GOALSU TAARUIT „STAM AZIHOASHT THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 17, 1938.
SEVERE STREET FIGHTING
WITHIN TSINING'S WALLS QUEENS
→Shanghai, To-day.
Severe street fighting is continuing within the walls of the city of Tsining, according, to ver- nacular despatches received here this morning. The streets of the town are reported to be strewn with hundreds of dead and wounded troops lying in streams of blood.
The entry to the town took places. early yesterday morning when two
Chinese battalions stormed the nor JAPAN'S
thern sector of the city.
Hurling hand grenades and bombs they managed to wipe out the Ja- panese who were defending that part
DEMAND FOR
of the town, and entered the city NAVAL PARITY
which they had besieged for days.
STREET FIGHTING
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Tokyo, To-day.
If Britain and the United States
The battle in the streets of Tsin-agree on naval parity with Japan, ing is stated to be still in progress. the latter will have no objections the Chinese gaining the upper hand in all skirmishes, with the result either to disarmament or convoca- that the remaining Japanese troops tion of a disarmament conference; are preparing to abandon the city says the newspaper "Hochi."
Japanese military officials here The journal's editorial is one of admit that the Chinese have entered a large number of articles in the part of Tsining, but deny that the press devoted to the current naval situation was as bad as painted by shipbuilding race. Chinese despatches. They claim that the Japanese authorities have the situation well under control and the re-inforcements are on the way to strengthen the Japanese garrison at Tsining.Our Own Correspon- dent.
FAILURE OF ANGLO-ITALIAN TALKS
London, To-day.
Next session of the non- intervention committee will not take place before next week.
Postponement of the meeting, scheduled for early this week, is believed to be due to the failure of the Anglo-Italian talks to produce anything definite. The talks are connected in a way with the non- intervention committee's activities. The sub-committee, however, will meet several times this week in connection with drafting plans for control of Spanish Trans-Ocean,
ports,
MADRID CLAIMS LOYALTY OF LEAGUE MEMBERS
Madrid, To-day.
The Spanish delegation to the meeting of the International- League of Nations Unions has re- solved on the following proposals.
Adoption of measures against air raids on open towns.
The influential "Asahi" urges United States to Britain and the reconsider their disarmament for- mula, paying more attention Japan's "actual power."
to
The paper says: "It is a matter of deep displeasure to note that Britain, France and U.S.A. are utilising Japan's replies to their notes rationalise their own naval expansion."
In the journal's opinion, the cur- rent naval race has been motivated by Britain's present programme of naval expansion.
The paper says “One cannot but be surprised by the cunning dis- played by British diplomats in fix- ing responsibility for naval expan- sión solely on Japan and⚫ conceal- ing Britain's own ambitions.”
Seeing inconsistency in the atti- tude of the U.S., the journal as- serts that the failure of disarma- ment talks in the past has always been caused by America's "bigger navy" principle. Reuter.
POLITICAL BAN IN RUMANIA
Bucharest, To-day. The Rumanian Minister of In- terior has circulated all prefects in the country on the importance. of_banning agtivities of all politi- cal parties.
Meetings, distribution of pamph- letɛ, and so on, are all prohibited. Trans-Ocean.
SOVIET PLANE MYSTERY
Talinn, To-day.
Re-establishment of free ex- A Soviet military aeroplane with change of goods with Republican two occupants wearing the uniform Spain.
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