1937-12-10 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1937.

JAPANESE OFFENSIVE BEGINS IN EARNEST

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Stubborn Defence At Present Holding Them At Bay

CITY AT NIGHT WITHIN

RING OF FLAMES

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CHINA

WILL FIGHT ON

Washington, To-day. Chma will continue the war whatever happens to Nanking, and even if two or three years of fighting are necessary, de- clared Mr. Hu Shih, special adviser to General Chiang Kai- shek, addressing the News- paperwomen's Club here yes- terday.

He said the Generalissimo had recently cabled him assur- ances that Nanking's fall would not end Chinese resist- ance Reuter

PEACE MOVES CREDITED TO CHINA

Tokyo, To-day.

BARRICADES NOW

PREPARED FOR STREET FIGHTING

Nanking, To-day.

WAR TO GO ON

SAYS JAPAN'S

CABINET

Tokyo, To-day.

-in-China, will

Milita not end with fall of Nanking, but

are to continue; until the Chinese army is thoroughly the Nanking lates it

ministers in the defence

tment

Hirota, and the Finance Minist

The Japanese offensive has now begun in earn-afternoon followin est, and the air was filled all day yesterday with the of the Government. rattle of machine-guns, the bark of fieldguns and The Foreign Minister, Mr, Koki the roar of exploding bombs from Japanese planes. Mr. Okinobu Kaya, both stated yes-

The Chinese defenders are stubbornly resist-terday that neither from the diph ing and up to now are holding the Japanese at bay matic nor the financial side was there any reason for not contina- Destruction of buildings likely to afford covering the campaign in China. to the attackers, continued all day yesterday, and the city at nigutfall was ringed by fla ies and co- vered with a pall of smoke.

As an additional means of de- with improvised ramparts consist- fence, all sideroads are barricaded ing of furniture, sandbags and earth- with stones, with machine-guns on top motorcars and trucks. of the obstruction.

It is announced that the Council of Ministers will meet again to-day (Friday), after which official de- claration of Japan's policy as re- gards China will be forthcoming.

Trans-Ocean

furniture, sandbags and filled boxes, as well as occasional AMOY FORTS

Numbers of wounded soldiers hob-

The Chinese admit the Japanese ble painfully through the streets have captured Chinkiang but claim seeking medical aid, while nearly all

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SHELLED

Canton, To-day. According to a report received

the forts there are still in Chinese villages in the vicinity of Nanking last night, three Japanese destroy- hands.

have now been razed to the grounders shelled Amoy Forts yesterday

About twenty foreigners, ignoring afternoon.

It is noteworthy that all fighting hitherto has been in the hills and

personal risk, are remaining inside The Chinese guns replied and it valleys beyond Nanking's high city the city. They include newspaper-is claimed that one of the rest wall, and Nanking city itself, though within range of gunfire, hasen, newsreelmen and welfare work-fers was hit and damaged.

Own Correspondent. not been bombarded so far-Beu- |ter.

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REJECTION OF ULTIMATUM

Hankow, To-day. Reliable Chinese circles here are of the opinion that General Tang- Sheng-chi, Garrison Commander of Nanking, will treat General Matsui's new ultimatum in similar manner as In an historical decision, mem-

when the Commander of the Japan bers of the "Inner Cabinet" yester-lese vanguard presented General day agreed on the necessity of Tang with an ultimatum to continuing hostilities in China after render unconditionally.

No reply, it is reported here, has the fall of Nanking.

yet been sent to the Japanese mili- Simultaneously it was decided to tary anthorities. Our Own Corres- disregard all "Chinese" peace moves pondent. “until and unless China manifests sincere reconsideration of her anti- Japanese policy."

sur-

BOMBARDMENT TO-DAY

Nanking, To-day. The Japanese are ready to bom- The Premier, Prince Konoye; the bard Nanking to-day, and whether Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota; this is done depends on the answer the Finance Minister, the Navy' given by General Tang Seng-chi, the Minister, Vice-Admiral Mitsymasa Chinese commander, to General Ma- Yonai, and the War Minister, Lt tsui's ultimatum which was dropped Gen. Sugiyama, participated in the from a plane yesterday threatening momentous meeting.

Nanking with all the horrors of war The meeting agreed that as a re-unless the city agrees to surrender sult of the severe blow dealt the peacefully by noon to-day. Refusal Chinese armies,

ment-leaders appanese

eGovern is considered certain.

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were mak Meanwhile, the greater part of ing peace moves through the good Hsiakwan, which is Nanking's den- offices of third parties.

sely populated waterfront area, has been set on fire, and residents thus made homeless mournfully watch

INSINCERE EFFORT

4.

These moves, however, cannot but flames: consume their houses », or be regarded as "insincere efforts to trudge sadly towards the safety bring about a patched-up peace for zone. China has yet failed to show a de- WOUNDED IN STREETS

The city's sideroads are bloc

sire to co-operate

whole-heartedly

with Japan in furthering the canse of peace in East Asia.

For this res

there

sion of the

ers.Beuter.

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