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Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUND 1001 WEƒ- WEDNESDAY,
1st, 2005
REMARKABLE GERMAN FLIES
OVER
NOVEMBER. 30, 1938. 日九初月十
FLIGHT: Jack Doyle
MONOPLANE COLONY
Expects To Complete Flight To
Tokyo In Less Than 2 Days
Here is the "Condor" monoplane, which flew past Hongkong at 1.32 p.m. to-day.In August last it flew from Berlin to New York and back again in record time, On the present record Blight the plane flew from Berlin to Hanoi, and from Hanoi, les direct to the Japanese capital.
For Consul General Japan Leaving H.K.
TOKYO, Nov. 30.
MR. AKIYOSHI TAJIRI, Chief of the Fifth Section of the Inquiry Department of the Foreign Office, will replace Mr. Nakamura as the Japanese Consul-General in Hongkong, accord- ing to the new personnel changes in the diplomatie service which were announced by the Foreign Office this morning.
Mr. Shinichi Kaminura, chief, Consul-General
H
URTLIN Gİ THROUGH THE
AIR AT AN AVERAGE
SPEED OF 250 MILES
Deported From U.S.
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 29.
A warrant for the deporta- tion of Jack Doyle that he did not leave the United States voluntarily before December 13, has been issued by the immigration authorities.
"I
Doyle has been on ball since last month when he was arrested for alleged violation of the immigration laws.
To Reuter, Doyle said: haven't been officially notified of the deportation order yet. 1 shail leave voluntarily to avoid being deported."-Reuter.
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WHITEAWAY'S
Japanese Troops Quit Entire Frontier, - Page Two
Mass Terror
As Refugees
Flee to H.K.
AN EXTRAORDINARY DISPLAY of mass terror aroused the district around the Shataukok
BIG SKY police station from its state of partial
LINER
AN HOUR, THE GIANT CRASHES
GERMAN CONDOR MONOPLANE PASSED
OVER HONGKONG ATĮ Passengers Drowned In 1.32 P.M. TO-DAY.
Off-Shore Tragedy
The plane is in constant radio communication with Kai Tak Airport in Hong- kong.
As he was passir the British Colony, the Chief Pilot, Herr Henke, ridioed that, in view of the fine weather encountered from Hanoi to Hongkon". It has been decided to fly direct to Tokyo, thus omitting Tai- hoku in Formosa,
Mr. A. J. Moss, Superinten dent of Kal Tak, reported that communication was established at 12.30 p.m., when the Condor was 150 miles south of Hong kong.
"We gave the German complete [directions. They are well ahead of
BIG JEWEL schedule," Mr. Moss suld.
ROBBERY IN CITY
Sennet Freres Lose $3,800 In Rings
At 2.30 p.m. this afternoon, the plane reported that it was about 240 miles north of Hongkong.
The record from Europe to Hong- kong was previously held by M. Japy, the French Bier, but the German !plane will easily break all records from Europe to Japan if it completes 1ts flight at the present rate.
It is expected to land in Tokyo at
about
And from
6 p.m. to-night. The story of the flight is a re- markable one. The Germans Jeft Tempelhof Airport in Berlin at 10.55 TWO GOLD FINGER p.m. H.K.T. on Monday, rings valued at $3,800 were there travelled as follows: In Shanghai, has stolen from an unlocked of the First Section of the East been informally appointed to head the
Economic Department of the project-show-case at Messrs. Sennet Asia Bureau of the Foreigned Asiatic Affairs Board.-Domel,
Freres yesterday morning, Office, has been appointed First!
according to a police report. Secretary of the Japanese Em-
One of the rings, valued at bassy in London.
$2,800 was recovered since then, and a man has been arrested.
Mr. Satosh, chief of the Second Section of the East Asia Bureau, has been named Second Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in China.
It is understood, meanwhile, that Mr. Shunrokuro Hidka, Japanese
Honour For Far East Professor
F. J. R. Bottrall Given Now Appointment
New York Spy Trial Decision Expected
New York, Nov. 29.
The result in the German spy
trial, which began on October is expected hourly.
14,
The jury retired to consider their verdict at 11 pan. G, M. T.
1
If convleted the three defendants, Frich Glaser, a private in the United States army, Otto Herman Voss,
arrest employed until his technician in the Seversky aircraft factory.
Hofmann, and Johanna employed on the liner Europa, inco a maximum sentence of 20 years
The fourth defendant, Geunther
London, Nov. 30. Professor James Francis Ronald Imprisonment, Bottrell, formerly Johore Professor
of the English Language and Litera-Rumrich turned States Evidence
ture at Raffles College, Singaporo, Reuter.
and
now Assistant Director of the Institute, Florence, has been
Secretary of the School of Oriental Languages, London Univer- sity, in succession to Professor Ros sell, who has resigned,
The report of the governing body for the academic year of 1987-38 announces the gift of a collection of, Chinese and Far Eastern books, numbering some
by the ex-
of Sir Reginald Johnatan. nately the bequest cannot be|
Soviet Crew
Rescued 180.
Miles At Sea
.
WARSHIPS MAY NOW NAVIGATE YANGTSE
Important Japanese
TUESDAY 5.50 am ILK.T. Over Cyprus 1.15 p.m. HK.T. Arr. Barra 1.53 p.m. H.K.T. Left Basra 7.40 p.m. II.K.T. Arr. Karachi 9.45 p.m. I.K.T. Left Karzelił
WEDNESDAY
0,30 a.m. ILK.T. Over, Mandalay 9.10 s.m. I.K.T. Arrived Ianol 10.42 a.m. II.HT, Left Hanoi
1.32 p.m. ILKT. Over Hongkong. It will be noticed that the Condor completed the fight between Handl and Hongkong in 2 hours and 50] minutes, which is easily a record.
The entire route from Berlin to Tokyo is 8,070 miles.
ELABORATE RECEPTION
IN TOKYO
POINT REYES,
Calif., Nov. 29.
somnolence at midday this morning, when about 1,000 refugees, who were squatting about the place, or placidly bargaining with hawkers and vendors, suddenly leapt into a panic-stricken rush down the main road, shrieking wildly and impeding traffic.
Tac cause apparently was due to somebody raising a cry that the Japanese were coming. The result was astounding. With almost one accord the refugees, throwing their senses to the
A 14-PASSENGER sky-winds, started to rush down the lounger made 2 crash main thoroughfare from the landing about 1,000 yards off-shore to-day.
police station.
Women shrieked, children cried, and old men groaned aloud as they hurled themselves for at least a mile down the road before most of them realised that it was
false alarm.
The pilot, Captain Charles Stend of Seattle, and one of the passengers, named Edelstein, who was recently paroled from So great was the struggling mass of humadly that several cars in the the Wallawallawashin Peniten-road had to stop, and were quickly tiary, and was en route to South obscured by the trempling, gesticu- America to restart life, were lating and yelling mob.
Only the ewhers, who saved.
residents of Shalaukok district remained unmoved by the alarm, and zome time later, the panic-stricken refugees made their way back, having become convinced that there was no danger
It is reported that others are the "missing, believed drowned in raging surt."
The passengers include Philip Hart of Portland, Sidney L. Shonts of Sun Jose. the co-pilot, Lloyd Jones of Portland, and the stewardess, Frona Clay,
rap
It is stated that the maching left Aledfordere in clear weather and then into the full fury of a storm when cntering California about 2.30 a.m. The pinne lost a beam, was buffeted by rain and squalls, and finally located over the Pacife near Point Reyes, 50 miles off its route. message was cent out that the
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For fully half a mile the roud was blocked with the panicking prople, and even 20 minutes after the wild exodus had begun, the foremost fleers were still running.
Hall an hour later order Wus gradually restored and the refugees began to return, but nobody give a reasonable explanation for the Incident
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS NOW EN ROUTE
can
machine was landing in the water. Apparently the Chinese forces in After being rescued, Captain Stead the vicinity of Shatakok have al- said: "We drifted cast in we heady been appraised of the Japanese
be rocks, and then the machine began to go to pieces."
He said the passengers got on top of the plane when it was landed, and three began swimming strongly to the shore. The stewardess and on- other passenger got to a rock, after which they also awam.
He said that he and Edelstein stay- ed with the ship until it broke up.
and then they also swam.
Sten
Coastguards with a rope pulled and Edelstein up the face of a 500 foot cum, in the course of which Edelstein was injured.--United Press
Polish-Soviet
Pact: Japan Assured
Tokyo, Nov. 30. An elaborate programme for the
Tokyo, Nov. 30. reception of the German goodwill; M. Thadde de Romer, the Pollah acroplane Condor has been complet Ambassador to Japan, called on Vice- ed by the General Staff of the Army Minister for Foreign Affairs, Renzo Air Force and by the Aviation Sawada, at the Foreign Office at 6.00 Bureau of the Ministry of Communi- o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. calions, In co-operation with the; It was understood that the Polish German Embassy here,
Omcials of the Aviution Bureau hope that the Condor will establish SHANGHAI, Nov. 30.
a new world record in its fight to KOSHIRO Japan.
The Imperial Aeronautical Society
Decision
VICE-ADMIRAL
envoy assured to the Japanese official that the non-aggression pact which was recently reaffirmed between Po- land and USSR, contains no pro visions calculated to prejudice friendly relations existing between
Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief has decided to award medals of Japan and Poland.--Domel. of the Japanese Fleet in China merit to the crew of ave on the Con- Waters, on Tuesday morning dor, which is expected to arrive at seniorj Tachikawa aerodrome in the suburbe communicated to the officers of the foreign naval of Tokyo early on le, morning of forces in Shanghai that the December 1, 10.23 am Domel foreign warships bottled up on
the upper reaches of the Yangtze wil
be permitted. In the near future to
ply between their present posiliana and Shanghai once for replenishment.
ITALIAN REGIMENT
IN HONGKONG
withdrawal.
About 250 Chinese soldiers are now marching westward along the frontier, obviously with the intention of heist- Ing the Chinese flag over Shuzu Chun,
Actually, it is believed that one or
Another "Incident" On Border
The last "Incident" Hongkong-Kwangiang Was a happy one,
on the frontier
It occurred at the Lowu xull- way bridge just before Japaneso sectrics were withdrawn prior to the evacuation.
The Japanese sentries badly needed a cigarette. Their ex- peditionary force has apparently run out of this nocesalty.
Would, they naked, the Brilish sentries on the other side of the bridge sell them samé Woodbines. The packets were handed across, and the Japaneso insisted on payment with a $1 Hong- kong Government bank-nots!
LATE NEWS
two Chinese Irregulars have already Garrison
entered the border city, but no Chinese flag has yet appeared.
The Telegraph was officially in- formed at noon to-day that the Chinese Maritime Customs' stast which evacuated Shum Chun shortly
before the city was entered by the Japanese is now ctt roule to the station
Report
Unconfirmed
F
thin It was reported at 1 o'clock The staff, including Europeans, left afternoon that the Japanese had left Kowloon by car at 11.45 am. and email garrisons at Sham. Chun sod expects to re-occupy the Customs Namtau,
From station in Shum Chun lo about four
observations made by home
"Telegraph" reporter at the border. Orders have been given by the the report is incorrect with reference Commissioner for Customs in Hong- to Shum Chun, kong for the staffs of kil Customs Owing to inaccessibility, it cannot clations In the area previously be stated whether a garrison still re- evacuated to hold themselves in mains at Namiau, which is on the to return to their posla fa Pearl River delta, but it is believed extrmucly unlikely that the Japanese territory. It is revealed that about sixteen have left any garrisons at any œentre stations, from Deep Bay in the east in close proximity to the border, to the western end of Mirs Bay-were] cvacuated.
These stations
bo
will be gradually
- To la anticipated- that
before the end of the]
SPY TRIAL RESULT
New York, Nov. 30. week. the
Jolinnna Hofmann and Otto Her- A few returees are already a man Voss, were found guilty to-day deavouring to return to their homes
Konoye To Announce New Japan Policy
secret,
but, for the present, they are being of conspiring to steal a military restralued by the British military|| The jury were unable to reach a authorfiles,
But the Chinese civilians an
are rush- ing back to their homes. on the eastern end of the frontier.
There Is wild excitement as the Chinees vanguard marches westward, and Chinese everywhere are Jabllani at the latest news,
DECREENISI MADE ABSOLUTE
three
Six hundred and seventy Italian Detailed conditions regarding the soldiers belonging to “the Savoy
Tokyo, Nov. 30, Tokyo, Nov. 30. The crew of 5 of the Sovet motor- plan are understood to be subject to Grenadiers, arrived in Hongkong this
The Japanese Government will fully used at present dwini to the temperary, housing the school bent which was drifting out to about arrangements between the Japanese morning by the Conte Verde, en shortly make public the substance of the "undamental policy? for read- one part of Weminister, with 180 miles northest of Utsuryo laland, and foreign authorities hereafter.. It route to Italy from Shanghal
however, that the proposal The regiment has been stationoci justing Sino-JapaneseTM relations the library in another park, and the of the western cost of 160 by the will materialise curly in December. Shanghai since the Outbreak of the Which was decided upon by the majority of the books... hays been Japan Sen, was rescued by
About There are at pre
and Japanese steamer Hokusen/ Maju,
thay Cabinet on Monday, present tatale new 1000 tone, on Saturday afternoon, & forelan warships including:
British, ars now being!
The statement will be made by fit prin diroa teh sent by the Fakipper of the American and French, remaining on The boldier continued their home- Premier Rotors in the form of name to the Supreme Com the
ward voyage by the Conte, Verde at ¦ informal statement-either on Thurs- 19149 Hokusen Maru to Full, Toyama the Yangte: batween": "Wuhu
| 3 o'clock this arterncot. YochowDomet; Prefecture, says,—-120mel.
day or Friday.—Domel: :
7 Sino-Japaneko horn
and
The... decreo? niai | granted months ago to Irene Thyro Let i
petition for the dissolution of her marriage with Lee Sik long was Trade, absolute by kite creation
marzing.
verdict regarding Erich Glaser, the third accused.-Reuter,
(Further) Laia Nowe on PRO: 12.)
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