GALLANTRY
Japanese Tank Detachment Routed On Railway
IMPORTANT STATIONS
RETAKEN IN
FURIOUS
ASSAULTS
Lanfeng, To-day.
GUERILLA -GEN. TAN-
TOU-YUAN
CAPTURED
Peiping, To-day.
A Japanese mechanised column
Chinese 22nd Army south-east of Hsuchów and captured. General Tan Tou-yuan, according to an official Japanese claim.
Fresh Chinese units, clashing with 2,000 Japanese surprised headquarters of the
equipped with modern weapons, routed the in- vaders after an all night engagement east of Kweiteh last night.
NIUTICHWAN, A SMALL VILLAGE EAST OF KWEITEH, HAS RETURNED TO CHINESE HANDS AFTER THE FAILURE OF A FRESH JAPANESE COUNTER-ATTACK LAST NIGHT.
sur-
Chinese troops have now rounded the invaders in the vicin- ity of Weilou, to the south of the railway line.
According to a telephonic mess- the Chinese age from the front, army, after recapturing Ifeng sta- tion, have now advanced to Tung- kangtow and Taying where fighting is raging.-Central News.
JAPANESE REPORTS
fierce
Shanghai, To-day. Lanfeng, half way between Kai- feng and Kweiteh, and described as the key to Kweiteh, is on the verge of being recaptured, state Japanese despatches from the front, follow- ing a combined drive southward from the Yellow River bend and a circular move by a Japanese flying column, which outflanked the Chin- ese troops in the Kweiteh area.
More than 10,000 Chinese troops,, including several officers, have sur- rendered to the Japanese since the fall of Hsuchowfu, the despatches add.
FATE IN BALANCE Reports state that the
PASSENGER- AIRCRAFT CRASHES
Rio de Janeiro, To-day.
Six, including Senor Cardoso, Minister of Justice in Rio Grande de Sul state, are reported to have perished when a passenger plane overturned in the sea near Santos yesterday.
Ten others were saved, includ- ing the nephew of the President of Brazil.-Reuter.
BRITISH
ATTITUDE
MADE CLEAR
London, To-day. A semi-official statement by, the Chinese British Government states:
Some of the General's Staff were killed and the rest captured. General Tan was taken to Hsu- chowfu.-Reuter,
magnify the alleged incidents or provocation, would find no sym- pathy either with the British public or in official circles here.
IMPORTANCE OF PATIENCE
ATTACK ON PAOTINGFU
Peiping, To-day.
At least 10,000 Chinese guerillas are reported to have attacked Pao- tingfu, but there is no change in the service on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, on which Paoting is si- tuated.
The Japanese garrison at Pao- tingfu is believed to be small.
No official information is avail- able here but it is believed that. reinforcements have been sent up with aircraft.-Reuter.
SEVENTY TANKS CAPTURED
Hankow, To-day.
It may be assumed that Sir Ne- vile Henderson who has been ac tive at Berlin in the last 3 days will not cease to emphasise the im- portance of patience, and of moder- ation in press comment, while in
The Military Affairs Commission, Prague, the British Government's views as to the imperative need of in an official communique, an- avoiding incidents and the desir-nounce the recapture by Chinese ability of the Czechoslovak Gov-
forces of Neihwang and Ifeng east ernment's making unmistakeably. plain its will to secure a speedy of Lanfeng on the Lunghai railway settlement by agreement of the Su- yesterday morning. deten and similar problems, will be The Doihara Division, driving urged by the British Minister. southward from Hotseh in west
It is with the essentials of peace Shantung, has been routed by the that British policy is concerned Chinese defenders after a violent and at the moment, when so much battle in which the invaders is in the balance, it is on them that were surrounded and decimated. British diplomacy will concentrate The Japanese Fukushima me- wherever and whenever opportun-chanised unit, after twenty-four lity occurs.-British Wireless.
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hours' continuous fighting of un- precedented ferocity wás -com- pletely routed in the vicinity of Tsum Wing-kai, aged 27, was Tangshan and Hwangkow. yesterday, admitted to the Queen The Chinese forces claimed Mary Hospital suffering from in-captured more than seventy trapped east of Hauchow continue The Prime Minister and Foreign juries sustained during a fight,-out- tanks and armoured cars. to fight in an effort to drive their Secretary have kept in closest side the South China Bathing sheds. Central News. way through the Japanese cordon to their comrades east of the Tien-touch with the situation of tension
tsin-Pukow Railway.
between Germany and Czecho-
Although small numbers have suc-Slovakia: ceeded in getting through the fate of the majority of the Chinese is still in the balance.-Reuter..
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ANXIETY ALLAYED
Hankow, To-day.
Official circles in London do not conceal their view that the situa- tion has been as critical as it cer- tainly is confused but the informa- tion reaching Whitehall in the past 24 hours points to a welcome Anxiety for the fate of the Chin-easing of the crisis. Pse forces defending the Hsuchow front who were ordered to retreat, has been allayed by an official com munique of the Military Affairs Commission which states that the various units withdrawn -have all arrived safely in their new posi- tions.
At the meeting of the Cabinet_at No: 10, Downing Street yesterday afternoon, the rest of Cabinet were put in possession of the latest re- ports available from British repre- sentatives in the European capitals concerned.
NO TAKING SIDES
In those capitals, wherever it These units, the communique can usefully be exerted the British states, are now ready for fresh, Government's influence will con- operations against the invaders. tinue to be used in the interests of
When withdrawing from their appeasement. original line, the communique an- nounces, some of the units in clever sorties smashed detachments of the In this the Government with un- Japanese forces, and achieved "un-questionably have the strong sup- expected military success."-Cen-port of public opinion which has tral News.
no desire to take sides and is unimpressed by the rival --cam- paigns of assertion and counter- assertion although it is deeply con- scious of the dangers which might| Jarise from any incident, unless and ¡until calm is restored."
LIUAN BOMBED
Shanghai, To-day. In the British view, the earliest Ljuan was bombed yesterday by possible opening of negotiations be- a.squadron of Japanese planes. tween the Government in Prague It is reported here that the. Ja and Herr Henlein's followers, is the panese are forcing Chinese prison best way, both of settling the inci- ers to work as suppers, repairing, dents for which it is "unprofitable bridges and railway tracks in south- to seek to apportion thé Blame” and ern Shantung, along the,Tientsin of obviating their recurrence. Pukow Line and in the Grand Canal. In the grave situation which ex- area.- Our Own Correspondent. ists, any tendency on either side to
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FAR EASTERN MIRROR
A Fortnightly
Some Interesting Articles in the Present Number:
CHINA CANNOT BE CONQUERED
By A Japanese Aviator
NEW CHINESE ARMIES IN THE MAKING
By Wu Hsi-fan
CHINESE SOLDIER
By Robin Hyde SOCIAL UNREST IN JAPAN
By Haru Matsul
MOBILIZING CHINA'S CIVILIAN MILLIONS
By Li Yu-chi .
SMUGGLING IN JAPANESE-OCCUPIED
AREAS
ANALYSIS OF WAR
GEN. PAI CHUNG-HSI BREAKS SILENCE JAPANESE ECONOMIC STRANGLEHOLD
ON SHANGHAI
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