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CHINESE
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
TIGHTENING
RING ROUND DOIHARA Division Being Decimated In Fierce Fighting
-JAPAN TO-
REVISE
SHANGHAI
CUSTOMS RATES
Nanking, To-day.
The puppet government, to-day announced extension of the North China tariffs es- tablished on January 20 to Central China, including Shanghai.
The announcement adds that the Japanese authori- ties have promised to assist Japanese- to see that the
occupied areas in Shanghai and the Settlement pay the revised tariffs in future.
The new rates are effective on June 1.--Reuter.
MOST FAVOURED NATION TREATMENT
SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. COMPARISON WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S TARIFF SHOWS THAT THE PUPPET GOVERNMENT'S NEW CUSTOMS RATES ARE CUT NONE LESS THAN 25 PER CENT., AND SOME AS MUCH AS 75 PER CENT.
The standard tariff on piece- goods is cut from 50 to 60 per cent., of which duties on woollens are reduced by 45 per cent. and artificial silk nearly 75 per cent.
Duties on metal wares are cut by half, whilst fish products and fish, all of which are supplied by Japan, are cut by 40 to 50 per cent.
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The tariff on cereals is now per cent. ad valorem, compared with 15 per cent. formerly, while duties on all kinds of sugar are cut by approximately 75 per cent.
-Reuter.
Japanese Excuse For Serious Defeat
Hankow, To-day.
Chinese troops are making violent attacks against detachments of the Japanese Doihara division surrounded in the neighbourhood of Lanfeng. Chinese reports state that the Japanese have lost several thousand men and considerable quan- tities of war material.
The Chinese also recaptured several villages, thus drawing the ring tighter around the Japanese. Their object is to cut the Japanese to pieces be- fore Japanese reinforcements, now advancing, can arrive.
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FOUR CHINESE PLANES "RAID" SOUTH JAPAN
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Tokyo, To-day.
The second Chinese "air- raid” on Japan was staged successfully last night and early this morning.
Four Chinese air force planes flew over Amakusa Island, west of Kyushu Is- land, from 10.30 ṣẹp.m. till 1.30a.m.
"raiders" dropped The neither bombs nor pamph- lets.
Reuter.
ALARM SOUNDED
For the second time, Chinese fighting airplanes seem to have ap- peared over Japan.
Several aeroplanes were sighted and over the island of Kyushu were considered by Japanese official quarters to be Chinese.
Chinese military circles in The final result will be decided, Hankow interpret the announce- however, by the outcome of vio- ment of the Tokyo broadcasting lent struggles now going on in station on Sunday that the Doi-the east of Lanfeng. hara division had found them-
According to reports received No reports of bomb dropping or selves faced with the best Chinese
in Hankow, the Japanese ad-of-air conflicts have, however, been- troops equipped with superior artillery, to mean that the defeat vanced yesterday westwards to received.
The air defence command for of the Doihara division at Lan-Ningling whereby, as the Hankow
paper, "Wu Han Jeh Pao" states, West Japan ordered the sounding feng was admitted.
an alarm over the Island of the Chinese positions in west of Shantung are affected in sym-1 Kyushu in South Japan.-Trans-
Trans-Ocean.
Ocean. pathy.
LORD CECIL
ON FAR EAST HOSTILITIES
Oslo, To-day. Lord Robert Cecil who arrived here yesterday to deliver his Nobel Prize address next Wednesday re- ceived the press in the British Le- gation yesterday afternoon.
Answering various questions Lord Cecil declared that he hoped China would win the war against Japan because of the immense significance this would have for the future.
Answering the questions about Spain and about the League of Na- tions, the reorganisation of which despite its recent defeats now Ce- cil thinks would be a mistake, Lord Robert declared that he consider-
REFUGEE INFLUX Jed the whole Non-intervention po-
FROM CANTON
Nearly 20,000 refugees have}
licy wrong. Trans-Océan,
arrived in the Colony from Can- Railway in trains arriving last ton since Saturday morning, ac night and just before 9 a.m. to- cording to official figures. day. All the river boats arriving:
Nearly 4,000 were brought from Canton this afternoon are! down by the Kowloon-Canton crowded to capacity.
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