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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1938.
Battle For Tenghsien Develops Into Major Engagement With Tide
LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS
In Favour Of Chinese Defenders PUBLIC AUCTION.
FIERCE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING PROCEEDING
Hankow, March 21.
Flerce fighting for possession of the town of Tenghsien, în Shan-. tung Province, was in progress late last night,
The town has changed hands several times and, according to The latest reports, the Japanese are now engaged in an attempt to retake it but have so far been repelled by the Chinese defenders,
The Chinese forces are putting in occupying the firs#Japanese line up stern resistance following the In a furious assault with hand arrival of considerable reinforce-¦ grenades and light machine-guns.
In a counter-attack the next
ments.
The Japanese are also said to morning, the Japanese forces, with have thrown large numbers of the help of twenty tanks, falled fresh troops into the battle, which to.disperse the Chinese troops. is developing into one of the big- gest engagements of the present
wat
«Another report received here late last night states that the Japanese Invaders "have been driven back According to information reach- | several kilometers from the original ing here, the Chinese are deter-apex of their advance. mined to hold Tenghsten at any costs.
(Transocean).
The Chinese forces, the report 31y's, are advancing northward along the Hanchwang-Tohsten line.
(Central News),
·SHANTUNG SITUATION
11
Hsuchow, March 21. Following the heavy reverse at Lin, the Japanese troops in west Shantung have retreated to the
Gen. Francisco Franco, Spanish Insurgent Commander.
Franco Pushes Aragon Offensive
on
GRIM FIGHTING
Esuchow, March 21. Grie hand-to-hand struggle, with casualties on both sides run- Įning to hundreds, continues to feature the fightig between Chin 250 and Japanese forces in the
Paris, March 21. Vicinity of Tenghsien along the northeast of Tangtouchen where
The Spanish Nationalist forces | northern Tsinpu line.
the hurriedly erected defence works resumed their offensive The Japanese forces. numbering are being strengthened.
Aragon front yesterday morning, 3.000 strong, who managed to cress The Chinese forces, busily en- according to despatches reaching Tenghsien" and Lincheng
on the gaged in **mopping up" thehere from Saragossa. rallway in their attempted drive remnant forces, will shortly launch towards Hsuchow, are now
canded by strong Chinese units to ese positions toward the north. the southeast of Tenghsten,
Repeated attempts are made by the Japanese to break through the Chinese cordon.
Hand-to-hand Ohinese troops have occupied Pet- fighting is raging on all sectors of Kuochen to menace "the Japanese the line with the Chinese using forces at Jinchao to the north.- with great effectiveness hand Central News). grenades and bayonets
The new advance was preceded
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sur- another assault on the new Japan by a heavy bombardment which PLEA TO FREE
50 YARDS ACROSS Flerce struggle started on the evening of March 19, when the Japanese invaders were challenged in their advance by a strong" force of Chinese troops at the front and another on the rear.
A distance of only fifty yards separated the Chinese and Japan- ese lines: Determined to storm the Japanese positions, the Chinese troops at great sacrifice succeeded
New French Mobilisation Measure
BLUM TO INTRODUCE ALL-EMBRACING LEGISLATION
Paris, March 20.
A bill to complete the organisa- tion of the total strength of the nation in time of war will be bebated in the Chamber, an Tuesday.
Both banks of the Tho are now cleared of Japanese troops.
started shortly before dawn.
Much strategical importance is SHANGHAI FROM In the vicinity of Tunghai, the Codomera by Nationalist Spanish EXCHANGE RULE
SEEK
OF
JAPANESE
CONTROL UNIVERSITIES
Tokyo, March 21. The management of univer- sities by the Japanese in North China was forecast yesterday by Marquis Kido, Minister of Education, when answering a question in the Diet.
Marquis Kido said he would take the necessary steps to despatch to North China, ex- perts to complie text books arid to maintain close contact with the Japanese authorities on the spot.
He added: "I will also give attention to the management of universities in Central Chins."-(Reuter)..
AIR RAID ON "
HSUCHOW
Japanese Planes Chased Away
Shanghal, March 21.
attached here to the occupation of
troops. Codomera is situated about eight miles southeast of Alcaniz. It! is, therefore apparent that the Na- tionalist troops have succeeded in consolidating their positionis cast of the "Guadalupe River.-(Trans- ocean).
INSURGENTS' CAPTURES
Financial times Comments On Situation
"Much
London, March 21. " San Sebastian, March 20.
35 the imposition of Readjustments to General Fran- exchange regulations by the cisco Franco's front line continue Chinese
is to be
Government.
on the Aragon front, while the deplored, the motive is under- army awaits orders to resume the tandable,” declares the Financial advance.
Times in an editorial.
1 Published results of the advance "Foreign exchange, ranks high as state the Insurgents captured 23 ja potential weapon of war, and villages, gaining 2,350 square miles, the Chinese Government hopes to containing a population of 160.000. conserve it by surrounding it with and that they also captured 10,000 |stif restrictions.
prisoners. 76 cannons, 56 tanks and The hardship that must fall innumerable firearms, and brought upon the Shanghai business com- down 35 aeroplanes in the course munity under
regulations
these
of the past fortnight's attacks.—cannot be exaggerated says the (Reuter).
FIERCE BOMBING OF OPEN TOWNS DÉPLORED
Paris, March 21..
journal "As the main clearing centre of Far Eastern trade, Shanghai must inevitably claim a large measure of financial freedom. "It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Chinese Government will,, It was confrmed here yesterday quickly see its way to allocating a that the French Government had percentage of the total of foreign communicated to the British Gov-exchange to Shanghai without in- ernment on Saturday the draft of yolving the mediation of Hankow a note to be handed to General for Hong Kong."—(Reuter) Franto's Government appealing for cessation of alr bombardment on open towns.
Special reference is made in the note to the effecta of the recent
course of these raids.-(Trans-
BRITAIN'S HORROR
BULGARIAN DIPLOMAT PASSES
The bill provides for the mcbl- lisation of the fighting forces by the co-operation of the civil and military authorities under a single
The Japanese yesterday carried aerial bombardment of Barcelona war command and the mobilisa-out a big air raid on Hsuchow and to the fact that two French tion of industry under a specially where the Lunghai Railway joins consular officials were killed in the appointed Minister & Mobilisation the Tientsin-Pukow Rallway. of Defence against Aircraft.
The underlying principle of the machines took part in the rald but
A large number of Japanese occan),
Alexander Malinoff, Bill is that everybody must aid in were driven off by Chinese pursuit the defence of the nation, and that planes. The Chinese claim they
Former Premier war must not be a source of profits have brought down one Japanese
London, March 20. ~{Reuter.)
The British Government has in-
Soña, March 21. bombing plane.
structed ite agent at Salamanca to
Alexander Malinoff, former Bul- The Japanese version of the new address a communication to Gen-garian Prime Minister, died here Chinese offensive that has been eral Franco expressing Britain's suddenly yesterday following launched on the southern sector of horror at the air raids on Barce-heart seizure which occurred whilst the Tientsin-Pukow Railway men-
tona and pointing out that air he was addressing an election tions repeated Chinese attacks but raids on civilian populations are meeting. He was in his 2nd year. claims that all have been repulsed contrary to all principles of inter- -(Transocean.)
national Jaw.-(Reuter),
"
Schuschnigg Adamant
WILL NOT PROMISE TO GIVE UP
POLITICS
Vienna, March 20.
The authorities are embarrassed
GERMAN MISSION |MARGARET
BOMBED
BONDFIELD ON
LECTURE TOUR
Only Woman Cabinet Minister In Britain
"
3.
Malinoff, who had held the post of Bulgarian Prime Minister on several occasions, will be chiefly' remembered for the part he played In the history of his country near the end of the World War.
He was elected as Prime Minister when the Bulgarian defence col- lapsed. Hi Arst action was to ar- range with the Entente an armis- tice which was signed in Balonika." From 1901, until the dissolution of the political parties, he remain- ed without interruption lender of "London, March 19.
the Bulgarian Democratic Party. Miss Margaret Bondfield; former At the time of his death he was Minister of Labour and the only seeking re-election to the Bulga- woman who to date held Cabinet rian Parliament (Transocean). rank in Britain, retired today from
as to what to do with Dr. van
Hankow, March 21. Schuschnige.
Chinese military sources report They first planned to send him that the German Catholic mission- abroad, but it is believed that Dr.ary church at Linchin, in southern von Schuschnigg opposed this and Shantung, has been bombed by refused to give an undertaking to Japanese aircraft despite the fact abstain from political activity. that it had a large flag which was Dr. von Schuschnigg may ngure displayed in a manner making it in the proceedings to rehabilitate clearly discernible from the air. Otto Planetta, the corporal who According to the same report, the shot the late Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss church was filled with people at the post of Chief Woman Officer and was excuted as a result.
the time of the air raid. It is of the National Union of General ¦ / The Chinese People's Foreign. It is believed a new trial may be stated that four persons were kill- and Municipal Workers after 42 Relations Association has already held in an endeavour to established and about two hundred wound- years as union organiser in order made a large collection of posters a verdict that the Planetta trialed. A large number of houses into devote greater time to political bearing on the present Chinese was a miscarriage of justice, for the vicinity of the church have work.
İdefensive campaign for the exhibi- which Dr. von Schuschnigg was been destroyed.
She has been out of Parliament |tion which is scheduled to open in |largely responsible, and also that "It is not yet known whether”
ier any since 1931 and 13 Teaving "next Moscow at the end of thiị month. Major Fey participated in the German nationals. were among month for a lecturing tour In theThe exhibits will be shipped to the |shooting of Dr. Dollfuss-(Reuter). those killed-(Transocean).
United States-(British Wireless), | Boviet capital shortly.