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THE WAR CHINESE

IN CHINA

West

RAILWAY

FROM HANKOW

Yingyuen

KWANG TUNG

Macao

CANTON

,

Miles

TENGSHING

Sheklung

PAKLAO

WATC

40

Tamshui

Hachang

HONGKONG

Nazi Cruiser In Atlantic?

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

LONDON, Oct. 2 (UP).—It is now reported| from Brazil that the predatory raider which sank the British steamer Clement was a German pocket battleship.

*Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

October 3, 1939.

"CAT AND MOUSE"

POLICY ON BORDER

"TELEGRAPH" STAFF REPORTER

ON THE HONGKONG BOR- DER, 11.10 am-Japanese_gar. risons who were ambushed by superior Chinese forces along the Hongkong frontier during the week-end are licking their wounds and cremating their dead during the lull-temporary, It is thought-that has now set In

This morning I mado thorough investigation of the entiro frontier zone Shataukok and Lowu.

CHANGSHA DRIVE

LOSES MOMENTUM

KWEILIN, Oct. 3 (Central).—The Japanese forces

a driving toward Changsha are now finding themselves in between a difficult situation as a result of forceful Chinese

counter-assaults from all sides.

The Chinese appear to be engaged in a "ent and mouse" blockade of According to latest military the Japanese.

advices from the front, the The hills surrounding Shalaukok Japanese trapped in the hilly are in Chinese hands, and Shum regiona stretching from the

Chun is still surrounded.

But, for some reason as yet not northeast of Changsha to Ping- divulged, the main body of the Chin-kiang are subject to enormous ese forces suddenly withdrew yes-Chinese pressure. Their lines terday afternoon.

are wavering..

Japancio Landing

Chicas attacks, it is claimed, have inflicted thousands of casualties upon

Zi la bellaved here that a landing the Japanese effected in Blas Bay the Japanese, greatly draining the yesterday from two transports may limited man-power, be the cause.

rear.

WAS

The Japanese, who are believed to Spearhead Blunted be pushing in towards Walchow, are

The Japanese apparently adopting their

spearhead ume- honoured tactics of not attempting 10 miles north of

blunted at Klaolowyl, about fifteen Changsho on the oppose the Chinese by fronal "al- tacks from Shum Chun, but are Cunton-Hankow Railway. After re- throwing out small columns which capturing the place, the Chinese are

the can threaten the Chinese from the chasing

Japanese retreating. jnorthward, while other Chinese units Japanese aerial reconnaissance was are reaching the Japanese rear north speeded up this morning with the re- of Fullinpu, northeast of Kinotowyl. turn of finer weather, but the air- Succcases have alad been scored by men, apparently, are having some the Chinese at Wangkungklao, Lichtla- dimculty in locating the Chinese tuan, and Shongshanshh between forces, as no bombing operations Changsha and Pingklang. All these have taken place.

points have been recaptured. At Shangshanshi 2,000 Japanese were practically, totally wiped put after days of encircling attacks by the Chinese.

Over British Territory

A Japanese plane engaged in re- connaissance work near Shataukok yesterday flew over British ter- ritorial waters in Airs Bay.

In-

Meanwhile, flanking attacks have been launched upon the Japanese left į Wing in the Pingklang area with favourable results. The Japanese there are not making any bendway,

the advance. of their troops along the railway line.

Commenting on this rumour to-day, the Admiralty draws attention to the fact that two of the three such battleships possessed by Ger- wounded in an engagement near Sha- and are therefore unable to follow up

THE ADMIRAL SCHEER

many are at present believed to be undergoing repairs as a result of the R.A.F.-raid on the German Fleet at Wilhelmshaven early last month.

"If the ship that sank the Cleinent was one of Ger- many's three pocket battle- ships, she would presumably be the Admiral Sheer,"

the Admiralty statement

says.

"In which case, she must have eluded the British blockade in order to reach the Atlantic."

In Safety Zono

The Clement sailed from New York

on September 20 with a crew of 45

;

The British navy, however, has made plans well ahead and aircraft will provide a far-seeing oye. The German ralder should soon be on the run.

In S. American Waters

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

Japanese casualties were doubledly severe in the initial sur- prise attacks by the Chinese. Fifteen Japanese were killed of

toukok, The Japanese were seen bringing their casuales into the city, Apparently, the heaviest Japanese casualles were sustained in the valley

U.S. Hails Winston's

•

Speech

NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (Reuter Special)---"The supreme exam. pls of the democrátio leader at war at his best," is the "Herald- Tribune's" description of Mr. Winston Churchill's speech.

"One speech of this sort,” KATI the paper, "is worth batteries of heavy artillery. A leader of Mr. Churchill's calibre is worth more than an army Corps. He has rendered It Impossible for anyone to believe that any peace offensive which Berlin may con- cont can mucceed in its trans- parent object of winning a second world war without fight- Ing for it,"

DEBATE ON BUDGET

Britain's Stupendous Financial Effort

LONDON, Oct. 2, (British Wire- less). The Budget debate was con- tinued in the House of Commons. to-day.

The Financial Secrotery lo the

The Chinese strategem, it is stated, dividing Chinese and British territory tered on the 200-kilometre front and is to isolate the Japanese units scal- between Shataukok and the Line envelope and annihilate them separ-Treasury claimed that the response Hang mines. In order to blockade the British frontier, the Japanese had ally. This has been successfully of the taxpayers to the budget had thrown out light pickets in his area,

carried nut in the hilly regions been truly remarkable and was one the northeast of more sign, it sign were needed; and the Chinese apparently had no stretching from [difficulty in overwhelming them.

Changsha to Pingklang where the of the determination of the British Japanese mechanised units are im- people to contribute in the financial mobilised.

sphere to the winning of the war.

Something like £888,000,000 would

Column Ambushed

A Japanese column of twenty men

The Chinese position, it is claimed, is reported to have been completely has been greatly strengthened after wiped out as they were ambushed heavy blows have been delivered to willst fording a stream above the Shum Chun river near Lin Ma Hang. the Japanese at various points..

At Lowu it was reported this mor- | ning that the Japanese were cremet- Ing their dend in Shum Chun,

Tainted Food

Court Case-

Dead Cat Prepared For Consumption

Shonsi Town Retaken

be obtained as a result of the April Budget, and £17,000,000 from the present Budget.

not

Such Agures were truly remark- lable, yet in a full year taxation under LOYANG, Oct. 3(Central)this budget would produce, After a brief Japanese occupation, £107,000,000, but £226,500,000, Yushe, in southeast Shansi, has been The new rates of income fnx.'sur- retaken by Chinese forces.

tax and death duties were going to Acting as the spearhead of the produce far-reaching changes in the Chinese counter-drive, a "dare-to-

lives of thousands of people, die" corps, pierced into the town Purpose Of Excess Profits Duty [after-bloody-hand-to-hand-combats -Increases-in-indirect-taxation, too, (with the Japanese, who fied in the would be borne with resignation, and direction of Wustang in the south. even cheerfulness, by the general

Japanese beleaguered in body of consumers.

The Hukwan

4

at

southeast of Changchih, The excess pronts duty had not have made several unsuccessful at- been unexpected, It would replace tempts to break the Chinese cordon, the armaments profils duty on which A dead cat which was describ-A small unit of them made another the House had spent many hours ed as "Tainted food" formed the sortie at Shangneitrun a few days earlier in the year. That tax was Survivors Picked Up

subject of a charge against Son, but was beaten back with heavy levied only on armument firm but RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 2 (Reu-Chi, 64, and Luk Hang, 54, at

losses.

the new tax would foll upon all ter)-Sixteen

Arms, whether engaged on armaments survivors of the the Kowloon Magistracy this of Linfen, more than 4,008 Japanese of tax for war-time.

At the Fowshan sector, southeast work or not. It was the right sort Clement have been picked up by the morning. They were charged troops try to advance eastward, Brazilian steamer Itatingo.

They were in an open boot off the with possession of tainted food. They are reported to be held in check House at the end of last week that a Copi. Crookshank informed the coast of Brazil.

Sanitary Inspector Sinton said Luk by the Chinese across the Tsin River. circular was sent out to all depart. They stated that three other boair was seen by a constable carrying the left the Clement befor she sunk. carcass of a cat in a bucket of waRIIN

Reverses In Kiangsi

ments reminding them that strictest They contained the rest of the crew, water in Soy Street yesterday morn

economy must be exercised over the except the captain, who

KAOAN, Oct. 3 (Central)The whole field of public expenditure takening. WWB

It was being prepared for Japanese in prisoner by the Germans.

north Kiangsi have because of the Imperative necessity human consumption. After a vain search for the three

suffered further reverees after their of husbanding the financial resources The Admiralty statement draws boats, the Italinga landed the men at

So later went to the Mongkok futile attempt to drive westward into of the country, so as to make them attention to the fact that the s.s. Maceio in Brazil. Later they re Charge Room and gave himself up north Hunan to synchronise the drive avaliable to the utmost for the pur- Clement was probably within the embarked, it is understood, for Bahla. by admitting he had picked up the fun Changsha,

poses of war. The usual Treasury limits of the "safety zone" proposed

dead cat, and had given it to Luk. by the Pan-American conference.

"The cat was a very small one, and west of Fenghsin, the Chinese have eised to the utmost.

After the recapture of Kanfang, control raight be trusted to be exer- was obviously unwholesome. They could not possibly sell it, as there been exerting heavy pressure upon

Labour's Criticism was at the most about half a pound Holow, a point to the northwest of

the remnant Japanese massed

Mr. Hugh Dalton, for the Labour BAHIA, Oct. 2 (UP)-Rescued of flesh," said Inspector Sinton.. The Clement, which normally car-members of the crew of the British

Kanfang. Growing desperate, the opposition, expressed satisfaction After pointing oul that they might rfed twenty passengern, is owned by steamer Clement have testified to the have killed themselves by eating the Japanese allegedly used poison gas the Chancellor's decision to avoid the the Booth Line, and is engaged in presence of a German armed raider cat,, the Magistrate, Mr. E. Hims-

yesterday,

the last wor of paying only passenger and freight service be- In South American waters and the warth, had both defendants bound invading Slushut have been repulsed. time, and of borrowing the balance Further north-west, the Japanese a small fraction of the cost at the tween Liverpool, New York and extension to that area of Germany's over on a $20 bond for one year. South American ports.

war against British shipping.

After n battle Hwangshaking, at exorbitant interest. He renewed Of 5,051 tons, she was a compara- The Lloyd-Brasileiro Lino's steam-

about 12 miles southeast of Slushul, the Labour criticism of the sugar tively new ship, being launched at er Itatings, which rescued 16 aur-count reports that it was a German they have retreated to Shawo, south- tax, also urged retention of existing the Cammell Laird yards in Birken-vivors, has arrived at Macelo, 320 pocket-battleship.

east of Hwangshakino.

abatements in respect of children and head in 1934,

miles northeast of Bohla, while an The three other lifeboats contain- The Japanese on the Hunan-earned income. unknown number of the Clement's ing the remainder of the crew of 30 Hupch-Kiangsi border regions which He suggested the Chancellor might Short Life Prodicted [ crow are sold to have reached a port have not yet been found.

pushed to Lungmeachwang, east off make up the loss of estimated c LONDON, Oct. 2 (Reuter)-It is in the north in their own lifeboats.

Pingklang in north Hunan with the venue in these concessions by a tax now revealed that the British steamer Italinga were the Clement's Second

Among those

11 Inch Guns picked up by the

intention of assisting in the drive on assessed on capital.

Sir Percy Harris (Liberal) sald he one of Changsha have also met with set-

a Clement, which WE! sunk by an ofteer and Assistant Purser armed enemy raider in the South

Germany's three pocket cruisers laid back. They were routed in a fierce believed the country was generally in Atlantic,

on Oct 1 favour of the emergency Budget pro- The Brazilian Agenelana Nacional] down under the Treaty of Washing- | Chinesa counter-assauit was a 5,000-ton sigomer owned by the Booth Line, and was told the German vessel which sunk ton.

and retreated to the border regions.posals.. She is of 10,000 tons displacement, Lunamenehwang was subsequently

No Opposition being employed on the New York-the Clement by shell-fire has taken Brazil run when she was stink. *

the master of the British vessel and carried a complement of 020. recaptured by the Chinese. The Booth Tine office in Liverpool prisoner. bellave that she was enrrying passengers. The crow numbered either 48 or 40.

or 40 aboard.

no

Commenting on the sinking of the Clement, a naval expert said that the; popping-up of an armed raider in the South Atlantie was no surprise to the British navy

What was a surprise was the fact that four weeks had elapsed since the outbreak of war and its first appear-

anco,

Pan-American-Safety Zono

PRECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

The Admiral Scheer is

The Admiral Scheer and her sister ships, the Deutschland and Admiral Graf Spee (both reported to have been severely damaged in the R.AF. raid on Wilhelmshaven) are, because

Stafamato Unbroken

FANCHENG, Oct. 3 (Central),— The stalemate in central. Hupeh is unbroken,

basea of

YANAMA, Oct. 2 (UP) The of the special technique employed in Owing to inferior Chinese fire, the Pan-American Conference has ap- their construction, the equivalent of recent Chinese attacks on Chungsiang Iroved the 250 mile sfoty belt în armoured cruisers of exceptionally and Suthsken Japanese South American waters.

powerful type, and are Atted with operations in that part of the pro- This propounds will hereafter be 11in. guns, which give them far vince have not been successful, known as "The Declaration of superior Armaments to ordinary

In anticipation of further Chinese Panama.”

cruisers. Their radius of operation attacks the Japanese have strengthen- and speed is also superior, Lifeboats Missing

The Admiral Scheer was launched reinforcements

jed their defences and have called in LONDON, Oct. 3 (Router).-Word at Wilhelmshaven on November 12. Kwangshui and Hunyuan on the from Hankow, od, but it is thought that it may well has now been received from the 1934. be a merchantman which put out to survivors of the steamer Clements,

Pelping-Hankow Railway in Hupeh. ses before the war broke out, with who were, picked up by a Drazilian of greater power than the four pocket launched against Biho, olght miles Germany has only two battleships A Chinese night attack was the docks already strengthened and ship. with guns secretly hidden in the

cruisers. They are. Theyatate that they

the pocket east of Sulhalen, on Septi: 28. "A" hold

not battleships Scharnhorst and Gneiso number of Japanese were zinin in, Identify their attocker, but they dis hau. An

Whether it was a worship or an armed merchantman was not reveal-

action,

error

ការ

LONDON, Oct, 2 (Reuter)-The House of Commons to-day passed the second reading of the añance bill without a division,

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