and afternoon

of the Well-informed French chairmanship under the President Dr. Edouard Benes.

are surprised at British newspaper only was the general, political reports that Mr. Neville Chamberlain, situation discussed, but there is Lord Halifax and Sir John Simon reason to believe that the military have decided to make public a situation was also examined.

Not

Reuter is informed, however, that no extraordinary measures are con- templated, nor any of an immediate character.

state- ment renewing Czecho-Slovakia.

British assurances France

Ce Foreign M. Georges Bonnet, the

French the Minister, telephoned Ambassador in London, M. Cambon, who saw Lord Halifax this morning. M. Bonnet has not received con- firmation of the reports, which appear It is felt here that no incorrect.

new development

in the Czech situg- The seizures serin to indicate that on has occurred in the past few attempts are being made over days warranting fears fairly wide area to

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On the other hand there has been growing number of Incidents recently in which arms have been reized as they were being smuggled Into the Sudeten districts.

that the

and

Here, MADAME SUN YAT-SEN has been visiting Canton. with: General Maurice Cohen, formerly her husband's aid, the

bombers shot down in the Canton arca recently.

Ambassador's widow of the great republican leader sees wreckage of Japanese Wife Wounded By Insurgents

Si. Jean de Luz, Aug. 25. Shots were Bred at a гаг occupied by the Italian Am- bassador to Insurgent Spain by a police patrol at San Sebastian on Monday night, according to a re- port reaching here to-day.

The Ambassador's wife was wounded, the repart discloses.

The police patrol called on the car to half but the chaffeur did not obey. The patrol did realise that it was a diplomatic car.--Reuter,

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JAN SMUTS WOULD AID PROTECTOR

Urges South Africa On Loyal Course

Capetown, Aug. 25. General Jan Smuts, Minister for

LULL IN FIGHTING FINDS CHINESE IN STRONG POSITIONS

Nanchang, Aug. 26. After days of fighting, a lull has set in on shore of Poyang Jake.

the west

Except for a Japanese attempt to land several hundred troops at Niushihtsun, near Singtze, which was frustrated by the Chinese, there was practically no fighting there yesterday. Positions of both sides remain unchanged, with the Chinese guarding the hills west and south-west of Singize.

Fierce fighting is still raging on the banks of Chihu Lake. The bills cast of Juichang are reported to have

changed hands many times.-Central News.

FIERCE FIGHT FOR JUICHANG

is

Hankow, Aug. 25. Fighting of a most sanguluary of cust character proceeding Jutchang, where the Japanese forces are launching a determined assaul on the Chinese positions in the hills. These positions have changed hands several times, according to a Chinese report,

get rifles and situation has been aggravated, pistols into the hands of the Storm it is not thought here that the Justice, speaking in the Assembly to-a Troops organisation of the Sudeten British Government la about to make day, declared that it was hila personal which according to Japanese reports,

any declaration of international im- opinion port on the subject.-Reuter.

Party-Reuter.

Arms For Sudetens

London, Aug. 25.

Lord Hallfax, the Foreign Minister, discussed the Czech situation withi

CO-OPERATION NECESSARY London, Aug. 25.

OFFICIAL DIES OF WOUNDS

Assassin Shot Dead Trying To Escape

Wrecks Railway

WELL-ARMED UNITS

DESTROY ARMOURED TRAIN CAR, PLANE

Tientsin's Communications Interrupted Every Day

Peiping, Aug. 25. The relentless activity of guerillas in east Hopei threatens to disrupt railway communications between Peiping and Mukden,

During the last few days the track has been damaged at least once daily between Tientsin and Shanhaikwan, trains in both directions running hours late while repair gangs try to keep pace with the wrecking activities.

The latest incident has occurred near Tangku, Tientsin's port, this morning, when a section of the track was removed and trains were delayed four hours while repairs were made. Similar breaks were made last night near Changli, in the Chinwangtao area, where one train was derailed without casualties.

Travellers report that trains

now.carry travelling at night lights, and passengers are warned to Be on the floor at the first sound of firing.

Poison Gas Charge Put To League

Geneva, Aug. 25. The

Chinese

permanent delegate to the League of Na- tions. Dr. Victor Hoo, has inform- ed the Secretary of the League, M. Avenol, that the Japanese destroyed two Chinese battalions with poison gas at Chuchwang- Reuter.

LOYALISTS ON GREAT OFFENSIVE

Inflicting Severe Casualties On Insurgents

Hendaye, Aug. 25.

The Battle of the Ebro is a

month old to-day.

Apparently the Loyalist offen- Jerusalem, Aug. 25. sive has more than accomplished

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They report that a wrecked plane is near the railway track near Tien- tsin. It is unknown whether the machine Was brought down by querlitas, but a damaged ear of an armoured train in the same aren indicates that the guerillos are armed with more thari machine-guns.— Reuter.

Garrison Relieved

Tientsin. Aug, 25, -

It is reported that the Japanese garrison which has been besieged for some time by guerillas at Yuen has been relleved by reinforcements,

The guerillas, however, aro 10- ported

strong to have taken up (Continued on Page 4.)

STOP PRESS

C. N. A. C. PLANE

A fat, hunch-backed Arab was Its purpose and there are SALVAGED

Both sides are said to be putting up. determined battle for Juichang, thai South Africa would has been evacuated by the Chinese, Assist Great Britain if she were in but which the Chinese claim is still danger or were attacked in wartime. In their position.

It is admitted that Japanese posses- "The Union would be cutting Its sion of Juichang would seriously

Canton, August 20. It is pointed out in French circles

own throst to allow Great Britain to endanger the Chinese booms across arrested last night as the assail-tions now that, with pressure

The ill-fated C.N.A.C. airliner, the French Charge d'Agaires this in London that close Anglo-French

British Assistant District Com-offensive will develop into the morning, following a meeting with collaboration and exchange of views go under while she was custodian of the Yangtse and the fortifications in ant of Mr. Walter Moffatt, relieved elsewhere, the Loyalist

machine-gunned by Japanese planes the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir at a time when the situation in the Union's Independence," General the vicinity of Wusuchi.--Reuter,

missioner, who was shot and greatest battle since the Incep- Kwellin, which was forced down and John Simon, and Lord Runciman's central Europe and Spain is making Smuts declared.

fatally wounded in his office in tion of Civil War over two years on Wednesday, was salvaged from under 40 feet of water shortly after representative, Mr. G. Walkin, who itself more and more felt is only to

B o'clock yesterday afternoon, accord- is in London.

be expected.

Nearly 80,000 Loyalists are now Ing to a report received to-day. Later, Lord Halifax left for York-

The

Owing to a strong current, salvage ahire, but is returning to the Foreign

The Arab attempted to escape opposing 00,000 Insurgents. Omec on Monday-Reuter,

from the military camp at Jenin latter claim to have captured 4,000 work was greatly hampered, it is Loyalist prisoners since Saturday but

Together with the recovery of the last night, shortly after he was the Loyalists, on the other hand, claim arrested, and was shot dead by that the Insurgents have sustained plant, the bodies of three passengers

Bre retrieved. They

stil huge casualties, guards.

The heavy fighting continues along unidentified.-Central News Mr. Moffatt was terribly wounded the entire river front-United Press. when the Arab fired six shots at him at point blank range.

Hungarians Back Sudetens

Prague, Aug. 25, Lord Runciman to-day saw re-

He added that the Government's

LINDBERGH Jenin yesterday.

PUNCHES

automatically if war was declared by BODYGUARD

It is learned that while recognising policy was that the Union, under its the difficulties to be surmounted the present Constitution, had the right to British Government has in no way decide whether South Africa would abandoned its original belief that a solution to the minorlly question' in enter war, as there was 'no question Czecho-Slovakia is to be found along to-day of the Union being at war the lines of negotiation.-Reuter, .

or on Great Britain.

in If he were

Government which had to advise Parliament in such circumstances he would urge South Africa to go in with Britain.- Renter.

presentatives of the Hungarian group British Firms

led by Count Esterhazy who, in n statement to Reuter, said that

he

had told Lord Runciman that they had the same claims as the Sudetens and would make common cause with the Sudetens in this struggle for their rights.

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them,

Driven From Manchukuo

Harbin, Aug. 25,

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LONDON INTEREST

London, Aug. 25.

Ogpu Agent Knocked Out By Airman

Paris, Aug. 25.

with An incident in connection Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's visit to Soviet Russia is just reported from

Moscow.

he

British Although six gove blood transfusions at Jenin hospital, Mr. Moffatt succumbed to- day to his wounds-Reuter.

ago.

Constables STOCK MARKET

IMPROVEMENT

SENTENCED TO DEATH

Jerusalem, Aug. 25.

This did not mean, however, that

London, Aug. 25. they would reject in advance any

Col. Lindbergh noticed that General Smuts' statement in the

constantly shadowed

Earlier promise. of greater activity reasonable offers made by the Owing to the enforcement of the

A military tribunal in Raita to on the London Stock Exchange failed Government, and they regretted that, Insurance Law, promulgated by the Legislative Assembly In Capetown is was being so far, no proposals had been made Government in Hsinking, 28 Insur- described in authoritative quarters through the streets of Moscow. He

rebels who were taken prisoner closed higher to-day. ance companies, of which eleven are as "of great interest at the present turned suddenly, and punched his day sentenced to death several Arab to materialise, but prices generally

Next morning Colonel Lindbergh during a recent clash near the city. meeting

Gill-edged foreign bohds ot the Hungarian British, have withdrawn from busi-juncture," and cannot fall to give the chadower on the hose.

received a telephone call from" the

Industrials showed parliamentary representatives is re-ness in Manchukuo.

The Court refused to accept the steady, OGPU. ported, on the other hand, to have

The new law stipulates that any greatest pleasure here.

"The man you knocked out was a argument of Counsel for the defend- fractional gains. Kaffles cased on decided that the Government's pro-insurance company desirous of con- podals are inadequate,

laining operations in Manchukuo adds to the cement binding the police officer who was acting as your ants that the men should be regarded lack of expected Paris support after

situation now prevalling in lightly higher on Polish minority leaders are must open a branch office at Heinking

Reuter Special. also taking a similar line, more or and must also deposit 300,000 yuan Empire together and "comes in the bodyguard, wald OOPU Commisas prisoners of war in the light of an early improvement, and closed

Palestine-Trans-Ocean, -Trans-Ocean, * Jen Invagosement with the Budete with the Manchukuo: Government right place at the right time." sloner Yeshov in su aggrieved volce. the

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