THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1937.
FIGHTING RETREAT
North China "Crisis Battle" Still Raging
JAPANESE HALTED
AT YUANPING
Peiping, To-day.
The greatest battle of the North China conflict is continuing south of Shihchiachwang, where the Chinese appear to be making a brilliant fighting re- treat.
Meanwhile Japanese troops claim to be pur- sing the Chinese west from Shihchiachwang along the railway at the foot of Niangtsekuan Pass, on the border of Hopei and Shansi.
Points on the railway as far west as Yutze, only
CABINET
DISCUSSES
FAR EAST
London, To-day.
In addition to dealing with the Mediterranean, yesterday's Cal in- et meeting devoted considerable time to the Far Eastern “situa- tion...
It is learned that the Cabinet maintains the view they took in the first place that the proposal for economic boycott of Japan is impracticable in present circum- stances-Renter.
20 miles from Taiyuanfu, have been bombed from BRITISH FORCE
the air.
North of Taiyuanfu the Chinese are stubbornly resisting the Ja- panese advance at Yuanping, which has already stood a series of as- saults.
A Japanese military spokesman suggested that the Chinese troops have been ordered by Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, Governor of Shansi, to hold the Yuanping area at all costs
JAPANESE
FORCE ROUTED
until he has been able to remove IN SHANSI
of
his ancestral relics, and other be- longings from his native town Hopintsun, near Yuanping, which
is a lengthy task.
Peiping, To-day.
IMPERILLED BY BOMBING
Shanghai, To-day Yesterday evening's bomb- ing of Chapel by Japanese planes was the most inten sive raid carried out on the Shanghai front so far.
JAPANESE
KWEIHUA CLAIMS
Tokyo, To-day. Despatches from the Kwan- tung Army, published by the Waf Office, claim a rapid Japan- ese advance on Kweihna, the capital of Smiyuan Province.
Impending attack on the capital will take place from the north, with the town of Wuchuan, on the Mongolian edge of the Inner steppes, as base
It is reported that the Japanese" are also advancing on the capital. from the west along the Kalgan-- Saiyuan railway, and from the Shansi frontier in the south.
Military circles consider that this enveloping movement must re sult in the fall of the capital, in- portant as the starting point of the caravan routes to Outer Mongolia in the north and to the province of Trans- Sinkiang in the west Ocean
UNOFFICIAL CLAIMS
Peiping, To-day.
The force of the explosions shook the greater part of the In Four thousand Japanese troopsternational Settlement, and caused The spokesman declared that were routed yesterday afternoon a considerable loss of life and dam many of the Chinese troops fight-few miles north of Yain Ping, in age in the North Station area. ing in North China are mere pea-Shansi when the Chinese troops who Bomb splinters and pieces of A force consisting of the Kwan- sants, pressed into service and sent had cut their communications with iron and stone were hurled into ting Army and a mixed Japanese to the front line after less than Taichowsha, took the Japanese for-the air by the explosions, and rain-and Mongolian unit, has invested three months' training.
ces completely by surprise.
Some of the Chinese bodies found on the battlefields, he said, belong- ed to 15-year-old boys.-Reuter.
PROTECTION OF FISHING JUNK FLEET
The "China Mail' understands that the H.K. Chinese Fisher- men's Association has asked the Canton Government and the Na- tional Government in Nanking to use their good offices with the Hong Kong Government in sup port of their plea for naval pro. tection on the fishing grounds.
In a telegram to the Nanking Government, the Association states that 40,000 fisherfolk along the South China coast are in distress as a result of the ruthless Japanese naval activities.
The telegram points out that junks "venture into the fishing grounds only at extreme peril, and declares that already Japanese destroyers... and submarines have sunk or burned more than 200 junks while nearly 5,000 fishermen have perished in Japanese attacks.
In Hong Kong official quarters, it is pointed out that the Hong Kong Government has no authority to or der gunboat protection for fishing craft. It is a matter in which the Home Government alone could act. No indication is given as to whe any communication has been to the Colonial Office follow-
presentations made.
led down upon the Settlement, Kweihua, the capital of Suiyuan, where about 20 Chinese were kill-according to unofficial Japanese re
ports, some of which claim that The Japanese troops
retreated led and wounded in the streets.
British troops opposite North the city has been captured. leaving almost 50 per cent of their
the Station were withdrawn tempor- The Japanese military authori- troops dead and wounded, on
larily owing to the severity of the ties, however, lack precise inform- battle-field-Our Own Correspon-
bombing Trans-Ocean.
lation on the matter. Reuter
dent.
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