1937-11-22 — Page 11

THE CHENA

SOOCHOW IN RUINS

Great Fire Still Burning In Lakeside City

CHANGSHU DEFENDERS

EXPECTED

FALL

SOON TO BACK

Shanghai, 9 a.m., To-day. Soochow is in ruins following severe bombard- ment by the Japanese who now control the town.

Many houses and buildings are still burning away, and the streets are covered with the dead and wounded.

Conditions revealed show the "romance" of the

LONDON LOAN TO ITALY DENIED

Rome,

Rumours in the foreign nite of an impending Italian London, are strongly the authorities here.

A trip to London by

ent Italian financier rise to the rumours.

Ocean.

fantastic story of the scouts marching in with Chin-HANGCHOW NOW

ese troops and hoisting the Japanese flag on the pagoda.

JAPANESE RECOGNITION

OF GEN. FRANCO

Salamanca, To-day.

The Japanese have been long engaged in clearing out snipers who remained in the town after the Chinese troops retreated.

BIG MILITARY CENTRE

Reports from the Fushan area state that the Chinese were forc The ed to abandon their first defence hive of line following severe shelling by the ce Japanese warships and artillery Wucher and mechanised assaults.

Sungte in

chow, To-d

The Chinese are retreating In the past 36. westwards to a new defence line loaded with troops and have made contact with the steaming out of Hangchow troops who have retired from Station, while

Our Own Corresponents in and Soochow. dent.

[been mobilised

HEAVY LOSSES

The Japanese, who are silent re-]

port services

mlit

As to the centre of the Chi line, no important

have been evident since the fall

An official communique issued here states that the Nationalist charge d'affaires in Tokyo, Senor Francisco Castillo y Campos, has for some time been in communica- tion with the Japanese Foreign garding their own losses, state that Office.

60,000 Chinese troops died in the Soochow, as the invaders adva

westward has been stopped The communique says that the defence of Soochow.

Chinese inforcements, who are Mocheng has been subjected to holding a new defence line in the proposal has been made by the charge d'affaires for opening of a mass raid by Japanese planes, vicinity of Soochow Hus Na diplomatic relations between Japan while desperate fighting is reported and Nationalist Spain, as they round Changshu, claim to the cap- existed between the two countries ture of which the Japanese prior to the outbreak of the civil admit to be premature. war, and that the Japanese For- The position of the troops eign Minister expressed his full agreement.

The communique concludes that recognition of the Spanish Nation- alists by Japan, and appointmen of accredited diplomatic represen- tatives, will formally take place as soon as the Emperor of Japan has signed the agreement, which he is expected to do within the next few days.-Trans-Ocean.

JAPAN'S FIGURE OF CHINESE CASUALTIES

Peiping, To-day Japanese figures of Chinese Ities in North China are

as

Hopei, 164,290, including bodies found on the field

Chahar, 90,000;

bodies the field.

anat are not

taken in Ho Enumber 730, and

being done

HOW

de

fending Changshu however is be- coming increasingly precarions, with both tanks exposed, and voluntary withdrawal is hourly- ticipated.

FROM NORTH CHINA An interesting revelation made to day showed that four of the new Japanese regiments recently arriving as reinforcements in the Shanghai area came under transfer from North China, These troops were in the vanguard of the final assault on Fuskan.

On the southern front, Chang Fat-kwei is still resisting stubborn- ly, and despite the fall of Kashing, the flank is holding. Our Own Cor respondent

Am

FRONT QUIET

Nanking To-day offic

front is com Reuter

Lively quie

NIANGTSEKWAN SKIRMISH

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JAPANESE SEIZE S.M.P.

FIRE BRIGADE LAUNCHES

Shanghai, To-day More than thirty large and small launches belong- ing to the Water Police, the Harbour Fire Brigade, the

Chinese Customs and the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, were seized yesterday afternoon by Japanese mar ines from their moorings of the Customs Jetty on the Bund

The vessels seized included the $20,000

The foreign

mbers of the

by the Jap but the Chin- not allowed to

JAPANESE WITHDRAWING IN SHANTUNG

tow the Yel

kilome low Ri

of Shar

tung

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