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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
NANKING IN THROES
OF HEAVY FIGHTING Defence Position Reported Greatly Improved
TEN SQUARE MILES OF PROPERTY BURNING
CHIANG'S
MIRACULOUS
ESCAPE IN
SIX JAPANESE
BRIGADES IN
NEW ATTACKS
Hankow, 2.15 p.m., To-day. Dependable foreign sources, telephoning from Nanking at noon to-day, state that the situation in
RUMOURS OF PEACE PARTY EMERGENCE IN CHINA CONTROL
Tokyo, To-day
Based on the German Ami sador's forty-minute interview with the Japanese Foreign E
ter yesterday afternoon, am fact that Germany has kept
AIR COMBAT the immediate vicinity of Nanking is not so grave Japanese Government felty in-
To-day. p.m.
Shanghai, 1.55 A sensational story, has come through Nanking giving vivid de- tails of a miraculous escape which the Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had when his plane left for Nan- chang yesterday.
When his machine took the air, it is stated the Generalissimo was accompanied by a squadron of nine pursuit planes.
as had hitherto been reported.
The Japanese forces, consisting of about six brigades in the front line, are now engaged in severe fighting in the vicinity of Chungshanling and Kaochiamen, and have not yet approached at any point within 2,000 metres of the walls of Nan- king.
The military command seems to have the situa- tion well in control and organisation for a long de termined defence is rapidly reaching completion.
In the hills round the capital, Incendiary bombs have been poured the Chinese and Japanese artil-upon both Nanking and Pukow. Japanese machines who were iery are exchanging artillery Our Own Correspondent. moving up to bomb Nanking im- fire, and the heavy roar of the mediately attacked the Chinese guns is almost continuous. machines, but they were fought The Chinese did not reply cf in a terrific dog-fight, in to the Japanese ultimatum, but which five machines, including launched attacks on Chungshan- three Chinese, were shot downling before dawn to-day, since when fighting has been rapidly intensifying.
WELL PROTECTED
HUGE CONFLAGRATION In the course of the diversion created by the air combat, Gen- As the result of the order to erai Chiang Kai-shek's fast plane destroy buildings causing obstruc- got through unchallenged. It is tion between the walls of Nanking stated that the Japanese were un-and the Japanese front lines, near- aware of the occupant of the ly ten square miles of property is plane.
blazing furiously.
It is learned that the General The Nanking commander-in-chief warning to issimo is now in Nanchang to this morning issued a carry out certain work in con-all foreigners
stating that the nection with the air depot there to leave the and non-combatants
and will after a few days pro- National Government could not be ceed to Hankow to consult with responsible for guaranteeing their Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Dr. H. H. Kung and other leaders in Han kow. Stories of his pending resignation are ridiculed in well- informed Chinese quarters. Our Own Correspondent...
NO TIME SIGNAL TO MORROW
Owing to the evening, the Obs
risis now facing the troops had orders to capital to the last. MATTER OF HOURS
is confirmed that in and
more than 300,000 Chi
assembled and more “and more
nd
formed of Dr. Oscar Trautmann's mediatory efforts m the Japanese
ese Government is about to sue
splashes rumours that the
for peace and declaring that the Cabinet yesterda
peace
evening dis
press furiously debates whether General Chiang Kai-shek will negotiate or will be overthrown, giving way to a re-
gime more acceptable to Japan.
Japanese forces concentrating be- fore Nanking, who are bringing up siege guns, are marking time, ap- parently in expectation of a change (Continued on Page 213
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