THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1938.
FOREIGN
PILOT AIR
SQUADRON IN ACTION
Cooperate In Chinese Counter-Attack At Pengpu
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who, according to a report in a French newspaper, are expecting a happy event before long.
BOMB JAPANESE POSITION
It
Hankow, To-day.
transpires that seven Chinese planes participated in the Chin- ese counter-offensive in the Pengpu sector of the TP.R. yesterday morn- ing.
The planes. were piloted by members of the so-called "Foreign Legion," the band of foreigners of various nationalities who have come to China voluntarily to help in the struggle against Japan,...
While various members of the Foreign Legion had previously engaged Japanese aircraft in aerial combats, yesterday was the first time that Legionaries had attacked a Japanese position in one unit.—Reuter.
Happy Event JAPANESE BIG BOMBARDMENT In Duke of BATTLESHIP
OF AMOY: FORTY KILLED
Shanghai, To-day.
Britons arriving in Shanghai say that military establishments at Amoy were bombed from the air on February 3 and shelled from the sea on February 4, causing a large and hurried influx of panic stricken
Windsor's Family
Paris, To-day.
A "happy event" in the family of the Duke of Windsor is forecast by the "Paris Soir,”
The paper published the report with a description of the Chateau de la Maye, in which the Duke and Duchess took up residence yester- day following extensive alterations to the buildings.--Trans-Ocean.
Chinese into the foreign settlement JAPANESE
on Kulangsu.
During the bombing, which last-
ed at intervals all day, two shots, OFFICERS
from an anti-aircreft gun and de- sultory rifle and machine-gun fire was the only reply.
Forty Chinese were killed many more wounded.
and
Two Japanese warships bombard~ ed the forts and wireless station on February 4 but caused negligi ble damage.
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TAKE PLEDGE
PLAN DENIED
Tokyo, To-day.
-PIQUANT GERMAN ENGAGEMENT
Berlin, To-day.
The engagement is announced between Dorothy, youngest daugh- ter of Field-Marshal Werner von Blomberg, former War Minister, and the son of General von Kei- tel, the new Chief of the Supreme: Command Reuter.
TSINGTAO
RETURNING TO NORMAL
Shanghai, To-day.
With the waterworks, electric power plant and telephone ex- change again working, Tsingtao is rapidly resuming its former ap pearance under the Japanese occu- pation, according to the Japanese naval spokesman.
Chinese shops have opened in various - parts of the e qity, while between 3,000 and 4,000 Japanese re- sidents have returned to the port.
The newly organised Chinese The spokesman of the Japan-police ese Foreign Office yesterday for-Japanese naval landing party in are co-operating with the mally denied that the Japanese maintaining peace and order. Ja Admiralty had already prepared panese army units are also garri- plans for the construction of soned in Tsingtae, 43,000-ton battleships, as had been variously asserted by the foreign press.
The spokesman then intimated that the future Japanese attitude, with regard to the question of-con- struction of large battleships, will depend on measures taken by Bri- tain and the United States.
FUTURE OF S. M. C.
London, To-day Japan, he pointed out, does not The Government has in no wish to threaten any nation but altered its views regarding contin- she also wants to be secure against uance of the International Settle aggression and her naval armament in Shanghar and maintenance ment or disarmament, therefore, of the present administration, said will be decided by corresponding the Foreign Secretary in a written Shanghai, To-day. considerations.
* | reply in the House of Commons yes- Certain Japanese officers were The spokesman refused to make terday: 9**9** taken to task by Gen. Matsui in further comments of the proposals Mr. Eden indicated the exact na- Nanking yesterday, and compelled-made by the British-and icanture of the Japanese censorship in to pledge themselves to observe Governments in their Notes of Shanghai over British telegrams strict discipline in future
February
After telling the officers of ge- Iveral individual cases which had brought discredit to the Japanese in army, Gen. Matsui exacted the
aforementioned pledge.
The forts replied vigorously and the warships steamed out to and disappeared in the mist.
H.M.S. Duchess at present is Amoy watching British interests Reuter.
PREHISTORIC CAVE IN ALPS
Vienna, To-day.
The reputation of the Japanese army, he stated must be restored.
-Trans-Ocean.
JAPANESE CONCENTRATE
A group of Alpinists yesterday ON GUERILLAS
succeeded in reaching the bottom of a recently discovered prehis toric cave in the East Styrian Alps.
Work of exploring the cave took 36 hours and was handicapped by iceam
Shanghai, To-day. Compelled by the increasing menace of the guerillas, Japan- ese "mopping up" operations in occupied territory are being con- tinued with great vigour.
The explorers state that the cave In the region of Taipu Lake, the is the second deepest hitherto dia- Japanese claim to have annihilated covered in the world, having aseveral isolated groups of Chinese depth of nearly 1,700 feet.--Trans- troops which had been harassing
Ocean.
the Japanese lines of communica-
tion.
Trans-Ocean.
and mails, both inward and out- ward
He said that as a result of Bri-
The Japanese have also occupied tish representations, commercial the island of Tungtingsishan, in|firms could telegraph-in code when Lake Taipu, formerly the haunt of authorised by our consular repre- pirates. Trang-Ocean.
sentative. Reuter
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