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CAMPAIGN IN SHANSI
Hankow, To-day.
Increased. Japanese activities in the provinces of Shansi and Shensi are expected in the near fu- ture by Chinese military quarters here. It is believed that the Japanese will endeavour to cut the Chinese force's communications with Lanchow, and will therefore attempt to cross the Yellow River at Fenling near Tungkuan, where the Peiping-Hankow railway crosses the Yellow River.
This assumption, is based on the south bank have been fact that the Japanese are throw-up."
ISOGAI DIVISION
"mopped
border has
ing parts of their forces, released by flooding of the province of Ho- A detachment of the Isogai Divi- nan, to the province of Shansi.sion which recently captured Luyi Reports received here this morning on the Anhwei-Honan declare that isolated Japanese units advanced to Taikang, 45 kilometres north-west, but the main force is are endeavouring to leave the in-
held undated plains of Honan with the.
up at Hwaiyang, about 40 kilometres west of Luyi. help of all sorts of boats. Some of these units are proceeding in
According to General Chen, the the
at Pienkwan Japanese direction of Shansi, while others are Shansi and those at Howma, Kuwo, in north being moved to the Anking sector. Sinkiang and Yuncheng in south. Chinese official quarters stress that
Shansi have sustained heavy the flooding of the Honan plain is
losses. Japanese reinforcements making it impossible for the Chin- are arriving.-Central News. ese to pursue the Japanese offensive operations also prevented by the floods.
Japanese
YANGTSE LANDING
The Chinese admit that the
and
are
Ja-
PARENTS'
panese succeeded yesterday, for the DIVORCE KILLS
first time, in landing troops on the southern bank of the Yangtse, be- tween Wuhu and Tatung. On the other hand, the Chinese declared that the Japanese advance on the northern bank of the River, whose objective was above all the town of Chienshan, has been brought to a standstill in the vicinity of Liuan
It is moreover
announced that the Chinese are endeavouring te strengthen the booms and fortifica- tions in the vicinity of Matang, in order to retard the Japanese ad vance towards Kiukang and from there to Hankow, should they at- tempt such an operation.
CHILDREN
New York, June 10. Haunted by the thought that their divorced parents didn't love one another, Lyle Ward, eighteen, and his sister Heloise, seventeen, of Adrian, Michigan, committed sui- cide.
Brother and sister
were found, their hands clasped, in a gas-filled car. By their side lay-a-note-read-- ing: "The way things are at pre- sent, life isn't worth living."
A relative with whom they lived said: "When Lyle and Heloise were and the mother married again. small their parents were divorced
POSSIBLE NEW THREAT The strengthening of the booms is considered to be necessary, since it is feared that the Japanese may for years they sorrowed because "They had romantic natures, and if they force the booms; advance their parents' love had died. not only in a westerly direction to "They described mother's re- Hankow, but also in southerly di-marriage as a bitter pill. They rection, via lake Poyang to Nan-thought it was terrible to have to chang. From here a flank attack on live apart from their parents." the Hankow-Canton railway could ¡be launched:--Trans-Ocean.
TSIENSHAN BATTLE STILL RAGING
Hankow, To-day.
Lyle had a good job and Heloise had just left school.
-“ONE-QUIN” FILM STRIKE
Severe fighting continues to rage in the outskirts of Tsienshan in south-western Anhwei, where a division. of Japanese troops is at-
Callander, Ontario, June 10. tempting to dislodge the Chinese, Yvonne Dionne, one of the. Quin- according to General Chen Cheng. |tuplets, staged a solo strike during The Chinese counter-attack at the filming of the sisters' new pic- Shucheng is proceeding favour- ture, "Five of a Kind.” ably. Chinese troops have reached Rain had forced the quins to re- the outskirts, whilst another main indoors, preventing them column is advancing north, cutting from seeing, as they had been pro- the retreat of the Japanese inside mised, the five cocker spaniel pups the city.
which are to be their first pets. Japanese warships in the, Yang- While her four sisters performed tze have been shelling the Chinese their roles without much protest, positions on both, the north and Yvonne appeared to take the ab- south banks and Japanese war-sence of the puppies as a personal ships have bombed Matang on the affront on the part of the director, Kiangsi-Anhwei border during the Herbert Leeds, last few days.
She refused to put her doll to (Over 1,000 Japanese troops who bed, as the scene demanded, and landed at Tikang above Wuhu on when Mr. Leeds ordered-the- June 18 are surrounded, whilst the cameras away she grinned victori-V Japanese at other points on the ously,