1938-02-18 — Page 11

FOR

WATERLOO

Revelations Of Generalissimo's Real Plans

Last Great Fight CONSCRIPTION

To Be Staged In Hupeh

ALLEGED FATAL QUARREL ON GREEN ISLAND

A quarrel between two Indian watchmen, guarding the explo-The

sives depot on Green Island, last night is alleged to have led to the death of one of the watchmen, who passed away in the Queen Mary Hospital last night.

Hankow, To-day.

last great positional fighting in the present war, before which the battle for Shanghai and the struggle for the Lunghai Railway are ex- pected to pale, will be fought in the province of Hupeh, possibly near Hankow, in the opinion of competent observers here.

:

IMPOSSIBLE

DURING PEACE

London, To-day.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Ne- ville. Chamberlain, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the present Government would not introduce conscription during peace time.

This reaffirms pledges given by the Baldwin Government. --Red- ter.

Facts regarding the incident are meagre, but it is understood that the men at about 9 p.m. indulged General Chiang Kai-shek hopes to put at least 40 divisions into the field for this battle, and ex- presses confidence that it will be Japan's other commanders. Waterloo.

in a savage fight as the result of which one was seriously injured,

The police were notified and one man was sent to hospital, where he died, and the other was detained. Later..

The dead man was Special Guard No. 9, Hayat Mahomed.

the Chinese forces on the Tientsin- Pukow Railway, and a host

TACTICS CHANGED

secret, this much is known:

The

and there has been an important

re-shuffling of troops.

A stream of all the most modern weapons of war- Although the decisions were kept heavy guns, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, ma-Chinese tactics have been changed, chine-guns and automatic rifles has been steadily flowing to China from abroad. his These weapons are daily distributed to the "new army" reorganised divisions and new ones from the drilling ground.

It is alleged that two guards at- tacked him in the quarters on Green Island and that both

legs were broken. He died at 11 p.m. soon after admission to hos-. pital.

fair.

the

WAGER DISPUTE Investigations reveal that fight occurred in consequence of a $10 wager, which deceased had made over a feat of strength and had

won.

For some reason, a demand seems

an es-

accom-

was

common

While General Chiang Kai-shek attaches great importance to the battle for Hsuchowfu, the main fighting strength of the Chinese army will not be concentrated there.

Before the fall of Nanking, Chin- ese commanders at different points fought their own battles without any co-ordinated plan.

An official police report says that

If the Chinese are defeated in Only recently he made Special Guard No. 18 has been de- the coming great battle, the pecially important tour, tained in connection with the af-Government and army are with- panied by the Kwangsi war lord, drawing to the mountains in the General Pei Chung-hai, China's North-West and South-West. master strategist, who

The Chinese will try to hold the once his implacable foe but is now

For example, when the Japanese seven provinces of Szechuen, his close friend in the

were using all available troops to Yunnan, Kweichow, Kwangsi, cause.

smash the way to victory at Shang- Shensi, Kansu and Chinghai.

hai, General Han Fu-chu, Gover- At Linfeng, in GUERILLAS

South Shansi, nor of Shantung, who was recently they conferred with Gen. Chu Teh, executed for dereliction of duty, sat al fighting, but China's resistance, manders of the 8th

There will be no more position- Gen. Mao Tse-tung and other com-tight in Shantung doing nothing. re-it is predicted, will be continued the former Communist forces, and lieves that this lack of co-ordina

Route Army, General Chiang Kai-shek be- unabated in the form of guerilla than at Kaifeng, capital of Honan, tion has been remedied, and that country to the other. positions from one end of the they pored over maps and discuss-things will be different in the bat ed the campaign with General Litle for the Lunghai Railway-Reu- Observers here do not minimise | Chung-jen, commander-in-chief of ter

of the battle for Hsuchowfu, but regard it, and other battles to be fought for the Lunghai Railway, as only curtain raisers to the great decisive clash to follow.

to have been made for the return of the money which deceased fused. He was then attacked.

Cause of death is believed to be serious injuries about the neck.

GEN.

MATSUI'S the importance

ANXIETIES

Chinese

aircraft are expected before long to make a serious, bid to challenge Japan's supremacy in the air.

Shanghai, To-day. With no more troops coming from Japan, the Japanese Army in China are endeavouring to ob- tain sanction for troops from Formosa, which are badly needed STRONGER EVERY DAY in Central China where the Chin- With the arrival of bombers and ese have recently met with suc-pursuit planes from Russia, Eng- cess after success.

land, France and America, and Chinese successes, it is admit- with new pilots being turned out various aviation schools, the ted; -are-causing considerable an- from xiety in military circles here, Chinese air force is growing who are pressing the Home War stronger every day.

Office for additional re-inforce- General Chiang Kai-shek is con- Our Own Correspon-stantly visiting the different

fronts by air.

ments.

dent.

WEIHWEI CAPTURE CLAIM PREMATURE

Peiping, To-day. ward nearer to two other columns The official claim made by the pushing along the south-east cor-

ner of Shansi province. Japanese yesterday to have cap- Weihwei itself is still in Chin- tured Weihwei, was when the Japanesest modified ese hands.

stated that Independent Japanese columns their advanced forces were en-advancing along the left bank of gaged in a fierce battle at Weih- the Yellow River from South Ho- wei station, a mile or so north pei have occupied Yangwu. of the town, in which they al- A new Japanese offensive har lege that 1,000 Chinese were been launched in Shansi, and the vanguard of the Japanese forces The Japanese then swung west- had entered Pingyao-Reuter.

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