THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 2, 1938
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CONFLICTING REPORTS ON DEVELOPMENTS IN SHANSI Japanese Claim Chinese Forces Demoralised Hankow Unable To
Confirm Fall Of Lingshih
Peiping, To-day.
The Japanese columns in Shansi are striking in every direction, intending to annihilate as many Chinese as possible.
SOVIET TRIAL SIR ARTHUR
TIRADES
Moscow, To-day..
The latest mass trial has pushed all other news off the front pages of Russian news-- papers which fulminare at length against the twenty- “abominable betrayers
one
of the people.”
The world, says “Pravda,” will
WAUCHOPE LEAVES FOR ENGLAND
Jerusalem, To-day. The British High Commissioner,
be appalled by the terrible crimes General Sir Arthur Wauchope, left
men, Palestine for England yesterday.. who are charged, inter alia, with
of General Sir Arthur Wauchope
The column which advanced south through Ling-committed by the accused
shin has joined the column which took Ping-plotting with the assistance yuan, while the column which moved westward foreign Powers, to involve the has held his office since 1931 and Soviet in war and procure.its de- has experienced economic depres- from Taiyuanfu has now planted the Rising
feat. Sun flag on the Yellow River northwest of Central figure in the coming trial,
sions and grave disorders and has although he will not be present income much before the public eye Senshow.
person, will once again be "that con- through discussions on the British firmed spy and bandit, that enemy partition plan. of the people Trotsky," says "Izves
tia."
They are now sending a column a heavy price of the enemy troops. rapidly southward along the river General Fu Tso-yi is leading in an endeavour to cut the re-best armed force of 50,000 men
In a farewell speech broad- TROTSKY'S PART treat of thousands of Chinese which will defend the border dis-
The newspapers list Trotsky's
cast to the population of Pales- fleeing from Hwcchow towards tricts of Shansi and Shensi pro-many crimes as an "informer and tine and Trans-Jordania, the Shensi, while Japanese planes vinces. A Japanese column ad-
accuse him of being the chief plot- former High Commissioner are bombing and machine-gun- vancing westward from Fanyang ter against the Soviet.
stated that "Palestine is sail- ning fleeing Chinese in various has been effectively intercepted. "Izvestia says that the plot was
ing in stormy seas.” Severe fighting is being waged to cede the Ukraine to Germany, the around the suburbs of Linfan, Maritime Provinces of the Far East The Arab newspaper, "Addifaa," where thousands of crack Chinese to Japan, and the Central Asia and points out that the erstwhile hope troops are holding all strategic Caucasian Republics to "other im-ful Sir Arthur Wauchope has fail- points. Hua Nan.
parts of Shansi.
Reuter.
LINFENG FALL UNCONFIRMED
Hankow, To-day.
perialist Powers."-Trans-Ocean.
ed after several years of effort and is a disappointed man. The coun-
WAIT AND SEE Polish Statseman try is no object for experiment and
TACTICS
No official confirmation of the reported capture of Linfeng, capital of Shansi province, by the Japan- ese was obtainable from Chinese offi- cial quarters up till yesterday morn-
Mexico City, To-day. ing.
In leading Chinese military It is indicated in reliable circles circles the opinion is expressed that that the foreign oil companies will the Japanese have the intention of wait and see what the Government clearing the Chinese completely out will do to enforce the judgment, of Shansi in order, in this way, to and in the meantime it is believed prevent Chinese flank attacks, So that the companies will take no much feared by the Japanese,
notice of it..
According to reports hitherto re- A statement issued by the affect- ceived here it would appear to be ed companies regrets the refusal to certain that the Japanese are very grant an injunction, "which cannot greatly extending their operations but have serious consequences for along the Tungpu Railway. The the companies' employees and those
dependent on the industry." Keuter.
aim of this is to cross the Yellow Itiver as far west of Taifeng as possible since the river hed there is more shallow. This intention ap- pears to be confirmed by a foreign observer, according to whom, the Japanese will attempt to cross the Yellow River near Loyang and that the Japanese would thus have the possibility of controlling the western part of the Lunghai Railway.
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SPANISH WAR PREDICTION
-MILITIA TO CARRY ON
Paris, To-day.
On the other hand, the Chinese
Final victory will rest with the? kavn the intention of holding. Shansi Republicans," declared the Belgian ***Socialist leader, Emile Vandervelde, province as long as possible.
The Chinese militia have been into pressmen on his return from a structed to keep up the defence of tour of loyalist Spain yesterday,
He talked of the International Shans: even if the Japanese should succeed in occupying large town. On Brigade in Spain as an "internation- the Peiping-Hankow front, the Chin-al manifestation of the spirit of the ese yesterday succeeded in captur Popular Front."-Trans-Ocean. ing a number of towns and villages
and destroying various puinta of Ex-Kaiser's Wife
the railway between Changteh and Hsinhsiang.
Trans-Ocean.
NOT DISCOURAGED
Hankow, To-day.
Leaves Doorn
London, To-day. Princess Hermione, wife of the The Chinese military authorities ex-Kaiser of Germany, is leaving are not discouraged by the latest Doorn, The Netherlands, for military developments in Shanai Bavaria, says the "Daily Tele- although the Chinese troops have graph."
given up over ten districts after a Her purpose in returning to series of heavy battles, in which Germany is to visit a spa for health the Chinese claim to have exacted treatment.-Trans-Ocean,
Passes
seven years must have sufficed, the paper concludes, in order to con- vince
of the political leaders Warsaw, To-day. futility of their policy, The death occurred yesterday of The new High Commissioner, Vladislav Grabski, the prominent Sir Herbert MacMichael, will ar- Polish statesman of the early post-rive in Palestine on Thursday. War period. Trans-Ocean.
Trans-Ocean.
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