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CHINESE TROOPS RECAPTURE TANCHENG
SEVE LOW Japanese Raiders
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into City Causing Diversion
Hsuchow, Apr. 30.
Inflicting a heavy blow to the Japanese present drive in south Shantung, Chinese forces recaptured Tancheng, ́2,000 year-old walled city, 12 miles north of the Langhai
Railway, in a smashing attack yesterday.
.
the Three columns of Chinese troops advanced on city from the south, southwest and northwest and reached its gates early in the morning. Swinging their artillery into action, they began to pound the city. Chinese guerillas who had filtered into the city before- and simultaneously attacked from inside, throwing the Japanese troops into a panic.
A Chinese column soon broke through one of the city gates and forced a way into the city. Confused littered fighting ensued in the streets, which were soon
with dead and wounded of both sides. Small batches of Japanese soldiers were driven into the narrow lanes or deserted houses and were either disarmed or annihilated by the Chinese.
Overwlidimed by the large number { --
of Chinese troops which continued to
pour in, the Japanese troops begun Mr. A. L.
to retreat by the north city gate, but
were attacked by a unit of Chinese
troops waiting outside.
The city was completely recaptured
five o'clock in the afternoon. The Japanese suffered over 1,000 killed. Chinese casualties were also heavy.
The remnant Japanese troops have | retreated to Eatouchen, 10 kilometrey - north-west
Tancheng, where of several Chinese columns are now con verging from different directions.
The Chinese command has issued an order of commendation in recogni- tlan of the bravery of the Chinese troops responsible for the recapture of Tancheng and has charged them to
Motouchen recover
possible. Central News.
SUOR
Japanese Collapse Predicted
Hsuchow, April 20,
of Thr-
The Chinese recapture cheng. An important town 12 miles
tlic north of Lunghal Railway.:
Uy yesterday, is interpreted
com-
potent military observers as a sign of the imminent collapse of the Japan- esc drive in south Shantung.
troops.
Shields
To Take Seat
On
Council
Mr. A. L. Shields has been Un- appointed femporarily at official Member of the Legislative Counell.
The appolniment, notified in this morning's Government Gazette has been made for the duration of the absence from Hongkong of the Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson.
AIMS TO RESTRICT ECONOMIC POWER
Roosevelt Fears Effects Of Concentration
here during engogements since April 21.-Central News.
upon decline in competition."
legislation:
"HUNTING FOR BODIES
This grim occupation, hunting the fragment human beings blown to pieces by aerial bombs, has become an almost common sight, in many Chinese cities. Here, in Canton, rescue workers are searching the wreckage of a group of houses where many persons died. It will probably never be known exactly how many people have been killed in the Japanese bombing raids in China.
ONLY FORCE CAN SMASH ITALIANS GRIP IN ETHIOPIA
เ
London, Apr. 29.
Fly into Death Trap
ANGLO- FRENCH ACCORD
French Premier Highly Pleased With Agreement
London, Apr. 29.
A communique issued at the conclusion of the Anglo-French talks states that it was decided to continue contacts between the two General Staffs as agreed upon on March 19, 1936.
The recent Anglo-Italian Agreement was approved.
The British Ministers express- ed the hope that Franco-Italian negotiations would provide equally satisfying results.
CHINESE WIN GREAT AIR BATTLE WITH SURPRISE ATTACK
Seventy Pursuit Planes Smash Japanese Fleet In Sight of Hankow
(Special to "Telegraph")
Hankow, Apr. 30.
The Japanese raiders which drove over Hankow yesterday afternoon-and into a death trap-numbered 18 bombers and twenty-two protecting purauit machines. They were not expecting an air ambush, and were easily The Ministers approved of the defeated by seventy fast Chinese fighting planes,
appeasement in the
Mediterranean
which these negotiations effected. including a number of Soviet manufacture. and agreed they would improve conditions for the execution of the for the of November agreement withdrawal of volunteers in and would facilitate negotiations for an agreement for the withdrawal
of war materials.
Both Chinese and Russian airmen took part in the Spain, combat. One of the Russian fliers was forced to parachute when his plane crashed and was admitted to the International Hospital. His condition is not serious.
A general agreement was reaches on the subject of Central Europe and the measures to find a solution for interest of those problems in the
peace.
Certain aspects of the Far Eastern situation were discussed us well as problems for the League Council at its next meeting.
It is learned in British quarters that the British and French Ministers agreed that the League should not be asked to go back on any principle, but it was necessary to adopt a realistic attitude with regard to Abyssinia,munity interest, and to recognise that only force, or the threat of force, could undo Italian sovereignty.
Therefore, it was agreed that members of the League that they be asked to take steps to free their hands so might take whatever action they thought fit with regard to recognition of the Italian conquest.
The French Ministers explained their great anxiety with regard to the course of the civil war in spun, and indicated the directions in which they thought they might be able to assist the Non-Intervention Com- mittce, especially with regard to the question of the re-imposition of con-
nch frontier.
They trol on the French troi on realised the difficulties of this plan Com.. which the Non-Intervention miller had already disc
discarded.
The strung hope was expressed on the British side that the improvement In Frango-Italian relations would greatly contribute towards progress | of withdrawal.
With regard to Czecho-Slovakio, it was ogreed to see if means could th peaceful be found to assist in solution of the problem.
Britain Refuses
Commitments
re
GUERILLAS CLOSE TO PEIPING
Bandits Decline To Defend
Chochow
cum-
their The Ministers noted
and agreed to sultation and collaboration, not unly develop the existing policy of con-
The biggest sensation occurred when a huge Japanese bomber crashed at Wuchang, and immediately was blown to pieces by the detonation of its bomb-load.
700 Killed
with regard to defence, but with re- And Wounded
By Bombers
gard to the ideals of national and
two countries.
International life which united the
Close Agreement
In the course of an interview, M. Edouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, said he retained a happy impression of the conversations.
"We had a frank und cordial and on all essential points discussion,
The close agreement. there wus community of Anglo-French interests and Ideals received fresh confirm. ation. The cordiality expressed In the communique is in no way ex- cessive. Quite the contrary,"
M. Georges Bonnel, interviewed, stated that no date had been fixed for the meetings between the General Staffs, but they would start soon.
It was learned that at the con clusion of the Anglo-French talles, Viscount Halifax sow the Italian Ambassador and the Counsellor of whom he the German Embassy, to made it clear that the British und continue Staff French decision to Priping, Apr. 50.
at talks was merely the fruition of the
and did not: Chamber of Commerce
or 11 Chochow, 40 miles south-west of Agreement of 1030, Peiping, yesterday- published an imply any new commitments advertisement in the Tientsin change in policy on the part of
Britain. Yung Pao in which appeared a vote.
The
M. Daladier and M. Bonnet left of thanks and a testimonial of praise Croydon at 6.20 p.m. by special plane! to the new magistrate for his "vir- to Paris. tueus rule."
The British Ministers emphasised that while they would lean their full influence on the side of pence. Britain could not assume with
The advertisement stated: "He commitments any further respect to the problem other then speaks Japanese Huently, and is this those already outlined in Parliament able to arrange protection from ban- in the general statement of British dits with friendly troops." polley.
agreed to ex-
bo
Far East Mediation Not
Discussed
up for
Hankow, Apr. 30.
The air battle over the Yangtse River, when 70 Chinese pursuit planes smashed a Japanese feat of 40 aircraft, las taken attention from the city itself which suffered severely as a respil of yesterday's raid.
Thirteen of the raiders got through the Chinese defence line and dropped scores of bombs on the elly. It is estimated that
were killed 200
persons wounded.-United Press.
FRANCE BEHIND CZECHS
Henlein's Demands
Part Of Drive For Hegemony
от
London, Apr. 29. As a result of the complete Contrary to expectations, when the Anglo-French agreement with Far Eastern question come A considerably agitated Chinese discussion at the Anglo-French talks, regard to the necessity of doing
Chechnw force consideration was not given to the their utmost to assist in detective of the arrived in Felping yesterday after-possibility of eventual mediation. peaceful noon and described the scene when Apparently the only aspect discussed
Interested,
of
Meanwhile, the greatest air battle in the history of the Far East was progressing, the silver-winged Chin- ese pursuit planes looping in and out of the Japanese formations and taking a terrible-toll.
1.
Estimate Of Losses
A Government source told the that twenty United Press to-day Japanese planes and Ave Chinese planes were shot down during yester- day's engagment.
Tho Japenese pursuit planes gallantly protected the bombing craft, and only three of the bigger ships flcet were lost. The pursuit plane was practically annihilated.
At this moment nine Chinese pur- suit planes are hedge-hopping over Hankow
celebrating the
the vetory.
An official air force headquarters statement declares "the greatest alr battle of the Sino-Japanese war", took place at 3 pm, when 70 Chinese pur- encircled. 40 Japanese suit plones raiders about ten miles east of Hon- kow.
Only nine of the bombers suc- (Continued on Page 4.)
STOP PRESS
Two Stolen Pictures Recovered
London, Apr. 20.
Two out of five Old Masters stolen
the pictures.-***
These observers believe that the suffered at crushing defeat they Tancheng will have an adverse teet upon
the morale nf
Japanese
With the recapture of Tancheng the Japanese menace to the Chinese right: wing at Pihaien has been removed.
were recovered to-night. They are Holly pursuing he retreating
Washington, Apr. 29.
from Chilham Castle on April 23, the Gainsborough portraits of William Japanese troops, the Chinese forces
At the same time, the view was President Franklin Roosevelt,
settlement of the Pitt and Lady Clarges, which. to- are reported to have reached Matou- chen, 10 kilometres. northwest, and in a message to Congress on expressed that if an agreement was reached between the Czech Govern- are pounding at the city gates The Anti-Trust Law revision, recom- ment and the Sudeten Germons, it
It is understood the recovery recapture of this city is believed❘niends a $500,000 appropriation could not come solely from the slde he went to see the magistrate the was the Japanese occupation of the Czecho-Slovakian problem. it 18 gether are valued at £32.00a
matic correspondent of Reuter, the paintings followed a visit by
map, who was subsequently detained Imminent.
contribution.
playing mah Jong with his subordin-
"It is understood that Great Britain Meanwhile, severe dghting is sul for a "comprehensive study of of Dr. Benes, but that Herr Henicin, night before. The magistrate was Spratley Islands, in which France is not unlikely, writes the diplo-
ates when word was brought that unl going on north of Pihslen. It is the concentration of economic too, must make some
their good offices in the It was accordingly estimated no fewer than 4,000 Japan- | power in American industry, and plore every possibility of exercising formed Chinese troops had appeared is making certain representations to that Britain and France will use by Scotland Yard, to the assessors
It is understood that M. Edouard Reuter, view of Britain being associated th oppear to be useful, and to try to appeared to be moving in the diree latter has undertaken to consider in Czecho-Slovakia's neighbours, for the recovery of
tion of Chochow.
Any action which France nightgate. Daladier emphasised that France discover elements which might
regarded the Czech question The message proposes for im-
consternation Complete the following brought into agreement,
reigned-Reuter
Involving the whole of Europe. and 'n hurried packing of unpera, medlato enactment,
France would consider Herr
Herr Kon- documents and personal valuables
Healeln's. rad
demands as comprising a drive towards German hegemany was followed by a distracted discus- or sion as to what to do. Finally
in Central and South-Enejern Europe, was decided to ask the lenders of
The French, Government remained from acquiring the control of any French question, it was pointed out
determined to assist Czecho-Slovakia banks, directly or indirectly;
received very two Inrge groups of bandits who hnd.
It events made it necessary.—Reuter parvention of banlis controlled specine assurances with regard to receritly been bothering villages near holding companies from establish-Czecho-Slovakcin from Field Marshal Chochow to accept official positions
Hermann Goering, and the problem, and to protect the city, any more branches;
Making it illegal for a holding if roughly handled, would involve a
corporalian company, or
or threat to European peace. Any enterprise in which it is financially
It was decided that the queation of Interested, to borrow from or to sell
Czecho- economic assistance ÓN ADVISORY COMMITTEE
securities to a bank in which it holds Stovalla and other Central European
the which
French During the absence
the tack.
countries, from Colony of Sir Vandeleur Grayburn,
President Roosevelt recommended Ministers rained, be left for both Mr. D. C. Edmondston will act as a hate bank legislation should aides to consider separately, to member of the Exchange Fund provide for the gradual separation of what help It night bo possible to give,
---Reuter. Advisory Committee.
(Continued on Page 10.)
Liu Kwei-Tang Reported Killed
:
Chengchow, April 30,
It is rumoured that Lid Kwei- tang. notorious bandit chieftain in Japanese employ, was recently killed by a Chinese shell while leading the irregulars under his command to engage the Chinese on a Hill near Taiorchwang-Central News.
1. Effective control of the opern-i
.
Goering's Assurances
lion of Bank Holding Companies; In reply to the criticism that
2. Prevention of holding companies Czecho-Slovakia was no British
3.
by
liat Britain
had
10
Ren
it
The detective sold be understood
and the city! the bandits refused, was in considerable confusion yes- terday morning, with leaflets ap pearing everywhero signed the "13th Hul Blood Corps", and ugging thei citizens to remember that they were: Chinese and must resist Japanese aggression.--United Press.
Cross-Channel Plane Lands On Beach
London, Apr. 20.
A passenger Uner from Faris to Landon mado a forced landing lo-day on the beach between Fastbourne and Bexhill, due to engine trouble.
The plot naked: shipping. In the Channel to keep a look out, for ble plane in case he had to land in the wea-Router Duttain.
JAPANESE SAY. THEY LOST ONLY TWO MACHINES
Shanghal, Apr. 30. According to a Japanese com- munique, BI Chinese planes were shot down during a rold'on Hunkow yesterday,
The communique states. that more than 50 planes of the. Japanese naval alt: force, participated in an aerial battle aralnet:60. Chinese, 'pursuit planes at the E-15 and E-4 Soviet
STUDIES SOCIAL PROBLEMS Washington, Apr, 29, President Franklin Roosevelt has asked the Social Security Bourd to study mathods to improve and ex-type. tend the social security system, in- The Japanese losses are said to, be eluding the liberalisation of old are only two machines-Reuter, B banofits, for congressional action next (Further Stop Press News on year-fouter.
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