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SHANGHAI ACCEPTS FALL OF
HSUCHOWFU
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AT A STANDSTİLL
All Japanese attempts to storm Kueyeh which has now been besieg ed for six days, have broken down in face of Chinese resistance.
Military observers declare that the Japanese offensive launched in western Shantung, with seven divi- sions, and in Anhwei, with four di visions, has already come to standstill.
composed of Chiang Kai-shek's crack troops, are facing annihila- tion in the Hsuchowfu area where they are surrounded.
The official claim adds that after occupation of Hsuchowfu, the Ja- panese found three thousand dead Chinese inside the city and four thousand in the surrounding hills. -Reuter.
"POURING IN"
Shanghai, To-day. Thousands of Japanese troops according to Japanese reports, The Japanese troops are report-poured into Hsuchowfu this morn- ed to have suffered heavy losses ing heralding the Japanese unof and are lacking in reserves.
Added to this, several Chinese divisions in West Shantung are harassing the rear communications of the Japanese troops.
MORE GUERILLAS
The bulk of Chinese provincial troops, defeated at Hsuchow, are
ficial entry to the city.
The official entry will be an- nounced later it is stated and high of- Japanese military and naval ficials, will take part in the cele- brations. Our Own Correspon- dent,
likely to dissolve into small form- HEAVY FIGHTING
ations with the object of carrying on guerilla warfare behind the Ja panese front as other formations are doing with considerable suc- cess in the hinterland from Peipin, to the Lunghai Railway.
Japanese reports say three thou- sand Chinese soldiers surrendered to the Japanese in Hsuchow.
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JAPANESE CLAIMS
NEAR LANFENG
Shanghai, To-day. According to a Domei report, three Chinese divisions, the 87th, 88th and 160th, are hotly engag- the ed with the Japanese" on Lung-Hai Line, east of Lanfeng Chinese re-inforcements are stated to be pouring into that sector..
Thousands
of Chinese
re-
Shanghai, To-day. Conflicting with the assessement of the situation by independent ob- inforcements are also reported servers, a Japanese official claim by the same news agency to have this morning states that fifty arrived in Chengchow. Our Own Chinese divisions, including ten Correspondent.
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STOP PRESS
New York Spy Mystery
New York, To-day. Dr. Ignatz Griebl, a former German Intelligence officer, now a naturalised American, and an important witness at the impend- ing trial of seventeen members of an international spy ring, has mysteriously disappeared.
He is reported to have sailed for Germany on board the "Bre- men" without the knowledge of his wife, who, however, scoffs at
her husband reports that spirited away.
was
She declares he has gone on a business trip and will return in three weeks. Reuter.
HEAVY SNOW IN PYRENEES
Perpignan, To-day.
Eastern
Bad weather conditions prevail ing throughout Western Europ have now spread to the Pyrenees where heavy snowfall oc- curred yesterday afternoon.
The French torpedoboat, "Le Ma lin" arrived in the Bay of Paulilles from Valencia yesterday with 51 French refugees on board.-Trans- Ocean.
NOTED AMERICAN COMING HERE
Major-General Harbord, K.C.M.G. Chairman of the Board of Radio Corporation of America, is arriv- ing in the Colony in the Empress of Japan on Wednesday, leaving on Friday next in the same vessel.
A luncheon party in his honour to be given at Government House.
that
The public are reminded Empire Day, Tuesday, May 24. 1938, is a public holiday and that all educational establishments, pu- blic offices and Government depart- ments will not be open for ordin- ary business on that day.
The Health Returns for the past 24 hours show that five cases of smallpox were reported in that period, three in Kowloon, one in Victoria and': one in the New Territories.
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