GERMAN MOBILISATION ACCUSATION
Paris, Yesterday.
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American Director Of I.L.O.
Geneva, Yesterday.
By twenty-eight: votes the American delegate, Mr. Wynant, elected was to-day unanimously Director of the International La-
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"Le Petit Parisien," which, like most other Paris papers, reported M.
bour Organisation in place of Mr. George Bonnet, the
Harold Butler, who resigned re- French Foreign Minister, as having told the cently.
Committee of
At the same time, the Irish de- Foreign Affairs the French Chamber that Gelegate, Mr. Phelan, was elected a post which many had partially mobilised Deputy President, several divisions between May had been in abeyance for 20 and 23, has now denied the years. report.
The statement, it is stated, crept into the paper as result of an error in reporting.
The correction is regarded here as due in the main to the reaction of German opinion to the original report, described in Berlin as an "outrageous attempt at poisoning international relations."
Diplomatic circles here were en- tirely non-plussed by the report in question, and everybody was ask- ing whether M. Bonnet had really made a remark of this sort.
It is presumed that the false re-
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It is stated here that the elec-
tion of Mr. Wynant is in accord- ance with the wishes of President
Roosevelt, but it is also stressed that this election must not be in of any terpreted as indication change of attitude of the United
States towards the League of Na- tions.--Trans-Ocean.
port on this matter appearing in the French press was the subject of a conversation which Count Welczek, the German Ambassador, had with M. Bonnet yesterday. Trans-Ocean.
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1938.
KAIFENG IN DANGER OF COMING UNDER ARTILLERY FIRE
Shanghai, Yesterday. Kaifeng, the largest town of the province of Ho- nan with a population of about 250,000, is now in serious danger of coming under the fire of Japanese artillery and suffering all horrors of the embittered Sino-Japanese war like so many Chinese towns have done be- fore it.
To-night, it was stated in Japanese quarters that two strong Japanese detachments are ap- proaching Kaifeng with great rapidity.
One detachment is already at] Another Japanese detachment Chenliu, 20 kms. southwest of is marching on Lanfeng along the Lunghai Railway and is fol- Kaifeng. The attack on Chen-lowing up those Chinese falling liu, which, however, the Japan- back on Chenliu. ese admit, is still in the hands
of the Chinese, came as a com- plete surprise,
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AIR ARM ACTIVE
The Japanese air arm is stat- ed to be extraordinarily active and Japanese state that they bombed Chinese troops concen- trated south of Kaifeng.
This description by the Jap- anese of the progress of the battle to decide the possession of the Pinghan Railway, ap- pears to be substantially correct as the reports from Hankow do not differ therefrom very greatly. On account of the im- paired situation on the Lunghai Railway. Hankow is full of
rumours.
KAIFENG CONCENTRATION
As far as particulars can be ascertained in Hankow, the fighting in the region of the Lunghai Railway now seems to be concentrated on the town of Kaifeng where Chinese troops -are-massed, having been-with-- drawn from the east to defend Kaifeng.
According to Chinese reports from the front, the Japanese columns, about 311⁄2 divisions strong, have advanced south- wards to the main line from Lanfeng to Hwaiyuan.
LUYI TAKEN
The Japanese report of the capture of Luyi, farther to the south and in the east of the province of Honan, is confirmed by the Chinese.
The present, front line, begins at Kaifeng and ends in the south at Fukou, and Chowkia- kow which, as a highroad junc- tion, is of great strategic im portance. This front line from north to 'south runs parallel to the Pinghan Railway for a dis- tance of about 60 kms.-Trans- Ocean.
NEAR KAIFENG
Chengchow, To-day. A belated: reported received here. late last night states: that threaten- ing situation developed at Lanfeng on the morning of June 8 when a detachment of Japanese forces in a westward drive along the Lung- hai Railway arrived at Hsinglung- tai, a small village west of Lan- feng.
To the southwest of Kaifeng, small units of Japanese forces have appeared at Yuehtien, on June 4,-- Central News...............