1938-10-18 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY,

The 2nd Battalion. The East Surrey Regiment, marching from the Naval Dockyard to their new barracks at Happy Valley. The Battalion arrived in Hongkong by 11.AL.S. Medway yesterday from Singapore, where they were hurriedly disembarked during the European crisis. whilst en route to Shanghal.

EFFORTS TO

CROSS

SHAHO RIVER NOT

YET

SUCCESSFUL

Gallant Commander of Cantonese "Old Contemptibles"Killed in Action

"Telegraph" Special Correspondent

COPYRIGHT

A MAJOR BATTLE IS NOW RAGING ON A FRONT EXTENDING FROM

WONGTON, AT THE JUNCTION OF THE CANTON-WAICHOW- PAKTONG HIGHWAYS, AND THE NORTH BANK OF THE EAST RIVER AT TAISHANG.

For thirty-six hours the Chinese forces under General Wong Chun appear to have completely stemmed the Japanese advance on Canton.

The Japanese left flank is at the junction of the East and Shaho Rivers and repeated efforts to cross the latter have been frustrated.

At Taishang, the Japanese are within five miles of Sheklung, the important Canton-Kowloon Railway city where two main bridges cros the East River.

But it is probable that a column pushing up the railway from Cheungmuktau, which fell shortly before 11 o'clock yesterday morn- ing will reach Sheklung before the Japanese troops. operating north of the East River.

Heavy Chinese reinforcements continue to press into the East River area, and Chinese military headquarters are now convinced that all danger to has passed.

people.

Canton

First Snowfall In Japan

Tokyo, Oct. 18. The first snowfall in the season is reported from various parts of Japan proper Including Karuizawa, famous summer resort, Mt. Fuji Morioka in Fukushima Prefecture and other districts in northeastern Japan-Domei,

another near Bhekkit.

A

BRITISHI NAVAL PARTY

LANDS IN CANTON

Canton, Oct. 10,

British HVA Jolly nued yesterday evening, do.na 24 flourb

OCTOBER 18, 1938.

RADIO BROADCAST

"Dancing Down the Ages" From the Studio

LONDON RELAYS.

Radio Programme Broadenst by Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 0.45 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.13 p.. and 8-11 p.m. on 0.02 m.c's, per second.

U.00 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong- kang Hotel.

(a) Who are we to say; (b) Smarty; (c) Serenade to the Stors; (d) After you,

0.14. Record: Sylvin Ballet Fantasy (Delibes); Muzica Proibita (Gastaldon)....Marcel Paletti (Or

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6.21 (a) Gone with the wind; (b) Caravan; (c) Penthause бл ard Avenue; (d) Runnin' Wild.

6.35 Records: To-morrow Is An- other Day (flm 'A Day at the Races'); I Was Anything But Sentimental (flm Take My Tip)....Carroll Gibbona (Ina) und. Ha Friends: Top lat-Selection (Irving Berlin)

George Sectt-Wood

Boy

(Piano-Accordion) asst, by Guitar,

Das and Druma,

8.44 (a) Medley of Old Favourites; (b) Mocking Bird; (c) Hillbilly for 10th Avenue; (d) Big Chiet Swing It'.

7.00 Closing Local Stock Quota- lons.

7.02 Military Band Selections.

May-Day Revels (from Suite: 'Rural Scenes in Days of Old- Cope)....Massed Bonds cond, by Samuci Cope; Champion' March Mirdity (Ord Hum:).....Mossed Bands cond. by J. Henry Iles; Alder- shot Command Searchlight Tattoo, 1033...Maased Bands of the Alder-

Command.

shot

Song

7.25 Gitta Alpar (Soprano) and Joseph Schmidt (Tenar).

elle Neapolitan Joseph Schmidt Twilight Sonnta (from Home And Beauty'); Play It Again (Hungarian Song from Home and Beauty).... Gitta Alpar accomp. by two planos and violin; Gypsy Love (Lehar-Will- Bonbons.. enr-Bodanzky); Vienna

En Danza (Rossini) .... with Orchestra;

Waliz

Song (Strauss-Bodenstedt).. Joseph Schmidt with Orchestra. 1.44 Concert Waltzes.

April Smalles Waltz (Depret); Waliz (Lincke)...... Vienna Spring Bah me Orchestra; Gypsy Waltz (Composer Unknown).

.Russlan Novelly Orchestra; Hydropathen Waltz (Gungl); Wolga, Wolga! (Rus- sian Waltz Potpourri-Walter Noock)

Vienna Boheme Orchestra. 8.00 Time, Weather and Announce- ments.

8.03 Songs

by Grace Moore (Soprano).

Musetta's Waltz Song ("La Bohrme"

dally sentry duties. The Shameen-Puccini); Funiculi, Cunicula (Den- enerffency vidamers have buon cibaza): The Dubarry (from the Ope- ed up or duty commencing 10-uấy. retta) (Rowland Leigh-Millocker, No alarm is felt as the steps taken arr. Macktben); I Give My Heart are merely precautionary to cope with a pussie antimpy by refugees to storm the island.—Reuter,

CANTON RALLY

Canton, Oct. 10,

A mile-long monster con-ight procession paradla une strzels yüssel- day evening comprising by,Wuu vuotuis und SiUucus a Duth sexes, 1or the purpose of rallying morale.

adid Dalius prayed patriotic melodies and thousanus at the struge corners trenzedly cheerca.—~Reuer,

CANTON'S DEFENCE

Canton, Oct. 18. Preparations consinus 105 the defence of Canton. Bem-ofile.a spokesman told Reuter that nurtur con us unreable reports of the marvel- lous progress of the supunese D were entirely untrue.

Ho mundinu that they were spread by Jupunese agents.

in this connection every other man in the sureeis last evening believĻU that the Japanese huu

occupied Sheklung, and would be in the city in a couple of days,-Nduter.

NO LARGE FLEET OFF SWATOW

Swalow, Oct. 18. The reported movements of a large feet of Swalow are untounded.

Inward ships report ihat one transport and iaree acstroyers are at Clipper Roads.

(from the Operetta The Dubarry ....with Orchestral accompaniment. 8.15 London Relay-"Behind Thr Door."

By J. S. N. Sewell and J. R. Ma- geean; Characters: Horace Under- wood: Patrick O'Neill; Donald Craig; Peter Martin: Seine: The unoccupied home of the

Forresters; Production by Howard Rose.

8.40 “Dancing_Down the Ages"

of different periods and Dances of nalena, Compered from the Studio. 9.30 London Relay-The News, 9.50 Compositions of Mendelsohn Including Telo in D Minor,

St.

Louis Syrchestra cond. by

Cave Du

Rudolph

Woodlands Far.... Richard Teuber (Tenor) with Or- chestra; Trio In D Minor, Op. 49. Cortot,

Thibaud

and Casals; Wings of Song...Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) with Orchestra cond. by

L. Rosenck; Spring Song....Colum- bla Symphony Orchestra; A May | Breez" (from 'Songs without words') ..Fritz Kreisler (Violin) with Plano accomp. by Arpad Sander: A Midsummer Night's Dream-Noc- turna...Sir Thomas Beecham con- ducting the London Philharmonic (Continued on Page 4.)

HOW CLEAN ARE

It is also sinted that the Namkang your false teeth?

and Pak Kany entrances to the har-

Nevertheless, provincial and municipal headquarters tuins a population of about 5,000,000 pour are blocked.Reuter, have been removed from the old capital to a new and undisclosed capital in the hinterland. RAILWAY CUT THRICE

The Canton-Kowloon Railway has been cut at several points, the nearest to Hongkong being Pingwu, where a Japanese column arrived from Tumshui shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morning.

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Less than an hour later another column occupied Sheklung. Pingwu is 15. miles from the Hongkong frontier and Sheklung is about 20 miles away.

Cheungmuktau, where the Hongkong-Canton highway crossca the railway, was captured by a Japanese column which came down the highway from Walchow at 11:16 am.

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area

In Blas Bay the Japanese have now occupled the entire 75-mile coustline, including Talpung Penin- sula.

From Talpung Bay the Japanese can, if they wish, bathe, in the waters of Hongkong, since the entire high-water mark foreshore of Mirs Bay and the waters of the Bay Htself are a portion of Hong- kong. The land above-high water mark on the northern and eastern shores is Chinese lerrllory."

Japanese troops have yet

No

appeared a Mits Bay constal town ships. A British warship is anchored

in the bay.

MASSING FOR MAJOR BATTLE

Hankow, Oct. 18. Chinese forcca urs at present massing in the hills to the west of Japanese who are now pushing west- Zukio for a major baltie against the wird towards Canton, declared a Chinese military spokesman at a press conferenda yesurany evining.

The Chinese hold the well-con- structed defence line between Tseng- cho and Slicklung in the Toyu lower rangers east of the

mountain Kowloon-Canton railway, the Japari

LEVE

cse st. being 20 kilometres away. "CONSTRUCTING WHARVES, Referring to the Yangtse stuntion,"

the spokesman pointed OUR Shipping activity still continues la Japanese Warships were in the river Bias Boy, and the Japanese are now nude za mjes from Hankow, while recruiting Chinese fakermen and a Japanese column, whitch. was try- peasants to construct wharves anding to cut highway and railway com- other facilities in the castern portion man.cations soud of Hankowy wire

Bu kilometres from the Canton- Hankow railway.

a scried, were concentrated In

Strong Chinese forces, the spokes-

the hills to the east of Tungabon In an attempt to check the Jap

advance towards

This column is now pushing uning the early stages of the, Aghting, the railway towards Sheklung, 22 ond died a tow hours later. miles away, obviously with the In- 2,000 SQUARE MULES OCCUPIED of the Bay, Indicating that they con- now 40 kilometres from the highway tention of threatening the southern Apparently the only Chinese troops template making this area the head- between Hankow, and Chinnish w

quarters for all operations in Soulh flank of the Chinese forces north now remaining south of the Enst(China. of the Easi River.

River in the cast of the Canton- There is a goodly depth of water It is revealed that practically all Rallway are a few thousand volun-all around the Bins Bay const, capable

the

nf 161st Cantonese teers who have taken to the hills and of Pouting the largest Japanese war-

the Division which alone fought the who will almost certainly become ships or transports. Japanese mouth of the East River was guerilla killed in action.

Lite Among the reported dead is com

comununication.

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