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No. 29,767

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937

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BUTTER

HUGE NAVAL GUNS SHELL LOTIEN ZONE Four Days Of Bitter Fighting Leaves Line Intact

JUNK OUTRAGE SURVIVOR IN CRITICAL CONDITION

Development of gangrene in the shapnel wounds of one of the survivo of a submarine

junk

outrage on September 21, is causing anxiety

his condition at

Mary Hospital.

The victim is Leung Hong t

LARGE FORCES AT GUERILLAS

DEATH GRIPS

Shanghai, 2 p.m., To-day.

HARASSING

The boom of exceptionally heavy guns is be- JAPANESE

Tientsin, To-day.

lieved to indicate that the two Japanese capital ships, Haruna and Hirao, are co-operating with their huge guns in the cannonading on the Lotien- Liuhang sector of the front, where the severest yesterday concerning operations fighting is now going on.

Although Japanese reports

in North China stated that the

Nearly 30,000 Japanese infantry are reported Japanese troops will continue to be in action along this line, while they are faced their advance south, it neverthe- by at least seven picked Chimese divisions, with five ess

more in reserve..

tam that the

have not suc-

Japane ceeded dealing any decisive blow at their opponents, and

Tanks have been employed, but only on a small who was in charge of a Hong Scale owing to the fact that the area is heavily in that their advance is now con- Kong licensed junk, No. 1822 terlaced with creeks on which the Chinese have des-siderably slower. HA which set out for the fish-

ing grounds with 21 other junks, troyed all bridges, while the nature of the country and was attacked without warn- gives an immense advantage to the defensive.

ing by a submarine. He believes that the entire fleet was sunk.

Two shells were fired at his craft and he was wounded in two places. afterwards spending three days în the water clinging to a sail and spars. He reached Hong Kồng on. Wednesday, was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital, gangrene having since set in. It is under- stood that his condition is critical.

A statement has been taken from him by the police, and his story de- tails how his junk left Aberdeen carrying a crew of 20 and

gaged in fishing

from Kip Sher, "

District, Bias Bay.

Hor

His boat

in line with 21 other craft,

out, at 9 am

when he

sions

on September

a series of expl

funks sinking

JAPANESE MARINES ON

Japanese troops advancing along

the railway from Tientsin to Pukow

Chinese reports assert that the claim to have captured the town of have lost more than four Tungkiang, which is still 30 kilome killed and wounded on tres from the frontier between the ont in four days of fighting, provinces of Hopei and Shantiing. while their own losses have been Along the adjoining frontier

SHANGHAI DOCK heavy, as the result of the inter-province of Shansi, the Japanese

PROPERTY

Shanghai

the landin

at the Do

and a submarine cruising towards RUSH FOR BOOKING

him,

TANK RANGE

At pointblank

IN ANDRE LEBON

"If we had had a ship the size the sub-of the "Queen Mary" we could still marine shelled his craft from guns have died her declared an official

on the bows. He was splinters in both

board. Other members of t jumped. The junk was

He and several others to keep afloat for three they were picked un

junk and taken to Mia King They

by at the Messageries Maritimes, in ver-reference to the sailing of the Andre Lebon” for Shanghai.

Applications for passage have been on such a scale that tickets have

een issued, as far as possible, only

es as evidence of urgent! of the return to Shanghai

bookings have not yet been

that the Andre Sailing umbal Sun-

sive bombardment.

advance south guerilla troops.

is harassed by

Bere, as elsewhere, the Japanesej are unable to claim any important advance. Artillery duels weret General Terauchi, Commander-in- ontinuing all along the line at chief in North China, has arrived

Own Correspondent at Protingfu Trans-Ocean.

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