1937-12-18 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 18, 1937.

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NEWMYANGTSZE BOOM

BUILT AT KIUKIANG

Attack On Hankow From North Considered Unlikely

JAPANESE HAVING

DIFFICULT

TIME IN N. CHINA

London, To-day.

Working day and night, an army of 40,000 men has completed a strong boom across the Yangtse at Kiukiang.

Several other booms have been built further up-river with the object of preventing Japanese warships from steaming up the Yangtse and bom- barding Hankow.

ANTI-JAPANESE POSTER PARADE IN LONDON

London, To-day.

The Society of Women Novelists. students and clergymen took part in an anti-Japanese poster parade in crowded Oxford Street yesterday afternoon.

Close observers in Peiping, meanwhile believe that Hankow need not fear immediate attack via the Perping-Hankow Railway.

The Japanese have not ad- vanced beyond Changteh, in. north Honan, where they have remained at a standstill for several weeks, while in Shansi, withdrawal is admitted, and

Major-General the Viscount Gort, the new Chief of the Imperial General Staff, known as The Tiger, and M. Hoze-Belisha: (left) at the War Office (For Copyright: By Air Mail)

ITALY WARNS

Japanese troops there at present: ITALIANS IN

are on the defensive 30 miles, south of Taiyuanfu.

A Japanese spe

spokesman admitted to their forces were insufficient take the southern half of the pro- vince.

GENEVA TO RESIGN

Geneva, To-day.

GLYN PHILPOT'S DEATH

London, To-day. death has occurred of Glyn the famous Royal Acade-

Two years ago, the Italian Consulate, where my in 1923

the was appointed a Trustee of the informed it was desirable

Tate Gallery-Beuter. from the League

was one of England's best GUERILLA ATTACKS

Italian officials of the League of known painters, in the Laurens Attacks on the railways to points Nations and the International Lab tradition. He was made A.RA sin The demonstrators paraded with within 20 miles of Peiping are our Office yesterday attended a meet- 1915 and elected to the Royal Acade- sandwich boards bearing the frequent, and it is believed impos

ing slogans "Buy no Japanese Goods sible for the Japanese to drive even and Help Stop Japan's Aggres-as far as the Yellow River on the the

Peiping-Hankow line without leav-that sion."

Thousands of slips bearing the ing their right flank seriously words "Don't Buy Japanese Goods" exposed.

The Chinese have destroyed were distributed to shoppers.

twenty miles of railway south of Reuter.

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MATSUI'S NEW H.Q.AT MILITARY ACADEMY

Shanghai, To-day

Yesterday's triumphal entry" into Nanking was an impressive affair.

Several thousand marines fol lowed Vice-Admiral Hasegawa into the town, while a detach-

The fact that 75,000 Japanese troops have been withdrawn from North China in the past two months, is taken to indicate that no big southern drive at present is envisaged Reuter

TERAUCHI'S THREAT IN

NORTH CHINA

Tientsin, To-day.

ment from Japanese ships in the The Japanese commander-in-chief Yangtse marched from the Hsia-in North China, General Count Ter kwan Bund to the Chinese Mari auchi, yesterday issued a proclama- ine Ministry, where the Japanese tion addressed to the "Chinese po flag waved in the breeze..

pulation in all tories occupied Simultaneously, army nits head by Japanese troo

vy General Matsui tered the

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OVISIONAL HQ

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ce of about two miles the provision

ausoleum of Sun Yat-sen at Perping

They would have to take the con-led to resign, except for a few hav-

sympathies. they remained in Gen-ing anti-Fascist and thus all were morally oblig-Reuter.

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