1939-07-31 — Page 26

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 31, 1939.

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Flood Disaster Feared

Min River Flows Across Country

CHENGTU, July 31. EIGHT days' continuous ∙rain has caused the upper stretches of the Min River to overflow its banks, flood- inga large number of districts in west Szechwar

Mountain freshots, tearingĮ down in mighty torrents.. turned thousands of acres of farmland into sheets of miniature lakes...

The Proping embankment on the lower reaches of the Min River has already collapsed ht several points, while the dykes at Slangpitze are in danger, being buffeted by the terrifle pressure of the flood watern.

Conservancy

authorities

Szechwan are doing all they can to prevent further disasters, Central News,

Floods Worson

CHUNGICING, July 31, Torrential rains have worsened the flood situation in Topci province, se- cording to a Tjenisin report.

The Grand Canal near Tungchow, enst of Pelping, overflowed its banka on July 27, and the flood waters poured into Tungehow after breaking through the city walls. Many houseS were washed away and civilians drowned.

and food

A part of the Japanese soldiers garrisoned in the city were forced to evacuate to Peiping while the rest gol up the city walls, They suffered heavy loss of arms and ammunition aupplies which were washed away by the surging waters.

Although the water subsided alderably last Friday and Saturday, the outskirts are still lying several fect under water.

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According to a recent survey, the elties most heavily affected by flood Include Kaocheng, Lingshou, Pingshan, Pehslung, Kuchow, Tsinh- alen, Chuohzien, Sinho, Shunieb, Tzehsien, Jensen and Hantan, with

the water more than three and half metres deep at most pointu. Central News.

HIGH OFFICIALS

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Public Opinion

RUMANIAN-HUNGARIAN 30 Millions

BORDER INCIDENTS

BUDAPEST, July 30.

AN INCIDENT took place on Saturday night on the Hungarian-Rumanian frontier at Tecsa, according to a semi- official announcement.

It is stated that Rumanian frontier guards shot at Hun- garian raftsmen who were on the river Theiss.

They fired about 60 shots, and several of them hit the Hungarian customs house and a nearby inn,

The Hungarian frontier guards fired blank shots in reply. However, no injuries resulted from the shooting.-- Trans-Ocean.

Survey

Don't

Know What To Do If Air Raid Came

OVER half the adults of Great Britain have no idea

what to do, either at home or at work, if an air raid occurred to-day. The average is almost certainly much higher in Hongkong.

About one person in every six in England has re- ceived some sort of training in Air Raid Precautions;

Vast Area Devastated BUT-of those who have received no training, over two-

DIE IN PLANE As Japanese

MOSCOW, July 30.-General Kholzunov and three other officers of the air force high coinmand were

killed "in the course of fulling their

dulles", it was announced here to- clay.

No details are published, and it is presumed that the plane in which they were travelling, crushed.

One hundred high officers of the

army signed a tribuic, and the list disposes of the recent foreign rumours of a new army purge-Renter“,

Crash In Flames

Retreat

LOYANG, July 31.

CHINESE counter-offensives in South Honan during the past few days have administered a crippling blow to the Japanese driving westward from Sinyang, important; town on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, and Mingkiang, 24 miles north of Sinyang.

The Japanese pushed to the west-in-threo-columns. Oke,. based at Mingkiang, struck nt Tsingyang in the northwest, an- other advanced from Sank- PARIS, July 30-One of five nerowanmino to Huangkang and planes from the aircraft-carrier Bearn taking part in the naugura-Tainyang, passing through tion of a new nerodrome at Boulogne-Yakang and Maoihih, while the Alprech to-day, crashed shortly after third column pushed straight to the take-off and caught fire.

Tungpeh from Sinyang..

jured, in some cases rather seriously.

Trans-Ocean.

Fatal Accidents

Kunstenchen, east of Tungpeh, has been recaptured by the Chinese. Central News.

Bren along the

thirds are completely ignorant of what they should do in a raid.

These startling facts are established by a nation-wide survey taken by the British Institute of Public Opinion, whose inter- viewers asked a representative cross-section of adult Britons:

"If there were an air raid to-day would you know what to do?"

RECEIVED TRAINING

SUBMARINE FEARED LOST Soviet Vessel Had 30 Men Aboard-

that

rescue

Of the total number ques- tioned 17 per cent. said that they had received some training in A.R.P. aa__wardens, auxili.. Japanese Push Repelled

ary fremen, decontaminators, LOYANG, July 31-More than nurses, first-aid workers, etc.

'BERLIN, July 25.--The Berlin 20,000 Japanese at Kaoplag, in south- When an air raid occurred

newspaper "Voelkischer Beobachter" east Shansi, pushing eastward to some people would probably be to-day published a Moscow dispatch Lugehwan have been repelled by at work, some at home. The saying that reports from Murmansk, the Chinese and are now Accing to- wards Changchih, in the northeast, Institute's interviewers asked Russia, told of the sinking of a Soviet submarine after had collided with and Tsincheng, in the south.

|about both possibilities:

Junother ship. The submersible, it The pilot perished in the dames.

The Japanese drive to Lingchwan of the tal number question the door of the sea.

was sald carried a grew of 30 men to The machine landed in a car-paric The first and second columns are was made in an attempt to establish

ed, 30 per cent, said they The dispatch said and the fire spread to several auto- reported to have already been beaten contact with their comrades at Hul- moblies, destroying eight.

would know what to do if at operations were started immediately | Some of the spectators were in-back to Mingklang following bitterhalen and Linhslen in northern Honan

combats.

to clear up Chinese units in the Tai❤ work, 27 per cent, said they after a diver was able to contact The third column is still battling hang Mountain

the trapped men by pounding on would know what to do if at the side of the submarine. It added wit the Chinese at Yuchhollen, east Shansi-Honum border.

home.

that the collision occurred during of Tungpch. To divert the Chinese Violent fighting is reported to be

Russian deel manoeuvres which were

and 56 per cent, if at home, was flashed that a made a detour to Kuhsienchen.

are entirely ignorant of what been lost.

The advices said that the rescue to do in the event of a raid.

operations were exceedingly difcult ANY DEFINITE ANSWER

since the submarine went down in deep water and the sen was heavy. Guerilla Attack

The state of their ignorance may (The Associated Press was unable. CHUNGKING, July 31-Reports be judged by the fact that the inter-to obtain corroboration of the ne received here reveal that the Japan- viewers were prepared to accept cident Immediately from either Mos- BRARY EL NENES NEYSE ese loss in the Chinese guerilla attack any definite answer, even the reply cow or Berlin. dispatch from on Henglin, station, 12 miles above "Yea, stay in bed" as sufficient to Moscow said Soviet circles there de- Wush on the Shanghai-Nanlding include the person among theclared they had no information con- Railway, on Saturday morning was Knows."

cerning the reported disaster off Murmansic)-Associated Prent. far more heavy than the Japanese And to this unprepared-half of the It the spokesman cared to admit in a press population must be added all chil-Russian submarine accident is true it Berlin report as to the A whole military train, It is stated, dren and young people, for it must adds another submersible to the re was heavily damaged by carefully, he remembered that only those of cent list of underseas disasters. The Jaid land mines when it reached the voting age are interviewed.

first was a Japanese submarine. She Henglin

went down in deep water off one of If those are added it would inthe southern Nippon Inlanda. All

FRANKFURT-ON-MAIN, July 30. strength, a part of the invaders haveraging in the vicinity of Hsiahsten, in So that 53 per cent. if at work, immediately stopped when the word |

-Two fatal accidents occurred during an air ruce at Frankfurt to-day.

A pilot was killed when his ma- chine hit the ground, and a spectator, struck by another plane making an emergency landing, suffered injuries from which he died.--Trans-Occan.

nouth Shanal. The Japanese com- The Japanese set fire to all the menced an attack on Liuchiakow, houses on their way of advance. east of lisiahsien, on Saturday, meet- devastating a vast area in their ing with stout Chinese resistance.-- wake and rendering large num-Central Newr, bers of non-combatants homeless. One unconfirmed report claims that

Sale of Handicraft

done by refugee girls of

conference in Shanghai,

slution

from Nanking.

submarine had

THE S.C. INDUSTRIAL CENTRE FOR REFUGEES Severn! hundred Chinese guerilins dicate that there are nearly 30,000,- hands aboard were lost.

then aurrounded the shattered.000 men, women and children in The U, S. submarine Squatus sank

and attacked the Japanese Great Britain who, in spite of three of train

the troops trapped inside. All the

coast. New Hampshire years of intensive A.R.P. propaganda, Twenty-six of those aboard died Japanese, except a few, were killed are sult without any individual plan while 33 were rescued with a diving or carried away.

An extensive length of the railway, of conduct if a sudden air raid came bell. it is further learned, was torn. Trafe upon them.

Cushions, dolls, bedspreads, children's dresses, play suits of all sizes, knitted shopping bags, pyja,nas, toys, home-made cakes, canvas shoes and many other useful household articles.

ALL TO BE. SOLD AT LOWEST BARGAIN PRICES at ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL HALL on 1st August, 1939 at 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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| fie, la not expected to resume within!"

a short time,

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WOMEN WORST OFF

The British submersible Theils went down off Portsmouth, England. while Ninety-five men were killed,

The Japanese apokesman at the Though is comforting to know four were rescued.

The French submarino Phenix dis- press conference in Shanghal merely that about one in five among men admitted the attack and said that and about one in eight of the women appeared in Comtanh Bay, off French eight cargo conches were destroyed, have received some sort of training Indo-China, while test diving. ile excused the incident by stating in actual air raid precautions, the Seventy-one officers and men were that he could at detall his troops to high proportion of those in complete lost. This guard every inch of the railway Ignorance shows that the propaganda located by salvagere, including the Central Newa.

has had little effect,

U. S. 8. Pigeon, and an effort is being made to raisé her,

SPANIARDS TO RETURN HOME

The Instituto's figures show, that! this

is particularly. true amon ,women and in the poorer sections of

the population.

submersible has been

Now Rescue Device

ROME, July 80-Araw device for the salvage of submarine crews The Instituto's interviewers found was tested by the Italian naval that in both these groups the pro- authorities in the Gulf of· Epezia St Jean de Luz, July 30-A portion of those who had no idea to-day,

Testa were made on a submarine Franco-Spanish agreement has been what to do in an air raid was higher reached for the immediate repatriaw than in any others, and that It Is "to in a depth of 70 metres, and, oc- tion of 50,000 Spanish militiamen at these two groups that educational cording to an official announcement, present interned at a camp in Franca, propaganda should be more Inten- the results were completely satis

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