1938-12-28 — Page 19

Wednesday

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December, 28, 1938.

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FIERCE WINTER BLASTS

IN U.S.

NEW YORK,

Dec. 27.

FIERCE ICY GALES

FRANCO'S DRIVE BROUGHT TO HALT

(Continued from Page 1.)

falling into the water. There were no victims.

CAVALRY MOP-UP

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From Burgos comes a report that Insurgent cavalry mopped-up the left bank of the Ebro as far as tibor- roja, linking up with Insurgent forces on the right bank, whereupon the

have cap cavalry are reported to

tured the heights above Ribarrojn at sidday, and to have dominated the heights above Flix, extending the front southward.

With the occupation of Capsierra, the insurgents seized an important communications centre, as well as

and Coguli, the Insurgents advanced

and blinding snow-the power plant. storms are sweeping After the capture and consolidation the northern half of the of Asp, and the roads between Lerida United States,. and considerably towards an important temperatures are perienced as low as 37 degrees below zero.

ex-

main road.

Insurgent

that the A Hendaye report says

offensive, which the Loyalists claim is being made under the direction of an Italian general.

important Loyalist seaport of Tur-

A 61 m.p.h. gale is lashing day swept within 30 miles of the the Great Lakes, and coast-ragons.

The lusursent spearhead is com- guards report the heaviest

posed of units of Moroccan cavalry, sea for years is pounding and 30,000 Italian Blackshirts, and it the eastern shore of Lake reported to have chattered Be Loyalist lines at three points along has now Michigan, while 30-feet the co-malle front, which

taken the shape of an hour glass to waves are turning Lake the north and south of Balaguer. Erie into a miniature Atlan- tic.

In Eire and Buffalo, gales have necessitated ropes along the streets to enable pedestrians to remain upright.

There are 10-foot snowdrifts in the north-west.

have

Trains, filled with holiday- makers, have been delayed.

bren So far no casualties reported despite the dangerous con- ditions for pedestrians and travellers. that Reports from Toronto state the worst snowstorm of the winter

Ontario ja roging throughout Reuter.

It is

Thus, with the offensive only five days old. General Franco hak прям parently covered one-third of the distance from la base at Seros to the first major Tarragon, which objective of the drive on Barcelona,

miles northward alonif the Mediterranean, from Tarragona.

Insurgents nearest to Tarragona are in positions in the Linzeo Moun- tains, which provide a wall to the Lerida-Tarragona

highway, white

south they have occupied posts be- yond Borjas Blancan, as a result of tanking operations, without attempt- ing to occupy the town.

Behind the Insurgent lines orc the captured towns of Aspa, Cogull, Torresbeses, Soleras, and Granadella, and the 1,300-foot Mount Pinjat, which was wrested from Catalan brigades after very force fighting.

The Rev. Father MacDonald conducting Mass in the Chapel at the Hongkong Brewery. Sam Taana, New Territories. The members of the Loyola Mission nearby hold services in the Brewery every Sunday, by kind permission of Mr. J. II. Itutionlee, the Managing Director of the Brewery, for the convenience of the staff and other residents of the Castle Peak district-Photo by Jaffer.

Death Of Famed Abbot Of Buckfast

London, Dec. 27. Dom Ansear Vonier, Lord Abbot of Buckfast, whose name will always be associated with the remarkable enterprise by which the abbey church was rebuilt on its old foundations at Buckfast by the work of the monks themselves over a period of 30 years, has died.

He was 03 and was convalescent from illnes7.

He died in his sleep this morning Only a few weeks ago a tower of

WH5 re- the abbey church, which consecrated in 1932 by Cardinal Bourne, was completed to the delight of the abbot, who saw a 32 year-old dream realised.British Wireless.

Another British Steamer Sunk

FRANCE AND ITALY.-Continued From Page 1.

Somaliland Governor Asks For Troops

PARIS, Dec. 27.

GREAT PROMINENCE is given in the "Paris Soir" to-day to a message received from its correspondent in Cairo in which it is alleged that Italy is concentrating large numbers of troops along the border of Abyssinia and French Somaliland.

The Governor of Somaliland,

it is stated, has asked the French Government to take immediate; mensures for reinforcing the military and naval outposts.

The same message says that the Egyptian Government has received i

of Information about the despatch Italian troops to the southern part of Libyn, and that, in view of the Im- pending diplomatie wiks, the Egyptian Government looks upon this netion as an "ominous sign."--Trous- Ocean.

500 VIOLENT DEATHS

New York, Dec. 27, The number of violent deaths over

BATTLEFIELDS STREWN WITH DEAD the three-day Christmas holiday is Increasing towards 600, as the Cana-

Meanwhile Insurgent headquar- dlan blizzard to-day swept eastward accross the north and central States,ters at Saragossa report the capture predicted that the cold snap of nearly 3.000 prisoners during the would encompass two-thirds of the past 24 hours. The report adds that the retreating Loyalists left the eastern part of the United States by

battle-fronts strewn with thousands to-morrow.

NO DENIAL NECESSARY of dead,

Ahead of the drive, Loyalist towns'

London, Dec. 27. evacuated

Rome, Dec. 27. are being rapidly

The British steamer, Stancroft, a Franco's bombers swept 30 to 101,400 ton vessel belonging to Lon- Competent Italian quarters deem it miles beyond the fighting lines to don shipping company, was hit by a quite unnecessary to issue an officia! day, and unloaded tons of bombs on bomb and sunk during a large-scale denial of the rumours circulated in Important communication points. bombardment of Barcelona, carried the French and British press of the of Italian troops in Meanwhile, in the Tremp sector, out by Insurgent aircraft to-day, ac- concentration

to reports reaching here.

Italian newspapers reproduce the London and Paris reports, with ironic commentaries.

Omeals of major airlines at Chi- capo grounded their machines as a United preenutionary measure. Presa.

NEW CHINESE OFFENSIVE GAINING

MOMENTUM

(Continued front Page 1.)

in

Hold

in south Shansi, according despatelies just received here.

The Japanese invaders their attack on the Chinese positions at the

ussisted by two villages were terrific artillery bombardment parta- ken by over a dozen heavy pieces. Over 500 shells were hurled onto the Chinese trenches pulverising some of the defence works but the defenders grimly held on to their ground.

The latest message from the front

are

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states that the opposing forces holding each other at bay along line joining Maochitsun, Kuchen and Tumen-Central News.

HEAVY JAPANESE LOSSES

Chungking. Dee. 27. It is announced that heavy Bghling has broken out in Shunst, and that the Japanese are suffering heavy losses, Trans-Ocean.

JAPANESE DEPARTING FROM YOYANG

Changtch, Dec. 28.

Field dispatches state

15

Navarres, Galician and Eranco troops co members of the crew ore said to

North Africa.

The "Giornal d'Italia," says that "Pertinax", on the hunt for alarming

captured Capslerra, dominating the vital communications line running have escaped unhurt. southwards from the frontier 10 The same steamer Agured largely Artesa de Segre.

in the news in July last, when her The Insurgents are reported al-skipper appeared before a tribunal ready to be within sight of the Segre on a charge of violating the pro-news, has squirted his polson in the River, which will have to be crossed visions of the non-intervention agree before they reach Artesa, which is ment by attempting to carry arms to the immediate northern objective.- Barcelona. The charge United Press.

GERMAN VERSION

Bilbao, Dec. 27.

greatly favoured the operations f

Good weather conditions to-day the Insurgent forecs in their Catalon inn offensive, according to reports reaching here from the front.

The attack is continuing to make

making a

out

is

proved.-Trans-Ocean.

hope of being able to convince Bri tish public opinion of the necessity of Anglo-French collaboration in the Red Sea.-Trans-Ocean..

ctly- was

Czechs To Disband

Labour Battalions

A

were

"TURE INVENTION"

Parls, Dec. 27.

French offelal quarters let it be plainly understood this evening that they piace little credence on the re-

соп-

Abducted

Girl's Night Of Terror

Castle Douglas, Kirkcud- brightshire.

A TERRIBLE story of how she was dragged 15 miles through fields and woods last night by a man who threatened to murder her if she did not do his bid- ding, was told recently by Florence MacKenzie, 16- years-old schoolgirl, of Bal- maghie, near here.

Florence vanished on her way home from school, and while bloodhounds, policemen with gamekeepers, and estate workers searched for her, a shepherd saw her in a small boat in the middle

of Loch Grannoch, 15 miles from here.

Tarragona, straightened Ebro salient which had been formed between Mequinenza and Ribarroja. Several hundred killed and hundreds

prison in the course of this advance.

Judging from that the

other reports fur- ther progress has also been made by It was also announced here to-day main bulk of the Japanese troops at

the left wing, which is smashing its that the Communist Party in Yoynng

Canton-Hankow the the on Railway in north Hunan, has been way through difficult terrain in the Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, had Tremp sector. Here, General withdrawn to Chenglingki, five miles

been dissolved.-Trans-Ocean. Franco's forces penetrated the Loya- north.

Chinese vanguards are at Nantsin-list lines to-day to a depth of four

miles. kang. immediately south of Yoyang. "mopping up" the Japanese remnant troops there.--Central News.

ports appearing in French and Eng 11sh newspapers concerning a Prague, Dec. 27. Czecho-Slovakia intends to dis-centration of Italian troops in North

Sobbing and exhausted, she drag- progress. The right wing of band its labour battallons, formed of Africa.

No Information to that France's forces, which is unemployed workers, and to introduce was stated, had been received at the escaped from her captor by rowing effect, it ged herself ashore, and said she had a thrust in the direction of

was taken a system of

one year compulsory French Colonial Ministry, while the across the loch. She Ulabour service.

French Foreign Office described the home by car.

Here is the story she told: of re- commission, composed

news "pure Invention".--Truns- tatives of various Government Ocean.

"I was cycling home, and was only n few minutes from the house, when concerned, is to be set

WARSHIP FOR DJIBOUTIT · a man jumped from the sideway and up for the purpose of studying the Ger-

dragged me into the bushes. operation of labour service in

PARIS, Dec. 27.

"He held me on the ground, put THE ESCORT VESSEL Diberville, | his hand over my mouth, and he said many.

which is attached to the French naval if I screamed or tried to escape he forces at Levant, and which is due would kill me. to carry out a cruise of the Red Bea, left Beirut for Djibou!! to-day-

Switzerland's

Defence Measures

Bene, Dec. 27.

Swiss defence estimates provide for expenditure of 350,000,000 francs for the coming year, of which 150,000,000 will have to be appropriated for the alr forec.

captured several small towns to the In the Segre sector, the Insurgents

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south ond south-west of Borjas Swindling Charge

| Blancas,--Trans-Ocean,

BIGGEST BATTLE IN WAR

Faris, Dec. 27,

flm

Saragossa, Dec. 27. M. Bernard Tanenzaff, well-known The Christmas offensive launched as Bernard Natan, the French by General Franco in Catalonia was company director, and two

The Insurgents, have been arrested on a charge

continued to-day.

others.

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Peasants, Gendarmes Clash On Border

"It became dark, and I saw some→ one—I think it was my father searching around with a light. But I dared not do anything.

"Then the man, said he was going

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to take me away. He made me walk THE POLICE RESERVE STAIRWAY INCIDENT

all night. We started off ACTORS felds and over walls. Whenever he could he kept to the woodlands.

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Orders Issued for The Current Week

of

Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. Budapest, Dec. 27.

"It was terribly cold and I felt Mr. T. H. King, Commissioner One was killed, and many wound- frozen. With the short stops for mo Police, state: in four days, have conquered 360 swindling, and detained in the Santeed in a clash between Slovak pea- to rest, we kept on all through the

sants, armed with knives and stocks, night. square miles, and have taken more prison,

than 5,000 prisoners,

while 32 The sum involved, according to the and Hungarian gendarmes in the

is communes of Nagysurany and Zog, JUMPED INTO BOAT representatives, Loyalist planes are reported to have shareholders'

near the Czech-Ilungarian frontier, been shot down.

Loyalist divisions, fighting

near

Over 500

In a report presented to the Federal Seras, are sald to have suffered Parliament by the Federal Council. heavy casualties, and were almost It is sinted that a proposal for the completely annihilated. creation of a special defence fund to Loyalists who had taken refuge in cover increased expenditure on armas

the church of Seros were ments, must be seriously considered.

prisoner. -Trang-Ocean.

Chile Starts Purge

several thousands sterling.

All three deny the charges

Reuler.

gein Viscount Chilston

To Retire

The King has

London, Dec. 27.

approved

that

The civilian population remained in most of the villages since the Loyalist Government had not time lo evacuate them.

Insurgent military observers des-Viscount Chitston be sworn off the cribe the present beginning of the biggest battle in the been Ambassador at Moscow Spanish civil war. Action has been October 1933, and retires from public The wholesale purge of Govern-prepared with the utmost care, and service this month-British Wireless.

Of Army Generals

Santiago de Chile, Dec. 27.

ment officials and high army offleers |

offensive as the Privy Council. Lord Cute

a larger scale than ever before, The greatest difficulties on a front

River to

the

since

The Dockers' M. P. Dies

is officially announced to-day.

The encounter followed a demon stration in which the Stovais de manded the return to Czecho Slovakia of two communes which

had been allocated to Tungary in the

recent Italo-German

Reuter.

"When dawn came we were on a

Chinese Denies Picking

Seaman's Pocket

An unlicensed hawker, Ng Chol, 27, was charged before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Magistracy on Monday with stealing u sum of money from Able Seaman J. J. O'Sullivan, The Commissioner of Police and of H.M.S. Falmouth, at Gloucester

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General

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O'Sullivan sold he was walking (Reserve) wish all ranka of the along the road in the early hours of Monday morning when the defendant lonely hill, and I said I should have Hongkong Police Reserve a Merry approached and took him up to a hand a ment since lunch at school the Christmas and a Happy and Prosper-flat. day before.

to have something to eat. I had not

"He went away in search of a gout,

and that was my chance to escape.

"I ran down the hill to a lock and found three boats moored there.

"I jumped into one and used a floor-board as an oar.

"I rowed until I got almost to the

German Decoration other side, where I saw a shepherd. I For Japan's Envoy

Berlin, Dec. 27. Herr Hitler, through Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, has bestowed on the: Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Oshima, the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle-United Press,

landed and he took me to a man who had a car, in which I was brought home."

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Ebro lation of a Popular Front Govern-Temp will have to be overcome by ment on December 15.

the columns operating The reorganisation involves the re- Pyrenees, where they will have to signation of eight generals, and the fight in heights up to 2,000 feet, dismissal of most heads of depart- The rapid advance on the southern mente und permanent under- wing

took the Loyalists in the Segre

London, Dec. 27. secretaries.

Seventy-five per cent. of the diple sector by surprise. Loyalist positions

Sir James Sexton, "the dockers be replaced on the lower Ebro, as well as their

bulwarks in the central sector, cast M.P.", former general secretary of bock Union of and north-east of Leridn, have been the National

of the Labourers, past President

London, Dec. 27. out-flanked so that they have been CoL T. McLeod has been appointed compelled to construct new entrench-T.U.C. and Labour Member for the Sir Charles Higham, plancer in

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