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TELEGRAPH, THE HONGKONG

28, MONDAY, NOVEMBER

1988.

GOVERNOR

"TELEGRAPH' TALKS TO MAKES AN

DEFENDERS, INVADERS:

FIGHTING

British

Soldiers

DESCRIBED

Tell of Fight

At Military Post Near Shataukok

"TELEGRAPH" STAFF REPORTER

AT THE COST of blistered feet after a six hours' walk that took me over mountains and through deep valleys far into Chinese territory beyond the Hongkong frontier, I have secured two vital interviews that clear up the position regarding the Japanese mopping up' campaign in the South.

Chinese

Leader Discloses

His Plans

The first interview was with Major Tsang Wu, who is in charge of 540 soldiers of the 151st Division of General Mok Hai-tak's scattered army.

These men, with the ex- ception of 250 troops de- fending Shataukok, are the only Chinese troops between the Japanese forces, now at Pokuling and Saikwan, and their objective-the` Mirs Bay coastline.

The second interview was

DURING HIS frontier tour, the most comprehen-1 with a Japanese officer and two Japanese War Correspondents, sive yet undertaken by a who were encountered west of Hongkong newspaper, a Pokuling. Of the three Japan-1 "Telegraph" staff represen-ese, only one, Takubo Suctsura, tative yesterday penetrated of the Tokyo Asahi, could speak into Chinese territory in a search for the war that is in progress between Shum Chun and Shataukok.

This tour permits the "Telegraph" to publish to- day an exclusive interview with the Chinese officer commanding the remnants of the 151st Division of the Kwangtung Army.

The officer, who submitted to being photographed with his meagre staff, disclosed that the 540 men under his command were, with the exception of about 250 soldiers defending Shataukok, the only Chinese

English.

With Suetsura acting us interpreter, the Japanese officer gave me valuable detalls of the Japanese campaign, and sald that mopping up operations were expected to be completed lo-night with the capture of Shataukok.

A third Interview WLN with Lance Corporal E. Smith, of "C" Company, the First Battalion, Middlesex Regiment who, with six privates, exchanged fire with band of sixty Chinese soldiers at No. 3 Military Camp, four miles | from Shataukok.

The entire frontier

#

area was

closed throughout yesterday by order of the Hongkong military authorities and it was necessary to strike over mountains to reach my objectives.

Striking northwards from about a mile below Shataukok, I finally came upon No. 3 Military Camp, which

overlooks Chinese territory at San- soldiers remaining to defend the tsul village, in the Ngtsun Shan entire ATCR

the present valley. between Japanese positions at Sakwan and Pokuling and the Japanese objecilves ukok and the Mirs Bay

The Chinese officer was Major Tsang

Wu. Through defections, he has become the only commissioned officer remaining with the Chinese remnants.

The Chinese were encamped д Cheungkut village, in Chinese terri- tory not far from the Lin Mo Han Mines, when they were visited by the "Telegraph" reporter,

REFORTER CHALLENGED BY BAYONETS

When the reporter approached the village the soldiers were lined up in two ranks and were being harangued by a young Chinese

woman.

At

the conclusion of their talk the men gave a spirited cheer.

When the Telegraph" reporter was about a hundred yards from the town, he was suddenly challenged by a Chinese sentry, who could not talk English.

It was at this point that an exchange of fire took place early yesterday morning between the seven British soldiers guarding the post and sixty Chinese soldiers, regulars the 151xt Division, who attempted to enter British terri- tory without surrending their arms.

TELLS OF SKIRMISH

"We noticed the Chinese soldiers approaching from Santsul village," said Lance Corporal Smith.

"When they reached our barbed wire entanglements, which divides. British and Chinese soll, they were challenged, and informed that they would have to surrender their armas and submit to being interned.

"The Chinese refused to surrender | their arms. A shot was fired.

"Others joined in the firing. ordered our men to take cover and to hold their fire.

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ABOVE.Officers of the remnants of the 151st Division now at 1[Cheungkul village, photographed yesterday by permission of their Com- manding Omeer, Major Trang Wu. The total Chinese force si Cheongkui consists of 549 men. Major Tsang states that no other Chinese troops "When the firing from the Chinese Intervene between the Japanese and their objectives at Shatankok and did not cease, and they continued Mira Bay. BELOW-Major Tsang is shown facing camera on extreme officers are beavily armed. Another sentry raised the alarm coming over the barbed-wire, I told right. It will be noticed that the Chinese

enter and

Brillah territory.—-- and the Telegraph" reporter was our men to fire one volley over their They refuse to surrender their arma soon surrounded by a ring of men, heads.

Staf Photographer. Copyright Stric ly Reserved. all of whom came running up with

This did not stop them, so we mausers drawn and bayonets at the let them have it in the legs. Our ready.

first volley brought down two men. There

WAN DO way of telling The rest hesitated, and then made whether the men were hostile or off." friendly."

the Telegraph” Subsequently, it was learned, the reporter. "I don't mind saying I was two men wounded in the exchange windy!" All the men, he added. | of Aring with the British outpost were in a state of the greatest excite-entered British territory at Shainu- ment, and their attitude, due to their kok, and have been sent to hospital. invidious position, was most tense. It is believed that the remainder The "Telegraph'' reporter produc- of the Chinese party were among ed his Hongkong Press identification the large number of Chinese troops

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Franco's Blockade To Beat The Loyalists

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Hongkong Telegraph.

Dear Bir-There are now some scores of thousands of homeless, destitute refugees from South Chins in the New Territories of this Colony and many thore in and near Canton.

I hope, therefore, that all those In a position to do so who have not yet contributed to the local Fund for the Relief of Distress in China will hasten to give, and generously.

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Japanese Tell Of Shataukok Advance

THE JAPANESE TROOPS operating along the Hongkong front yester- day occupied Pokuling and Saikwan, two important villages north of Taukuling Police Station.

They intend to continue their mopping-up operations as far east as the Mirs Bay area which, they insist, has not yet been entered by any Japanese troops, and expect to reach Shataukok to-day.

This news was conveyed to the "Telegraph" yesterday by a Japanese officer who, with two Japanese War Correspondents, was found by a "Telegraph" re- porter slightly west of Pókuling. The two Japanese War Corres- pondents, one of whom photographed the Telegraph" reporter,

are with the Japanese Army.

Only one could speak English. He Was Takubo Suctsura, War Corres- pondent of the Tokyo Asaht.

The Japanese forces operating near Hongkong come down the Canton- Kowloon Railway from Walchow, via

he revealed. No

Che troops were operat-]

ing from

Tamshul, and no Japanese troops had, to

to the best of his know- ledge, entered the Mirs Day region from either Pingshan or Blas Bay.

ONLY 500 MEN

*The

entire Japanese forces operating on the Hongkong frontier consist of only 500 men," he claimed.

The unit was fully mechanised, with tanks and armoured cars, he

Anglo-added."

The Japanese forces will continua their operations right up to Mira Bay

10- and expect to reach Shataukok day.

A semi-official comment declares that General Franco destres a quick end to the war, and food for all.

The Japanese confirmed that aerial For the former, he will carry out a reconnaissance indicated that there blockade, and for the latter, he is pre- were no Chinese troops concentrated pared to receive 3,000,000 people from at any particular place in the enure the other alde, whom the "Iteds call area, refugees, but who aro really prisoners."

General Franco's official,spokesman said that the Loyalists, having failed on the Ebro front, were winning their battles in Paris and Genova, Reuter.

Margaret Fincher; the three-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mri. E. C. Fincher, was treated at the Kowloon Hospital yesterday after she had been Kowloon Tong. The animal was re- scratched by a dog owned by Mis. moved to the Mataukok kennels for W. M. Gittins, of 4 Suffolk Road, observation.

There are some Chinese, about twelve miles away, but we expect to disperse them to-night," he said,,,-

The interview with the Japanese, which is the first any, newspaper has obtained since the present operations commenced, confirms the **Telegraph's serial connabmance on Friday, which that ', there disclosed Bghting or fires In the Miles 'Bas ares, and that there was no- von-

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