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High Tension As 37th Division Cease Withdrawal

DIGGING THEMSELVES IN

ON TEN-MILE FRONT

"DO OR DIE” ATTITUDE

AMONG 29TH ARMY

SOLDIERY

Peiping, To-day.

Tension in North China has been renewed as result of the sudden refusal of the 37th Division of the 29th Route Army to continue its withdrawal from its positions west of Peiping.

JAPANESE

IN KWANGTUNG PREPARE

Canton, To-day.

It is reported that all Japanese residents in East Kwangtung haye assembled in Swatow and those in Honan Island have assembled in Shameen. They are ready to evacuate should an emergency si- tuation develop. Our Own Cor- respondent.

"Wanping is holy ground. We will never leave it," declared the commander of the garrison there KWANGSI last night.

The troops returned to their positions in the TO SEND afternoon and began digging fresh trenches.

READY MILLION

Kweilin, To-day. - Generals Li Chung-jen and Pei

They were reinforced in the evening and it is TROOPS NORTH estimated that there are 5,000 Chinese troops hold- ing a ten-mile front with its centre in Papaoshan.

It is reliably reported from Shanghai that Gen-Chung-hsi, the Kwangsi warlords, eral Chiang Kai-shek has ordered six of his own have declared their fullest support Divisions to proceed to Hopei.-Reuter. DO OR DIE SPIRIT

Peiping, To-day.

of the statement of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. They added that the Kwangsi Government is ready to the despatch 1,500,000 soldiers to North in a month.-Our Own Cor- respondent.

'BRAINWAVES" HELP THE DOCTOR!

QU may have read

some

months ago of the new knowledge about "brain-waves- the rhythmical electrical pulsa- tions, apparently connected with thought, produced by your brain's nerve cells.

At the Maida Vale Hospital for Epilepsy, London, N.W., these waves are being used to track #down the causes of fita, coma,

paralysis and mind disorders.

The patient sits quietly with wires leading from his head

to marvellous machines that amplify by 50,000,000 tiny electrical dis- charges of. round about ten-mil- lionths of a volt.

His brain-waves register as wavy lines on a screen like the screens used in television. Dif- ferent types of the waves origin- ate in different parts of the head..

One type normally has a rhythm

of two or three beats a second. If it is slower, the doctor sus

if faster, pects brain tumour; epilepsy.

A tumour, pressing up- ward against the nerve-cells, causes a disturbance in the waves much like the atmospheric dis-

to take themselves to the opposite turbances of radio waves that. in- bank of the Yunting River, the 37th terrupt your wireless.

By means of the brain-wave de- Division officers

tection apparatus the exact loca- tion of such a disturbance and hence of the tumour is found.

CHEMISTRY EXPLAINS

accused the Ja- panese observers of trickery and immediately ordered re-occupation

The morning opens with the position in North China more than ever uncertain as a result of the refusal of the 37th Division to withdraw from Wan- ping.

Digging of trenches by the Chinese troops is going on apace, and a "do or die" attitude prevails among the soldiers, which is encouraged by the ma-tion, the troops began at once to jority of their officers.

of the points vacated.

In anticipating of Japanese ac-

construct trenches and machine- gun posts and the atmosphere this more was electric, though tension. It is suggested that the hitch in the withdraw- al of the 37th occurred when they found that the eased somewhat in consequence of Japanese insisted on their withdrawal to the west the Japanese quietude. Our Own of the Yungting River, instead of only as far as Hsi- yuan as originally arranged.

Meanwhile, units of the 37th Division continue to hold the gates of Peiping and it looks as if another stalemate has been reach- ed.

The Japanese continue to be obdurate and refuse to budge from their positions until the movement of the Chinese troops is com- pleted. Reuter.

JAPANESE LEAVE SWATOW

New Naval Squadrons Coming South?

Swatow, To-day.

A party of Japanese residents, comprising 30 men, and 70 women the Hong and children, boarded

which Kong Maru, of the O.S.K.,

Commander, Li Hon-wan, is report-

CHINESE ACCUSE

Correspondent.

NEW ORDERS TO GEN. KATSUKI

""To Stop Passage Of Nanking Forces":

Tientsin, To-day.

It is reliably reported that Gen. ed to have demanded by the Japan-K. Katsuki has received fresh in- ese Consul here.-Da-Dao.

structions from his Higher Com- mand to the effect that he is to de- vote all the resources at his dis- posal to frustrate the co-operation of the 29th Army and the Nanking forces now proceeding, north, and to stop, by all means, the passage of Nanking forces northwards, if pos sible.-Da-Dao.

JAPANESE

Insisted On More Than

Had Been Agreed

Peiping, To-day. Breakdown of the withdrawal was bound for Formosa. This ship arrangements has come carried a large amount of silver and surprise..

as no

PEIPING INCIDENT

Peiping, To-day. The American Embassy has lodg-

16 boxes of important documents. Chinese quarters blame the ed a protest with the Japanese Em-

It

stated that the ladies attempted to pass - Japanese military guards without authority. Our Own Cor- respondent.

At present there are two Japan-Japanese for the development, al-bassy concerning an incident in leging that the Japanese mili- which two American ladies were in- ese warships in Swatow.

is learned from a reliable tary insisted upon evacuation of volved.

It is understood that following source that the 4th and 5th Squad- the 37th Division far beyond the rons, of the Japanese Fleet, com- positions to which the Chinese inquiries, the Japanese Embassy prising three cruisers each, haye military leaders had agreed.

Moreover, the 37th Division been ordered to relieve the 18th and the 16th Squadrons which were officers objected to their own re- commissioned to do patrol duty in tirement being carried out inde South China Seas. A state of emer-pendently of the promised Japan- gency has been declared over the ese withdrawal and to the princi- Ma Kung Harbour which is heavily ple that the Japanese would only

when the Chinese with mined, and

ships are allowed to move 10 li after dark. drawal had been completed,

On reaching Haiyuan and. being The withdrawal from Swatow of the 155th Division ander Garrison- informed that they were expected

· come with on

go bald because the skin of the scalp gets too tight, reducing the blood supply to the hair roots..

He has invented an operation which loosens the skin and causes the blood supply to increase.

CHAMPIONS

The big difference between you, running to catch the 8.30, and Jesse Owens doing the 220 yards in twenty seconds is just a matter of chemistry.

Tests on five champion runners have been made in a Harvard

University laboratory.

Before races their blood was like that of ordinary untrained

men.

But after running "all out" the untrained men had in their mus- cles large quantities of lactic acid, the fatigue-causing chemi- cal

The trained athletes had, it was found, automatically breath- ed in much larger amounts of oxygen, which neutralised their lactic acid.

**

Housewives are annoyed when the potatoes that look all right raw turn grey in cooking.

the Still more annoyed were proprietors of a big group of re- staurants:

Their laboratories were given the job of finding out what kinds of potatoes were least liable to

blacken..

Not relying on the evidence of full, unaided human eyes, they to used photometric apparatus measure the exact proportion of the different discoloration in

varieties of potatoe

Plastic surgery, most familiar in its "face-lifting" aspect, is re- commended as a cure for bald- ness by Dr. Gustave Aufricht, of "Columbia University School of Medicine, New York.

· Dr. Aufricht holds thất heads- Continued at foot of preceding Col.