JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO TAKE NANKOW DEFEATED Troops Now Standing Up To Neck In Water
NORTH CHINA OPERATIONS NOW BEING EXTENDED
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Tientsin, To-day. -
SHANGHAI'S NEW BRITISH CONSUL
London, To-day.
The new British Consul-Gen- eral for Shanghai, Mr. Herbert Phillips, has sailed for the Far East-Trans-Ocean.
The Japanese attempt to conquer Nankow Pass must be considered frustrated for the time being. The Japanese Headquarters on Saturday announced that the offensive on the Pass, strategic again at Nankow where the Japan- key-position for the domination of the Peiping and ese are making a desperate effort Mongolia area, was halted.
to dislodge the Chinese troops of General Tang En-po who are firm-
CHINA'S FIGHT
THEME FOR SENOR DEL VAYO
Madrid, To-day-
The fighting in China provided Senor del Vayo with the text of a speech he delivered yesterday ap- pealing to the Socialists and Com- munists to patch up their differ-
ences.
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He appealed to them to unite and support the army or the war would be a long, drawn-out cam- paign.
Senor del Vayo drew attention to crags of the pass.
the Sino-Japanese conflict and de- The Chinese are reported holding elared, "Thanks to unity between hills. During an offensive attempt-Chinese are winning the war"
Floods rushing down from the mountains, turn-ly entrenched in the mountainous ed the roads into rivers and the trenches into brooks. The soldiers are standing up to the breast all the strategic positions in the the army and the proletariat, the in water. The Japanese are therefore on the defen-ed by Japanese yesterday, Chinese Reuter. sive, confining themselves to fighting off Chinese machine guns literally mowed down attacks. Trans-Ocean.
CHINESE OFFENSIVES IN N. CHINA
چاره
London, To-day.
hundreds of Japanese troops who attempted to rush the defenders lines.-Central News.
It is reported from Peiping that fighting in FRENCH OFFER TO
North China is spreading to a new sector.
CZECHO-SLOVAKIA
Paris, To-day.
The French Government has ex-
J. P. MORGAN IN POLAND
Warsaw, To-day. John Pierpoint Morgan, the American financial magnate, who left Flashing, in Belgium, several days ago in his private yacht, has arrived in Gydnia, Poland, say the Warsaw papers.-
According to Japanese reports, the Chinese troops have advanced 60 miles on the railway line from Peiping to Nankow, and are shelling the Jap-pressed willingness to take charge According to the papers, Mr. anese positions in Ling Hsi Hsiang.
of Czecho-Slovakian interests in Morgan will meet United States Portugal following the breaking off diplomatic representatives in Mos- by Portugal of diplomatic relations cow and Warsaw, and will discuss Simultaneously other Chinese forces are ad-with Prague, says an official an-with them the situation in the Far vancing through North Chahar to "Manchukuo"nouncement-Trans-Ocean. without encountering resistance.
The Japanese. estimate the strength of the Chinese forces sent by Nanking to North China at 400,000.-Trans-Ocean.
KOREA PUT ON WARD JAPANESE WAR
BASIS
Situation May Be
"Aggravated"
Tokyo, To-day.
ag-
FINANCING
Two Thousand Million
Yen Demanded
Tokyo, To-day.
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The Japanese Commander-in- Chief in Korea has issued a pro-
The Japanese Army and Navy clamation wherein he points out intend to demand a further Yen- that the Sino-Japanese situation (2,000,000,000 at the extraordinary may possibly be still further session of the Diet in September gravated, and it is therefore an- to defray the prospective cost of nounced that a "state of war for the conflict in China, according to Korea" is proclaimed in view of reports appearing in the Japanese the particular strategic position of newspapers. the country-Trans-Ocean.
TSINGTAO CRISIS
Complete Evacuation Of Japanese
Tsingtao, To-day. The wholesale evacuation of Ja- residents in Tsingtao was completed yesterday. Admiral Shen Hung-lich, the Tsingtao Mayor, has officially declared that the Japanese will be resisted if they try to land.
Our Own Correspondent.
This sum, it is stated, will pay for the operations in China until the beginning of the ordinary ses- sion of the Diet next January.
The entire amount will be raised by the flotation of State loans. Trans-Ocean.
FIERCE FIGHTING AGAIN AT NANKOW
Kweisni, To-day
Following a comparatively quiet spell, severe fighting has broken out
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