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四拜雞 十二月十英香

THURSDAY,

OCTOBER

1938. 20,

日七月八

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KWANGSI LEADER MAY COMMAND DEFENCE OF

GUERILLAS

IN S'HAI

HANKOW, Oct. 20,

TAKING THE JAPANESE completely by surprise, Chinese guerillas singed a rafti on the invnders in Nantao, the Native City in Shanghai, ou Tuesday, according to a Shang- hai report.

frisk rifle and machine-gun fire lasting about iwu haura wa, audible in the surrounding district--Central News.

American

CITY OF RAMS

Japanese Claim Pushing Towards Hankow Railway

A

N OFFICIAL JAPANESE commun ique claims that the Japanese forces. who occupied Tsengcheng at 10 o'clock yesterday morning are now pushing westward towards the Canton-Hankow Railway.

Isolation The communique states that the main body of the invaders is

Policy Shaken

EVENTS IN EUROPE

pushing on to Tsangkong, about 5 miles from Tsengcheng.

Japanese reports are silent regarding unconfirmed statements that the Chinese are attacking Waichow, but it is noteworthy that no Japanese denial of the Chinese claims has been issued.

The Japanese lines of communications, of which Waichow is one of the most vital centres, is approximately have been eight miles long and few troops appear to left behind the spearhead of the Japanese attack to INDICA-defend the rear.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.

[NCREASING

IN

shaken by recent events, and

that the country is now

i

A cargo of thirty cows and 35 pigs

Japanese Colony was seized by a in a junk en route to the British warship off Sam Mun at 11.30 mm. yesterday,

TIONS that the United "Done" reports that General Li Chung-jen, veteran States faith in the policy of Kwangsi leader who is in command of China's forces in strict isolation has been the Yangtse region, has applied to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to take over command of the Chinese defences contemplating stiffening its in Kwangtung, General Li is regarded as one of China's foreign policy, is contained most able military leaders. in the editorials of many : General Pai Chung-hai has sections of the American made a similar request to the

Generalissimo, it is stated. ' press to-day.

unceasingly renction violent The first

Japanese planes are against the terms of the Munich bombing the entire southern area of towns settlement, which was widely re- Kwangtung, sparing neither

nor their inhabitants. as failure to "slop garded

A military observer told the "Tele Fascist aggression," appears now to have given way to an increas-aph" representative that the series of bombings which the Japanese ing belief that the United States have undertaken since the Bits Boy had better prepare for some londing constitutes the greatest at- positive action to back up its tempt at mass murder the world has advice, or else forfelt the right It is impossible to compute how of criticism.

Another factor tending to give children have been killed in the raids, strong which have literally blasted a path country-wide support to a rearmament policy is the growing for the Japanese thrusting against

words of the Canton. realisation, In Washington Post editorial, tut "the British navy is no longer America's

the

ver known.

many Innocent

men, women

ATTACK ON CHANGSHA

and

first line of defence," und that any Everything in front of the Jupan-j threat to Britain sufficiently strong ese path has been virtually cleared

ence

him

NO RESPITE FROM WAR

which the

The crew of the junk were spared and were allowed to deport in t small sampon. The junk and its valuable cargo was taken in tow, The vessel and cargo were valued at $1,525.

TAMSHUI A DEAD CITY Tamshul is now a dead city in the! bands of the Japanese, reported Mr. Chu Wun-ming, head of the Wal-! Yeung Youth Service Corps. He ar- rived in Hongkong from the fallen town on Tuesday.

According to Mr. Chu. Lungkong, midway between Tamshul and Ping- wu, is still in Chinese hands and the situation there remains calm.

Mr. Chu revealed that the militia

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WHITEAWAY'S

UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR Mr. Nelson Johnson, photographed as he departed from Hankow by air to the provisional capital at Chungking. From left to right in photo- graph are Rear Admiral Richard Lebreton, Mr. K. W. Wu, Mayor of Hankow. Mr. Nelson Johnson and Mr. Paul R. Josselyn, U.S. Consul.

FIVE YOUNG AUSTRALIANS in a Sydney home. Kan- garoos are unrivalled domestic pets and are found in many Australian homes, where they sometimes replace watch- dogs. A burglar would rather face the teeth of a dog than the hind legs and tail of a kangaroo, which are so power- ful that they can knock a man insensible with one blow. Kangaroos subsist on grass and tender leaves.

First Emergency Act Case Ends On Technicality

U.S. SPY TRIAL

Panay Link With Espionage Ring

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.

CONTINUING HIS TESTIMONY in the amazing spy

trial here to-day, Guenther Rumrich, one of the accused who has turned State's evidence, said that the pay-off man in the espionage ring, Karl Schleuter, a seaman on board 11 German liner, had boasted that he was able to rifle United States mails aboard the Europa.

When Rumrich expressed

doubts, Schleuter and Hofmann showed him a photograph of a contract between the Bethlehem

DICTATOR

Steel Corporation and the Soviet OF TURKEY

Amtorg Trading Corporation which had been obtained by opening a mail bag and remov- ing the contract from its en- velope, photographing it and resealing the envelope.

Kurich said that if was Schleuter uggested forging President

IS DYING

ISTANBUL, Oct. 19.

of CONDITION THE T

Kemal Ataturk, Presi- Roosevelt's signature on the face of dent of Turkey, this after-

who

rome White House stationary us n

means of obtaining the plans of the noon was stationary. atrcruft-carriera, Enterprise

Yorktown.

and

The

end is feared at any moment

He said that at about that time now.

the Panay incident occurred, news- The Turkish Cabinet is in

papers reproduced a focsimile of President Roosevelt's memorandum constant on official stationary.

session,

while

Rumrleh sald he sent the facsimile police have been reinforced to German contacts, huping it might to deal with possible de-

a model for fraudulent monstrations.-Reuter.

be

as

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ΠΟ

to menace her independence would by the planes, which have dropped corps at Tamshui had put up stiff inevitably also menace the independ-tona of high explosive and expended resistance against the Japanese In-

of the United States.

thousands of machine-gun bullets in vnders, About fifty of them sacrifle- Churchill's recent blasting a passage through hostile ed their lives in the defence of their Mr. Winston

useful native town-Central News. broadcast undoubtedly made an im-territory.

stationary. A ferocious attack was launched on

JAPAN'S DESPERATENESS

that in presalon in many sections of opinion,

Rumrich ulso said

naval and the Washington Post compares Changshin, capital of Hunan Proviner,

Chungking, Oct. 20,

effort to make contact with the British stateaman, by the raiders yesterday. with

with he officials,

communicated The only planes on the Changsho Japan's invasion of Kwanglung! George Canning, who in 1020, "called i

Japanese only betrays her own desperateness,

Ensign D. W. Brown at Saratoga, in the New World to redress the aerodrome,

bombed, were five dummy incline"; declared Generalissimo Chiang Kai-

asking for a contact, and warning balance of the Old."

wasted upon which the invaders

shek in a telegram yesterday to Dr.'

him "If you pass on the intelligence soverat bombs.

1. H. Kung, and General Chang On the return fight the Japanese Chun, respectively President and

IN THE FIRST CASE TO BE BROUGHT UNDER THE you will suffer dire consequences,"

Rumrich suld he received The New York Times deciates:ralders bombed Pingklang, muchine Vice-President of the Executive NEW EMERGENCY REGULATIONS, AN UNEMPLOYED "The world will not know real respite gunning the defenceless people in the Yuan, and all Ministers and Chair- DENTIST, WONG SHUI-CHI, 43, WAS ACQUITTED ON A answer. Untied Press, from war and recurrent threats of main street.

men of Commissions under the Yuan. The telegram was a reply to a joint CHARGE OF MAKING A SPEECH ON BOARD THE VEHI nations which want honourable peace Hvo-stock to Hongkong have been | T

message addressed by the latter to CULAR FERRY MAN KUNG ON OCTOBER 9 IN FURTHER terms is ranged behind law and reported to the police.

Generalissimo Chinng on the Double ANCE OF THE PROMOTION OF DISORDER WHEN HE order,"

Tenth Festival, China Independence APPEARED ON REMAND BEFORE MR. E. HIMSWORTH Day, on Oct. 10, paying respects for AT THE KOWLOON MAGISTRACY THIS MORNING, his leadership in the resistance cam- palgn and urging him to continue His Worship held, in his judgment, I think wrongly worded in stating was described by Guenther Rumrich all his act to be in furtherance of the in evidence during continuation of his efforis to bring, the campaign to that though Wong had said

The words spa trial to-day. of Justices

the Peace and rich promotion of disorder." a successful conclusion.

Chinese should be killed, there had "the promotion of” are in my opinion) Generalissimo Chiang forecasted been no disorder and therefore he confined to the phrase "o general Japan's early collapse If Chinn con- could not have furthered something strike" and have no reference to the (whom the Government describes as tinues her resistance with united which did not exist, efforts of the people and in accord- The judgment was as follows: ance with her established policy The defendant is charged in this mtarily and politically.

case with an alleged breach of

violence until the strength of those Further source of fun have been

While isolation sentiment continues strong (in the New York area, where 67 of 03 candidates for the Congress November elections have pledged

send troops to to

fight never to vote in a European war) there is a deßulte distinction made between this pledge and previous isolationist sentiment.

Present feeling is not against afford- ing such aide to democracies abroad as can be derived from American technicians, artillery, aeroplanes and other supplies.

Moreover, on the colonial question,

sentiment 15 American whelmingly against the establishment of naval bases by Germany in restored splonial territory, which might make the notch into an oceanic naval power affecting American security, even Indirectly.Reuter.

over-

SIX-POINT POLICY

Washington, Oct. 19. An officer high in the American administration told the United Preu | In an interview to-day that officials

Munich consider the neither a lasting peace nor a settle- mant of the issues involved.

Hence the United States plans to concentrate her interest on

agreement

(Continued on Page 4.)

peace

Japanese Goods Banned By London

London, Oct. 20.

ON the A BAN

importation of Japanese woollen and cotton stockings England hus been im- posed, it is officially announced here yester- day.

to

The order which will remain in force until the end of the year becomes effectively im- mediately.-Trans-

Ocean.

JQ

of

words "or of disorder."

FACTS OF CASE

"VERY LUCKY STRIKE”

New York, Oct. 19. The scheme for forging President Roosevelt's signature on White House stationary in order to secure informn- tlon about the United States navy,

the

Rumrich said that Karl Schleuter

LATE NEWS

Telephone-26615

DISASTER THREATENS JAPANESE

Japanese Army Headquar-

a fugitive from indictment) told him ters admitted in a communi- that it would be useful to obtain in-

this afternoon that formation from the yards building que· ships for the navy, and suggested to colossal movements of Chin- flumrich that he write to Hamburg

: Canton.

The communique states

stationary similar to that used nt the White House.

He added that he expected a lot of Kumrich said that Schleuter told money if the plan was successful.

him he had made a "very lucky that air reconnaissance re- strike, and that he had obtained veals that the highway bo the contract between the Bethic. hem Steel Corporation and

The fucts of, the case are that the He urged his colleagues to con-section 19 of the Emergency Re-defendant in an impromptu sprequesting to be furnished with ese troops are converging on

(G/N 775/1938) made the ferry Man Kung on October

rich tinue their efforts for China's final gulations

2 of Ord, of 1922. raid that all J.P.'s and all under

section

bel colony should victory. Central News.

the drivers The section reads, "No person shall Chinese in the

and! do any act in furtherance of the killed, and that AIDS CHINA'S RESISTANCE

promotion of a general stelke, or of owners of ears on that ferry should Canton, Oct. 20.

disorder of any kind.

the be killed, and that a certain director of acdition, within

the of the Yaumati Ferry Co. should be Governor Wu Teh-chen, in a per-spread

constitute an sonal interview with the press sald Colony." The phrasing of this see killed. The point in issue is whether yesterday:

tion, if it is to be clearly understood, these words"

analysis. Three furtherance of dinorder." requires careful

According to Webster's Dictionary "The Japanese will and a greater

of the the word "furtherance" means an act furtherance in act difficulty in getting out than in com-kinds of action are prohibited: first

strike of furthering or helping forward, or of a 6-general

He had photographed it and re-City of Rams, is blocked with ing in.

The invasion of the south is ad-secondly, an act in furtherance of advancement. Now in this case the

in evidence show's conclusively that placed it in the thirdly an act and

Numrich kald that Homann had Chinese soldiers, armoured: vantageous to China from the stand-disorder point of the whole war. The Can- furtherance of edition. The defen-there was no disorder. The outward tonese will nght gloriously under dant innileged la the charge to have reaction of the crowd on the ferry showed him photographe of a copy

(Continued on Page dij General Yu Han-mou, in whom they committed a breach of the second which heard defendant's words was, of the contract and also copies of

(Continued on Pape 4.) have full confidence.United Pren. kind of act, although the charge is,

promotion

act

Soviet Rusalan Amiorg Trading tween Canton and Taungfa, from a mal! bag on 35 miles north-east of the Corporation the Europs

mail.

bag

(Further Laba. Mariza on Page 12)

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