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CNENGCHOW DRIVE STORM IN

HALTED BY CHINESE

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Pukow Railway, and assert that the Japanese are now busily con- solidating their positions.

They found the going difficult owing to stubborn Chinese resist- ance and the harassing operations of guerillas, who have been con- stantly threatening their com- municationsS.

CEYLON

TEA CUP

Colombo, To-day.

The State Council of Ceylon is rushing the "Immunity Bill," which Meanwhile, Japanese despatches deprives the Speaker of successfully crossed the Hwai the Council and officers River at the point where the Chin-under him from the juris- ese destroyed the railway bridge. diction

claim that Japanese troops have

The crossing is said to have been made in the face of wither-courts. ing fire, which the Japanese troops gallantly braved,

GOOD WORK

The Hwai River at this point has been the scene of intensive machine gun and artillery duels since the fall of Pengpu, and in halting the Japanese advance there for so long, the Chinese are generally agreed to

acquitted themselves very

have creditably.

Chinese circles here believe that Japanese troop movements down the Peiping-Hankow Railway are design- ed for defensive rather than offen- sive purposes.

JAPANESE AIM

of the local

This is the sequel to the dis- pute between the Council and the "Times of Ceylon," whose re- presentatives have been deprived of the privilege of attending meetings of the Council.

The court yesterday granted a summons against the Speaker of the Council and two police. officers for illegally restraining | reporters of the "Times of Ceylon" from entering the Coun- cil Chamber.

The

summons is returnable next week.--Reuter.

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Shanghai, To-day.

The decapitated heads are at present awaiting identification. The head found by Russian ca- baret girls is believed to be that 4 of a Chinese artillery

had Following an intensive

reporter who been to the home of Dr. H.. H. barrage, 2,000 former Manchurian

Kung on several occasions prior Semi-official Japanese despatches, troops under Gen. Wan Fu-lin,

to the outbreak of hostilities last however, state that the Japanese in-Governor of Kirin, are reported to August. The police believe that tend to push down the railway, with have retreated from positions north

the decapitations were not carried out in the Concession but that the Chengchow, at the junction of the of Tangyin.

heads were conveyed there by mo- Peiping-Hankow and Lunghai, lines, Fifteen thousand Chinese troops,

tor. Meanwhile, the police are ex- as their major objective.

tremely puzzled over publication are defending

in the "Sin Wen Pao" yesterday From Chengchow, an advance to-Tangyin, defence of which is ex-

photographs of two of the wards Hankow would be the logical pected to provide a severe battle. heads. The police deny that, they the Reuter.

have issued any pictures of heads, and are determined to find out how the newspaper obtained the photos. Reuter.

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In a telegram to Chu Shao- liang, chairman of the Kansu Government, General Chiang Kai-shek instructs that necessary preparations made to accommodate the re- fugees.-Reuter.

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