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FIRST EDITION

Hongkong Telegraph

FOUNDED ISL 五拜禮 號六廿月五英港香 FRIDAY: MAY 26,

No. 15034

1939. 日八初月四

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CHUNGKING AGAIN DEVASTATED

IN HORRIFYING MASS RAID

Incendiary Bombs Start Big Fires In Wide Area

By ROBERT P. MARTIN, "United Press" Staff Correspondent. HUNDREDS OF people are dead and dying, and three huge fires are raging in China's war capital as a grim sequel to the re-opening of Japanese air hostilities against Chungking.

The raiders appeared over the city shortly after 7 p.m. on one of the most beautiful nights of the year.

The moon was high and bright and there was not a cloud in the sky.

The stillness and peacefulness was shattered half-an-hour after the sun sank behind the horizon.

The Japanese wasted no time.

Within half an hour the scene was almost indescribable in its confusion and horror.

HUGE FIRES RAGING

MORE than a hundred demolition bombs

way.

Siam to Change Name to Thai

TOKYO, May 25.

THE SIAMESE. Government has decided to introduca into the People's Assambly on Juno 24, a bill changing the namo of the country to "Thai", the anniversary of the Revolution, according to official informa- tion roaching here to-day.

Tha present designation "Siam" moans

subject or dependency in tho nativo tongue, while the new namo "Thai" moaning "Freedom" is the name of the original race which settled in the country about 3,000 years ago.

In ancient times, the country was called "Thai" of "Muang- thai", meaning the land of freedom.-Domei.

CRITICAL SITUATION IN AMOY

SURVIVORS TELL OF DRAMA IN EXCLUSIVE STATEMENTS

"I SHUT MEN IN LIVING TOMB"

By LT. CMDR, OLIVER NAQUIN

The Commander of the Submarine Squalus

"I WAS in the control room at the time of the disaster.

"Any accounts as to how it happened are too technical to attempt to discuss before the ship is raised.

"The officers and men per.

formed 100 per cent., and there

was never a doubt in my mind TRI-POWER

that we would come up, especial- ly after we had heard from our sister-ship, the Sculpin, that the Falcon was on the way."-

KULANGSU TALKS NO TIME FOR

END: C-IN-C. GOES

THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR, Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, arrived at Amoy in H.M.S. Cornwall at 8 o'clock this morning, the passage from Hongkong being completed in 15 hours.

Salutes were fired by Ameri can, French and Japanese war-

new flag of the Rear-Admiral of

A bomb hit the Mei Feng Bank, where seven ships in the harbour, whilst the JAPAN MAY the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, BE HALTED

were dropped by the twenty-six planes participat-civilians were killed while standing in the door. ing in the raid,

The Salt Bank was struck and the tall tower Admiral Murray,was.........also -They ignored the military area on the out-

salutedAdmiral-Murray-took skirts of the city, and confined their attention to of the Bank of Chungking was demolished. the swarming civilian areas,

Six bombs virtually destroyed a group of up his appointment after arri- The shimmering waters of the two rivers, buildings, surrounding the Canadian Mission ving in Hongkong by the Ran- gleaming silvery in the moonlight, provided Church and the dormitory of the Women's pura on Wednesday, their markera for the rain of death on the Foreign Mission Association but neither building darkened city.

Roaring Infernds

was hit.

Hospital Destroyed

Considerable significance is be- Hoved to be altached to the arrival In Amoy of the British Ambassador.

SENTIMENT

By

FLOYD MANESS, L.T.O., U.S.N.

ENTENTE

Soviet Acceptancė Now Assured

LONDON, May 25. THD Foreign Office bas instructed Sir William Seeds, British Ambassador to Moscow, to advise the Soviet Foreign Minister of the general outline chard, William Isnucs, William Boul-of the British plan for the tri- ton and Robert Washburn eserped power mutual aid pact and to from the after battery room before Indicate the lines of the detailed closed the bulkhead door.

formula which will be forward-

"Raymond O'Hara, Roland Blan-

had partially closed the door fed when the draft is completed when several men shouted from the very shortly, after battery room.

It is understood that the "I let the door slip back and fve Soviet's acceptance is assured.

through, after which I closed the door,

men came

London Concerned bulkhead guard's ultiative.

At New Trend

Britain's defence ministers t0~ day conferred with Lord Halifax regarding conversations among the -three powers, --------

"There were no orders to close the door this is considered to be the "I realised there must have been men trapped in the after compart to Moscow ments, but in on emergency of this strategic kind every bulkhead door in all sec-alliance-United Press. tions of the boat are fastened as a mehsure of safety.

It is understood they have drafted- detalls of proposals to be forwarded major concerning the factors involved in

"In such times there is no time for

the

ex-

the

pack

LONDON, May 25.

Scope Of Pact THE LATEST Far Eastern

London, May 25. developments, including the an-sentiment.

Although offelal circles are Negotiations End

ceedingly reticent nounced intention of the Japan-

regarding "We are trained rigidly to net and nature and scope of the intest The negotiations between the Bri-ese to blockade the entire Chinese so I gave no consideration to the fate British proposals to Russiu, "Reuters" Soon-it-was no longer dark, for huge tongues One bomb scored a direct hit on the largest tish, French and Japanese Com- of flame quickly became roaring infernos as the Buddhist monastery in the heart of the city.mander-in-Chief and the U.S. Com coast, are regarded here with of my shipmates any more than I diplomatic correspondent learns that

would have expected consideration It is believed they cover: to fire incendiary bomb.: set

the highly Another destroyed the "Wounded Soldiers In modere were broken off yesterday more than usual concern

I mutual assistance British political circles regard the bad I been in their places.

"Not until the first impulsive action French Commander-in-Chief, Transit" headquarters which was supported and The inflammable wooden structures.

which

will operate in the event of Admiral Decoux, has already left situation on the beginning of on The Japanese rained their missiles of death directed by foreigners.

oggession upon European Amoy

Should the Japanese actually awfulness of the situation of the men

territories of Any of the three over an area a quarter-of-a-mile wide and a mile-

Shanghai, and the Brilh

niter section—particularly carry out the threat to blockade Sherman Shirley, my chum-whose

parties, and-a-half long.

Perey Noble, is leaving this afternoon quet, for sin nasip. Lamante Ple-entirely new course of development. was over did I begin to realise the Commander-in-Chief,

the coast, England, it is declared, could 1 scarcely refrain from counter-best man I was to have been on Sun- in H.M.S. Birmingham for Shanghai,

day," measures, although, because of the via Foochow.

undertaken extensive obligations

Statements Through by England in Europe, there is

"Unitod Prass" little Inclination to become involved in the Far East.

ATTEMPT TO RAISE

area and are out of control, but most of the Fires are at present ablaze in the business bombs were demolition bombs.

Their attention was concentrated on the heart of the central area, just east of the path of death blasted through the city during the May All lights and telephones in the city are out of 5 bombing.

nction. All telegraph poles are down and the streets Swooping over the end of the peninsula are piled with debris as much as 20 feet high in some where the Kialing and Yangtse rivers meet, the places. armada took long swooping dives in order to release their cargoes of death.

The waterfront area became a shambles.

Dog Fight Over City

The scene of the greatest carnage was the Central Park, where five bombs killed-nt-least-100-and-wounded hundreds of others. They also destroyed a small zoo, in which there wore birds and monkeys.

Dugout Demolished

Six Chinese pursuit planes pluckily attacked the invaders and the roar of the

A bomb made a direct hit on a dugout killing à fighting machines as they screamed through the air brought many people out of their hiding score of people. The trees in the park and the places to wait, at the risk of their lives, the shelters built in the form of pagodins have been either one-sided moonlight battle.

destroyed or spattered with blood.

'

Admiral Sir

H.M.S. Cornwall will remain at Amoy. It is not yet known whether the Ambassador will transfer to the Birminghum or remain in Kulanga.

For this reason, it is believed that Britain will refrain from political or With the ending of the naval military coups, at least for the Ume negotiations, diplomatie-negotiations being, and will rely on economie were re-opened this morning when counter measures, the Japanese. Consul General, Mr. G. Uchida, met Mr. L. H. Hitchcock, Acting Chairman of the Kulangsu Municipal Councii.

Blockade Foars

to the

|

In the

direct

2This will be preceded by a tripartite declaration covering such

a menace until a formal pact concluded.

LATEST

PORTSMOUTH, May 20. THE sixteen pontoons used in rais- ing Submarine S4 pre en route from Brooklyn Navy Yard on barges towed by Navy tugs. . They will reach the U.S. Action Seen

scene of the disaster this afternoon.

Raising the Squalus with buoys Hope prevalls that any action

may take several days, depending directed against Japan would boon the weather. borne principally by the United Lieutenant Commander Naquin States, and there is an opinion that and seven others of the crew who According to Japanese sources, the a Japanese blockade of the China were the last to be rescued have Uchida coast would induce President Rooso- spent the night in decompression conversations between Mr. and Mr. Hitchcock are likely to mark velt to revise his attitude towards the chambers.

Far Eastern conflict.

They were in a worse condition) The flash of anti-aircraft guns, the bursts of A row of twenty civilians who sought shelter new turn in the situation.

Up to present, President Roose-than the others because they, had red shrapnel in the air, added to the intensity of under a rock wall were all killed in the exact positions became suretiive at 5 p.m. yesterday, Neutrality Act against Japun, but diving bell, which was fouled when

The Japanese blockade of Kulangsu velt has refused to apply the spent four

in. the hours confined

the drama above the city,

they had adopted, from concussion and shrapnel, after which time no vessels, under blockade, it is felt, would bring about being hauled to the surface.

The offices of Kunst and Albers pain of severe reprisals, are per- a situation in which President Roose- would be unable to oppose

26 Doad German business firm were destroyedmitted to trade between the Settle-velt

opinion in this] and also the home of Doctor Picht, ument and he mainland without a American public

matler-Trans-Ocean, German physician. His home had Japanese navat permut, been previously set fire during the

The Immediato effect of this de

Washington Silant May 5 raid.

cision, which was conveyed by Pro- The first bombs hit the colony of cinmation signça by the Japanese WASHINGTON, May 25-Mr. sampaus sending dead bodles and Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Kon-Cordell Hull, American Secretary of

There is only a very slight chance MOSCOW, May 25-M. Maxim Litvinoff, former Foreignwreckage floating down the Yangtse. do, will be a food shortage on the State, to-day refused to comment on

However, it is estimated that there island.

the attempted blockade of the China that even one of the 26 is alive.. Minister, was present when the Counell Union, which is one of

not more than thousand

Coast.

Naval authorities are of the opin- the Housca of Parliament, voted the agenda for the 1939 budget. |casualties.

Kulangsu obtains procttenlly all its He added that he had not had lon that they were either all crushed The city was almost blanketed for food supplies from the mainland, and official despatches Informing him of or drowned by the inrush of water M. Litvinoff was in the front row, the Cabinet listened, said that the with his successor, M. Potemkin, army and navy were now ready to an hour with dense smoke and dust existing stores wil rapidly become such a blockade being attempted, and or that they died from exposure in he would awalt official reports from the 30 degree temperature, on tho chatting cheerfully with Deputies,

answer threefold, the blows of the which choked and blinded the fleeing extinted.

American diplomatic and consular jocean floor. refugees. -The-Britle):-Ambassador-and-other-warmongers. As the Changfukeng A bombs hit directly behind-the diplomats listened to the proceedings. hostilities had demonstrated, the Red

making a statement Reuter. Delegates, cheered for five minutes Army is prepared to crush-decisively Canadian Mission Hospital, but there Cross rescue workers are rushing the representatives in the Far East before. when M. Zverev, Commissar for those daring to violato our borders.was no damage or injuries. Many wounded to the hospitals.

bombs hit the area which was There is an grid smell of black Finance, announced in Parliament-leuter.

bombed on May 6 killing soldiers on gunpowder which, well informed- that military expenditure for 1939

guard.

quarters sald, Indicates that the was 40,885,000,000 roubles, compared

Japanese are running short of run with 27,000,000,000 roubles last year, HAIFA May 25. —A 40-hour' cur- Unable To Reach Fires cotton and are being forced to use the ana that it amounted to over feiv-with-a-ine-of-020-has-been-

| old-style bombả....... quarter of

Imposed on the Arab' quarters the national budget!

The firemen ̋ara unable to "reach || Chinese reports claim that two M: Zverev, to whom M. Stain, M. Hella following heavy firing in the the fires because of the debris which Japanese planese were shot down any foreign ship in wafers near the will be necessary to repair tie bell, who is the victim of aggression must Voroshilov and other members of Jewish district last night-duter. chokes the street. Hundreds of Red United Press,

RUSSIA DOUBLES HER MILITARY BUDGET

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