1939-04-20 — Page 27

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shows Alsace, where

the

French police Faro, Investigating the connections between the Alsace Autonomists and the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police..

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Following the arrest of Dr. Kart Itoos, the Autonomists' leader, the Swiss police in Basel are colla. borating with the French authorl- tica.

Dr. Roos is reported to have been detained on information pluen by a man who' was arrested on an espionage charge by the Barcl police several days ago.

He was suspected of having rela- tions with the Gestapo on the other aite of the Rhine. Another arrested man, suspected of being a German spy, was found to be a correspondent of the Alsace Autonomists' news- paper.

Dr. Roos, who was born of German parents in Strasbourg, was a captain in the German Army during the war,

Alcoholic Drink And Your Good Health

ALCOHOLIC drinks token moderate- f drink. ly will not harm the big majority of normal adulls but are in no way necessary for healthy life. They muy be definitely injurious for children

vous systems.

.

are

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 20, 1939.

JAPANESE LAUNCH DRIVES ON FOUR FRONTS

CHINA OFFENSIVE SLOWING DOWN

CHINA'S HOPES OF re-

capturing one of the nine PAPER WEIGHT provincial capitals which have fallen into Japanese hands since the outbreak of hostilities gradually dim- med to-day as new Japanese drives halted the Chinese. offensives in four of the five provinces in which they opened early last week.

Heavy Japanese reinforce- ments, alleged to have been Janded in Canton from Formosa, were hurled against the 90-mile Chinese front around the city yesterday.

With the re-capture of Tsengshing, the Japanese have driven A wedge deeply Into the Chinese lines Atid have at least temporarily, relieved pressure on Canton,

Canton's Fate

STUDENT at Scale Hayne. College. Devon, bought an old Mills "bomb as a souvenir and used; it as a paper weight for nearly a year,

Subsequently he learned:-

(4) The bomb loaded, and

fully

(b) The safety pin is so rusted that it might give way at a touch.

The student has found an- other paper weight,

the

River city south of Kaifeng.

that

A Chinese spokesman in Chungking claims that the Japanese garrison in Kaifeng was almost completely wiped out when the Chinese broke into the city on two occasions_last week.

It is

however, admitted, Kolfeng is again in Japasesc hands, but it is clalined that the remainder of the garrison there is completely Isolated with the cutting of the Lunghal Railway east of the capital. Sinyang, the Japanese stronghold in the southern part of the province, Is reported to be threatened.

Shansi Position Obscura

Heavy fighting still continues 'at Kuwa, Wenst and Hanhisien, In southern Shanght, and conflicting clolms are made. "Central News" admits that the Japanese arɑ exerting strong pressure in a drive against the Chinese forces along a front stretching from Yutze, Taiku. Klhslon and Pingyao, which places parallel the Tathang Mountain range.

Kiangsi Successes

In western Shansi, feree fighting moderly their lives

centres in arean between Lühlh and shorter than those who do not drink

Japanese reports claim that Chinese Kinglochen.

Chinese alccraft have been ex- Heavy Aghting is now in progress counter-attacks on Tsongshing were treinely active In Shans and "DANGEROUS BELIEF"

of repulsed last night, with heavy subjected Japanese positions at Tai- have Statements frequently made that around Tengahing. The fate

losses. "Domei" reports that Canton may depend on the outcome. and most persons with unstable ner- people who drink become more if the Japanese counter-attackt can- Japanese are now driving northwards Yun, Talku, Yutze and Kinnghalen

bust than those who do not, ure These conclusions are.

not be sustained, the Chinese appear against the retreating Chinese forces to several aerial attacks. drawn

by untrue, state the experts.

reasonable The 15th Chinese Division is reported 11 eminent doctors who have investi-

The port refers to the more to stand more than

re- to be entrenched on strategic heights gated the action of alcohol on the dangerous belief that alcohol has a chance of making history by

capturing the Kwangtung provincial near Chongkoling about ten miles. human organism on behalf of the protective action against infection.

north of Tsengsting. Medical Research Council. (Alcohol It may have real value when taken capital.

The Chinese withdrawal under skified advice but there is good evidence that alcohol taken "in excess

Tsengahing is admitted in Chinese of the strictest moderation definitely

despatches. Prior to the withdrawal, weakens the power of resistance to

the Chinese dynamited the Japanese of Shameen at barracks and amunition dumps which Wuning, 70 miles north-west of Non- Sunkat, and the booming of heavy they previously had captured," guns is distinctly audible through- out the city.

Action on the Human Organism: H.M. Stationery Offee. is.)

They believed that people in gen- erat do not drink because they regard these drinks as foods, but because they like their taste and the agreeable effects. If they give any thought to the possiblity of being harmed they think the Immediate pleasure out-| weighs remote danger.

-AND THE ABSTAINER

the The abstainer does not ke teste or the effects, or he thinks the remoter ills associated with alcohol, real or Imaginary, justify abstention. The popular falley that alcohol is stimulant is demolished.

infection such as induenza pneumonia."

Man Fights Leopard.

London.

Japanese

the Despite

reported success north-east of Canton, the Chinese are still threatening the city from the northward. They are with- In twelve miles or

Shanghai Rumours In the West River sector, the Chinese continue to exert pressure on Fatshan. The position south of Canton, particularly at Sheklung, is obscure.

Honan Drive Ends

Although reports Indicate that the Chinese offensives are slowing down

Ti from

Kwangtung. Shansi, Honan and lupeh. Chinese forces appear to be meeting with further

Klangsi.

successes in

The Chinese have now advanced on

clong and have already cominenced on attack on the city, Wanshaushan, south of Nanchang, hus fallen before "Trans-Ocean" reports that the the Chinese drive. Japanese have capture Tanhsien, in The only other reports of note come north-eastern Hanun. The capture from Foochow, where, it is stated, was effected by the Kawasaki Dlvi-tension prevalis following the ap- slon, which operated in conjunction penrance of Japanese warships and

naval with a

detachment from transports off the mouth of the Min HLJ.M.S. Itakaki.

River Japanese planes are recon- "United Press" reports exciting The same agency reports that the inoltring over coastal towns. Shanghai rumour of Chinese plain-Chinese offensive in Honan has been Messages from United Press, Trans- clothes forces actually breaking into brought to an end with the Japanese Ocean, Reuter, Central News and Canton.

re-capture of Chungmu, a Hanngho Domei. The Shangboi reports state that Chinese artillery is now shelling the curtain. The leopard. Sultan, used city, and that Japanese troops "ure: in un animal act, attacked its trainer, heaping munitions in the centre of Josef Gatz. Stage hands drove it off the city in order to dynamite and as leopard and man rolled over and level Canton in the event of evacua-

Gatz was taken tron becoming necessary." over on the board.

These reports, however,

are be Statistics at present available do not to hospital and his net was taken

Heved to be greatly exaggerated. suggest that because some people over bý a Viennese girl.

While the audience at the Empire

chotted "The apparent stimulation," says Theatre. Edinburgh,

and the report, "is in the main, if not laughed, waiting for a performance wholly, an effect of the narcotic in to begin, a man and a leopard WCC Auence of the drug which, as we have struggling on the stage behind the seen, dulls the drinker's perception of unpleasant conditions in himself and his surroundings, and may make him feel better, more efficient and stronger then he really is."

Oream

Pinest

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Black Baby Conclusive As Evidence

THE House of Lords recently passed the Second Reading of a Bill which, in certain circumstances, will make blood tests: compulsory in cases of illegitimacy.

I was Lord Merthyr's Bill, and [his main argument was that while the lood test would not show that a man was the father of an illegi- timate child, it would, in -n certain number of cases, 'show that he was no1,

He suggested that with blood tests, one out of every three accused men might have been exonerated. So he "wunted"science to be allowed to come"

to the ald of the law:

Lord Dawson of Penn spoke of the mun of position and wealth put up as a stalking horse."

He admitted that the blood test could only be proved in 30 per cent of non-paternity cases, but asked what Injustice was there in that. He added that the Bill had the support of the scientific world.

Lord Raglan told of what he called

"a fictitious case" in Cardiff.

Stalemate In Negotiations

Britain And The -Palestine Problem

LONDON, Apr. 19.. IN THE HOUSE of Commons to-day, Mr. Thomas Williams (Lab.) asked whether discus- sions on Palestine recently held in Egypt were a continuation of the conference in London.

Mr. Malcolm MacDonald replied in The man asked that the baby the termination of the London, con- the negative, and added that since might be produced in court," he salt. "It was, and it was a Negroference, the British Government had baby, He was lucky. lad the been considering its future policy in baby been a few shades lighter he would have had to pay."

Palestine.

In informal discussions before

Lord Raglan said elderly mngis- leaving London, the delegates of trates were sentimental where young some of the neighbouring States womta were concerned. As for expressed certain views which raleed women magistrates, he minde the certain points In connection with the daring declaration

British intentions, and Informal dis- cussions which had taken place had them regard any suggestion that a woman has done anything wrong been concerned with an elucidation sexually as a direct attack upon their of these points.-Reuter. own virtue.

that

"most

of

Lord Atkin, a famous judge, wel- comed development which meant that even in a small proportion of facts could be conclusively

cases

proved,

It would be an immense addition

to the equipment of justice," he said,

and he could not think of such ́n thing

being rejected.

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