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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 14,

JAPANESE FAIL IN REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO CROSS RIVER Tense Situation Near Hanchen: Guerillas Active

LUNGHAI TRAINS RUN IN SPITE OF SHELLFIRE

Hankow, To-day.

Trains on the Lunghai Railway are still running in spite of continued shelling of the Chinese posi- tions at Tungkwan and Shenhsien by the Jap- anese forces.

Since the Lunghai Railway runs close to the bank of the Yellow River at Shenhsien and Tung- kwan, trains usually make the trip at night headed by armoured trains which have been replying to the Japanese gunfire.

SURPRISE ATTACK

ON JAPANESE REAR

Hankow, To-day.

Chinese reports that Chinese troops crossed the Yellow River some distance from Chengchow while an artillery battle between the Chinese and the Japanese was

in progress, and sprang a surprise

attack on the Japanese rear.

Another report states that the

battle at Linfen entered its fifth

day, the Chinese steadily gaining the upper hand-Our Own Cor- respondent

staf quarrels?

The situation in the vicinity of Hanchen, on the south bank of the Fen River, is reported to be tense due to repeated attempts to cross the 38 Are you independent and self- river at that point into Shensi.

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reliant, able to make decisions on your own?

OTTO HAS NOTHING TO SAY.

Belgrade, To-day.

AT efforts made by foreign journalists to obtain a personal in- terview with Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, pretender to the Aus- trian throne, met with failure.

One German press. representative who called yesterday at Steenocker- zeel Castle to find out the attitude of the House of Hapsburg towards the advent of National Socialists to power in Austria was told laconical-

We have no statement to make. There is still such a thing as Aus- trian pride Trans-Ocean

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Are you tolerent about ventila- -tion, ie, closed windows on warm days, wide open doors on a cold days? Do you carry a comb and an! adequate supply of lipstick, 48. rouge and powder?

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Their object has been to harass railway communications.

Are you so competent at your job that you don't have to ask frivial questions?

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Heavy Chinese reinforcements former Mayor of Tsingtao and new-39. are due to arrive on the westly appointed Governor of Shantung, bank of the great waterway to has organised 300,000 villagers in strengthen the Chinese defences east Shantung into mobile columns. there.

These columns have been operating 40. In the northern sector of the in the hills east of the T.P.R. and Tientsin-Pakow Railway front, the along the Kiaochow-Tsinanfu Rail- Japanese forces appear to be mak- ing preparations to clear up Chin- ese mobile columns which are operat ing from Taishen, China's Sacred Mountain east of the T.P.R.

300,000 IRREGULARS

way.

On the other hand the Japanese forces appear to be determined to 45. clear the railway zonë of Chinese

Following the evacuation of Tsi- troops before launching a drive 44 naffu, capital of Shantung, and south along the Tsingtao, Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Hsuchowfa-Beuter

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"That Girl's A Cat"!

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26. When answering a friend's

letter do you think it unneces- sary to have hers to hand for reference?

SECTION C: SOCIAL.

As hostesses women can help you enormously. So it behoves you to try to please instead of annoying them!

27.

Do you consider handkerchiefs too trivial to retum?

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29.

17. Do you dislike the society of all women but that of your contemporaries? :

18. When staying in a friend's 30. house do you consider it polite

to be ornamental rather than l useful?

19. Are you in the habit of pút- ting off engagements at the last minute?

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Do you like popping in on your friends without telling them beforehand?

Are you bored by other peo-

Do you, thoughtlessly or de ple's children and/or pets?

liberately, betray confidences? Would you think it your duty, | if gossip were circulating about your dearest friend, to tell her what was being said? 32. Do you believe that constant

20. Writing bread-and-butter letters is a bore, we all know. Do you refrain, then, in these modern days of hustle from thanking 33. your hostess for hospitality received?

21 Do you ring up your women 34. friends and talk at length be tween 7 a.m. and 12 noon and after-9 p.m.?

22. Do you, on receiving an invita- tion, defer your decision until later?-

reiteration is a good way of making your friends do what you consider to be right? Do you rate candour above. everything else in friendship with other women? Do you find it tedious listening to other women's conversationí

SECTION D- IN YOUR JOB.

col- Unpopularity with your leagues can make your daily life a Do you consider it amusing to hell And if you annoy them too talk about all the rich, smart much it may prove a permanent and famous people you've ever obstacle to promotion, and rises. met to the exclusion of every-35. Supposing you had a date with one else?

your boy friend and some îm- portant work turned up at the last moment would you put off your appointment? Do you refrain from display- ing any marked preferences zmongst the male members of the staff?

24. Is a hostess, in your opinion, |

anduly fussy if she complains about spilt face powder and cigarette ash?

Do yon, when dining at a friend's house, praise other women's culinary efforts while ignoring those of your hostess? 37,

Do you refuse to take sides in

to try to curry your employer?

avour with

Have you enough self-control, even when feeling nervy and -irritable, to appear serene and

detached?

Are you tolerant about your “rights ?" Do you disdain to

use your colleagues as a cloak for your own misdeeds?

Do you leave your desk in such a state that any search. during your absence would re- sult in the immediate discovery of papers or objects connected with your work?

When suffering from trifling ailments, do you manager to make light of them? So start in to find your score then try to improve it

When you borrow trifling things, do you return them? Are you free from prejudice as regards working for women? Supposing

difference 50. some arose between your employer and a colleague, and you knew- your colleague was in the wrong, would you consider loyalty to her more important than to your employer? DO YOU CURRY FAVOUR?

Do you consider it a mistake me!

You'll soon and them saying, Why, she's just sweet!"

Instead of, "Oh, that girl annoys

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