THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 15, 1987.
> BRITISH TROOPS NOW
DIGGING
TRENCHES
Fear Of Hostilites In Settlement Western Area
ARMIES IN SHANGHAI CHINA TRIUMPH
AT CLOSER GRIPS
FIGHT HAND-TO-HAND-JEAN-
AT VITAL POINTS
Shanghai, To-day.
A change in tactics, leading to the supposition
BATTEN FORCED DOWN
Sydney, To-day. Miss Jean Batten, the young
that the big Japanese drive will be launched at any New Zealand aviatrix, who is hour, was made by the Japanese air force yester- day in their operations on the Shanghai front.
Instead of bombing the Chinese defence lines, the Japanese planes systematically raided the Chin-
making an attempt on J. L. Broad- bent's Australia-England record, landed at Winton, Queensland, yesterday.
She had had minor trouble with her oil gauge--Reuter.
IN N. SHANSI PERIL ON EAST
Peiping. To-day.
Reports of Chinese successes North Shansi are readily credited here and it is regarded as signi- Ecant that the Japanese military authorities profess complete lack of information from the Shansi area, although they previously ad- mitted that the Chinese resistance in the Yuanping area was unex- pectedly stubbom.
ese lines of communication, as well as Hungja EX-SERVICEMEN'S Although Taiyuanfu was given
aerodrome.
FEDERATION
of
a respite from attacks from the Chinese reports state that the bombing of the
North owing to the stubborn arodrome was wasted effort, since the airport has
Chinese resistance in Shansi, it Paris, To-day.
'is, nevertheless, seriously threat- not been in use since hostilities broke out.
The International Federation
ened by Japanese troops ad- There appears to be some fear on the part of Ex-Servicemen, which is now hold-vancing to the West from Shih- the foreign defence forces that in the event of a yesterday elected the President of ing Shansi through the Niang- ing its annual Congress in Paris, chiachwang, who are now enter- retreat from Chapel, hostilities will extend to the the Polish Ex-Servicement's Federatsekuan Pass and who are area round the western residential area of the In-tion as new President of the In-countering very little resistance, ternational Settlement, and British troops are busy digging fresh trenches in this district.
Some of the grimmest hand-
to-hand fighting in the Shanghai FIRST TRIP OF
war took place yesterday in Cha- pei, Liuhang, Woosung and Ta-
zang.
In no sector, in spite of heavy shelling from sea and land bat-11 teries and bombing from the air, did the Japanese record any ad- vances, and their casualties in yesterday's fighting were ex- tremely heavy.
NEW ZEPPELIN
NEXT YEAR
Berlin, To-day.
The first tap of the Zeppelin LZ At several vital points their 130, construction of which is ad- attack was countered into a des- perate defensive action as the vancing rapidly, will probably take Chinese retaliated with a series place during 1938, says the of onslaughts that arrived them Berliner Lokalanzeiger. well into the Japanese lines. →Trans-Ocean.
GEN. METAXAS FOR ANKARA
Most of the technical pro-
blems attached to converting
ternational Federation.
en-
although the pass is eminently A permanent international com-defendable.
mittee has been formed to ensure continual co-operation between the various national Federations. Trans-Ocean.
The Japanese also claim the capture of Chunkwan Pass, fur- ther west, while Japanese troops in the Peiping-Hankow Bailway Mrs. Nottingham, wife of the zone report a further advance proprietor of The Shanghai as far as Lingcheng, 50 miles Times", is returning to Shanghai south of Shihchiachwang.--Reu- to-day by the mv. Felix Roussel. ter.
GERMANY
airship to use of helium instead When travelling in Germany and on German ships of hydrogen have been
reduce your expenses considerably by carrying
come.
over-
Helium gas, says the paper, will be obtained from Amarillo in Texas, and transported to Ger- many in steel bottles five metres in length.
Athens, To-day. The Greek Premier, General Me- taxas,
who for the past week has been attending the Greek army
It is calculated that for filling manoeuvres, left yesterday for An- the gas chambers of the airship. kara to pay his long-announced 200,000 cubic metres of helium wil State visit.
be needed, and the supplies will General Metaxas will reach the reach Friedrichshafen in the next Turkish capital on Monday. He is few months. returning the visit paid. some time] ago by the Turkish Premier to
Greece Trans-Ocean.
* SPANIARDS SENT HOME
San Sebastian, To-day.
It is announced that 8,100 Spani
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The interior arrangements, how- ever, are somewhat different, with the dining room at right angles to the main axis of the craft, and with two saloons on either side.
There will be large observation
ards have crossed the frontier into windows.
Spain since the expulsion order Carrying 40 passengers, the air- against Spanish refugees in France ship's cabins will have full windows, issued by the French Government permitting, unobstructed Trans-Ocean.
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