OFFENSIVE
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New Spirit For Victory Permeating Troops
PREMIER'S
INFORMATION
ON SHANTUNG FIGHTING
London, To-day. Asked by Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour) to make a statement on the present military situation in China, the Prime Minister in the
House of Commons yesterday out- lined the fighting in south Shan- tung and on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway north of Hsuchow.
In this area, he said, the Chin- ese appear to be counter-attack- ing with some success.
Reports
are conflicting - and the situation is obscure, said Mr. Chamberlain.
He proceeded that meanwhile -the Japanese advance north of the Railway had been halted, and only minor operations were this and other taking place on fronts.
Reuter.
HEAVY LOSS IN
Important Gains On Several Fronts
Hankow, To-day.
MAJOR HESLOP INCIDENT: NEW PROTEST
Shanghai, To-day. The Japanese military spokesman announced last evening that the m- cident in which Major
Greatly elated over the successes of their comrades on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway front, the Chinese forces on other sectors are fighting with new vigour, and are reported to have Heslop, commander of the Durham Light Infan made important gains.
try had been threatened
According to a Chinese communique, the Chinese with a revolver by a Jap-
forces in the Peiping-Hankow Railway area anese officer, is consi have launched a strong offensive and have al-dered closed." ready re-occupied Tsiaotso, the well-known coal-mining centre in North Honan.
At the same time, south of the Yangtse River, the Chinese troops have recaptured: Szean, a strategic city in North Chekiang near the border of Anhwei "after a severe engagement in which the Chinese suffered. 3,000 ca sualties and the Japanese 4,000."
Important successes are also reported to have been scored in the Hangchow Bay area by Chin- ese guerillas, including re-occupa tion of Haiyen and Haining- Reuter.
AIR FORCE ACTIVITY
Shanghai, To-day. Late last night the Taier
still raging
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with casualty lists for both sides) extremely heavy. Chinese re- 196,inforcements which have been The Peak, last night secured a valu-rushed up are now in the front able haul, Mr. A Sommerfelt, of line and are holding their posi- Linstead and Davis, reporting the tions.
loss of jewellery valued at £87 and Japanese re-inforcements have $190 în cash, while Mr. T. G. Pater-also arrived in the sector. Jap-| son, of Anderson and Ashe, has reanese plaries are making furious ported the loss of $303 in cash.
efforts to relieve the pressure on the ground forces and repeatedly raided yesterday, thousands of
H.M.S. EDINBURGH pounds of explosives being drop-
LAUNCHED
London, To-day.
The ten-thousand ton cruiser,
ped-Our Own Correspondent
NEW CAPITAL
ISSUES
London, To-day.
Édinburgh, was launched at the yard 1 of Swan Hunter and Wigham Rich- ardson at Wallsend. She is one of New capital issues in March eighteen naval vessels being built totalled £6,391,772 against $19,248,- on the Tyne and the keel of another 438 in February and £11,257,125 in cruiser-Mauritius-will be laid on March, 1937. The total for the the same berth immediately.-Bri- three months of the current year tish Wireless.
is $33,105,082-British Wireless.
BRITAIN'S LARGE BUDGET SURPLUS
London, To-day. Reveme during the financial year totalled £872,580,000, ex- penditure £843,794,000 and the net surplus £28,786,000.
The official surplus of £9,480, 000 being excess revenue over es- timated revenue, the surplus, in accordance Defence Loans Act, 1937, able for use in the coming
to meet defence expenditure which otherwise would be met from borrowed moneys.
Expenditure was £19,054,500 below the estimates.
Defence expenditure from Bud- get revenue was £197,250,000; while a further £64,750,000 was
from barrowed moneys, a total defence expendi. of 2262,600,000 a
000,000 over the
Beuter
JAPAN ON THE ESCALATOR
Tokyo, To-day. A Navy Ministry spokesman yesterday told foreign pressmen that Japan desired to adhere to the naval policy hitherto pursued by her which threatened no-“ body." If, however, Britain and the United States built battleships exceeding 35,000 tons, Japan would be compelled to do the same and embark on general naval in- creases for her own protection.- Trans-Ocean.
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Enquiries of the British mil- tary authorities revealed, how- ever, that not only was the in- cident not considered closed by the British but, in view of the failure of the Japanese military to reply to the British pretest, the British military had made further representations
to Japanese yesterday.
the
The British representations requested that a reply and apo- logy should be delivered without delay. Reuter.
The Corporals' Club of the Royal Army Medical Corps will hold their first grand carnival dance at the Hotel Cecil to-morrow from 8.30 p.m. to 1 am. There will be novelty dances to be introduced in the func
Mr. tion, and the dance band of Jimmy and Els Boys (HMS. Suf-
folk) will be in attendance.
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