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HOSTILITIES RESUMED ON SHANSI FRONTS
Tientsin, 1.12 p.m. To-day. Japanese military headquarters issued a statement this afternoon,
THREAT TO BLOCKADE HONG KONG
Brussels, To-day.
A threat to extend the blockade
claiming further success in the of the China Coast so as to include the arrival of strong reinforce
Hong Kong was made by the operations in East Shansi, following Japanese Ambassador in Brussels
ments.
yesterday, in reference to the Brussels Conference."
The statement declares that the Osaki Brigade which had ar- rived through the Ningtzekwan The Ambassador declared that Pass only a few hours earlier, Japan's refusal to attend was took the principal role in the at-ifinal, and he added if the Powers tack on Sayang and that the decided upon a policy of econo- town was captured early this mic sanctions, foreign privi- morning.
leges in China would cease and
According to this report, the the blockade would be extended. Japanese offensive in East Shan- Hong Kong was not specifically -si has now reached a point about mentioned by the Ambassador
45 miles from Taiyuanfu.
but the nature of his comments
Heavy fighting is, however, left no doubt of his meaning. still proceeding..
HSINKOW CLAIM
In North Shansi, the Japanesej claim to have captured Hsinkow
Trans-Ocean.
(See Page Eleven).
which has resisted their attacks LA GUARDIA SURE
for more than a week.
A general offensive was launch-
ed at eleven pr. last night and Hsinkow was entered at 2 a.m. to-day.
OF
RETURN
New York, To-day.
Early municipal election returns
The Chinese main army had indicate that New York's anti-vice already withdrawn to strongly Mayor LaGuardia is certain of re- prepared positions and there are election.-Beuter.
now 150,000 men occupying a
front line of 60 miles, some two the night, in which the official miles from Hsinkow.
communique states losses were
The Japanese are at present heavy."-Our consolidating after the battle of dent
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The plane has been missing since Wednesday last week, when it hop- ped off from Dakar for Casablanca and ran into a heary storm.
Finding of the mailbag, floating in the sea near Cape Can- tip off the Moroccan coast, seems to establish that neither plane nor crew will ever be seen again. Trans-Ocean.
FAIR WEATHER
The Royal Observatory reported this morning that the anti-cyclone has moved into the Pacific to the east of Japan; another is probably developing over N. China.
Local forecast-
NE winds, mode
DEATH
one
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3rd
of the
SHEWAN At the French Hos
pital, Causeway Bay, November, 1937, E. A. Shewan, of North Point Bungalow, be loved wife of William
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