1937-12-31 — Page 11

THE GHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 31, 1937.

CHINESE PENETRATE

GAP IN JAPANESE LINE Heavy Losses Inflicted In Fighting At Fuyany MISCHIEVOUS Retreat Forced Also

YOUNGSTERS ON HANKOW TRAIN

Hankow, To-day.

Over 100 noisy and mischievous school children considerably brigh

On The Pukow Front

Hankow, To-day.

The Japanese advance on the Hientang River tened the departure for Hong continued to encounter greater difficulties yester- Kong at 9 o'clock yesterday day, and the Chinese took advantage of heavy rain morning of the second international to push forward in the direction of Fuyang, which

NAZARETH DEATH SENTENCE

Haifa, To-day

Sentence of death was passed yesterday by a military court at. Nazareth on an Arab arrested while in possession of a rifle and ammunition during the recent operations in the Galilee Hills Reuter

refugee train, which carried al- shows a large gap in the Japanese front resulting BRITAIN'S

The Japanese have suffered heavy losses in EXCHANGE FUND

together 313 men, worzen and from an insufficient number of troops. children of ten nationalities from

fugee train, which was named

Hankow, Kuukiang and Kuling. fighting round Fuyang, and that portion of their

As in the case of the last re-forces has been forced to withdraw towards Hang IN GOLD the "Christmas Express, yes- chow pursued by the Chinese, whose vanguard is terday's train was christened said to have reached a point some six miles south- "The Last Train from Madrid.”

The train was gaily decorated west of that city.

with enormous British, Ameri- can, French and German flags on the roofs of the coaches.

The Japanese authorities were advised of the date of departure well within the specified request of 48 hours notice.

Chinese guerilla groups are re- ! ported to have gained successes in fighting on the road from Kwangteh to Washing

FRENCH GOVT.

Earlier reports of Chinese AGREES TO

not

capture of Kwangteh are substantiated, though should this be achieved, Japanese com- munications would be imperilled. PUKOW FRONT

TRAIN STEAMS OUT For two hours before the train left, the station was a scene of intense activity as leading mem- bers of the foreign community Further Chinese successes are "worked side by side with office reported from the southern sec- boy's in carrying trunks and tor of the railway from Tientsin bundles of bedding, packing them to Pukow. into the train. ̧

STRIKE DEMAND

Paris, To-day.

London, To-day.”

The Treasury has issued the fol lowing statement

"On 28th June, 1937, in the House

Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a statement as to the holdings of the Exchange Equalization Account at the end of March, 1937, and undertook that the Treasury would publish, official- ly, a similar statement every; months.

In pursuance of this undertaking, the Treasury announce that on 30th September, 1937, the gold held in account was 39,854,000 fine ounces The Government has agreed to and that held in the Issue Departe the strikers' demands, according to ment of the Bank of England was The total From Ninghuan, north of Pukow, a communique issued by the work-76,843,000 fine ounces. At 9 o'clock sharp, a gong the Chinese have made a thrust in aers' unions in the Paris region and amount was 116,697,000 fine ounces sounded and after blowing the south-westerly direction and are re-

the General Union of Public Ser-which at 7 an ounce would repre vices.

sent in round figures £815,000,000. whistle, the train slowly steamed ported to have taken Chuchow.

Strikers returned to work yesterAt the same date the account did out of the station. Reuter..

It is stated that the Japanese were

then a triffing compelled to retreat towards Pukow day morning, and municipal ser-not hold more

vices are now functioning normally amount of foreign currency-Bri- SHANTUNG CHECK

tish Wireless again. Reuter Chinese reports state that com- parative quiet prevailed on the Shan- tung front

INSURGENT OFFENSIVE ON TERUEL FRONT

The Japanese have not yet pushed forward their lines extending from Weihsien to Changchi via Poshan, so that it is generally believed that their advance has been greatly im- Saragossa, To-day." peded-Trans-Ocean Insurgent forces of considerable strength, backed by massed artillery and aircraft formations, were hurled against Teruel yesterday-in a big offensive on a seven miles front, whose main aim is to relieve the garrison still holding out inside the

DESTRUCTION

OF JAPANESE

town.c According to rebel sources, PROPERTY

twenty divisions of infantry engaged in this battle.

are

A. bulletin issued from General Aranda's headquarters at the

end

of the first day's fighting says that the enemy's positions had been taken

IN TSINGTAO

Shanghai, To-day.

in storm to a depth of two kilometres. Chinese troops remaining in Counter-attacks launched by the Re- publicans had been repulsed with Tsingtao set fire early yesterday heavy losses. By noon all military morning to a number of public objectives set for the first day of buidings as well as private houses the offensive had been reached

The largest Tsingtao brewery Reports issued from Barcelona has been blown up, and the Japan- claim the capture of a monastery ese shipbuilding yard completely which leaves the defenders of Teruel gutted by fire. with the civil governor's residence as When the Japanese troops-reach- the stronghold

Tsingtao, it is obvious that they will be confronted only the Ma-shell of the famous seaside reso

ATTEMPTS REPULSED war bulletin issued

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