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Hongkong Telegraph
No. 10037
可一拜體 號四十月十英港香
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938.
日二月九 $38.00 PER ANNUM
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FIRE
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DUN LOP
LG YEARS OFGAOWTH",
DUNLOP Fort
The Tyre with 2,000 Teeth-
SWEEPS CANTON
Only Empty Shell Remains of Kwangtung Capital
FLAMES FROM
FOUR
FIRES SWEEP CITY FROM END TO END
Last Act By Chinese In
Evacuation Tragedy
ITERALLY SWAMPING CANTON FROM END TO END WITH PETROL AND KEROSENE, CHINESE REMNANTS AND CIVILIANS STARTED ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON THE BIGGEST MAN-MADE FIRE SINCE MOSCOW WAS BURNED IN 1812 TO CHECK NAPOLEAN.
A city which was once the home of nearly 2,000,000 people, and whose sons are scattered throughout the world, is rapidly being consumed by the flames, which havo swept through all the most important blocks, leaving nothing but gutted ruins in their wake.
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Fanned by a stiff north-easterly wind, the conflagration roared through Canton throughout Saturday night and all day yesterday and this morning was still burning fiercely in the Saichuen and Honam districts.
Wuhan Walls Placarded
HANKOW, Oct. 24. THE CHINESE Students" Anti-Japanese Association yesterday evening placarded and painted in Japanese slogans on many of Hankow's walls, which read:
"Japanese soldiers! Harkow is your grave--Japanese sol- dien! Revolt against your militarists!"United Press.
TERRIBLE HAVOC IN HANKOW
Continuous Raids By Japanese Planes
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HANKOW, Oct..24. OW-FLYING SQUADRONS of Japanese planes bombed the Wuchang foreshore soon after 6 o'clock yesterday morning. They were met by heavy anti-aircraft fire.
The flames, spreading from building to building as |bamboo bomb racks, placed atop the structures for protection against air raids, spared neither European nor Chinese premises in their ferocious and all-consuming [advance through the heart of Canton.
The central and Bund areas are heaps of smouldering ruins.
Where once stood the remains of the Wongsha district, which suffered so heavily from Japanese air raids, are now two gigantic craters.
They were caused when two saturated wide areas with kerosene ammunition dumps exploded at and petrol.
10.10 a.m. The explosions One Chinese who attempted to showered Shameen with debris ket Shameen alight Бая been
arrested. for fully five minutes, wounding The fires contmenced simultaneous- two Chinese on the island and ly on Saturday afternoon in Wongsha, severely damaging nt least Honam Island, and the southern, twenty buildings in the British northern and bund areas of the city Concession,
proper. The damage on the western end of They raged along the entire bund Shameen island was co severe that from cast of the damaged Pearl most of the buildings hnd to be River Bridge, past the Shakee Canal evacuated. The walls of famous which divides Shameen from the Christ Church were cracked, the city, to Wongsho.
Another conflagrution almosi com- Italian Consulate collapsed. Among the buildings
through have had to be evacuated are the the heart of the business area from
The Chartered Bank was also con- alderably damaged.
Locomotive, trucks, carriages and a huge pile of war materials await- Hankow were ing shipment to blown sky high, landing hundreds of yards away in the most proles- que and twisted shapes.
The Honam Island waterfront, on
of Shameen, especially At French end, sent showers
of
PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS A BRITISH GUNBOAT lying off Shameen, in the Pearl River. Honum Island, which is fiercely ablaze, is across the river. The British authorities have refused to accede to a demand that British gunboats should be removed from Canton up the Pearl River.
Chinese Leaders Said
WANG CHUNG-HUI
THOUSAND DIE: SHIP BOMBED
In H.K.
DURING THE WEEK-
END authoritative but unofficial Chinese sources reported that Messrs. Wang Chung-hui, Foreign Minis- ter, and Wang Ching-wei, arrived secretly in Hong- kong on Saturday morning.
Efforts by the "Telegraph" to officially confirm these rumours have met with no success.
However, a "Telegraph" re- presentative
has statements -from two Chinese who allege that they have already spoken to Mr. Wang Ching-wei in Hong- kong.
The purpose of the visit to Hong- kong, stale the rumours, is in con- nretion with peace negotiations.
The name of the British Ambassa- dor, Sir Archibald Kerr-Clarke-Kerr, has been freely mentioned as media-
This part of the rumours, - how- ever, has been definitely, quashed firstly, by an official statement by the Ambassador to the "Telegraph” that he is not participating in any mediatory tank and that he has aven-velther Kir. Wang Chung-hu) nor Mr. Wang Ching-wel neceudly. by the departure for Chungking of the Ambassador at midnight...
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Support for the rumours that the Chinese tenders is, however,
forthcoming from United Press, which
WANG CHUNG-WEI
NO MAJOR CHANGES IN CABINET
Premier Expected To Decide
LONDON, Oct. 23. SWEEPING RECONSTRUC. TION of the Cabinet, follow.
reports that they are in Hongkong,
It is also stated that Madame ing the resignation of Mr. A.
Amahs
Win $88,000 Sweep
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TO SAY THAT Dame
Fortune plays the most freakish tricks sometimes may be trite, but is certain- ly true.
Remember the syndicate of Kowloon amals who won the big Derby sweep at the last annual race meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club?
On that occasion, they aplit up a sum of $145,000 among ¡them.
When Salvage Muster, which had been drawn by Ticket No. 175238, crossed the finishing line at the head of the field on Satur- day in the Kwangtung Handicap. the syndicate of amaha again
won.
Their prize on this occasion is $88.963.18.
Many members of the present syndicate also had a share in the Inst hand-out.
In this case, it is understood that 100 amahs got together and bought total of 55 tickets, one of which drew Salyuge Master.
CAPTURED BY BANDITS ·
The majority of the amnahs who made. small fortunes on the 1938 Derby did not keep their money for long, however.
They retired on their winnings and went back to live in the country.
ng before bandits got wind
Wan
of
nol long
on
affair, and one night they
down
Shuntak-the swooped village in which most of the fortunate women lived-and took the whole lot into custody.
A major portion of the winnings passed Into the hands of the bandits
13 ransom.
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BRITISH GUNBOAT BOMBED
Terrible Japanese Atrocity In Yangtse River
Hankow, Oct. 23. on Shameen which plotely gutted nine blocks ABOUT 1,000 PASSEN- the aboard GERS A.P.C, and Loxley & Co. premises. Temple.
the bund to the Goddess of Mercy
steamer Klang Hain of the Merchants Steam At Wongshin the havoc wrought the other side of the Pearl River, China
Kai-shek and Mr. W. H. the explosions is terrific. The was completely ablaze all day yester-Navigation Co., are believed Chiang entire railway station and yards day.
trallan
Lord Stanley, ls regarded as un- have disappeared.
adviser, are in Hongkong. The fierce dames in the vicinity to have been either killed or Donald; the Generalissimo's Aus-Duff-Cooper, and the death of
the wounded when Japanese
The Telegraph" interviewed Mr. likely.
The creation of three new minis- Soong regarding the rumours. sparks over the Anglo-French Can aircraft bombed the vessel When asked to confirm or deny retries-National Defence, Supply, and ccasions. necessitating the timaal in the Yangtse at Chang-ports that Madame Chiang Kai-shek Civit Shipping-which has been the vigilance on. Us part of all the lingki near Yoyang at 3 was in Hongkong. Mr. Soong replied: subject of speculation, is thought to residents, who turned fire-fighters
"The report le monstrous fabrica-be quite out of the question, and
THE "TELEGRAPH”......'' IS and manned bucket brigades and o'clock yesterday afternoon.in Madame Chlang, to the best of some circles will be very surprised of the city. Later in the morning
if even one new Ministry is created OFFICIALLY · Yoyang was raided twice by my knowledge, is not here." nine heavy bombers attacked the It is definitely known that the fires,
"Have your heard that Mr. Wang at present, though eventually some THAT 'H.M.S. ́SANDPIPER terminus of the Canton-Hankow four of which broke out simultanesions were constantly saturated with Japanese machines yesterday.
and Mr. Wang Ching-wel kind of Ministry Chung Ju
BY SIX rallway, and started four large fires, jously in widely scattered areas, were water to prevent
Nine enemy machines fratare in Hongkong?" Mr. Soong, was more closely the national defence WAS BOMBED entching them upparently igniting oil and gas. caused by the Chinese, who were wit- alight,
appeared over Changsha at naked.
departments is thought a possibility. HEAVY JAPANESE BOM- (Continued on Page 12.) nessed by several Europeans as they
BERS. IN THE VICINITY OF 10.05 in the morning, drawing
(Continued on Page 5.)
CHANGSHA THIS MORNING. So intense was the heat from heavy fire from Chinese anti- They flow
AA LARGE NUMBER OF cross the
channel that aircraft batteries. narrow
BOMBS FELL 'AROUND THE foreign residents manning the Sho-northward to Paishul station, 40 meen defences had to constantly miles north of Changsha on the
WARSHIP, retire from the waterfront in order Canton-Hankow Railway, where to cool off.
they dropped two bombs, causing Two small fres were started at the slight damage to the railway track. French end of the Concession, but After raiding Puishul, they pro- they, were quickly subdued.
ceeded to Yoyang,
Peleusing
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In
A single scouting.machine flew low over Hankpw for two hours, and intermittently straffed the outskirts
SATURATED AREAS
Colony's Future After The Fall of Canton
LONDON, Oct. 23.
THE UNEXPECTEDLY rapid fall of Canton gives rise in England to certain suspicions, which are voiced in the Stauay Times. The paper remarks that the small number of Japanese troops, combined with the total absence of resistance on the part of the Chinese might justify the surmise that one or other Chinese general would eventually be indicted for high treason.
The consequences of the capture for Great Britain. Hongkong, which of Canton, according to the paper, has already suffered much from, the were equally serious for China, who hostilities, and which is filled to over- thinreby loses her ramsining port, and
(Continued on Page 5.)
every available garden hose, Roots of buildings in the Conces
INTENSE HEAT
extended for about two miles.
at
(Continued on Page 5.)
to
co-ordinato'
Death Threat To Arabs
Who
Register Names
WAS
INFORMED:
SUPERFICIAL: DAMAGE CAUSED TO THE SUPERSTRUCTURE, ""APPAR- ENTLY BY SPLINTERS" FROM" JERUSALEM, Oct. 23. ·
THE, BOMBS," " Along the bund Uedames bom the nternonn nine other planes THE RECENT GOVERNMENT order that an male inhabi WE ARE INFORMED THAT, Duildings destroyed by · the again made their appearance over
tants over 16 years of age should register for cards of THERE WERE NO CASUAL flames included the famous Temple Yoyang and Changing). It was of the Great Badds. the Flowery this time that the Klang Hsin was identity has resulted in the Arab leaders Issuing counter-orders TIES Pagoda,
to their countrymen, in which they declare that anyone known the Provincial and bombed.i Municipal Honaquaflers, the Yunki station, 14 miles north of to have obtained one of these cards will be summarily shot dead. Ministry of Finance, the Great Changsha on the..Canton-Hankow
Buildings at the Jafta rallway! Eastern Hotel,
The Government order is Intended 1 tho Now Aria Rallway, was also raided by these Hotal, The Eonkeza "Fary } planes. About 10 misalles were primarily to ascertain the loyal station were set afire this morning the Pool Omen, New dropped, killing and wounding more clement in the Arab peasantry, who but the Bames were extinguished
(Continued on Page 12.) constitute the bulk of the population. (Continued on Page:5.)
than 10 civiliana-Central Net
(Further Late' News on, Page 12.3
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