Chinese in this Colony do not have to go to Macao to send telegrams in Chinese Janguage to the interior, they are now permitted to file their messages in their, native language. A new ordinance required that all tele~ grams must be written in English or French, but now an allowance is made in favour of Chinese residents, whose telegrams to the interior cannot be understood unless they are written in Chinese.
The Hongkong Government is very strict in censoring letters and tele-rams. Special attention is paid to clandestine wireless. receiving and transmitting "sels. A. scion of a wealthy Chungking potentate arrested for setting up a wireless installation in his home contrary to Taw. Another violator of this ordinance was fined previously for setting up such an outfit in Breezy Terrace, Radios are the only exception, but owners must have a. license. There restriction whatever as to when ther the owner use lon short wave or what stations the listeners tune in, The" most popul reception Is the news bulletin relayed by the local station from London 9.15 pam, and some Shanghai stations giving out news of the Buropean war from neutral sources, 'Shanghai, Oct. 11, Confrmatory of a recent' local [Chinese report to the effect that a train coming here from Hangchow last Saturday was blown up by a mine buried by guerillas near Ping-ichang on the Shanghai Hangchow Railway, a Chinese cable from Kin-hwa, wartime capital of Chekiang give' more "details of the incident Jasserting that it was the biggest result achieved by Chinese forces months, operating along the line for many.
'The Kinhwa report aims that no Jess than 300° persons, including many Japanese officers, " gendarmes fand Chinese policemen' were killed during the explosion and in the ensuing battle between ambushed fucrillas and Japanese guards of the. railway, Railway communica~ tions have therefore been disrupted, Its stated, 'The mine is stated to have been buried "by Chinese forces the previous night. On Saturday morning a Shanghai-bound train' departed from Hangchow and when it reached village between Ningping and Chang-an the mine suddenly exploded blowing the four passenger coaches skyward, The whole train was overturned and guerillas rushed out from ambush fo meet a small number of Japanese gendarmes in the open,
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