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No. 29,767
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937
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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
HUGE NAVAL GUNS SHELL LOTIEN ZONE Four Days Of Bitter Fighting Leaves Line Intact
JUNK OUTRAGE SURVIVOR IN CRITICAL CONDITION
Development of gangrene in the shapnel wounds of one of the survivo of a submarine
junk
outrage on September 21, is causing anxiety
his condition at
Mary Hospital.
The victim is Leung Hong t
LARGE FORCES AT GUERILLAS
DEATH GRIPS
Shanghai, 2 p.m., To-day.
HARASSING
The boom of exceptionally heavy guns is be- JAPANESE
Tientsin, To-day.
lieved to indicate that the two Japanese capital ships, Haruna and Hirao, are co-operating with their huge guns in the cannonading on the Lotien- Liuhang sector of the front, where the severest yesterday concerning operations fighting is now going on.
Although Japanese reports
in North China stated that the
Nearly 30,000 Japanese infantry are reported Japanese troops will continue to be in action along this line, while they are faced their advance south, it neverthe- by at least seven picked Chimese divisions, with five ess
more in reserve..
tam that the
have not suc-
Japane ceeded dealing any decisive blow at their opponents, and
Tanks have been employed, but only on a small who was in charge of a Hong Scale owing to the fact that the area is heavily in that their advance is now con- Kong licensed junk, No. 1822 terlaced with creeks on which the Chinese have des-siderably slower. HA which set out for the fish-
ing grounds with 21 other junks, troyed all bridges, while the nature of the country and was attacked without warn- gives an immense advantage to the defensive.
ing by a submarine. He believes that the entire fleet was sunk.
Two shells were fired at his craft and he was wounded in two places. afterwards spending three days în the water clinging to a sail and spars. He reached Hong Kồng on. Wednesday, was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital, gangrene having since set in. It is under- stood that his condition is critical.
A statement has been taken from him by the police, and his story de- tails how his junk left Aberdeen carrying a crew of 20 and
gaged in fishing
from Kip Sher, "
District, Bias Bay.
Hor
His boat
in line with 21 other craft,
out, at 9 am
when he
sions
on September
a series of expl
funks sinking
JAPANESE MARINES ON
Japanese troops advancing along
the railway from Tientsin to Pukow
Chinese reports assert that the claim to have captured the town of have lost more than four Tungkiang, which is still 30 kilome killed and wounded on tres from the frontier between the ont in four days of fighting, provinces of Hopei and Shantiing. while their own losses have been Along the adjoining frontier
SHANGHAI DOCK heavy, as the result of the inter-province of Shansi, the Japanese
PROPERTY
Shanghai
the landin
at the Do
and a submarine cruising towards RUSH FOR BOOKING
him,
TANK RANGE
At pointblank
IN ANDRE LEBON
"If we had had a ship the size the sub-of the "Queen Mary" we could still marine shelled his craft from guns have died her declared an official
on the bows. He was splinters in both
board. Other members of t jumped. The junk was
He and several others to keep afloat for three they were picked un
junk and taken to Mia King They
by at the Messageries Maritimes, in ver-reference to the sailing of the Andre Lebon” for Shanghai.
Applications for passage have been on such a scale that tickets have
een issued, as far as possible, only
es as evidence of urgent! of the return to Shanghai
bookings have not yet been
that the Andre Sailing umbal Sun-
sive bombardment.
advance south guerilla troops.
is harassed by
Bere, as elsewhere, the Japanesej are unable to claim any important advance. Artillery duels weret General Terauchi, Commander-in- ontinuing all along the line at chief in North China, has arrived
Own Correspondent at Protingfu Trans-Ocean.
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