1937-08-12 — Page 24

THE BATTLE FOR NANKOW

SPECIAL REPORT ON ENGINE DRIVER'S

OPERATIONS.

(Continued from Page 1)

ECCENTRICITIES

Stockholm, To-day. On the Stockholm Goeteburg line, THE ARRIVAL OF THE JAPANESE WARSHIPS HAS

driver of a freight-train engine. GREATLY INCREASED THE TENSION, ALREADY AT HIGH suddenly ne mentally un- PITCH, AND THE EXODUS FROM HONGKEW AND CHAPEI IS balanced. He left one station, but CONTINUING

did not arrive on schedule at the

IT IS OFFICIALLY ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 70 PER next stop. CENT. OF RESIDENTS IN CHINESE TERRITORY CLOSE TO A search party was sent out, and THE SETTLEMENT BOUNDARY IN THE NORTHERN AREA, found the train on the middle of HAVE ALREADY EVACUATED, REUTER.

GREATEST BATTLE OF WAR

Tientsin, To-day.

The greatest battle of the North China war now being fought for Nankow Pass

is

Although they have thrown all their resources into the attack, including intensive artillery and aerial bombardment of the prepared Chinese posi-

the stretch shunting backwards and forwards. The driver explain- ed that he could not proceed due to an engine defect When the en- gine had been changed, he again started to drive to and fro, when

he was relieved of his post and

taken to hospital

There, doctors discovered that

he was suffering from nervous shock, due to the recent death of

his wife Trans-Ocean-

tions, Japanese military headquarters admit that RUMANIA CRISIS

in 24 hours of the most desperate fighting, they! have been unable to dislodge the 89th Central Gov- ernment Division from their first line of defence.

REFUTED

Bucharest, To-day

STOP PRESS

TEL: 20022 or 33993

The Japanese captur

Tokyo, 2 pm

of alway

Station at 9.30 Reuter

o-day

Tientsin, L55 pm

The American Chamber of Commerce meeting to-day un- nimously passed a resolution opposing the withdrawal of US troops from Tientsin and requesting the U. S. Consulate- General to forward the resoin tion to the State and War De-

At 2 a.m. to-day, some six hundred men of the The Premier, M. Tatarescu, 265th Brigade of the 89th Division attempted to received in audience by King Carol rush the Japanese positions. In sharp hand-to-handter leaving the King, the Pre- fighting, following heavy Chinese losses under ma-mier told pressmen that the "Cabinet partments in Washington chine gun fire, the Japanese lost three killed and would remain until it had discharged more than a hundred wounded, many of them Crown and Parliament, severely.

The onslaught was finally beaten off, and nearly a hundred Chinese soldiers were found dead on the battlefield, most of the casualties having been suf fered before they penetrated the Japanese lines.

INTENSE RAIDS BY BOMBERS

At 5 am the Japanese, in taliation, submitted the Chinese de- fence lines to intense air bombing They also bombed railway tunnels where the 39th Division are believ ed to be holding trains in reserve, lest they should be compelled to retreat

EARLIER REPOETS ON THE SINO-JAPANESE CLASH WILL BE

FOUND IN PAGE NINE

CANTON REI

Over 80 Japanese women

the mandate entrust

pelling rumours of an

Cabinet, crisis-Tra

zion that should bet

the sincerity and thorough investigatio

it by the thus dis- upending

sides have

after

to the facts and through diplomatic channels satisfactory result could be obtain- ed.

Mr. Yui expressed the hope that Japan would not be ruled by senti- ment, and would not jump to con- clusions

In the event of China being found responsible for the incident, as re vealed by the facts, China would not attempt to shum responsibility, but and at the same time, should Japan be found guilty in the matter, he hoped

It is reported that the G.O.G North China has given orders that children refugees from Canton

titude.

Nankow must be taken by nightfall boarded the ss. Tatsuta Maru this Japan would maintain the same at- at all costs, but the Chinese Gov-morning for Japan. ernment troops, offering a differ- ent type of resist to the 29th

Army, have defence

powerini

Fes filled

HOLDING GROUND

That if the first time that Cen- tral Government troops have been engaged in a major clash and posi tions have not changed since the commenced yesterday the

stubbornly resisting. The Japanese have lost heavily entative

The

backs.

HOPE OF PEACE IN SHANGHAI

Chinese Version Of Interview

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still raging.

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VOLUNTARY ACTS

Reuter

NEWS FLASHES

Just like the man on the Flying Trapeze, ROYALS write with the greatest

That's why big busi

made it the WORLD'S number type writer.

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the incident, Mr. Yui said that China had alre

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