CHENÄSNDAT
E JAPANESE
ESTIMATED
LOSSES
AT 40,000
Retreat Continues: Withdrawing To Paotu Hills
HITLER TO PLAY ROLE IN ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT?
ROME, TO-DAY. OPTIMISM REGARDING THE ANGLO-ITALIAN TALKS CON- TINUES, AND IT IS THOUGHT AN AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO BE REACHED BEFORE EASTER
Chinese Smash SEVERE CLASH
Through And Occupy IN KALAN
Tsining
Hankow, To-day.
Continuing their advance along the Tientsin- Pukow Railway north of Hsuchow, the Chinese troops have completed the recapture of Lin- cheng, and are pursuing the Japanese who are retreating from Lincheng and also from Tsao- chwang towards the Paotu mountains. Severe fighting is also reported along the line from
Tsining to Yenchow, west of the T.P.R.
The agreement, however, will not be signed until after Herr Hitler's visit to Rome at the be- It ginning of May.`
The British Foreign Office ex- pert, Mr. G. M. Rendell, yester- day had a long talk with an Ita
is officially announced that the Chinese have re- captured Tsining, the western terminus of the line.
The last week's fighting in the lian expert, and it is believed they vicinity of the Grand Canal has discussed questions connected cansed with Palestine, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. Reuter.
GRAVE SERIES
OF OUTRAGES
IN PALESTINE
sides.
severe losses to both
It is estimated that Japanese losses are not less than 40,000 killed and wounded, while large quantities of stores both at Lin- cheng and Tsining have fallen into Chinese hands.
TIDÉ TURNED
The tide has turned against the Japanese," stated a Chinese spokesman when questioned re- garding the successes the Chin Jerusalem, To-day. ese troops have acquired during Arab brigands shot and killed the last week. four out of nine Jewish passen- It has been confirmed that the gers in a taxicab on the Safad-Japanese threat to Hsuchowfu, Acre road yesterday afternoon. Kaifeng and Chengchow, has Three of the other passengers been entirely eradicated. Gun- are missing, while the two survi-fire is no longer audible in either vors reached Safad
of these three important towns. The dead are a father, his 12- -Our Own Correspondent. year-old son, an aged mother and her daughter..
A police patrol. rushed to the spot and engaged the brigands who numbered a score. At least three of the murderers were killed. Reuter.
DOCTOR SHOT
Jerusalem, To-day.
A Jewish doctor was shot and
killed on the main coastal road-yes- terday, while two Arab buses were ambushed sixteen miles from Jernsa- lew, on the main road to Hebron.
LARGE
FOAL AT JOCKEY CLUB STABLES
(By RAPIER)
The Great Triumph, a bay mare of 13.2 subscription griffin be ed last night at the stable, the de longing to Mr. Triumvirate, foal-
livery being aided by the veterin-a 2ry surgeon ·
Mother and son are doing well Mr. L. Dumber's Wild Life was the last mare to give birth at the Jockey Club Stables.
COALMINE AREA
wounded
on
are
kill-
localfs
The
It is feared that the K lan police may be unable to control the situation.
A British consular official from Tientsin has left for Tongshan to investigate the trouble. The source from which the
obtained their weap remains a mys tery Reuter
ASAMA MARU
SLIPS OFF
FIRST RESULTS OF FOR JAPAN
DOLLAR SLUMP
To-day
First result of the sturep the Shanghai dollar
companies increased
REINFORCEMENT yesterday when the foreign FROM JAPAN
Shanghai, To-day.
The vessel
Saturday and
petrol by 10 per cent. It is fear-the jed that the prices of other im
ported articles will also rise.
According to a reliable source Although the official rate for thousands of fresh Japanese sol-U.S. dollars yesterday was 29, diers have been pouring into outside the market rates went Shanghai and Hangehow from low as 22 Trans Ocean Japan during the last week
The passengers were robbed but The utmost secrecy has been there were no casualties-Reuter.
maintained regarding the land- ing of the troops, the facts con- cerning which was only learned last evening."
GERMANS FOUND
SHOT DEAD
Jerusalem, To-day.
Most of the new forces are be Passports found on the bodies ing despatched to Lung-Hai area have definitely revealed the iden-Lo relieve those who have beent tity of two Jews found shot dead fighting without rest for almost near the British military cemetery two months. yesterday.
It is believed that the Japan- The men were brothers who had fese plan a large-scale recently emigrated from Germany, on the southern sector of the One of them had been received TPR immediately after the re into the Catholic Church.
placements have taken up their
The brothers had visited the positions along the front line: Benedictine Abbeys on the Mount The troops. were sent from of Olives on Sunday evening, and Japan a few days prior to the were apparently killed on their passage of the National Mobinsa way, back
tion Bill through the House of
Our Own Correspon
No trace of the assailants has Peers. been found
dent
stream of North Point until last
With only two of her operating and the necess Icaution, the liner will
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