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NEW JAPANESE
OFFENSIVE A COMPARATIVE FAILURE
LONDON, TO-DAY. FROM ALL ACCOUNTS, SAYS THE "DAILY TELE- GRAPH" IN A LEADER, THE NEW JAPANESE OFFENSIVE ON THE YANGTSE HAS SO FAR MADE SLOW PROGRESS
ANY IMPORTANT STRATEGIC POINTS.
Details Expected TYPHOON HAVOC
To Be Made Known To-Day
Prague, To-day.
IN JAPAN: FIRE DISASTER
TOKYO, TO-DAY. THE HAVOC WROUGHT BY TYPHOON
OF JAPAN AFTER 8 HOURS'
Following the meeting of the Czech Cabinet under YESTERDAY'S
the chairmanship of President Benes, it is in- WHICH PASSED INTO THE SEA timated that the Czechoslovakian Government JOURNEY ACROSS JAPAN PRO- has definitely decided upon the final proposals PER, INCLUDED THE FLOOD, to be communicated to representatives of the ING OF
OSAKA. Sudeten German Party.
IN
80,000 HOUSES
From all parts of the area ravag-
AND HAS FAILED TO TAKE All that can be ascertained regarding their nature ed by the typhoon come reports of is that a semi-official announcement will be telephone services disrupted, the dislocation of, traffic, the collapse made in the next few hours. It is thought that of houses and bridges, the uproot- by then some definite idea will be had as to the ing of trees and other damage.
Nine were killed in Kagawa Pre- nature of the proposals.
hima Prefecture.
The Chinese are putting up stout resistance and while they will doubtless be forced to yield
Serious havoc was caused in the small town of Himi near Takakoka, where a disastrous five fanned by the tail-end of Serious-havoc was caussed in fire fanned by the tail-end of the typhoon, destroyed 2,000 out of 3,300 hourses.
to superior Japanese equipment, That these new Czech proposals public, Dr. Benes, the Czechoslov-fecture and five perished in Tokus- they should be capable of hold-are to be published. at the present akian Government has decided upon ing the enemy for a considerable moment is attributed to the desire. definite proposals which will be time in the big lake system sur- of the Czech Government to anti- communicated to the representa rounding Hankow.
cipate any demonstrations that tives of the Sudeten German Party."
-Trans-Ocean. The fall of Hankow is doubt might be possible at the rally of the less only a matter of time but it National Socialist Party at Nurem-
(Continued, from Next Coll is not likely to bring the Japan-berg. ⚫ese much nearer to the end of Lord Runciman, who, incidentally, Office and Central Police Station.
Material damage is estimated at the war as Generalissimo Chiang has removed his headquarters from
five million yen but the number of Kai-shek will merely retire still Hotel Alcron to the- British Lega- farther inland, as elusive as ever tion, has urged the Czech Govern-casualties is not yet known.
Reuter. and as solidly supported by the ment to define its standpoint, sentiment of the nation.
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The official communique of the At Hankow, the Japanese will Cabinet meeting is worded be over 600 miles from their follows: "The negotiations of the base in Shanghai and though they Czechoslovakian - Government should be able to defend their the Nationalities problem have of lines of communications imme-late been governed by the desire diately on either side of the river, expressed in the official communi- their hold on the rest of the coun-que issued. after the consultations try behind them will remain pre-which took place on August 17th carious.
between Government representa- True the fall of Hankow will tives and members of the Sudeten seriously interfere with China's German Party, namely that despite access to outside munitions sup- the existing differences of opinion plies but it is doubtful if these an identity of views might be found have been arriving on any import-regarding the solution of the pro- ant scale for some time past.. blem of German: minorities in
Meanwhile Japan is suffering Czechoslovakia.
a heavy strain on her resources The unofficial talks which the and must anticipate a cumulative President, Dr. Eduard Benes, had Increase in that strain during with representatives of the Sudeten what promises to be a long war. German Party, were likewise de-
Reuter.
signed to further this end.
SPANISH WAR
In the session, which was presid- ed over by the President of the Re-
list troops
Bilbao, To-day.
from Franco reports here Ebro front state that the Nations-
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yesterday.
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