THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 22, 1938.
JAPANESE CLAIMS TO T.P.R. CAPTURE NOT CONFIRMED Severe Battle Fought Out North Of Hanchwang
Chinese Report Attackers Held On Outskirts
Shanghai, To-day.
The Japanese claim yesterday of the capture of Hanchwang still lacks confirmation from Chin- ese quarters. This town is about 40 kilometres north of Hsuchow beyond the Grand Canal. According to Chinese reports, the Japanese have managed to reach the northern outskirts of Hanchwang, where they were halted by the Chinese defenders. A battle lasting several hours, in which hand-to-hand fighting occur red, was fought out north of Hanchwang.
Tenghsien is still in the hands of the Chinese, but is being be- sieged by the enemy.
Severe Chinese
fighting is stated to be continuing around that town. Chinese planes supported the defenders yesterday afternoon, and counted for
over 600 enemy troops.
ac-
-SIND-
GOVERNMENT RESIGNS
Bombay, To-day The provincial government of Sind has resigned.
So far, there is little informa- tion regarding the resignation but it is understood the govern ment was defeated in the Legisla ture last Friday, which amounted to a vote of censure.
A new cabinet of three mem- bers has been formed-Reuter
HEAVY
SENTENCES ON FORGERY GANG
"It is a very serious crime you have been convicted of. You are going to prisen for a very long period indeed, remarked the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, to 2 married woman, and three other Chinese who were sentenced at the Criminal Sessions this morning for forgery, possession of implements for making forged bank-notes and Miss Tulloh, of the Peak School, for conspiracy to commit a felony. has reported the loss of a clock, The case was sequel to the mid- while it was parked in Connaught ary 11 when 16 persons, including valued at $5, from car No. 3662, night raids by the Poffee on Febru-
Road Central.
three women, were arrested in dif- ferent houses in the Central Dis-> Itrict.
Five of the original number fac- ed trial at the Supreme Court.
Spring Surprise there were Cheung Sam-mal, must-
Attacks On Garrisons In Suiyuan
Peiping, To-day.
The bridge across the Grand Considerable fighting is now proceeding in Suiyuan Canal, connecting the Tientsin- Pukow track has been blown up. by the Chinese to meet the event
mar-
ried woman, Wong Yau-sang, Ho Po- ku, Wong Wing-kwok, and Yu Yam- hong. First, third, fourth and fifth accused pleaded not guilty, and the fifth accused was discharged. The second accused admitted all the
Province as the result of a strong offensive by The woman was sentenced to six Chinese forces.
years hard labour and - similar sentences were passed on second
of the Japanese capturing Han-Reports to this effect have been reaching Peiping and third defendants. chwang.
Our Own Correspon-
dent.
IMPORTANT VICTORY CLAIMED
Hankow, To-day.
Desperate fighting is reg ing on the Tientsin-Pakow Railway front as the Chinese and Japanese are locked in a gigantic struggle for posSES-. sion of Hsuchowfu, according to Chinese reports.
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The Japanese forces, sup- ported by aircraft, artillery and mechanised units, pushing southward along the railway to Hsuchowfu. The Japanese vanguards have al- ready reached Hanchwang by a flanking movement
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The Chinese forces, prising two army corps under the command of Gen. Chang Tze-chung and Gen. Pang Ping-hsun, are launching a vigorous offensive against the Japanese troops in the vicinity of Lingyi, in south-east Shan- ung, with the hope of turning the Japanese left flank and thus saving suchowfa.
A Chinese military com- munique states that the for- mer 29th Army, under Gen Chang Tze-chung, scored an important victory north of Lingyi, inflicting 4,000 casual- ties on the Japanese. The Chinese forces are now push- ing northward m the direction of Chuhsien and
Beuter
persistently and have now been confirmed from
a reliable source in Suiyuanfu.
The Chinese forces, taking the initiative, crossed the Yellow
River in the North-West corner of HEAVIEST MARCH
Shansi Province, and proceeding rapidly into without en-
countering opposition, attacked RAINS FOR 25
the Japanese garrison to the south of Kweihua.
Although the attack was fin-YEARS
WONG WING-KWOK RINGLEADER
Stating that he was quite satisfi- ed that fourth accused was the ring- leader, the Chief Justice sentenced him to seven years hard labour and ordered that all the forged bank- notes, printing press, and other im- plements, be confiscated and destroy- ed..
the
ally driven off, the Chinese claim Three and a quarter inches of over 3,000 forged bank-notes pur
It was alleged by the Crown that to have inflicted heavy losses be-rain have fallen in the last 24 porting to be genuine notes of the fore retiring to the Yellow River. hours, the heaviest March fall for Canton Municipal Bank and
The same sources report that 25 years. It is only 14 inches Bank of Kwangsi, were found Chinese mobile units, operating below the average for the whole the possession of accused. There from bases to the west of Pao-period since the beginning of the were also numerous engraved plates taochen have been raiding vari-year, and 54 of an inch under for making notes and a small print- ous places in Inner Mongolia to the record for March, set in 1913,ing press. regions as far east as the north of 3.79 inches in 24 hours.
of Kalgan-Reuter.
THOUSANDS OF
ARRESTS IN SOVIET UNION
Moscow, To-day.
The highest rainfall ever record- fed in any hour in March is 1.57 in-
ches, in 1888...
Total rainfall this year is now 19.13 inches, or 4.47 inches over average.
Humidity at 10 o'clock this mor- ning was as high as 96 per cent with the temperature 74 degrees. Müzimura thermometer reading
NEAR MISHAP ON STUBBS ROAD
Kwong Yui was this morning fined during the night was 64 degrees. $20 by Mr. H. P. Butters, at the The Royal Observatory reports Central Magistracy, when found that the anticyclone is situated guilty of driving car No. 531 with over the Pacific to the east of the out due care and caution in Stubbs
The oficial organ of the Com-Bonins, and there are indications Road on February 9. munist Party, Pravda, affirms that that pressure is again increasing. Nearing a bend near the Shui Fai no fewer than 132,000 employees in The depression remains over Tong-terrace, defendent overtook a bus in State-controlled industry and com king and the northern depression is front and caused an ambulance com merce in the Soviet Union have moving north eastward across the ing in the opposite direction to ap- been arrested within the past few Sea of Japan. days or charges of frand and em- bezzlement.
of
The arrested persons represent 10 per cent of the total number employees in State-organised indus- try and commerce.
The paper renders the "conspiracy of the Trotskyist and Bucharinist
Local forecast- 3.E. winds, mo- derate to fresh, cloudy, showery.
STAN HILL GOING
ON FURLOUGH
Mr. Stan Hill,
dits responsible for the deplor of the Shads able state of affairs. Trans-Ocean, on Home leav
ply its brakes to prevent a collision.
Mr. F. Brown, of the Fire Bri gade, was complainant, while Mr. M. A. Silva was for the defendant.