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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
WAR IN MORASS
Chinese Repulse Attacks On Kwangfu And Nanziang SETTLEMENT ROCKS UNDER SHANSI LEADER
ARTILLERY DUELS
SHELLING FALLING ON OUTER EDGE OF FOREIGN AREAS
Shanghai, 1.45 p.m., To-day.
JAPANESE AIR RAID ON FOOCHOW
Canton, To-day. According to reports received from Foochow this morning, Ja panese planes visited the port yesterday afternoon on two occa- sions.
An attempt made to destroy the famous bridge across the Min River, was unsuccessful, but three civilians were killed
One of the planes burst into flames after being hit by the Chinese AA. guns, and crashed
With infantry going into the attack more than ankle deep in heavy mud, and all tank operations ruled out by the morass-like nature of the ground, as a result of heavy rains yesterday, the Nanhsiang into the river Our Own Cortes- and Kwangfu sectors are still bearing the brunt of the Japanese attacks to-day.
pondent
It is now officially admitted in Japanese mili- VON CRAMM AND
tary circles that Nanhsiang and Kwangfu are still
held by the Chinese, and that severe losses have HENKEL IN
been suffered in attempts to break through.
The Japanese claim, however, that Little Nan- GREAT MATCH
Tokyo, To-day.
One of the finest contests ever
CONFIDENT
Taiyuanfu, 2 pm Today. Independent sources confim the emination, for the time beng, of the Japanese threat to Taryuan from the north, chiefly because of the cutting of the Japanese com mumcations by the guerillas of the Fighth Route Army.
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan is equally confident of smashing the Japanese invasion now being attempted from the east, although it is admitted that Pingting has fallen.-
Against the Kobayashi Brigade and two mixed Japanese gades, Rhowever, the Shansi leader
massed eleven divisions, the 7th, 12th, 17th, 27th, 30th,
42nd, 63rd, 73rd 109th and some fifty mile
of Taiyuanfu and guar which
tact yest day afternoon retired hurriedly.
The Chinese are eparing for
battle wher the main Japan-
Own Cor
hsiang is in their hands, and this is admitted by Chinese military headquarters, whose communique this morning stated that small points had been con- ceded on
different points along the Lotien-seen on the courts of the Interns- they accomplished only at the end Nanhsiang front in order to straighten out salients and to shorten the Chinese front line.
tional Tennis Club at Osaka was of 22 games, provided by the meeting in a men's brilliantly overhe doubles match yesterday afternoon was solidly of Von Cramm and Henkel and traYamagishi and Nunoi.
Own Correspond
the been no repetition of Friday's This morning dawned with
The match went to five full sets ally won the rain ended, and the battlefield gedy at the RUR post. covered by a slight mist which gra- The whole of the Settlement. The German pair had a terrific bat- dually cleared as the day wore on particularly the Western section, tle to win the second set, which Our In spite of the misty weather. Ja is shaking under the cannonading, panese planes were active from six in which the Chinese gunners, am onwards, heavily bombing the using heavy howitzers, are compet- Chinese lines at Nanhsiang and
ing almost shell for shell with the Kwangfu
Japanese artillery.
JAPANESE STRATEGY
All Japanese efforts at present are concentrated on these
and it is plainly the schematt we
eral Matsui to break through and roll up the Kwangfe-Linho line on
TRENCHES FLOODED
Al the trenches have been flooded by yesterday's rains and the infantrymen, who a are lining them are having a most
his right the Kwangiu-Nan-fortable time. Occasionally, the hsiang line on his left, dividing rattle of machine gun fire
the Chinese arry.
Heavy Chinese troop concentra- tions at
Kiating,
indication of a sign of activi the opposing trenches, whi nowhere more than 1000
however, nd ate the Chinese apart, with the Soochow
for all emergencies.
Along the Soochow
ctor closest to
tions were pra
ed to Japane air
inese lines south of and-to an intense
tween but after one
reek the
cross yesterday,
lement,
only for the party to be annihilated in a furions
cks on the counter assault, the Japanese
sed to embark on infantry
tacks in this sector.
It is believed ind
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