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六拜禮 號十月九英港香

SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER

1938.日七十月七閏 10,

"ZERO-HOUR"

Japanese

CHINESE

Were Led CHILDREN

Into Trap

(Special to "Telegraph")

TH

Hankow, Sept. 9.

·HE abandoning of Kwang- tsi on Wednesday was part of a carefully pre- pared trap, according to the Chinese military authorities hero.

The trap was. sprung yesterday when 2,000 Japan- ese soldiers, forming the vanguard of the advancing army, were ambushed as they marched, virtually unopposed, through a pass seven miles west of Kwangtsi.

Fierce hand-to-hand fighting took place and the stout Kwangsi troops who are familiar and suited to the terrain had a big advan- tage over their enemy.

They succeeded in killing half the Japanese column before the remainder managed to escape back to Kwangtsi, retreating in the utmost confusion and leaving the bulk of their supplies behind.

The arrival of the Japanese sur- vivors at the town caused some con- fusion in the garrison. This con- siderably increased when it was dia- covered that the Kwangsi troops were hard on the heels of the retreating Japanese and were about to enter the town.

Additional Chinese columns from the north and south-west synchronised | their attack on Kwangtsi and after!

a three-hour battle, in which 200 were

addtional thousand Japanese

killed, the remnants of the Japanese force fled to the south-east.

The Chinese, entering the

town,

captured a total of 30. heavy guns and considerable supplies.

It is reported here that the Chinese troops are following up the retreating Japanese--United Press.

Brought To Standstill

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Miss Mary Sheridan Jones, assistant organiser of the London Chinese Campaign Committee, who was assaulted by an Attache at the Japanese Embassy in London us she was distri- buting pamphlets during a demonstration of protest against the bombing of civilians in China.

Newspaper

Comments

On European Crisis

London, Sept. 0. London newspapers agree that the situation is by no means clarified und there is no definite signs of Improve- ment for the immediate future.

An interesting report which appears here from Japaneso, quarters in the News Chronicle states that the would appear that the Japanese Soviet has warned Progue that in the advance on Hankow along the

Shanghai, Soph D. According to reports reaching

REBEL OFFENSIVE

event of further concessions being BROKEN southern bank of the Yangiwe has given the Sudetens Russia will with- been brought to a standalük about draw all promises of assistance to five malies from Tchan. The Prague. Chinees resistance at that spot apparently could not be broken frontier revision will be the ultimate even by bringing strong Japanese reserves into action-Trans-Occan, solution of the Sudeten problem, the

Supporting Its

proposals. that

Times states to-day that this would

Pressure Maintained.

·

be the initial opportunity for adjust-

Hankow, Sept. 10.

ing what is commonly designated as

Insurgents Blame "Torrential Rains",

Hendaye Sept. 9. The Insurgent offensive on

SITUATION

IS GRAVEST

SINCE

1914

French Mediterranean

Fleet

Mobilisation

FFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL CIRCLES IN BRITAIN ASSERT THAT THE EUROPEAN SITUATION IS THE GRAVEST SINCE AUGUST, 1914.

Acting on instructions from London, the British Ambassador has returned from Nuremberg to Berlin, and was closely closeted yesterday with Herr von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minis- ter. It is believed that he conveyed a warning from Britain to Germany of the repercussions which would follow intervention in Czecho- Slovakia.

France has cancelled all leave for its Mediterranean Fleet, and secret orders were issued to the Commander-in- Chief three days ago.

Herr Hitler has cancelled arrangements to address Nazi women at Nuremberg and is devoting the time instead to a study of the Czech problem. German circles believe that increased pressure is being brought to bear by Britain on Czecho-Slovakia.

There is a ray of hope in the report that the Sudetens have agreed to resume negotiations with Prague to-day..

"Incidents" Cause Fear

London, Sept. 9.

The British Government has received information that the situation in Czecho-Slovakia" is on the point of explosion.

Official and unofficial quarters assert

is the that the crisis gravest since August, 1914.

It is understood that at a mo- ment's notice the British and French could be ready with a joint defence plan which the two nations' General Staffs have spent months in perfecting.

NEGOTIATIONS

TO RESUME

Prague, Sept. 0. Tho Czech Government and the Sudeten German Party have agreed to resume negotiations to- marrow on the minorities prob. Iem.

The negotiallons have been broken off for two days following the Sudeten refusal to confer while Incidents and terroristic acts were taking place in Sudeten territory-Reuter.

The fleets of both nations are ready might easily be the for action.

There Is one important factor

which has led to renewed

Anglo-

French fears of an armed disturbance

In Europe the "Incidents"

which

have becurred in the Sudeten dis-

first phase in "nrmed intervention.-United Press.

Minister Sees King

London, Sept. 3.

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JAPANESE

TIENTSIN DEMANDS

Right Of Entry Into Foreign. Concessions

A critical situation has developed in Tientsin, ac- cording to Chinese sources,

EDWIN DWYER,

the

£60,000 Irish Jack Tar, formerly of H.M.S. Dorset shire, who was acquitted in the Hongkong Supreme Court of charges arising out of the death aboard the warship of Leading Seaman Dickinson, does not know what he will do with his fortune.

He heard about his good luck while he was in Stan- ley Prison, awaiting trial on a charge of murder. Threa days before he was brought before the Supreme Court jury, Dwyer was told that he had inherited £50,000 by the will of Robert Brett, his uncle.

"Money is a bit of a nuisance, I don't know....maybe, I'll buy farm," Dwyer told a Bristol reporter,

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Dwyer is a public schoolboy; loathes publicity, and after the announcement of his unexpected fortune he fled to a secret retreat in a remote

Part

of Somersetshire. I met him in the

of sitting-room his father's comfortable Bristol, writes a reporter. Hla bld flannels and tweed coat still bore traces of his rustle hiding place.

He told me that at first he could scarcely believe that Uncle Bob, who (Continued on Page 0.)

home

STOP PRESS

Balmoral Castle to-day and reported following a sudden demand CHINESE tricts and which, following the as to the King the latest information by the Japanese Military

sertion that the Czechs art

to control the territory effectively, {

on the crisis in Europe.

may be used as an excuse for a Ger- He will remain with His Majesty Command to the British and RELEASE

man demand that Naz! Police be until Monday-United Press.

allowed to control the Sudeten areas.

It is suggested that the Police would be organised locally in the various areas, nominally, if not ac- tually.

It is pointed out that such a move

·

Extremely Grave

French authorities that the

two concessions be thrown GERMANS

open to Japanese police.

Geneva, Sept. 9. Opinion in League circles is cauti-

The Japanese are demanding The four German residents of ously optimistic of the Czecho- the right of entry into the Con- Hongkong who were seized by Chin- (Continued on Page 3.) (cessions on the grounds that ese military authorities on the Chin- anti-Japanese elements are takese side of the frontier at Shataukok

were released last night. ing refuge in the two areas.

They will probably return A Japanese military spokesman Hongkong by this evening's train. stated to have alleged that the Japan The men were held in custody In ese were in possession of information Canton, to where they were taken disclosing that the French

All Leave Cancelled For

are injustice brought about by the the Ebro front is at a complete French Fleet And A Army

Chinese troops are keeping up peace treaties after the Great War. stand-still.

Paris, Sept. 9.

their counter-offensive on both the

states the paper, "In any case,

The Insurgents attribute this north and south banks of the Yangtze "no solution is of any value if it is River

to the "torrential rains", the intended for

of several only a period Following their brilliant coup at months. Permanent peace must be Loyalists to their effective de All leave for men of the French Mediterranean Fleet Kwangtal, the Chinese on the north the alm of the Czecha, bank yesterday wrestled three more minorities and also of interested fence against the Italian led has been cancelled and secret orders were issued three

days ago.

offensive.

▼

Is

Concession

The Yokohama Specie and other

Concession.

for

to

taking

in Tientsin was the headquarters of after their arrest, until photographs the Command of the guerilla forces which they had taken were develop operating along the Pelping-Hapkowed. The photographs proved inno-

cuous. and Tientsin-Pukow Railways.

It is understood that one of the Evacuation of Japanese residenta Germons was engaged in from the foreign Concessions, the spokesman declared, was a prepara- photographs for a series of calendars tory measure to "mopping up" of the guerillas in Tientsin.

FOREIGNERS CUT strategic points west of Hwangmel, nations. Should the Sudetens and

The Insurgents have con- namely, Chinhopu, Kufengshan and Prague reach an agreement whereby

Personnel on furlough has been immediately recalled Japanese banks have decided to move

OFF AT KULING Houhuchal, and are pressing relent- the State retains its sovereignty and solidated their wedge-shaped lessly on Hwangmel elly Remnant the minorities receive the self-breach in the Loyalist lines at and arsenals have hired additional hands and the work from the British to the Japonest

Nanchang, Sept. 10. Japanese at Shuangchengyi

HEAVY TROOP MOVEMENTS and administrative powers requested, this Corbera and claim to be in speeded up in the navy yards.

Reuter's correspondent on the Tahopu Important

• points mel, are tion than secession, but no adjust-possession

ying be- would undoubtedly be a better solu- fying be wouldthan set

of the strategic

south Yangtze front reports that a tween Kwongtsi and

Tientsin, Sept. 9. The labour situation has Line, which guards France's frontier ranges being "mopped up" by the Chinese, ment should be accepted which leave mountain

Foreign observers estimate that total of 68 Britons, 41 Americans, and dominating

ensed with an announcement from Switzerland to the sea and it The Japanese southward drive to open an alternative of constant the Ebro.

Nanchang ward

that the National Council of the is believed that double that number the Japanese reinforcements which 39 other foreigners of various na by the Nanchong-disputes in which the world might An Insurgent News Agency

are being held in readiness just to have been pouring through Tangkutionalities, mainly German, Swedish," Klukiang Railway has been brought sooner or later become involved emphatically denies reports

That Miners' Federation has voted for the rear of the line.

for the last three days must amount Litiuanian and Russian are now to a standstill.

completely cut off at Kuling. Nanchang, the Trans-Ocean.

to at least several divisions. contracts General Franco will shortly retire in acceptance of the

To Jude the numbers accurately All ho

They have food sufficient for three capital of Klangsi, is believed safe

favour

unnamed political stipulating an extension of the is impossible, since there is a careful leave immediately entrained for

months, although a shortage of salt, from the Japanese threat.

Parties' 'Views

figure, who is possibly agreeable to working week under a fixed method of grouping the troops and

Foreign

cirelca

that the sugar and flour is feared. The Lear no official information on the subject Japanese may mediation to end the civil strife.--

Be

Π considering

does, community wago scale.United Pr088. Paris, Sept. 9. the

however, urgently Nanchang

will be given. United PreIR. Supporting the London Tines in Hallway are said to be

solution to the problem of the need medical supplies, particularly radical surrounded by a large Chinese cor- its proposal of a frontier revision, the

Reservists Called Up

The hundred thousand men guard-British and French Settlements in quinine, of which there it only ing France's greatest network of Tientsin, although the Japanese small quantity loft-teuter, don. They are experiencing difficulty Radical Socialist paper Republique

Melz, Sept. D. fortifications are in subterranean have announced that the troops, dre in obtaining their military suppiles, emphasises that there is a great

Hundreds of reservists who have burrows with concrete walls up to being sent to North China for the

(Further Stop Press News on depending on planes for transport.

been called to the colours are twenty feet thick others are con- purpose of eliminating the guerllin

Page 16.) centrated in the barracks ar hut forces which are becoming in- A hundred thousand troops are camps in the forests, an an nctive creasingly troublesome. ---- Trane- now installed in the famous Maginot|- (Continued on Page 4)

The Japanese troops

оп

which took

ifference between the disputes of

of an

KING'S BIRTODAY

His Majesty the King has approved The situation south, east and west the minorities in Czecho-Slovakia and of Mahweiling remains unchanged, a second world war. Moreover, the of the official celebration of his birth-arriving here daily. The Chinese line south of Mahwel- French peasant could scarcely be ex-day in 1039 being held on Thursday, (Continued on Page 43 (Continued on Page 9.)

June B.

Ocean.