TAGORE AND JAPAN'S UNABASHED INHUMANITY
# Calcutta, To-day.
Dechning the cabled request from Tokyo Indians to prevent the anti-Japanese activities of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's India National Congress, the Indian poet, Sir Rabindranath Tagore," after referring to the "pitiless massacres and Japan's unashamed championship of its inhumanity," asks if the outraged conscience of the world over the outcries against such wrong, who am I to recall such righteous protest?”..... Renter
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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 11, 1937.
PITCHED BATTLE FOR NORTH CHINA
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According to the Japanese mili- Meanwhile the Japanese centre, tary headquarters, “A brigade Jadvancing southward from Cheng- comprising vanguards suffered ting, occupied Chintsun, near the heavily when they were half-way Peiping-Hankow Railway, 8 miles: across the Huto River this morn- north of the Chinese base at Shih- ing and were forced to retreat.”- chiach vang-Reuter. Our Own Correspondent,
BATTLE STILL RAGING.
Later.
The battle is still raging across the Huto River. The Japanese at- tempted on three occasions to cross but were unsuccessful--Our Own Correspondent.
RIVER CROSSING CLAIM
Engaged At Close Quarters
H.K.-CANTON
DISCUSSION ON RIVER BLOCKADE
Canton, To-day.
It is reported here that dis- cussions will soon take place be- tween the Chinese and the Hong Kong authorities regarding the blocking of the Pearl River.
The Chinese will consent, the report states, to lift the barrier to British vessels, on certain condi- tions which have not been disclos-
Peiping, To-day. The battle which may decide the Shanghai, To-day result of the Sino-Japanese conflict In an official notification appear-in North China is in full swing along ing in, the newspapers, Sir Herbert the banks of the Huto Riverda ed.
Phillips, the British Consul-Gener- The Japanese report that after an Instead of being piloted through al, reiterates the inadvisability of intensive artillery bombardment, the barrier by special boats, the women and children returning to Japanese troops crossed the river Canton Government will provide Shanghai at present, "as the mili-at several points yesterday morning individual government pilots for tary situation is still uncertain and and engaged the defenders at close each boat. not yet stabilised."
quarters.
SEVERE FIGHTING
The notification adds that if, not- withstanding the above advice, Bri- tish subjects feel themselves com-! A Japanese military communique pelled to bring their wives and claims that the extreme left flank children back to Shanghai, it must of the Chinese line, opposite the be clearly understood that they do walled town of Pingshan, was cap- so entirely at their own risk. Reu- tured before noon, after severe fight-
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SIR OSWALD MOSLEY BADLY HURT BY HOOLIGANISM
London, To-day.
Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascists, is in hospi- tal suffering from concussion and a wound in the skull.
"Sir Oswald was injured yesterday at a Fascist meeting in Liverpool, when he was greeted by a shower of bricks when he got up to speak,
He fell unconscions and was taken to hospital, where a minor opera- tion was performed successfully. Reuter
NINE POWER CONFERENCE AT BRUSSELS?
Brussels, To-day, Brussels may be chosen as the venue of the Nine Power Confer- ence, according to the newspaper
Le Peuple."
The paper says that the Powers organising the Conference have ap- proached the Belgian Government in this connection, and that Bel- gium seems disposed to reply favourably-Beuter.
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Peiping, To-day. A semi-official Japanese re- port claims that Shinchiach- wang, the last Chinese strong- hold in Hopei, was captured at 2.30 yesterday afternoon. Reuter.
Tientsin, To-day. Military despatches from the War zone on the Tientsin- Pukow Railway state, according to a communique issued by the Japanese Military Headquarters at 9 am to-day, that, Japanese vanquards entered part of the city of Shihchiachuang late yesterday afternoon.
It appears that during the battle two of the Japanese re- giments, the Banzai and Ishijuro Regiments managed to cross the Huto River by establishing light artillery on an island mid- way between the two banks and forced the Chinese troops in that vicinity to retreat by con- tinuous pounding of their posi- tions.
The two regiments reached Shibchaochuang at 2 p.m yesterday.
Most of the Japanese troops on the north bank of the river have now already crossed to the south side."
This was the fiercest battle yet fought in the North, thon- sands of troops, both Japanese and Chinese, having been kill- ed and wounded.
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The River Huto is reported to have been converted into river, of blood, while the fields on the south bank are covered with dead
A later despatch states that the Japanese have occupied the station connecting Shinchao- chuang with Taiyuanfu. Our Own Correspondent.
NEWS FLASHES
Mighty armies are manoeuvring for the advantage in the Shanghai War. Not a day goes by but we hear of tremendous loss of life.
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