1938-10-24 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938.

RADIO

FLAMES FROM FOUR Wuhan Walls BROADCAST

FIRES

FROM

Last Act

SWEEP CITY END TO END

By Chinese Evacuation Tragedy

In

ITERALLY SWAMPING CANTON FROM END TO END WITH

L 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.

Placarded

HANKOW, Oct. 21. THE CHINESE Students" Anti-Japanese Association yesterday evening placarded Japanese and painted in sloganes on many of Hankow walls, which read:

"Japanese soldiers! Harkow Is your grate-Japanese sol- diert Revolt against your millarista!"-United Press.

of such tragedy is set in a scERO abomination

that and desolation even the Japanese conquerors are nghast, while the flames from the ever-growing are light up hastly posted proclamations which read:

Beethoven Trio From

The Studio

"VICTORIA AND DISRAELI”

Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW on a Frequency of 845 ic.c's. | and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m.) and 8-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's, per second.

6.0 For The Children.

Alice In Wonderland"; Twinkle, twinkle, little bal; Jabberwocky; Fury sald to a mouse; Will you walk a little faster (Lobster Quadrille); "Tls the voice

of the lobster; Beauti

told They ful Soup; Queen of hearts;

Frank me you had been to her....Fra Luther with Instrumental Accom paniment: "Seeing the

their candman

Ve bring peace and prosperity, and we want all merchants to re- sume their business."

WIND SAVES SHAMEEN At the end of the day provident breezes came to save Shameen frum being included in the holocaust, de flecting the flemes which, however,

A city which was once the home of nearly 2,000,000 people, and whoso sons are scattered throughout the world, is rapidly being consumed by the flamos, which have swept through all the most important blocks, leaving continued to rear unabated. nothing but gutted ruins in their wake.

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.

The flames, spreading from building to building as bamboo bomb racks, placed atop the structures for protection against air raids, spared neither European nar Chinese premises in their ferocious and all-consuming advance through the heart of Canton.

wind, and the magalileent efforts of the Shameen Volunteers, who toiled censely all day yesterday.

Greatest tribute must be paid to fighters, who the organisers of the fire

of German residents.

fresh outbreak In Unless there is a are a group

between the British bridge the area and Wongsha, the prospect of Sha- Nevertheless the authorities are not relaxing emergency measure, and Where once stood the remains of the Wongshaaval units and volunteers were keep- district, which suffered so heavily from Japanese air Luildings and from other vantage raids, are now two gigantic craters.

The central and Bund areas are heaps of smouldering meen being involved is very slight. ruins.

They were caused when two ammunition dumps exploded at 10.10

The explosions

4.m.

showered Shameen with debris. for fully five minutes, wounding two Chinese on the island and severely damaging

on

at

least

ing

a watch all night on the roofs of

Last night a nearby explosion rocked Lingnam University, while Wongsha hook. The Shameen au- thorities state that they expect one

the city. or two more explosions

Another United Press correspon dent at Canton writes that from a river launch he saw a Japanese

directly plane pass

overhead as Wongsha exploded, indicating that the machine was possibly bombing the place in an effort to check the Are.

On the other hand,, eye witnessen assert that many Japanese troops are there

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"The blant almost knocked me into the river, while sizzling frag- ments dived into the water

win- around the launch. Every

was shattered, dow In Shamcen although there does not seem to have been any structural damage caused to the American Consulate. However, the interior is a mass of broken glass and plaster, while one of the Chinese clerks had his face deeply goalied by flying debris. "In the course of a tour of Pak- hoktung and Fongchuen, which are missionary centres across the river, I found no Japanese troops, bui stream of refugees were cutting their way across the countryside, and end- Two terrife explosions occurred in less human trickle across the green the city yesterday which shook Sha-rolling fields."

Japanese troops stopped the looting neen, and blew in the window frames of rice shops opposite the British of the Royal Dutch Consulate, evert bridge. uprocting the floor boards.

points.

Old residents who went through Canton's previous Communisl up-rising and civil wars state that never before in their experience was there a day file yesterday.

Kwan Hotel, which biggest skyscraper,

French Doumer hospital The caught afire half-an-hour after the pallents were evacuated to the Hackett Memorial Hospital.

Y.M.C.A. DYNAMITED

were

The steel

Story-

Songs of the The Green-Eyed Dragon (Wolseley Charles); Five Marc-C. Armstrong Eyes (De La Gibbs); The Mare and the Foal (Traditional) Tally Ho! (Praydon- Thomas (Bari- Leon)....Wilfrid

tone) with Plano.

0.30 Beethoven--Symphony No. 3 la E Fist Major, Op. 85 (Eroica).

Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates.

7.13 Bong by Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano),

The Shepherd on the Rock (Schu- bert)....Wilh Piano

by George Reeves. Clarinet: Reginald Kell.

accomp.

7.23 Closing local Stock Qusto-

tions London Relay-Music Hall,

Including Peter Dawson (Bari- tone), Isay Bonn (The Hebrew Vocal Raconteur) Elale Carlisic and Sam Browne (Radio's Pioneer Duettista) with The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted

Shadwell. by Charles Presented by John Sharman.

8.0 Time, Weather and Announce- ments,

8.03 Webster Booth (Tenor) and London Palladium Orchestra.

Booth

Hear You Calling Me (Marshall, Haydn Wood): Bird Of Love Divine (Hayda Wood)....The Lon- don Palladium Orchestra cond. by Richard Crean; A Song For You And Me (Rizzi): Moon ΟΙ Roinance

Webster (Strachey) .... we (Tenor) with Orch.; Everybody's Songs (arr. Geehl): Intro: I passed by your window: Somewhere a voice Is calling: Down Vounxhall Way, I know of two bright eyes; O lovely Night, Passing by, Come to the Fair ....The London Palladium Orches ira cond. by Richard Crean; A Year Or- of Theatre Land; Intro: Play

(To-night at 8.30): เด

Coin (Careless Raplurc

Goes

breathe on windows (Over the goca) Drop in next time you're passing (Going

Anything Places) (Anything Goca); Love Is a dancing Mr. Wallace Forgie, a helper at the Y.M.C.A., evacuated the

thing (Follow the Sun); Unbeliev- building when flames licked the buckable (Swing along): This'll make you

door of the institution.

Bundside

that assert Several eyewitnesses two Japanese planes flew over the explosion, and that one subsequently disappeared.

The YMCA, was evacuated in vinder frames of the Hongkong and twenty buildings in the British order to allow a Japanese dynamite Shanghai Bank were also blown to squad to blow up the building in ansaithereens, debris flying in the rond- Concession.

way after the concussion, while the The damage on the western end of effort to create a fire break.

residents aldee the Foreign Shameen island was so severe that

to be Japanese In an attempt to isolate the Swiss Consul and his family have

had to leave their home. most of the buildings had evacuated. The walls of famous blazes, but without success.

amateur fre-Bghters

Following yesterday morning's ex- The

CITY'S CENTRE ABLAZE Christ Church were cracked, the

by theplosion, the keepers at the lunatle handicapped

writes correspondent Another Italian Consulate collapsed. Among hopelessly

which absence of water, the dynamiting of vlum at Paankhaktung, across the Shameen

Shameen, fled that the whole of the centre of the bulkings have had to be evacuated are the the city's reservoirs by the Chinese Pear! River from

iny, eaving 800 mental inmates uncared Canton city at present is burn- .on Friday,

ing

the flames taking in an area A,P.C. and Loxley & Co. premises. before they evacuated

blocks ten British navalmen come to the from the bridge to The Chartered Bank was also con- completely disrupting water supplies. for,

Dynamite was the only weapon the

also siderably damaged.

Japanese could use, and throughout rescue and supplied 80 bags of rice north of that point and several

fn order to give them en evening block wide. A new fire has

started in Taping Road and the New the day loud explosions lestined, to the fact that it was being detonated meal.-Reuter. freely in attempts

Asia Hotel which is burning from the create fre-

ground up, suggesting Incendiarism as A cause, rather than stray sparks.

Telephone communications cut late on Saturday afternoon, and по one was permitted to leave

10

At Wong-hin the havoc wrought by, the explosions is terrific. The and yards entire railway sintion have disappeared.

breaks. Locomotive, trucks, carriages and

The flames, after destroylog of war materials awalt- Wongaha, travelled towards the Sal- a hure pilo

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ing shipment Hankow were chuen area, vomiting up the dregs of

arens.

blown sky high, landing hundreds | civilian refugees from the city's slum of yards away in the most grotes que and twisted shapes.

Owlug to fears that they would be incinerated the authorities were forced to release all Inmates of the leper seillement and insane asylum, as well as prisoners from the elvic Faol.

SATURATED AREAS

It is definitely known that the Bres, four of which broke out simultane- ously in widely seattored areas, were caused by the Chinese, who were wit. nessed by several Europeuns us they saturated wide areas with kerosene and petrol.

WATERFRONT BLAZE

Across the Pearl River at Honum, the British wharves and foreign oil installations appear to have been completely_gutted,

The Bres were still Bercely raging this morning at Honam and Canlon of in the western parts proper, but Shameen is now con- sidered safe.

One Chineze who attempted to alight set Shameen

1135 been arrested. The fires commenced simultaneous ly on Saturday afternoon in Wongsha, Honam Island, and the southern, northern and bund areas of the city

Canton's famous silk street, proper.

They raged along the entire bundcontaining rich texules and silks of from east of the damaged Penri fabulous value, was swept from end River Bridge, past the Shakce Canal which divides Shameen from the city, to Wongsha,

Another conflagration almost cam- pletely gutted nine blocks through the heart of the business area from the bund to the Goddess of Mercy Temple.

The Honam Island waterfront, mu the other alde of the Pearl River, was completely obluze all day yester-

at

the

to end.

A computatlon of the damage wrought by the flames places it at well over £50,000,000. What the Japanese attempted to do in twelve months savage bombings was accomplished by the Chinese in two days.

LOOTERS ACTIVE

Canton, Oct. 24. Japanese patrols yesterday even-

VICTORY TURNS TO ASIES

Canton, Oct. 24. Napoleon in Moscow, Canton's wanted morts found very's

were

whistle (This make you whistle}} ....Janet Lind and Webster Booth with Chorus and Orchestra.

8.13 Two Songs by Gitta Alpar (Soprano).

'Home

and

Sing Something In The Morning

Cochran's (C. B. Beauty'); No More (C. B. Cochran's Home and Beauty)....with Or- chestra cond. by G. Waiter.

8.40 B.B.C. Recording-A Talk on 'Speed' by Sir Malcolm Campbell.

Trio 8.50 Studio Beethoven played by

(Violin), Pruo Lewis Ettore

Pellegati (Cello), and Lind- say A. Lafford (Piano).

9.20 Three Songs by Alexander Kipnis

(Goethe-Schubert,

Heide

in their path turning to ashes during Shameen, therefore it was impossoble Op. 3, No. 3); Impatience (Muller-

the week-end.

Entering the city with not more

to discover whether the Y.M.C.A...

than two thousand men, the Japan-und the Canton Hospital were at that so were helpless to stem the awful time in flames, holocaust that is sweeping Kwang- tung's capital from end to end.

The victor is fire-fires started after the Japanese entry into the city.

nomer con

Schubert, Op. 25, No. 7): The Erl King (Goethe-Schubert, Op. 1).... with Gerald Moore at the Piono.

Two fires on the northern, outskirts of the city might eventually threaten

the Shameen and therefore brigades have been organised, ready for action.

fighters While the Japanese fire succeeded in extinguishing the firear in the centre of the city early

on

kilco

n

Snake Charmer: Greenwich Witch; Twilight in Turkey: Serenade for n Wealthy Widow....Torch.

1812

10.33 The Band of II. M. Cold- stream Guards,

Overture (Tchaikovsky};! 1012 Colonel Bogey-March (Alford),

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0.30 London Relay-The News, ១.៥០ A Dance and Variety Pro- gramme. fre

Orch: Antigu--Rumba, Dance Barbary Coast Blues....Joe Daniels and His Hot Shots In "Drumnos

Won't licks": Vocal and Plano-1 The Japanese are almost gnashing

Tell A Soul

(Parker-Charles),' their teeth in their rage. They have

деп Two Shadows (from the Film). no water to combat the menace of

Lealle Hutchinson; Instrumental- total destruction that now threatens Sunday morning, new fires broke out around Shameen, and at present two

Pua Carnation (Traditional); Pali Krasp their rich prize in the hour

fires are raging in Shakee, one at a

Bluce

(Traditional).... of their success.

Tahiti Beachcombers; Vocal-Dinah the in ending west end rice store, which was set Just as they succeed

It Don't Mean (Lewis-Young-Akat): one are by dynamiting buildings and alight after being looted, and

other near the French Bridge, which

the creating fire-breaks, the Chinese start

spread from the Sun Company, owned A Thing (Ellington)....The Bos-

by well Sistera accompanied another conflagration elsewhere.

by the super-patriot Chai Chung, who It is the greatest organised in-

was observed removing his goods be- Dorsey Brothers Orchestra; Three Planos Lille Silhouette-Fox- cendiarism the world has ever known,

fore the occupation of Canton.

Three Jolly Fellows While stald Shameen talpans and

As

precautionary measure Tret;

Three Virtuosos; naval officers stripped to the waist

Shamern Brimen drenched Shameen Fox-Trot....The

Vocal: There's Something Spanish and blackened by smoke and ashes,

matsheds, and at the time of sending

In My Eyes (Caesar und Friend); the massage Chinese looters were

opposite wage a guerilla war on the flames in

the Stay Out Of The South (Dixon). the vicinity of the Anglo-French cou- looling & rice store

Sophie Tucker with Ted Shapiro and cessions in an attempt to prevent the Beliisit bridge.

His Orchestra; Organ-Hot Pipes; conflagration

quietly, from devouring the

The night passed very small island, Japanese officers are dis-

Intro: The Toy Trumpet; I'm Get- there

occasional firing Sentimental Over You: The being only

Lin' cansulately riding through the ruined evidently used for signalling pur- city,

poses, since it was regular. The only

remaining Inhabitants IL s evident that the Chinese popu- appear 10 be poverty-stricken lace has not been interferred with day.

"The flerce flames in the viciniving stood on guard outside the shops scavengers, who are looting where since they are still carrying their

on the Shakee front where looters ever the Japanese have been unable parcels as they evacuate, of Shameen, especially

were creating havoc. Three or four to post sentries. of

The only sign of Japanese was an French end, sent shower

The Japanese cannot find the fire occasional truck patrol at Shukee. orders sparks over the Anglo-French Con-persistent looters who opposed the

soldiers' the utmost inyonetled and they are now lying Canton which, when they landed in

bugs, and they cannot find the rich FOREIGN OFFICES GUTTED cessions, necessitating

the fires were Dlaraci, At noon yesterday all the vigilance on the part of

en the Shakee Bund in pools of blood.

A play specially written for broad- casting by Hector Bolitho with Dame residents, who turned fire-fighters When the Japanese patrol with-ins Bay, loomed before their cove slowly circling Shameen from the and manned bucket brigades and

drew,

half a block away. The Marie Tempest as Queen Victorin THE HONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., LTD. on to victory,

fres was every available garden hose. Roofs of buildings in the Conces at however, the looters Immedi- lous eyes as a magnet drawing them { cast and west The nearest of the

PLANE IN EXPLOSION wind then was blowing the Taiping (By permission of H. M. Tennent, behaviour of the troops

Two Japanese planes were circling Road are into the jerry-built Sal Ltd.) and Robert Farquharson .os sions were constantly saturated with hitherto has been exemplary, accord- lazily over Wongsha when the two kwan district, directly north.

Disraeli: Narrator, Laidman Browne; water to prevent them catching to the accounts of foreigners who gigantle explosions rocked the city A

Wa United

John Brown, the Queen's Scottish Press

correspondent

servant, James Woodburn: Montague visited the city.

walked along the Bund from Shameen Looting has been checked wher-

One of the planes completely dis- to the Pearl River Bridge and found Corry, Secretary to Disraeli, Mor-

the district So intense was the hent from ever possible, but owing to the small

Queen Victoria, Mary a desolated shell, including Several Japanese soldiers who Company channel that number of Japanese in the city, appeared in the birst. the narrow

Queen's Secretary, foreign residents monning the Sha- totalling approximately 1,500, the

were patrolling the area were also the offices of the Schmidt Company, wiped out.

the Hongkong and Canton Steamship Gordon McLeod: Prince Bismarck,

fluword Marion-Crawford; meen defences had to constantly entire city is not patrolled.""

Lord reure from the waterfront in order

from the interior and the American were on fire American sailors were The island is full up with people Company, and the Post Office, which

Tennyson, Norman Shelley; Singer So cool off.

Jan Van Der Gucht; Production by and Italian consulates Bent the British

the John Chealle, BAVO women and children scurrying out fighting desperately to STILL A RAGING INFERNO

to the lawns, where they sat down Customs House.

no fire be- Canton, Oct. 24.

However, there was for two hours. At nightfall yesterday the city was Finally the explosiona ironically tween Taiping Road and the Bridge, Buildings destroyed by the stil

ព raging inferno, with a blew

the doors open

Japanese The Y.M.C.A., and French Hospital Aames included the famous Temple mammoth fire cast of the Bund area fi on Shameen, which had been was found to be just on the edge of of the Great Badda, the Flowers being fanned towards the city, and closed

for more

yesterday's dro which had Paroda,

developing into a tremendous area, The explosions and fires in the city itself out. Municipal Headquarters, the measuring between five and six scared, but at the same time pleased A few Japanese soldiers were seen, a food store. of Finance, the Great

the Chinese on Shameen, as evidence and one was looting Hotel,

Aala square miles." The New

that Chinese power was working Otherwise there were no signa of Hongkong - Ferry tás

looting. The correspondent saw one untern, or dotroo p

who had been The present. Let of "Canton's Chinese; soldier

light.

ACTORS

INTENSE HEAT

Two small fires were started at the French end of the Concession, but they were quickly subdued.

flames

Alon the band the extended for about two miles.

the Provincial and

returned.

The

Ind

Japanese headquarters have been established in the old Chinese. hend- quarters building-Reuter,

Ministry Eastern

The conflagration on the Shakee Hotel. wharven.

the Fow Ofice, New walerfront has died down as a result China Hotel and the 16-storey 01 of a change in the direction of the

yesterday.

on their baggagO

of

than a year.

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burned

Ponsonby, The

11.45 Close down.

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with

Enquire as the Cam Showreeme

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