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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,
AUGUST 2 1988;
Chinese Capture City After Long Battle
STILL CLINGING TO STRONG POSITIONS SOUTH OF KIUKIANG
Repeated Japanese Attacks Successfully Crushed
Hankow, Aug. 2.
Chinese forces occupied Chingchen in south Shansi at dawn on July 30, according to a Chinese military communique.
After routing the Japanese on July 28 in a severe engagement in the suburbs of the city, the Chinese closed in, finally entering the city two days later.
Despite repeated attacks, the Chinese south of Kiukiang are said still to be holding Shaoho on the Kiukiang-Nanchang railway.-Reuter.
Armies Deadlocked
Hankow, Aug. 2. The armies on the south and also the north banits of the Yangtse are at u standstill, according to a Chinese military communique,
It is stated that the Chinese are bolding the strongly entrenched posi- tions in the hills south of Klukiang and west of Tathu.
Despite repeated attacks by two Japanese detuchments, the Chinese south of Khiklang are still holding Shaobo.
Though many Japanese gunboats and launches ure said to be concentrated off Shinotze, a small town on the west shore of Poyang Lake, which is said to have been subjected to heavy aerial bombardment, Japanese truaps have yet been landed there.
Do
Chinese troops who withdrew from Kitang are at present holding post- tions in the hills east of Wulaofeng, the highest peak of the Lustan range, of which Kuling is one of the heights. Japanese troops at Talhu are sníd repeatedly to have attacked the Chinese positions on the hill west- word of that town, but due strong Chinese defences, to the dificulty in the employment of heavy armament in the hill areas, the Chinese positions there are very firm.
o the
counter-assaught on Sunday murn ing the Chinese killed 1,000 men. The Japanese defence line around Tsicashnn has been considerably ahalten.
Flood Hampers Invader
The Japanese westward thrust is meeting with great hindrance t Huanplachu, an important point south of Susang on the brink of the Yangtse partially inundated by flood waters River. With the place the Japanese mechanised units are bogged down.
Sinochihyl,
cut
und the
west of Tsienshan, is also the scene nbout 10 ilometres of bitter fighting. Taking the offen- sive, the Chinese are attempting to dislodge the Japanese there completely
the rear of Japanese advancing on Susung, The Japanese, *ccupying high-level ground, are stubbornly resisting.
Heavy Japanese reinforcements HUTE arriving continuousty Yangse River front. It is reported the Un
Japanese troops there from Unnan alone number no transferred fewer than 30,000, Large contin- gents of the Japanese garrison units nt Suhalen on the Tientsin-Pukow
on
False Ant Kiangsu, Hotel, in centrai
Since Sunday Chinese forces have been counter-attacking the Japanese line between Talhu and Changshan. Chinese
forces are said to have occupied Chengchen in south Shansi
at dawn on July 30.-Renter.
New Threat
Heralding Chinese general coun- ter-attack on the Shanghai-Nanking- Hangchow triangular sector, a divi- sion of Chinese regular troops has reached several points adjoining Wasih, Soochow and Kunshan on the Shanghai-Nanking
railway, and company of Chinese guerlilas has re- taken Chaoshingchen, near Shanghai, according to a despatch received by the local Sing Tao Jih Poo from Shanghai.
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Japanese Trapped in Hills
Nanchung. Aur. 2.
Yangchow have niso
Anking Nunking, and
heen shifted! there. Mongol And Manchukuo Irregulars in Japanese empley have now been sent to garrison these cities.
It is estimated that there are now warships and 300 steam launches at least 100 Japanese large and small concentrated in the Yangtse River.--- Central Newes.
Defenders Of Namoa Still Fight Stoutly
Despite the Japanese blockade of Namoa Island, over two hundred Chinese self-defence corps men from At least 4,000 casualties have been, the island on the mainland of the Jaoping and Jillm, towns opposite inflicted by the Chinese un the Japanese Invaders in the bloody Province, succeeded in landing on the engagements on the north bark of northern shore of Namea to reinforce
their comrades the Yangtze River during the past according to Chinese press
on Sunday night, week, according to military reports.
reports Hualcngting, a strategle point ly- ing midway between Taihu and Susung, and surrounded on all sides by hills, has been the grave of large numbers of Japanese. Continuous streams of Japanese attacking this point have been trapped in the hills and moved down by machine-gun
fire,
After the bitter experience there, the Japanese, it is stated, have now abandoned their futile attempt to capture the point and are speedily withdrawing.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have been launching flanking attacks on Tsien- shan with great effect. In a fierce
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from Swatow.
Meanwhile, a iull prevails on the Island as the Japanese hesitate to penetrate into the interior in pursuit of the Chinese forces commanded by Colonel Hung Cheng-chl, who are strengthening their positions before launching a general counter-attack.
It is understood that the Hankow authorities attach much significance to the Namos fighting as it manifests the resistance power of tung people even in an area favour- able to the Japanese. The Japanese ambitions in Kwangtung might be considerably influenced by the fight- ing at Namoa, the authorities belleve.
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RIOTING IN HAWAII
Hilo, Hawall, Aug. 1. Fivo hundred workers rioted dur ing the docking to-day of the inter- island steamer Walaleale, protesting against the strike-breaking crow in
the vessel.
Police used tear-gas and riot guns to quell the outbreak, in the cource of which 10 were wounded, including one women. '
Trains Crash | POLICEMAN
Flyer Skids Along Slippery Rails
STABBED
At about 12.30 last night an Indian constable was found near the Mong kok Police Station with a crippling stab wound in the left side of the
unidentified Chinese, It is believed. abdomen Ho was stabbed by an
Toledo, Ohlo, Aug. 1. Thirty-eight people were injured in a rail crash at Rocky Bridge, Ohio, to-day, involving the Commodore York Central Railroad which crashed Vanderbilt, a crack flyer of the New
into the rear of the streamlined "Mercury" train running between Detroit and Cleveland. that it is The Commodore Vanderbilt skidded
on the ralls which were rendered serious. Vanderbilt continued its run to New slippery by rain. Later the
York.Reuter.
A later message mys estimated 60 were hurt in the rioting, ten seriously and two critically,
out on the latter.-United Press.
emergency operations being carried
The constable, is in Queen Mary Hospital and his condition may be
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