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JAPANESE
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
PROGRESS
HALTED BY NEW
NEW LINE Claim Chinese Right Flank Is Giving Ground HEAVY LOSSES FUKIEN BEING PREPARED
IN TANYANG AGAINST INVASION JAPAN'S
FIGHTING
Shanghai, 2 p.m. To-day. While it is admitted by authorita- tive Japanese quarters that the Japanese advance has been brought
AMOY PRACTICALLY TAKES STAND
GHOST
CITY
ON CUSTOMS
Tokyo
The Japanese Government main- tains that the Shanghai Mari- time Customs is a Chinese Gov-
That the military authorities in South China are to a halt by the new Chinese de-more apprehensive of an invasion of the Fukien fence system on the northern coast than of Kwangtung was revealed by a well- sector of the front, it is claimed known local business man, who arrived in Hong that the Chinese right wing is still Kong this morning after a tour of the coast.
Between Amoy and Foochow, coast defences giving ground.
Heavy fighting in rearguard have been constructed on a remarkable scale, while actions along the Shanghai- Nanking highway continued all further inland trenches with concrete emplace through the night, but the Chin- ments and extensive dug-outs are in course of con- solved through ese retired from Lucheng and
struction. Lingkow in turn and early this morning Tanyang station fell into Japanese hands.
the canal
HIVE OF ACTIVITY The "China Mail" was told that the highway between Foochow and It is reliably learned that no serious attempt was made to Amoy is a hive of military activity, hold these points, the Chinese troops, mostly Cantonese, are to be defence having been concentrat seen everywhere, especially in ed in Tanyang City and along Amoy, where the port is virtually
a military camp.
In Foochow itself, there is prac- HEAVY LOSSES Japanese admit heavy losses tically no military activity of in encounters with Chinese ma-troops at all Foochow is the only
port along the Coast which has ↑ chine-gun nests.
Similar developments are reported yet been attacked by Japanese along the Changchow-Kintan high-planes. Conditions are normal al- way. Puyi and Hwangtang have been taken by the Japanese but the advance has been halted at Kintan where attacks have been repulsed with heavy loss.
JAPANESE CLAIMS Japanese claim that the advance from Kwangteh is proceeding steadi ly in spite of stubborn Chinese re- sistance. Lukiapu fell at ten o'clock and the this morning, they claim, military spokesman suggested that the Japanese would soon be in con tart with the Chinese defence line af Langki
TONGMEI BOMBED IN
TODAY'S RAID
Japan planes during this morning
raid attacked the Kowloon-Canton Railway line at Tongmei, among other places. The Chinese troops retiring from Planes bombed the line here at Thing are preparing to make a spot only 20 miles from Canton stand. The fall of Liyang, claim-while the own train was half a ed by the Japanese, is denied by mile from Tongmei, and "passen- Chinese quarters.
gers were forced to leave the carriages and hide in the fields.
Five planes took part in the raid, which was directed against the
BIG BATTLE PENDING Expectations here are that the next 24 hours will witness the de velopment of one of the greatest en-tracks only gagements of the Shanghai opera tions, though failure of the Chi to maintain a continuous line to be jeopardising their chance of decisive challenge to the Japan advance on Nanking.
Nevertheless, the Chinking, yang, Kintan, Liyang fem presents the Japanese
After half an ho during which were dropped, which the
to
Kaw
though appearance of Japanese planes over the city are daily oc- currences. »
Rumours are current that the Governor of Fukien Province has come to some agreement with the Japanese.
ernment-organ, and that there fore the question of Japan taking over its administration should be
direct. Sino-
Japanese negotiations, and Japan adheres to the principle of refus ing third-power interference, Says the "Asahi Shimbun.”
The paper adds that therefore Japan cannot consent to estab fishment of a commission includ-“ HAITAN'S NARROW ESCAPE The Min River has been blockading third-power representatives ed. Junks laden with slabs of to discuss the Customs issue. - concrete have been sunk at the en- Reuter. trance to the river, while floating (Continued on Page 24)
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