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Anniversary Tribute Paid Wilhelmina

14,000 Fighting Mon On Parade

The Hague, Aug. 30. The festivities in honour of the 40th anniversary of Queen Wilhel- mina's Ascension to the Throno wère marked yesterday by what is believed

to be the largest

Two Heavily Fined; But Get Option Of 6 Months

?

Judgment on two defendants who were arrested as a result of a raid ut Gloucester Road on August 10 was given by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning.

Originally five

men were arrested, and charged with possession of 475 conclu- alon of the hearing

the

held in the parade ever inuls of raw opium. At the

Over 14,000 representatives of the fifth defendant was dece..

N Yum-kam, 35, anemone, waR |

three Servlees marched past the

HANG Queen, while units of the Dutch Air Force executed intricate manoeuvres overhead.

In addition to Her Majesty, all members of the Royal Family, the Cabinet, the State Council and the Diplomatie Corps were present.

The Princes from the Netherlands East Indles were particularly colour- ful in their bright jewel-studded

wil celebrations

continuc zeveral days, including the Queen's birthday on Wednesday, when spectul service will be held,

A naval review will be held on September 3 and three days later Her Majesty will participate in a festival at Amsterdam.-Trans-Ocean.

TOURISTS FAIL

fined $5,000 or

six

hard labour, while Chul Wing-chi, 35, was fined $4,700 or alx months. The other two defendants niso discharged.

were

Stock Market Takes Fright

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

TUESDAY, AUGUST 80,

1988.

Chinese

Still

LULL IN FIGHTING AFTER FIVE DAYS

OF INDECISIVE WAR

Cling

Recapture of Taihu and Susung Now Confirmed

Hankow, Aug. 30.

to Juichang's Hills

GUERILLAS WRECK RAILROAD

Seven Freight Cars Damaged By Mine

Pelping, Aug. 30.

DECLARE CHINESE SLAIN BY POISON GAS

Mahwelling, Klangst, Aug. 30. Two Chinese companies guarding high-level ground to the south-west the Seven freight cars were wrecked of Laohushari (Tiger Hill) in and several sections of the track Kuling sector, were wiped out were damaged when guerillas

ex-yesterday

Japanese ploded a mine under a Japanese resorted to the use of poison ans military train just outside the west shells. wall of Pelping in the early hours of this morning.

when

the

artillery Japanese planes and severely bombed the place and when No casualties are reported. The railway track is also reported the Chinese defence works had been. to be blown up between Pelping and totally demolished, 500 Japanese last infantrymen rushed the positions. They were repulsed by the Chinese, night. Tientsin, delaying all trains

suffering about 200 ensunities,

After five days' hard fighting for possession of the important strategic hills south-west-and north-west of Juichang there is a temporary lull on the Juichang front, The Stock Exchange reflected the with both Japanese and Chinese bringing up heavy Pelping which

burst of war scare to-day with

reinforcements. selling,

London, Aug. 29.

Czecho-Slovakian bonds lost 1% points and reached 7214. British Government loans continued to de- cline and War Loans and were lower.

On the south bank of the Yangtse the opposing forces Contols are facing each other north-west of Chihu (Red Lake),

north-west of Juichang.

Trans-Atlantic stocks were ap- United including preciably lower,

The hull is also said to prevail on the Poyang Lake States Steel.

The Young and Dawes toan bonds front, with the Chinese in possession of the hills south- (German) were down three-fourths and one-half respectively-United West and north-west of Singtze.

TO REGISTER Charged with failing to register) within 72 hours of their arrival in the Colony, three Antiamites, Kien Press. Guan Loui: Iut Don Ho Khich San Isi Bon Boa and Khlen Moy Michel

OPERATORS CAUTIOUS

A Chinese military spokesman said last night that

London, Aug. 28. the Japanese attempt to land troops south of Singtze in Hisi Bon Hoa were each Aned $10 A general feeling of uncertainty when they appeared before Mr. R. which prevailed on the Stock Ex-order to outflank the Chinese positions south-west of the Edwards at the Central Magistracy change to-day created a cautionary

un-city had been repulsed. disposition and operators were this morning.

business, Acting Sub-Inspector Edwards willing to transact much

Ministerial He expressed the opinion that to-morrow's prosecuted, and snid the three men, pending

owing to the fall in the level when

registering yesterday, said that meeting. they had arrived from Saigon. Prices in most sections were mark-Poynt Lake operations by Japanese June 28. They were tourists in the ed down, but Kames finally displayed gunboats on the waters of the lake

were becoming impossible. better trend. Colony, and

stopping with friends,

were

Communists Loyal To:

Kuomintang

Hankow, Aug. 30. Rumours of a splk between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were vigorously denied by a Chinese spokesman tast night. He mentioned 3 telegram published in

in yesterday morning's Chinese Communist organ, Isinhua Jih Pan,

the from Chinese Communist Army com- manders in Hopel, Chahar, Jehol and Shansi, pledging their sup- port and loyalty to the Nailonal Government led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek --Reuter.

[T

On the Commodities Market bure metals and rubber eased on lack of buying interest rather than to pres

to sell.

Wall Street

Special,

Was

of

Canada Mails

The spokesman confirmed Chinese Now Routed

Via England

|

The local authorities have ordered the closing of twelve dally news- papers and live news agencies in

leaves only

seven daily newspapers, all of which are elther Japanese-owned or Japanese- inannged.--Reuter.

Pick Hines As Schultz' Companion

Formor Political "Boss" Pointed Out In Court

New York, Aug. 29. The third week of the trial of James J. Hines, former "Tammany" leader, who is charged with bribery and legal gambling operations, opened sensailonally to-day.

Pointing drastically

Hines,

Whilst the Chinese were checking up the casualties on both sides on the battlefield, the Japanese fired volleys of poison gua shell. For over three solid hours the whole ne was, covered by a dense suffocating smoke. When the smoke cleared the two Chinese companies guarding the point were helpless. The position was strewn with bodies of the victims,

This is said to be the third time the Japanese have used poison pas shells during fighting at this point.

the

Military advices from the Singize sector allege that the Japanese at- tacking Ox Hrad I also used polson Han shells yesterday afternoon. Over 50 such shells were fired. at Chinese positions, compelling

the Chinese to withdraw to avoid necessary losses. The latter, how- ever, recaptured the polni in counter-attack after the

as had disappeared.Central News.

Canton Line To Hankow Open Again

Itail

un-

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communication between

press reports that Taihu and Susung had been recaptured from the Japanese, but asserted that although

the former Assistant Manager of a Connecticut Hotel exclaimed: "That's On the Foreign Exchange Market Chinere troops entered Chicashan on

the man I saw with Schultz there was a general demand for U.S.Saturday they later withdrew, owing strong Japanese machine-gun

The witness described the meeting Although not specifically stated in dollars, which necessitate

oficial to

nests inside the elty. Chinese troops, the Post Office notice regarding the between Hines, "Dutch" Schultz and support for sterling.

easy-Reuter he said, were now surrounding the "All Up" air mail service which members of the latter's gang in the starts this week, It is officially ex-hotel lobby on a day in August, 1035. city.

Last week the Yangtse flood waters are greatly plained that mail from Hongkong to WALL STREET PESSIMISTIC

that yesterday

morning when several handicapping fighting in the wing-Canada will be sent by Imperial ficut riding, school testifted in Canton and Hankow was resumed New York, Aug. 20.

Airway's to England, and from thence Schultz had been seen with Hines at freight cars left Wongsha station for

the school during the same month. Wall Street is pessimistle regard.mei areu.-Renter

by surface transport to Canada,

Hankow following the repairing of Under astute ing the European situation, and the

cross-examination the Kuntin-Pakonghow section, It is pointed out that it is neces- the hotel offelal admitted that he which has been subjected to daily comparative sharp drop in New York

his identiften- and extensive bombings in the last stocks is indicative of the war searc.

sary for the mail to cross the Atlantic "wasn't sure" about United Press.

by steamer as the trans-Atlantic airtion of Hines.

few weeks by the Japanese airmen, service le not yet operating. How-

Undaunted, Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, according to Chinese reports from ever, as soon as the Atlantic air ser- New Yoric's famed anti-racketeering Canter. Yesterday's train was the sinco vice comes into effect, it is presumed District Attorney, who is conducting first to depart for the north that Canadian mail from Hongkong the prosecution, brought to the stand August B.

the head walter of another Connec- will be inked with that service. from

where It is anticipated that in due course ticut hotel,

Schultz lived there will be a thrice a week trans- during the summer of 1935.

This man pointed to Hines and lle denied that he had held any Atlantic air service, and this wil!

with European also apply to the London-Hongkong declared: "There he is! He was with of the Canton-Honkow railway, who secret discussions

'Schultz."—Reuter. bankers or statesmen.-United Press, route.

NEW DESTROYER LAUNCHED

Kearney, NJ., Aug. 29. The torpedo-destroyer Lang

was launched at the naval yards here to- doy, Mrs. Leahy, wife of the Naval Chiel

the of Staff, performing christening ceremony.United Press,

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MORGENTHAU DENIES SECRET DISCUSSIONS

New York, Aug. 20, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary

returned of the Treasury, Europe by the French liner Nor- mandie to-day.

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First patient:

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It is hoped that through traffle between Kowloon and Hankow will be resumed soon.

Mr. Y. C. Chen, General-Manager

personally supervised

the

repair work on the damaged section, return-

ed to Canton yesterday.

FRANCO'S ATTITUDE EXPLAINED

Rejected Withdrawal Plan. Because Of U.S. Volunteers

were

Burgos, Aug. 20. General Franco, in a statement to the Press to-day, disclosed that 22,- 000 American volunteers who are serving with the Loyalists partially responsible for the rejection of the British plan for withdrawal

The British plan affects only Europeans. The Insurgents, General France pointed out, had not accepted the aid of foreign volunteers until the International Brigade commenced the defence of Madrid.

General Franco, during the press conference, warned France not to precipitate trouble by re-opening The Pyrenees frontler.United Press,

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