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WAICHOW FALLS AT DAWN

Japanese Enter Key City After All-Night Fight

TAMSHUI CAPTURED RECAPTURED AFTER ALL-NIGHT FIGHTING

Government Remaining In Canton

Canton, Oct. 15.

Mr. Kui Au-yang, secretary- general of the Kwangtung Pro- vincial Government, in an Inter-

view to-day, denied the report circulated abroad that the

Kwangiang Provincial Govern

Ive

ment and other administrative organs in Canton were removing

to Yu tung.

fle ataled that the Governor, bers of the Provincial Gor-

Hie Mayor of Canton, and all military teatiers and their subordinates are remaining in Canton and will continue to carry on their work as usual.

There is no truth In

Yungyun in northern Kwang-

the

report

that the Government is leaving the city as result of the Japan-

ese landing at Bias Bay, Mr. Kul concluded.---Cenidel News.

IT IS UNOFFICIALLY REPORTED from Japanoso Sources that Waichow was ovacuated by the Chinese forces at 8.15 o'clock this morning.

Japanese troops commenced entering the city

from the Nimshan highway at nine o'clock, the EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPH OF TAMSHUI, which fell into

report states,

An official communique states that Maoan, four miles south-east of Wai- chow,, was occupied by the Japanese before dawn this morning, but the combined Japanese armies, which converged simultaneously

jon thes Nimshan highway town from the south-west and from the south.

The West River bridge which spans the river a quarter of a mile north of Walchow has been blown up by the Chinese.

It is not clear, however, whether the Chinese have taken up new positions on the northi bank of the river or have retreat- led westwards towards Lake

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Dozens of bridges along the Wai- haw-Cheungmaktau highway, which links Conton with Hongkong and also provides the vital communication link upon which the Japanese are Colinost certain to marits in their jefforts to straddle the Canton-Kow-- | loon Railway, have been blown, up by the Chinese in an effort to retard

New War Office Planhe Japanese advance.

To Remove Defects

LONDON, Oct. 14.

Walchow is about 28 miles by high- way from Cheungmuktau, vitāl rail-i way eentre.

TAMSHUI CHANGES HANDS

BROADCASTING TO- According to offelal Chinese re-

NIGHT on the anti-Tanshu changed hands twice Inst ports, received through United Press, aircraft defence develop-night.

dawn

Japanese hands yesterday. The city is on the East River, about 25 miles from Blas Bay. Photo courtesy Ta Kung Pao.

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yesterday Crisis In Europe

The Japanese captured the elty in ments, Mr. Leslie Hore-moonlight attack, supported by naval gunfire and perlaf barnbings, Belisha, Minister for War, shortly before and. declared that there must be morning

wheeling northwestwards, proceeding up no chinks in the armour. East River Valley towards Waichow.

Only a small Japanese garrison |

n the

was left at Tamshui to protect the

He added: "We have surveyed the country and determined the invaders' rear and Chinese troops vital points, and employers in the mountains towards Hongkong whose establishments form such suddenly descended upon the city vital points will receive a letter early this morning. asking them to arrange for a RETREAT FROM COAST number of their employees to that const Tamshul did not remain minn light guns emplaced there long in Chinese hands adding: "We for their own protection against have voluntarily given up all points

within ten miles of the copat in order? low-flying attack.

to avoid noval boinbardment."

"This is new scheme to give added protection to specially selected: localities. The War OMeer will pro- gressively furnish guns and instruc- tors, and firms will furnish the Employees who under- personnel.

(Continted on Popo 4.)

The Chinese commuinque

admits

In Canton, states United Press, the Government has commandeer. ed all shipping and other trans- portation for the purpose ot evacuating refugee women artd children into the interior.

(Continued on Page 4.)

Spy

America's Biggest

Trial Opens in N. Y.

SHATARKOK

TRIFINGSKOSKI

MIMS

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Hungary Mobilises As War Fears Again Grow

HUN

BUDAPEST, Oct. 14.

of

■UNGARY HAS MOBILISED five classes of War Reservists. She is reported to be ready to march on Czecho-Slovakia as a result of the

in Men breakdown negotiations regarding the self-determination

the Hungarian minorities in Czecho-Slovakia.

The Council of Ministers, at a dramatic meeting to-day, ordered military measures to be taken “for the security of the State."

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.

MERICA'S long-awaited spy trial opened to-day when one of the accused, Guenther Rumrich, a deserter from the United States army, pleaded guilty.

In a broadcast appeal for order to be maintained, the authorities announced that "in this historic moment". they urged the people to unify for greater sacrifices..

The nature of the military preparations disclosed.

dispute,

wero

not

BRUSSELS SEEKS WORLD PARLEYS

Mass Horror Of Death From Sky

By the "Telegraph's" Special Correspondent COPYRIGHT.

FROM THE SIDES of the towering mountains which slope down on either side of the valley dividing Hongkong from Kwangtung, I watched in the moonlight this morning dozens of women and children refugees from the war zone wading across the shallow waters of the Shum Chun River.

Thirty miles inland from the Hongkong frontier, the Japanese forces were commencing their fourth day's drive against Canton and the railway linking Hongkong with the City of Rams.

Features of the fighting 30 far has been the remarkable case with which the Japanese have advanced inland, and the employ- ment on a sento unprecedented in warfare any where i the world of the advancing troops.

liundreds of villages and hamlet havo been Ulerally blasted from the face of the earth by one of the most intensive and widespread acrlat

civilisation

bombardments

has ever known.

A hundred and eighty planes took part in to-day's ra.ds. They com- pletely levelled Pingto,Pingshan, Paklo, Cheungmuktau and Sheklung. Walchow, their next big objective, has been left in complete ruins na n result of continuous bombing from midnight yesterday until well inlo Lo-nitht.

Drastic

H'kong

Action

JEW EMERG ENCY

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Laws were announced. in Government Gazette this

Following the fall of Tumshui just before dawn yesterday, the Japanese morning. forces operating wheeled sharply

from Hachung porth-westwards

They provide for the re-

and followed the East Valley Riverquisitioning by Government up to the Nimshan-Walchow high- of any article, substance or

way.

EIGHTY VILLAGES CAPTURED thing of a class to be

In rapid succession, the Japanese

entered more than eighty villages specified and to dispose of and towns along the route, the same in any manner Wongngan. Lungi, Wongchuk, which the Governor-in- Ngulung, Wungwa and Finglo,

already deserted by their terror- Council may consider desir

Inhabitants, falling in quickable in the public interest.

necession

The regulations provide for com- Simultaneously another Japanese force which landed in Bins Bay in Pensation, with allowance for reason

marched able profit, for any articles or stores the vicinity of Nimshun along the highway towards Walchow, seized by Government.

the Additionally, encountering little resistance until they reached Pingshun, which they council may, by notification publish-

(Continued on Pape stormed at the point of the bayonet after two hours brisk fighting.

the

In a remarkable route marches undertaken under actual fire, Japanese forces succeeded in pene- trating for a distance of 30 miles to within five miles of Waichow, where they joined the other troops who marched up the East River Valley.

Walchow, the fall of, which is be- lleved to be imminent, is important city marks

the untrategically, as it highways radiating to Canton, 65 miles distant, to Hongkong, to Cheungmuktau (the important Canton-Kowloon Railway centre) and to Nimshan.

of

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From this town comes most of Hongkong's ricksha pullers, who have entered the British Colony to make

"quick fortune" before returning to their home town to retire at ease.

Governor

STOP PRESS

Hungary's Threat

in

Budapest, Oct. 15, Reliably reported that Hungarian Governmi informed Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Poland that, as result suspension of negotiations This afternoon I toured the British with Crecho-Blovakia, Hungary - re- frontier to the western areas as far gards herself entitled to take what- na Au Tau and Lolmatou-the latter ever measures are necessary "to

Chinese overlooks

territory-and obtain an carty solution.”NAS They have asked the Munich found no evidence to support rumours that the Japanese had achieved a powers to come to an early doclason landing at Nanchau, six miles dis-and they are relring on the Powers tant, or anywhere else in vicinity.

DELTA LANDING EXPECTED

that to oblain · concessions for Hungha

similar to those embodded Munich Relliomeal,

Simultaneously the Cabinet's" a Offeint sources also seem to indicate tude has stiffened and it is authori, at present tafively afated that Government. 1.

010

are reported to have been killed in

frontier

CZECH FRONTIER. GUARD KILLED

Prague, Oct, The Ruthenian police have reparte. that Hungarian' soldiers killed!?

zech railw

that the rumours then Effort To End Race

For "Arms. Supremacy unfounded, although a high milliary resolved to take milliary precautions official in Ifongkong informed me in -vlaw' of the strong Czech: srnNET that a landing In tho

...the Pearl River concentration-001 London, Oct. 14. A message from Rome says that it is understood Hungary

United Prest. delta was expected Four persons are necused, those in

Counsel announced that Rumrich has urged Italy to call an immediate Four-Power Conference in

TANEWS addition to Runrich being Johanna will testify for the Government.

Not only in the Bins Bay area but Rome or in some other Italian city to solve the Czech-Hungarian THE Hofmann, employed on the liner

Japanese Fourteen other persons are named

COR throughout Kwangtung CHRONICLE" Europe, Erich Ginser, a private in

bombers were active to-day, Eighty the United States Army Corps, and by the Federal Grand Jury In Indict

Meanwhile the Hungarian representatives have conferred RESPONDENT at Brussels planes dropped more than 160, bombs Otto Herman Voss, employed, untilments handed up in June, but they

with the Italians. It is snid that the Hungarians advised reports that the Belgian on Swatow, where at least 250 people his arrest, as o technician in the are not in custody and cannot be

Signor Mussolint that speed was necessary because the frontier Government might take the the mass terror. Eactory.

tried. They include Mra, Jessie Jor- Allore

altuation was growing serious.

initiative in summoning & ULTIMATUM TO CITIES Germany the secret army code book four-year sentence for Espionago

It is understood that. Il Duce is exchanging the idea of a communication between nero work in Britain, Dr. Ignatz Griebl

the bombers in both Canton and during an altack on a Czech rauw planes and their bases, and various and Werner, Gudenberg, both or Four-Power Conference with Berlin and London United Press, World peace conference, in Pamphlets were also dropped by Czech frontier uard near Port

the event of King Leopold swatow, calling upon the populace station. Paris, Oct. 14. blue prints relating to the design and whom escaped to Germany before

to force their leaders to capitulate

The revom bolt that t armament of Severaky pursuit planes Federal officers could arrest them, The press professes discontent, the source of which might approving.

soldiers were taken, Into HungKTA. on order for the United States army, and Captain Pfeiffer of Berlin, who

It is considered difficult to before dawn this morning.

The ultimatum informed the two the point of o rino United Pres! The case is described as the biggest hinn been described as head of the be found in the bitter feeling ovinced by Italy in seeing Germany

́cllies · · that, unicas they: 'were Further Stop Preiz News on my trial in Amerien zince the Great whole

Secret Service acquire by glant strides advantages in Central Europe and the arrange such a conference be

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