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FRIDAY, APRIL 1,
1938.
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CHINA'S MECHANISED ARMY ATTACKS
GERMAN AND Besieging Army Has Food for Lerida
SOVIET ARMS AID DRIVES
New Power Massed On Japanese Flanks
(Special to "Telegraph")
Hankow, Apr. 1.
The newly-trained and organised mechanised units of the Chinese army plunged into the Shantung operations Wednesday and have done well.
The new Chinese army is equipped with German heavy guns, Soviet anti-aircraft weapons, Russian and German armoured cars and tanks.
The Chinese attacks have been concentrated on the Japanese flanks and along the railway racks linking various cities in southern Shantung, which the Japanese are still unable to repair. Thus their communications system is disrupted and they are experiencing difficulty in getting up arms and reinforce.nents.
Already railway communications between Yenchow and Taian have been completely severed.-United Press.
New Offensive
Hankow, Apr. 1. Greatly elated over the successes of their comrades on the Tientsin- Pukow railway front, Chinese forces in other sectors are fighting with a new vigour, and it is reported that they have made important gains.
According to Chinese COTT munique, the Government's forces in the Peiping-Hankow railway aren launched a strong offensive and have already reoccupied Tsluotso, a well- known coal mining centre in North Henan
At the same time South Yangtse River troopa recaptured Szcan, a strategic city in North Cheklang, near the border of Anliwel, "after a severe engagement in which the Chinese suffered 3,000 casualties, and the Japanese 4,000."
Important Chinese Buccases are also reported to have been scored in "the Hangchow Bay area, where the guerlila troops have been very delive, it is said that they have reoccupied Halyen and Haining-Router.
Considers Position In China Obscure
London, Mar. 31. Asked by Mr. Arthur Henderson Lab) for a atatémont on the present military situation in Chiou, the Prime Minister in the. House of Commons to-day, outlined the fighting in Shan- tung and on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, north of Soochow
In this area, he said, the Chinese appear to be counter-attacking with some success. Reports were con- Aleting, and
the situation WOJ obscure,
Mr. Chamberlain' proceeded to say that meanwhile the Japanese advance north of the railway had been stopped, and only minor operations were taking place on this and other fronta-Reuter;
"Mopping Up" At
Taierchwang
Having successfully severed Japan-
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JAPANESE
VOLCANO ERUPTS
Tokyo, Apr. 1.
The Kagoshima correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun reports that on March 30 an eruption of the volcano, Sakurajima, situated in Kagoshima Bay, took place.
The volcano emitted stifling gas, while earth tremors threatened the
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MANY DIE IN HANKOW RAIDS.
This photograph was rushed to Hongkong by air mail from Hankow. It shows one phase of the air raids of March 27, in
100 were killed and 80 injured. Here rescue squads are bring- ing the victims to a hidden assembly place.
I Have Torn which the casualties were mostly women and children. About
Treaty Of Versailles"
Frankfort-on-jfalu, Mar. 31,
In a plebiscite sprech to-day; Here. Adolf Hitler said: "For five years I have lorn page after page of the Treaty of Versailles, not as one breaking the law, but as one restoring the law. "My fate has blessed that I could tear off another page", referring to the anschluss. - Ito denounced Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the farmer Austrian Chancellor, as a trailer—United Press.
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WIDOW OF MURDERED MAN HELD Allegedly Assisted Husband's Slayer To Evade Arrest
London, Mar. 31.
un accessory
HOOVER MAINTAINS U.S.MUST CONTINUE FRIENDSHIP WITH
ALL DICTATORSHIPS
New York, Mar. 31.
In a speech to the Council of Foreign Relations, Mr. Herbert Hoover warned that if the United States hoped to stay out of war, "she must keep peace with dictator- ships as well as with the popular governments."
He deplored the rise of Fascism, but added:
"However, the forms of government through which
DEVASTATION LIES BEHIND MOROCCANS ON PATHS OF WAR
Loyalist Deserters Now Pouring into France
Saragossa, Mar. 31.
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Intense fighting continues round Lerida which is now surrounded on three sides, with the Loyalists resisting stiffly on the fourth side, which is on the banks of the Segre River.
Preparations are now complete for the occupation of the city, including police for the control of traffic, and food supplies for the inhabitants.
Almost the entire Moroccan army, with artillery, cavalry and Commissariat, has now advanced beyond the River Cinca, leaving a deserted and devastated countryside behind it.
General Franco visited the Lerida section to-day, and the town is expected to fall in the near future.— Reuter Special.
FEROCIOUS ELECTION FIGHTING IN EGYPT
Many Killed When
Factions Clash
Cairo, Mar. 31.
Loyalists Desert
To France
Perpignan, Mar. 31. Loyalist deserters to-day poured across the border into Franco. mountain passes : being filled...with militiamen, soldiers, and civiliano.
the
In the course of 12 hours, over 600 armed soldiers and civilians entered France at Port de Benasque Pass, and they were immediately interned by the French authorities-Unlied Press.
International Brigade Counter-Attacks
Hendaye, Mar. 31. Floodwaters have slowed down the Reports from the provincial Gover- | Insurgents' advance and delayed the nors indicate that to-day's elections | capture of Lerida, The Loyalists
other peoples pass in working out their destinies are not an Upper Egypt have gone in favour famed International Brigade troops
our business.”
He said that the United States had' made an earlier effort to save the world for democracy, "but the only result was to sow the dragon's teeth which
in dictatorships. sprang up
SEAMAN ASSAULTS OFFICER
Two Months' Prison For Brutal Assault
of the Government.
Four people were shot dead at Beirut when rival parties clashed. A ¡ taxi driver was killed at Minca and many were injured at Tantah, in cluding 25 policemen.
The worst election rioting was at Tantab, the home town of Nahas Fasha, where 700 of Nahas up porters smashed a number of shops and damaged the British Consulate.
The police made a number of ar-
rests.
neighbouring towns, with & papuin- There was a sensational sequel We can never herd the world into tion of 10,000. People are preparing to-day to the alleged murder List paths of righteousness with the dogs to evacuate in the event of the week of Mr. Percy Cassericy, #1 of cruption becoming worse.
They Wimbledon company director in Europe he had encountered
Mr. Hoover said that while visiting seven fear repetition of the dis-his widow, Georgina Casserley, was astrous 1014 eruption which caused charged with being
forces threatening clvliisation. First- considerable losa af life-United after the fact,
ly, the rise of dictatorships, "all with second-
The Police Chief of Manfalut was Pres.
On Saturday 1st, Edward Royal so-called planned economies":
shot and knited in the back.while Chaplin, a Modern builder's foreman, ly the arm race; thirdly increased was charged with the murder of Car-
trying to restore order during a for- government debts and deficits; which
tion fight. meant that "another Inflation of cerley by shooting.
Large forces of police and troops ame form seems to be
Inevitable
: Charged with assaulting Mr. have fourthly the increasingly striving for
been transferred to Upper self-sufficiency In industry
and John Jackson, the chief officer Egypt from Lower Egypt where poll- nnaly
ing takes place on Saturday. Fit.y fullure of
the
on the British ship Allende, at persons were arrested before the elec Lengue of Nations us a a potent force of each other, the goverment of the John Millan, 23, seaman, was 110 are Government Coalition for peace; sixthly, fear-the nations p.m. and 3.10 p.m. yesterday, on for rioting and violence.
There are 611 candidates, of whom citizens, and the citizens of the gov- sentenced to two months' im-235 Wafd. They are contesting 264 emmment: everywhere a vague fear of war; seventhly the stendy increase in prisonment with hard labour | seats.--Reuter. some nations of brutality and terror when he appeared before Comdr. J. B. Newill, Deputy Harbour
Little Boy Run Over And Killed
Lorry Wheel Went
Over Body
A little boy of six, Lam Chun, was Instantly killed when the rear wheel of a lorry passed over his body at 11 a.m. to-day.
He was playing in a. lane and fan
Police now allege that Chaplin anc Mrs. Casstrley returned to the Cus serley home together as she was pericy airmu to go alone, Casserley having threatened to shoot her.
agriculture;}
Chaplin remained downstairs. Sub She went to her bedroom and sequently there were shots, and Mrs. Casserley assisted Choplin to clude upprehension,
Since her husband's death, Mrs. Casserley, who is expecting a child, 15m. has been in a Wimbledon nursing | home,-Reuter Special.
King Will
into Fife Street, near Sal Yeung Choi Broadcast At
Street and into the side of the passing lorry, which
was going towards Nathan Road. He rolled under the. wheel.
TWO HURT IN COLLISION
the
BRIGHTER FACTORS
Mr. Hoover said the brighter fac-
tors included Europe's recovery be rond the United States, and, despite scares, the fact that Europe was not prepared for war. "I do not belleve general war is an immediate pros- pect" he sold.
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morning.
Muster, at the Marine Court this FACTORY
EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE
Defendant
of the Allies to co-operate with Ger- Exhibition
London, Mar, AL
and of fear.
wns arrested
at 3.30
and
yesterday afternoon by Lance Ser- geant Penfold who answered the He blamed the injustices and un- police fing and went an board the realities of the peace treaties, debts, ship, which was alongside the Lalcht- post-war lafiations, and the refusal kok Wharf,
Edmonton, Alberta, Mar. 31. The chlet oficer is now in the
A terrific early morning explosion many when she was struggling for Kowloon Hospital with a fractured and fire at Hinton collleries, 200 miles democracy, for the rise of Fascism ankie, believed to have been caused west of Edmonton, killed five men He denounced the idea of collective when he landed his feet after jump of the disaster has not been de- and Injured Ave others. The cause It was announced to-day that the netion by the democracies A collision between two motor Heuchow, April 1.
against ng from the bridge nvold the
termined. Stewart and Lockhart Roads about pill be broadcast. The opening religious wars. However, aid Mr. remember anything about the affair of the scene of the explosion cara occurred at the function of King's speech at the opening of the dictatorships, claiming that it had attack.
Doctors and nurses ese communication lines, the Chinese1 o'clock this morning..
Exhibition at Glasgow on May "all the hideous climents of the old
were rushed 3, will
Defendant at first hald he did not to the scene from Edson, 55 miles cast forces at Taferchwang aru' resorting
ceremony will be at Ibrox Park
the United States would be but when questioned again, pleaded United Press. According to a police report, the Stadium, and the King's speech will Hoover, of fire surround frolated units of driver of a public motor car, To be at about 10 am.
G.M.T. The bliged to join collective moral
forces
a guilly, said "I had too much drink," Japanina troops who are in constant Kwai-sang, was proceeding eastward King and Queen
to prevent war, adding: “Deerncy is will stay for two still news”, and drawing attention to danger of annihilation.
Remarking that it was along Lockhart Rand whom a private days in Glasgow.
most Already many Japaness have been car, driven by Mr. W. Lath,
After the opening ceremony Their Mr. Cordell Hull's pronouncements
the fact that the world press echoed serious matter, Mr, F. G. Nigel who -pro- slain. On the night of March 30 the prietor of Lam's Garage, Gloucester Majesties will spend the morning and
prosecuted on behalf of the Master, Chinese forces launched sudden Road, appeared from the south of carly afternoon, touring... the exhi-|| PRAISES TRADE EFFORTS,
Captain S. J. Owen, said that the (enveloplait attack on the Japanese at Stewart hand. The ears met head-bition Later that day, and the next femra e
defendant went on board about. 2.80 Bellwark, not th-west of
Taler on in the middle of the road, number of visits in the neighbourhood onces aimed at lowering traineer, Mr. Miles, who would state rubber tyres by one third has recei
day, Their Majesties will make a He praised, International confer- p.m. yesterday afternoon, and at-2.45 ho was observed by the Chief En- The Comberof Japanese Mr. Lam suffers injuries to both of Glasgow they will entrain for art and props that although defendants, and been a the approval of the Sente Finance
1 down. Al day. legs, and it is understood that To London late in artemioon of May 47% Crudit sountrian - should be dis
(Continued on PIS BUENAS Brities Wirtadien
to "mopping up" operations. Nings
wein Fad Delta Into the narrow
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RUBBER TYRE TAX REDUCED.
Was A Washington, Mar, 21.
A reduction in the excise; fax: on
counter-attacked outside Lerida after a sham reirent. The Insurgents have admitted that their advance has been Interrupted.
Farther south, the Loyalists threw two crack Spanish divisions into a that the Insurgents thrust to the sea- desperate defence, as it is possible coast will mean Barcelona from Valencia and Madrid. the separation of United Press.
Trap Sprung On Attackers
Barcelona, Mar. 31. Eye-witnesses from Lerida to-day. described a very daring manoeuvre (Continued on Page 8.)
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