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SOOCHOW

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BUTTER

ADVANCE

BROUGHT TO HALT

Chang Fat-Kwei Holding Kashing Stubbornly

JAPAN GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO RECONSIDER Brussels, To-day.

The present pause in the Brus- sels Conference, according to British and American circles, is designed to give Japan an oppor- tunity to reconsider her policy.

Majority of the delegates to the

JAPANESE LAND CHINESE CROSS REINFORCEMENTS IN HANGCHOW BAY

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

YELLOW RIVER IN SHANTUNG

Nanking, To-day. THE Chinese forces on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway front have with- drawn south of the Yel- low River and are now

THE Japanese advance on Soochow has at last been halted. The situation on the battlefront has changed in complexion in the last 24 hours, with the Japanese finding increasingly stiffening resistance as they approached the new Chinese de-holding the south bank lof the river, having fence line, finally to be brought to a standstill.

[blown up the railway Large-scale hostilities have not commenced. bridge. ers in the event of measures bei The Japanese are moving up more and more troops

into the battle zone and it may be several days be-minence to a report fore they can organise an offensive on the scale suf- talion of Chinese troops launche ficient to carry through to Soochow

Conference are fully aware of the

magnitude of the responsibility that would rest upon their should-

taken for terminating the Eastern conflict.

Fr

Yet, in view of the second Japanese reply, it is felt that

The Chinese press

a surprise attack on the Japanes jaerodrome at Hantang on the

Peiping-Hankow Railway,

On

The only heavy fighting is taking place on the Monday night. further delay is now impossi- Chinese right flank, where General Chang Fat The Chinese are reported to kwei is holding on stubbornly to Kashing, official have destroyed six- Japanese Japanese communiques admitting that all attempts planes and exploded stocks

to take the city have broken down.

ble, and that a start must be made in placing an embargo o

the supply of arms and ammuni tion, and also raw materials, to

Japan.

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The fresh troops from Japan These measures, it is insisted, which were landed on the Yang- will not be the outcome of any tsze bank above Liuho, compell- secret agreement between the ing the Taitsang withdrawal, powers signatories to the Nine have now formed contact with Powers Treaty but will be discuss the Japanese columns moving ed at the next session of the Con-forward from Taitsang and are ference. Trans-Ocean.

joining the forces-massed in front of the Chinese defence lines before Soochow

HENLI RIVER CLASHES

Nanking, To-day.

HANG CHOW BAY INFO MENT

It is reliably reported

further landings on a large sc

that

have been made in the Hangchow Bay area, which is now

sent

the

Chinese reports claim that fighting a sterner problem

along the Shanghai-Nanking Japanese command had anticipat- Railway is going on in the vicinity fed and these troops are advanc

of Chingyangkang, on Henli River, after Chinese evacuation of Kiating and Taitsang

ing on Pinghu which has been re-occupied by Chinese forces.

Sharp fighting is now occurring near Pinghu and at points along ese the Soochow-Hangchow railway. Our Own Correspondent.

The main body of the forces, advancing north-west to

shing,

ar

chow

held up forces have pushed east to Pinghu.

oline and bombs. Reuter

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