Pingkiang Regained by. and grill rooms when arm of privates, Chinese Forces From Our Own Ci (Delayed in Transit)
Paoking, Oct. 5. "My revered contemporary goes on Yesterday three air alarms were sounded in the morning, but there werê no planes until ten o'clock, when six aircraft crossed over the and eorpórals and privates city, and dropped numerous small Army near captains and bombs, mostly outside the town. A tew minutes later another six planes bravely that it was "all made almost the same tour, and rebut I lieved themselves of numerous bombs, some of them incendiary. The disused air field received a number of these missiles, some of which failed to explode, The radio report from Hankow states that much damage was done to the field and the aerodrome. thought of the rude, licentious As there is no aerodrome, however, with their common money, one must infer that the telescope of smart restaurant which is the observer was at fault, adorned with officers.
'A fire was started on the edge of how this sort of thing the business area of the city, and, lose us the war. since all the buildings in the region hat been vacated when the air alarm smelling-salts. One was given, it got quite a headway before energetic measures were taken to stop it. For twenty minutes after Yourselves at Home, Boys the bomb fell not a soul was to be 2 will be Private Soldiers' seen on the streets or elsewhere, but column, says Maurice as soon as the fire began to make in the "Daily Mail." headway soldiers and others appeared, and soon quite efficient fire-carts appeared, men were commandeered to tear down buildings, and the fire was brought under control Some forty small buildings were destroyed, and will then queue up about 150 families rendered homeless.
a camouflaged en-One of the results of evacuating top paragraph, which everyone when an alarm comes is that all personal and other property left behind, in the event of bre, is they will be issued with a destroyed. ' Practically nothing was saved from the destroyed buildings.
of rum and, after a Just ahead of the fire one could see they will march at the family wash hung up to dry, into the second paragraph, cluding the clothes of the little folk, will find themselves in and a few minutes later they were "replica of a camp lashes. b They will then witness a Chinese Counter Attacks "revue entitled: "Folies It is remarkable that, so far as can be learned, not a single person was injured by the bombs and certainly the cost of the bombing to the Japan-lose must have been many times as great as the damage done. Once again is it demonstrated that war is a matter of profit and loss à gamble 8 in which loss is more than usual be presented with a crib While a few days ago the fighting plausible answers to the question: about Pingkiang (Hunan) resulted in are you absent without leave? la rather speedy retreat of the Chinese
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forces, itis now reported íhat sustained counter attack by several In Confidence divisions of Chinese troops has re-Due want to marry sulted in regaining Pingkiang and a few other points with considerable losses on both sides. The Chinese re-to that effect." treat was not very orderly, and yet fou believe what?" they are rallying in the region of "I am not issuing a categorical Hengyang, where the staffs of the denial But you cannot expect me two divisions, to avoid air raids, have t" commit myself in a state of their headquarters on fast-moving trucks! Most of the famed motor Eh?" roads of this region have either been "As a member of the public you destroyed or ate being dug up at must be patient with me." present. Telegraphs end mails are "But—" slow and essential commodities are kw. may soon arise in up in price. Large scale fighting is shall be at liberty to speak evidently delaying the fall of Chang-fully. Meanwhile, I can only sha a for your confidence."
Im-—sh—by the way—do you World's Most Powerful mind me asking how you are em-an official at the Ministry of Air Tunnel for }apan Tokyo, Oct. 27. Construction of a 40,000 horsepower wind tunnel, five times powerful you would. as the biggest one existing today, "boy, say no more. Elsie was approved by the Japan Central T trust her judgment.
Aeronautical Research Institute, at us to-morrow, will you?" its first meeting here yesterday.
strictest confidence?"
"The wind tunnel, used to test course! model aircraft, will be capable of developing a "wind velocity of 290 metres per second at an atmospheric haps—1_ can-of 0 degrees. The blowing on will be five metres in able étatvation. Travellers who have recently been along the Tientsin-Pukow railway report that the country to the west of the line, as far as eye can see, is one vast lake, in Which an occasional dilapidated village built on rising ground stands out like an island in the sea. The autumn crops have been completely destroyed—ineluding the famous cotton crop, on which the Japanese have built such high hopes—and famine condi tions already exist in the southern part of the province where people ate having to eke out their existence with roots and leaves.
Here are some figures for some of the districts to the south-west of Paotingfu, taken from a statistical survey made by the American Board Mission. The district of Lehsien was flooded on July 12 by the breaking of dykes, and about one fifth of the land in this whole area is till under water; of its 224 villages, 200 still have flood water standing in them. Practically the whole of the autumn crop has been destroyed, and some fifteen thousand persons have been rendered homeless. Of 100 villages in the Kaoyang district which was flooded on the same date 40 are still under water and 8,000 persons are homeless.
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