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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938.

Mass Raids Devastating ALHAMBRA

China Interior

CHUNGKING, Nov. 8.

INDICATING CONTINUED JAPANESE attempts

WOOD IN DEMAND

Arrested Man Alleges Victim of Guards

A fine of $250 with the alternative

to kill Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese reports of three months' hard labour, was Im- state that Japanese planes yesterday continued to make posed on Wu Wai-man, 29, unem- very severe raids on Hengyang, where Chiang Kai-shek mand before Atr. T. J. Houston at the is reported to have made his headquarters.

station.

played, when he appeared on re- Central Magistracy yesterday charg ed with the unlawful possession of 100 entties of wild tree wood, worth However, this part of the lished at Lanchow; capital of Kansu $2. nt Blue Pool Road on Saturday, report cannot be confirmed.

Province, Yunnanfu, capitai of

Sub-Inspector that when brought H. G. Baker, who Yunna Province, The Japanese raids have in-|

and Chenglu, prosecuted, ereased since they repaired the which bases fighter planes of the E15 of having been assaulted by two capital of Szechuan Province, toto Wanchal Station, Wu complained Wuhan nerodromes where huge type of Soviet manufacture, Gloster forest guards because he had refused fleets have been recently based. Gladiators of British make, and De- to enrry the wood to the

Chungking had an air raid alarm! woltines of French manufacture, Wu's vest was torn, but the Inspector this morning, but no planes appeared. totalling 200 in, number, have been could see so marks of injury on him.

Initial reports glate that severe niransigned.-Domei,

Wu declared he hnd never been in battles have taken place at Balung.

porsrsion of the wood, and the forest Llangshan and Hanchung, in moutli

guards had struck him and made him Shenii, but

claim the wood as his. th

results are not known. It is

Chungking, Nov, D. Defendant had two previous con- noteworthy that Clarke Kerr and Chiang Kai-slick re-chaum, Japanese aircraft also raided

Besides bombing Chengtu in Sze-victions, one for a smifar offence.

Charged with the theft of two portedly had a conference at Heng yesterday Hengyang and Hengshun pieces of Arewood worth 20 cents, yang during the week-end during ut Hunan, Nanchang in Kiangsi, from the Bakery of the Royal Arny which time the Japanese

made Shianing, Lukpo and Lokcheng In Service Corps, and with trepassing on the city. frequent air ralds on

The Chungking military aerodrome thus far received.

Kwangtung, according to

in military property, Tung Bun, 23, unemployed, appeared before Mr. T. hortly after 1 bombed

shortly

yesterday..

Was

that Sir Archibald

p.m.

JAPANESE MASS RAIDS

reports.

das, a single Japanese plane, TC, 115 miles south-west of J. Houston at the Central Magistracy

and Hengshan, 33 mues turning from Chengtu, dropping eight

north.cast of Hengyang.

Sub-Inspector H. G. Baker said hombs on the Chinese air defenders,

were at- by two separate

Tung was seen climbing out of ind but no essential damage was

groups of window of the Bakery by Pte. C. caused.cked

Japanese warplanes, Eighteen gant Japanese bombers

Edwards, R.A.O.C., who caught hold Twenty-one

of the machines broke of him. There were three other men score of pursuit planes dis-

dinta Hengshan in the morning and with Tung, but they escaped, In- turbed various parts of Szechuan to dumped a "The Adventures of Marco Polo" In China trop shoplosive and incendiary bombs in the had been several thefts of wood from

confused the Chinese outposts said that the Japanese planes centrated on the suburbs of Chengtu

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200 civilians are the Bakery recently, more than 1,000 estimated to have been killed and 50 lbs, of firewood having been stolen. more wounded.

Tung Was sentenced to A whose row of over 40 houses on! Two hundred bombs were dropped Sichen Street cubalde the West Gate of larceny, and fined $15 or 14 days' munits hard labour on the charge on the Chengtu aerodrome, but the was razed exact damage caused is not known. bomba..

the ground by six hard labour on the charge of tres- passing The terms are to run con- It is uncunftrraedly reported that

Huge fires started by Incendiary currently. one Japanese bomber" was shot down.

The Chinese authorities at Chungssties ut the North Gate

duced the place to smouldering ruins, ing and Chengtu are doing their

rendering many homeless, utmost to evacuate the civilians in both cities, as it is expected that there will be a large death roll from the Japanese bombings in the future.-- turned later and sprayed the city Pickpocket Takes Student's

United Press.

states.

CHENGTU ATTACKED

FOR FIRST TIME

Tokyo, Nov. 1.

arca re-

At Rengyong, 3 Japanese air- PREVIOUS craft released about 120 bombs. Six scouting machines, however, re-

with machine-gun fire, resulting in over 30 civilian casualites.

Shortly afterwards, another squad- j ron of 18 machines appeared from Kiangat and dumped 30

more mis-

OFFENCES

Fountain Pen

The theft of a fountain pen from

Des

Vocux Chinese student, in Road on Monday, resulted in

Lam Ha, 21, on a charge of larceny br

the

For the first time since the out-ses a Hengyang. break of hostilities, Chenglu, capital) A report from Nanchang revealed appearance of a man named of Szechuan Province, on Tuesday tit nine Japanese planes passed over fore Mr. R. Edwards at the Central was suliceted to a bombing attack by the

eity an

and after circling over the Japanese aircraft, a field dispatch eastern suburbs for some time, Magistracy yesterday.

micnine-gunned the streets below. Various kinds of Chinese military No damage was enused. establishments in the inland city:

After circling over the city, three} were attacked and damaged, the dis-i Japanese plants released a number te was sentenced to nine months' patch adds-Domei,

of bombs in the outskirts of Shiuhing hard labour and ordered to be under and

nise across the West River in the morning.

JAPANESE PLANE DOWNED ·

Chenglu. Nov. 8.

One of the 18 Japanese bombers

Five other planes scouted the West River for # considerabl

Lam pleaded not guilty, but was convicted after evidence, during which a detective stated that he had

see the theft actually seen

committed.

which staged the first air raid over time and dropped several missiles at He asked to be tros

police supervision for two years,

The defendant had three previous along convictions, two of which were of a similar nature to the present charge.

treated Lukpo

leniently as in the afternoon.

lie had a mother to support. Canton-Hankow Railway in Kwang- It is reported that Lokehong on the

Snatcher Caught As she was leaving the Winst Lok also raided. Detalls are wharf, Connaught Road Central, on tung was lacking

Monday, a woman named Loung wei and north Kiangsu in the past which held $100 in Shanghai notes, Japanse aerial activities in An- Sul-m, 21. had her handkerchief.

days

are also reported In snatched from her hand. despatches reaching here.

The thief, named Li Kit, 21. was On Monday, If Japanese machines arrested, and yesterday he appeared

Magistracy charged

Chengtu, provincial capital of Sze- chuan, was shot down by Chinese airmen during the aerial combat.

The Japanese machines

broke into the city in two squadrons shortly after 11 o'clock in the morning and commenced bombing the alraeld in

low the northern suburbs and the south-

or outs combat planes which had bombed Tsingyang, south of Tung-, before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen-

Chinese taken to the air gave battle. The Japanese aircraft were forced

tak formation.

break

to

ling in Anhwel, relays, dropping tral

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with 113 bumbs outside the south gate. largeny. Li pleaded guilty, and was Several farm hothes were blown to sentenced to six months' hard labour. One of them was hit by Chinese

bits. bullets and nosedived to the ground, said to have already evacuatza.

Alost civilians, in the eily, are He had two previous convictions. wwwsze helching: black smoke in its trail.

Nanling, northeast of Ts.ngyang. It is estimated that 58 bonbs

Was bombed

four landed now the adrield. The area

on Sunday by in the vicinity of the Taiping Temple

Japanese planes which dropped saven in the southern outskirts received musiles, causing only slight damage. On Nov. 5, Ive enemy aircraft 40 missiles, which killed two civilians

bornbed and maching-gunned Sutalen, i und wounded one.-Central News.

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