1940-06-24 — Page 7

Monday,

HONGKONG: TELEGRAPHOH

June 24, 1940.

BORDER OCCUPATION

BY JAPANESE TROOPS

Strong Japanese forces have occupled the Chinese border villages from Shumchun to Lo Fung. There was no lighting, but Japanese planes bombed and machine-gunned the villages ahead of the advance..

Chinese troops are now reported moving southwards towards the Japanese in the Po On areas. Fighting has broken out south of Ping Wu on the Canton-Kowloon railway.

Thousands of refugees began flocking over the British border throughout the week-end after the Shumchun group of villages had been three times bombed from the air on Saturday morning. Japanese sentries, armed with fixed bayonets, are now on guard at the Chinese end of the Lo Wu railway bridge. British border arens are still under police control, but detachments of the Indian troops have been moved up to reserve positions behind the frontier. The Assistant-Superintendent of Police for the New Territories, Mr. G. S. Wilson, met senior Japanese officers on the Lo Wu bridge yesterday morning and discussed with them methods for avoiding incidents.

force.

The furthest point reached by, the as a flanking screen for the main Japanese in their initial advance on Saturday was Lo Fung. They rest- ed all day yesterday after their march from Namtau, but it is expected that they will move forward towards Shataukok this morning.

No Chinese troops have been re. ported in the vicinity and it in ex- pected that the Japanese will occupy Shataukok without opposition.

Panic Among Rafugoos The few remaining refugees near the villages now began to run along Shumchun Sheungshui rond. the Only a handful carried any baggage. Ono rode a bicycle furiously tawords the border.

Japanese infantry, which had now. fully occupied Shumchun Market, re- onformed their lines on the far side of the village, alongside the main road to the Colony, for a swift advance on Wong Pul Ling, half a mile cast of Shumchun Market.

Japanese sources declared Saturday that the occupation of the border in designed to stop the supply of arms to Chinese irregulars through Hongkong.

An offelal statement Issued by on Saturday the China Command states. The Japanese are in process of occupying certain adjacent areas to the Colony for the purpose of clearing up Chinese guerilla which have been giving considerable threw a small

trouble. Their intention was

bands

and there is no cause for larm."

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They had occupied the two villages without firing a shot in

less than half an hour from the time cavalry advance guard first appeared west of Shumchun.

the

From Weng force forward to Lo Pui Ling, the Japanese For the furthest point reached by Fung, nounced to the military authorities,

them on Saturday. The main forces The Japanese troops, estimated at remained in the Shumchun group 1,000 landed from smali warships and and until dusk

still arriving alese detachments along the Namtou- river boats at 3.30 am, on Saturday. Were Doniet reports that they immediately Shumchun road.

The forces which occupied the began a drive from Chekwan and

less at nol Namshan, near Po On area, towards villages are estimated

than 2,000 men, including artillery the areas north of the leased Terri-

a supply column. They com- and torica.

puppet Japanese army planes severely prise Japanese and Canton bombed areas near Po On shortly iroops.

The Japanese troops did not ap

after down and by 9 am, the main Japanese force had entered Pakshek,proach the British border during the

two miles east of Po On,

Shumchun Raid Victims

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Stan in this effective cartoon Invites the public guard from Sheung- the $1,100,000 mark. At the same time the first Japan-shui manned the bridges and other to roll up and send the total still higher. ese raider appeared over Shumchun. Rating

approaches. This was a single plane which bomb-

Towards evening India troop de ed and machine-gunned Shumchun Market. Casualties in the first rald tachments were moved up by lorry were one dead and several injured. to reserve positions behind the bor- Five of the injured, three men and der. British mobile signals sections two women, were brought by ambul- also look up precautionary stations. ance to Kowloon Hospital where one man died shortly after admission, All

the wounds were caused by shrapnel from aerial bombs.

Yesterday's Movements

Early yesterday morning Japanese

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Problems Confronting GOLF and

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LONDON, June 28 (Router). We know that we have to face all sorts of problems, some of them very difficult, said Captain Cyril Falls, the military corres- pondent of the "Times," in a broadcast talk, to-day,

He said he was not going to talk about world strategy or Mediter rancon strategy, however, but some- thing about the defence of Great Beltaln. We have some assets, We have saved from the wreek seven out of every eight men of the first B.E.F. and the second B.E.F., which was sent to the old of France just after the great battle began..

What We Saved

We have saved the personnel of bases established" far down in the South-west. We have saved a lo of equipment. We have saved that part of the R.A.F. which was sent to France.

We have at present in Britain a greater number of trained and proved troops than we have had in our his- tory. On the other hand, we have lost much of the heavy equipment of the first B.E.F. and we have lost a lot of the base stores which could not be withdrawn. We have lost some aircraft, damaged and rutted aerodromes, for which there were no repair facilities; we have lost light craft, sunk in the evacuation from Dunkirk.

Outflanked At Two Points

We now see the enemy with the whole of Western Europe's coast in his grasp, from Arelle Norway to the estuary of the Loire. The enemy outflanks us from Norway and stu| ------- more from Brittany, and not everyone realisen until the map is studied that have Germana Brest, which the entered, is further west than Ply- mouth, and almost us far west Land's End.

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For the first time since the war began, the enemy has launched heavy air attacks on Britain, although so far without result proportionate to their elorus.

Invasion Probability

The enemy will probably try an invasion.

COLONY'S EFFORT the Navy and Air Force remain in

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deserted Shumchun The people of the mediately began to leave for the Bri- Station. Sentries were posted on the

Mr. 9, M. and Mrs. Lawrence tish border. By the time of the Chinese side of the railway bridge and

The Hongkong Filipinos cancelled, Mr. A. M. J. Wright second rald the Shunchun group of soldiers were seen on the hill-post:

overlooking the Takuling police all arrangements for the celebration Mr. Thomas Donaldson Mr. Normen ileilovick villages was almost deserted.

yesterday of Hizal Day, in view of Mr. & Mrs. D. Coul Shumchun was bombed twice again station.

His Blindness was the present stage of the struggle the& Mrs: J. M. Noronha during the morning by squadrons of A fairly strong detachment two or three planes. Bombs were quartered in the buildings across the Allies are waging in defence of Anonymous also dropped on Shayuchung, Mirs river from the border bridge on the democracy. A collection from their Mr. Far far Bay, causing one death and a num- Shamchun-Sheungshul road. Horses ber of other casualties. The raiders and cooking fires could be seen from community has already been started, Silver Lino Ltd. chiefly concentrated

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rifle shots were heard during the day. South China Morning Post, Ltd., War Refugees did not cross the border About 1,000 refugees are now living Fund. This donation is in memory In anything like the numbers which in the mat-shed camp on the British of the birth of their patriot who entered the Colony during the car-side of the river. Her occupations, but by mid-day sev Except for the few Japanese chose not his final resting place, as he eral thousand women, men and chil-soldiers seen walking about or bath-mused: dren were seated forlornly along the road between the frontier and Sheung Shui. In all, more than 5,000 Chin- ese entered the Colony during the week-end.

ing in the creeks, the Chinese terri- tory appeared deserted.

Miss M. C, Churn the Anonymous

The place matters not, cypress or laurel or lily white,, Scafford or open plain, combat or martyrdom's plight.

Police have closed the military road along the border to

motor tramc. Only cars of Hongkong Mines Ltd., They streamed into the territory are allowed to

travel as far as Lin

On the morning of December 30, over bridges, rice fields, and hill Ma Hang. Cars are not allowed to paths, driving before them their buf-drive to the

to the railway bridge.

1896, Dr. Jose Rizal faced the firing faloes and pigs, carrying ducks, fami-

ere is still access to the military squad at Bagumbayan, Manila, but ly clocks, pots and furniture. For road by foot, but police tarn back all that volley tolled the knell of Spanish many it was the third time they had Europeans at the border. Several

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Captain Falls does not think a large scale invasion possible while being, and he would expect attacks to be made on them first of all with possible feints against the coast.

The

Germanis have recklessly sacrificed their aircraft in the recent offensives, and although they

may

10. be to replace a lot of them, they

able

cnally cannot replace the pilots 50 30. 100. They do not possess the magnificent 1materials now being provided by the most 25. British Empire, and their

highly-trained pilots are not equal to

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been forced to leave their homes. young men were refused permission domain and gave birth to a new Serzia, Mess, H.K, & Singapore All refugees were stopped by offly to enter the occupied terri-nation. In the words of Cecilio i stan, HK, & Whampoa Dock Co.

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Nazis Face Grim Fight

The Germans have a very grim 500, fight in front of them if they depend 100 upon the existence of the Air Force. 23. The enemy can hardly hope to com- 1,000. pete with this unless it cripples its

bases; although he

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100.

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While the Navy and R.A.F. exist, an invasion on a big or little scale by parachutists, troop-carriers on ships

or a combination of the three may be expected.

Turning his attention to Britain

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nourishing qualities in the food. Jose P. Rizal Mercado y Alonso Mr. & Mrs. A. Jillots Shataukok. Police pre standing by

COOK COMPLETE MEAL in oven Customs Evacuation

against the expected Japanese ad-was born on June 19, 1861, in the M Olwyn Greig

Bir. and Mrs. Daniel European and Chinese officers of vance to-day. At Shataukok yester- town of Calamba, province of Laguna.in, Frank and Ann Daniel

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memory of WA.D.) ........

HIGH SPEED GRILL reaches toast- Namtau, Deep Bay and Shumchun, go up to the actual border but were From his mother young Pepe learnt and Mr. J. D. Danby (in

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There are of course hills like the which was heavily shelled during turned back at the barbed wire bar- to chant the alphabet and read the Mira and Robin Paley the 1098 occupation, treked into the ricades.

primer. At the Ateneo de Manila, Mr. and Mrs. L. Jack

Yorkshire moors and the Cumberland SUPER-FAST BURNER bolls pint Colony on ponies, bicycles and foot. Chinese Troops Approaching this genius all in his tenth years Pat Tod

Major and Mrs. A. P. Whitley, Canadian hills. which are not included in this

of water in 125 seconds. They were forced to surrender their

Walchow, June 23, Burprised his Castilian professors by currency

roughly. design, but that is what it Corrections: $100 acknowledged as from arms by police as they crossed the

Japanese motorised. and cavalry winning the literary prizes in writing

From the Thames Estuary to the The “REGULO" oven heat control- Atted only to the 'NEW WORLD' units to-day reached the Sumchun Spanish poems. He also studied at Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Hali should have rend

Humber, the whole of the coast is From the border a long line of sector to reinforce the 300 puppet the University of Santo Tomas. In-Mr. and Mrs. A. F. PAUL

Dat, with wide sandy beaches on

-cuts gus down immediately ambulances streamed back towards

troops

who arrived there yesterday Madrid, whilst an honour student in

the oven reaches the correct Hongkong during the morning and afternoon. The enemy strength

In medicine, he received distinction in STAMP AUCTION AIDS FUND which small landings are possible.

On the other hand, large tracts of

heat: no waste is possible. early afternoon. They carried the Po On county is about 2,000 and more philosophy and was an apt scholar of

languages. Dr. Jose Rizal was poet, Fund, the Hongkong Philatelic So- sluggish rivers with marsh

In addition to donating $100 to the this area have drainage ditches or air-rald casualties and the patients

novelist, scientist, philosopher, There were practically no guerilla

The from the refugee hospital establish troops will pour in to-day. ed some time ago the former Shum- bands around Po On, nor was there linguist, medico, painter and sculptor. ciety are holding an auction of stamps The Cavite Revolt of 1872 and the among members at their next meet- chun

Casino.

any political activity during the past, From the hilis on the British few months. No mopping-up opera-execution of his tutor, Father Burgos, ing, on June 27, and all proceeds of border, the Shumchun area appeared tions were attempted.

and two other Filipino priests, created this auction, will also be forwarded almost deserted at 3.30 p.m. Down Officials of the Po On county rotir-such an impression in the mind of to the Fund. the hills and roads a few scattered ed northward along the Canton-Kow-Dr. Jose Rizal that the dianal period tyranny found expression in lis refugees were moving slowly towards loon railway." the border. To the west smail Chinese troops along the Canton-two satirical novels "Noli Me Tangere" columns of smoke were rising from Kowloon Railway pushed southward and "El Filibusterismo" written in the possession the villages which the Japanese had this morning to engage the Japanese Ghent. Although

Q copy meant Imprisonment, bombed during the

morning,

Ain the Po On area.

or. death, these books single large Japanese reconnaissanco

Japanese planes bombed different banishment

were read with avidity by LONDON, June 23 (Reuter)-Re-ing Edinburgh in plana was circling slowly

countrymen. over parts of the railway in an effort to

Suspected Shumchun.

as ports from technical experts show Glasgow in the west. disperse the advancing Chinese and his

founder of the Philippine that small steel shelters, known as coast is generally more inhospitable The plane moved steadily back-

Revolution, he Was accused of Anderson shelters, which are sup- thon England's west coast; it is ex- wards and forwards over Shumchun fighting has broken out south of Ping-the

that wu, on the Railway-International.

treason, amidst a mockery of Justice, plied free in vast numbers, provided tremely rocky and broken,

Capt. Fells does not say a striking degree of protection during England is Ideal for the resistance and sentenced to death.

the recent air raida," Thoughts of his country even in

Although many large bombs fell of an invasion, but he points out that WHAT BRITAIN his sojourn abroad were reflected in close to these shelters, no occupants Britain's internat

communications! and that the ethereal lines of his "Song of were injured,

ure the best in the IS FACING -

Maria Clara":

In one case, the crater of a 500- mobility is far more important than We cannot be everywhere on a Sweet are the hours in my pound bomb was only 30 feet from mountain ranges or deep gorges. such a shelter, occupied by two native land, Where dwells a friend adults and two children. Although long coast-line but it is better to be Whilst shines the sun above, Life the hocee, was badly damaged, the quicker everywhere. We know that In breeze that blows o're her rural shelter, stood firm.

If we were in the enemy's shoes, land, Pleasant is death and more

strong though he may be, we would tender is love..

look on an invasion of Britain as dedicated: "Farewell, fair stranger, matter of extreme difficulty. We do Infantry detachment appeared behind the American Red Cross.

We will long remember this them and then rapidly advanced on "The war has come to Britain," 1801 to practise his profession, and the village.

said Mr. Kennedy. "This Island the colony will ever cherish the Filipino hero, not only as the greatest know, what he has accomplished al- are coolly and calmly preparing to Within ten minutes Japanese troops now faces all the danger and misery pleasant memory of this martyr. To Malay who aver livet, but as a ready, concluded Capt. Falls, but we were appearing on the eastern side of which swept over Poland, Finland, his widow, Josephine Bracken, that citizen of the world, whose writings face it with the main advantages on.

Holland, Belgium d local Irish lass whose remains repose have enriched literature. Contri- Shumchun. A small advance. party Norway,

In Hongkong, these words, were (buted. rapidly moved across the rice Held France.

· Morket. Twice it fred short ma- chine-gun burst, but there was 110 answering fire. Finally, it' headed back towards the Pearl River. A single British plane appeared a few minutes later and circled the hills five miles inside British territory,

About twenty minutes after the

23 (Reuter).— Japanese plane had disappeared the Everything indicates that Britain will Japanese troops... cavalry bo called upon to meet the greatest detachment-began fling down the siege in history of man, declared the road half a mile west of Shumchun United States Ambassador, Mr. Market. They halted outside the Joseph P. Kennedy, broadcasting to

first

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