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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 27, 1937.
THROUGH ON
SHANGHAI FRONT
Japanese Capture North Station
SPEEDY ADVANCE IN
CHAPEI SECTOR
CHIANG KAI-SHEK TO TAKE COMMAND
Shanghai, To-day.
Japanese bluejackets started a steam-roller attack from Chapei and Hongkew Park at dawn and made a general advance, capturing North Sta- tion, where Japanese flags were hoisted at 6.50 this morning, the Chinese having withdrawn at 6.35
a.m.
Bugles were blown as the Japanese flag went up, marking capture not only of North Station but also of the adjoining Administration building.
The Japanese advance is continuing in the whole Chapei and Hongkew Park sector.
SEAPLANE
DISTANCE RECORD
Paris, To-day.
The French flyingboat "Lieuten- ant de Vaisseau Paris" is report- ed to have beaten the world's sea- plane long-distance record, pre- viously held by the United States. She has flown over 5,700 kilo- metres -Reuter
The Japanese claim to have cut the railway to Nanking at one point.
CANADIAN DELEGATION FOR BRUSSELS
Ottawa, To-day. Senator Raoul Dandurand, Min- ister without Portfolio, will lead the Canadian delegation to the Nine- Power Conference, according to an announcement by Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Premier
Mr. Hume Wrong, Canadian re- presentative at Geneva, and M. Pierre Dupuy, of the Canadian Legation in Paris, will complet the delegation. Reuter.
EXCHEQUER RETURNS
London, To-day.
Exchequer returns show that The Chinese front, state the Ja- total ordinary revenue amounts to panese, faces the danger of being £259,062,169 compared with £341,- 176,495 at the corresponding date into two halves." Over 100,000 men, supported by of last year.-British Wireless
to
Meanwhile, the Japanese forces which struck southward from Tachang are also advancing to-a wards the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
large number of planes, took part
in the advance.
News of the fall of Tazang was had not withdrawn celebrated with wild enthusiasm in The Japanese have also occu- the Chinese
Tokyo, where houses were beflagged im-from Kiangwan pied Kiangwan racecourse, mediately to the east of Kiang- It is reliably reported that Gen-and torchlight parades held.
eral Chiang Kai-shek has left Nan- To-day, 800,000 will march past wan village.
Reports earlier this morning king to come to Soochow, where he the Imperial Palace.-Trans-Ocean. stated that the Japanese claimed will direct operations in view to have captured several key posi-the critical nature of the present tions, and declared that full retreat situation-Reuter.
of the Chinese troops southward continued all day, but that the Chinese were caught in a “dragnet spread round an area ten kilome tres square north-west of the In- ternational Settlement by Japanese: forces.
CONCESSION COMPLICATION
DECISIVE TURNING
POINT?
Japanese Railway Cut Claim
Capture of the
Tokyo, To-day.
extensive
of
and
en-
PROBLEM FOR S.M.C.
Chinese Troops In West
Shanghai, To-day
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Heavy Japanese Losses
Shanghai, To-day. In spite of having apparently broken through the Chinese defence, the Japanese lost terribly, state re- liable foreign reports.
Chinese machine gun nests did heroic work and two Japanese bat- talions were reduced to 50 and 30. men, respectively. Trans-Ocean.
KIANGWAN CAPTURED
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