THE CHINÀ MAIL, JANUARY 27, 1988.
CHINESE DRIVE ON TSINING Forces Now Within Six Miles Of Shantung City
Chinese Aircraft
Active On Lunghai Front
Hankow, To-day. While the situation on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway sector appeared to be practically unchanged yesterday, the violence of fighting outside Tsi- ning greatly increased.
Closing on the city from three sides, the Chinese have virtually completed encircling of the city, to relief of which Japanese reinforcements are being despatched.
SIXTY BOMBS
DROPPED ON VALLADOLID
Paris, To-day.
planes
Spanish - Government yesterday dropped sixty bombs on Valladolid, north-west of Madrid,
according to a message received
here.
Many bombs fell on an orphan- age, which was wrecked. Total death roll was twelve killed and forty injured, most of them, it is alleged, being women and chil- dren-Renter.
FRENCH
The Chinese High Command has taken extensive
measures for defence of Hsuchow, which is an DEPUTY
extremely important railway junction.
GERMANY BARS
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
It is declared that no fewer than 40,000 rifles have been dis- tributed among the inhabitants of Hsuchow, and a large part of the population has been instructed in
method of guerilla warfare, so that in an emergency, the Chinese troops may rely on support from irregulars.
The generals commanding on Ivarious sectors of the northern
front have held a conference,
Hankow, To-day.
Berlin, To-day. [presided over by General Li Chung- Germany will not be jen, for co-ordination of defence represented at the Euch-measures. Trans-Ocean. aristic Congress to be Chinese squadrons of bombers held this year at Buda- visit the Japanese military post- tions in the Lunghai area at least pest.
twice a day and have caused a
DEBARRED
Paris, To-day. The mandate of the Leftist De- Puty, M. Guyot, was yesterday de- clared invalid by the Chamber by
NINE FROZEN
TO DEATH IN SOUTH DAKOTA
New York, To-day.
Nine persons, including a child, were frozen to death yesterday at Crocker, South Dakota, in a severe cold wave which swept over many parts of the country.
Floods are threatening towns, villages and crops in almost every State, except New England, the Far West and Florida.
Heavy snowfalls blocked road- ways, stopped trains and cut com- munications and power services in many parts of the country.
Forty-three degrees of frost were recorded at Alexandría, Min- nesota.-Reuter.
207 votes to 106.
Chan Yim-wai, 12, was admitted Election of M. Guyot had been to the Queen Mary Hospital yes- disputed because he had been sen-terday after being hit on the head tenced to a prison term several by a bamboo falling from the first years ago. Trans-Ocean.
floor of No. 46, Staunton Street.
Reason for abstention is said to considerable amount of damageA
be the "tendency of international and loss in the establishments and Catholic Congresses to adopt a hos-troops of the Japanese.
tile attitude towards the philoso- This morning the Chinese phical tenets of Naziism.”
launched a general. attack
по
Alfred Rosenberg, writing in the Tsining and the battle is still con- Nazi monthly periodical, cites a re-tinuing-Our Own Correspondent, cent appeal to Roman Catholics by the permanent committee of the Eucharistic Congress.
The appeal said that în these days of powerful attacks of neo-! paganism, it is more necessary than their ever for Catholics to prove fidelity to Christ the King.
Herr Rosenberg also quotes a Vienna paper as saying that the "light of Christianity has been ex- tinguished in the doctrines preach-
FRANCO FACING BEHIND THE
LINE MENACES
Paris, To-day.
Dispute Over Mosque Ownership Dscided In Sikhs' Favour
Lahore, To-day. lengthy dispute over ownership of a mosque be- tween Muslims and Sikhs in Lahore was settled in the High Court of India yesterday, when the appeal of the Muslims claiming ownership was dismissed.
The Mosque originally belonged to the Muslims but was disused and was taken over by the Sikha.
The majority verdict of the Court says that the Sikhs have become owners by virtue of their occupa- tion of the Mosque for twelve years, while the minority maintains that as the Mosque was originally de- dicated to Mohamed, it remains a Muslim Mosque for all time.
ed by atheistic Communist ́and Nationalist Spanish police are It is expected that the case will Nazi neo-paganism."-Trans-Ocean: reported by "Le Matin." yesterday be taken to the Privy Council.
Reuter. to have unearthed a widespread CHINESE ENVOY'S Communist plot to overthrow Gen-
ARRIVAL
eral Franco's regime.
According to the report, which still lacks confirmation; the con- Mr. Hau Shih-ying, Chinese Am-spirators had laid plans for strik- bassador to Tokyo, who left Yokoing their first blow in the region hama on 20th. in the Empress of of the Spanish-Portuguese frontier. Asia, is due to arrive in Hong Kong Premature action on the part of this afternoon, did not go ashore a local group of plotters in Bada- while the steamship visited Shang-1oz led to the discovery of the con- spiracy which was suppressed by -Mr. Hau's relatives are already the action of the Nationalist garri-
son in this town. Trans-Ocean.
hai.
here.
Mr. Hsu is expected to arrive at 4 p.. and will be
many Chinese offcial welcomed b FRESH, CLOUDY
who are here
spécially to meet him including Mr. |
Tan Cheng, Dr. Andrew Lee, Mr. The Royal Observatory reports Hau
Kan, and Mr. Chen Kung-poh, that the anti-cyclone remains un- the Chinese ex-Industrial Minister, changed over China, pressure being who just returned from Europe. |highest to the north of the Yang- tse Valley. The depression - has. moved into the Pacific to the east of Hokkaido....
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Fifteen dead bodlega have been picked up by the Police during the last 24 hours and of these five Local forecast:-NE. were cases of suspected small pox.
fresh; cloudy.
winds,
IRONIC
* FEATURE
OF AIR RAID
Madrid, To-day. An ironic feature of the Spanish insurgent air raid on Barcelona was that a bomb scored a direct hit on a prison containing insurgent pri- soners, two of whom were killed. Trans-Ocean.
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