THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1988.
CHINA GOES ON FROM SUCCESS TO SUCCESS Large Japanese Force Cut Off, In Peril
U.S. MISSIONS THREATENED IN WAR ZONE
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Shanghai, To-day. The American Consul-General has broadcast an informative warn- ing to American missionaries re maining at Yihsien and Lingy, east of the Tientsin-Pukow Rad way, where fighting is raging, to the effect that he has been inform- ed that the Japanese consider their
In
Chiang Kai-Shek Directing Operations
Hankow, To-day.
POSITION TENSE IN KAILAN MINE STRIKE
BRITISH KAILAN MINING
the region north of Hsuchow, junction of the
PERING, TO-DAT Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow Railways, where EXISTS IN THE TONGSHAN TENSE SITUATION violent fighting has been going on for some AREA, WHERE THE SINO- weeks, the Chinese yesterday advanced along ADMINISTRATION'S COAL Chinese centre column, at 2 o'clock yesterday all lines
afternoon occupied the town of Hanchwang, work on Friday, allegedly instigat where the T.P.R. crosses the Grand Canal. ed by agitators Wands the strikers
The
MINES ARE SITUATED. I
Three thousand miners
are now found to be armed.
mission property is being used by Fighting is still going on for possession of the rail-T
way station, situated outside the town, and still ous clash held by a small Japanese force.
the Chinese for war purposes.
Further
The warning has been giving that if this practice continues, the Japanese might take retalia-
Chinese columns tory action against Mission pro- pushed forward to the north in perty.
the direction of Shakou railway According to latest reports station and the important rail there are four American mis-Junction of Lincheng. sionaries at Lingyi and three at Yihsien-Reuter.
CATHOLIC PLEDGES TO GERMAN REICH
After recapture of the small town of Hsicheng, 20 kilometres north of Lincheng, the Chinese troops are now marching on Lin- cheng from the west.
RAILWAY CUT
-Official circles. in Hankow de clare that the Japanese troops within the triangle bounded by the TP.R., the Grand Canal and the Lincheng-Taierchwang rail- way, will soon be completely sur- rounded. Their fate seems to be settled, as the Japanese are un- able to send up reinforcements Roman Catholic Bishops in owing to the railway being cut. Austria, headed by Cardinal In- nitzer, have issued a solemn de-north of Lincheng has advanced ́as column operating claration pledging support to the far as the north of Tenghsien, has German Reich.
destroyed the railway bridge at
Berlin, To-day.
The Chinese
The Bishops declare their con-Chieho, 20 kilometres north viction that National-Socialism has Tenghsien, and has captured averted the danger of “all-destroy-veral waggons of war material. ing, Godless Bolshevism."
The declaration, which was read in all churches, concludes: “On the day of the plebiscite we expect all faithful Christians to show a sense of their debt to their race."-Rèu-
·ter.
NO DECISION ON SILVER ISSUE
Washington, To-day.
A Treasury spokesman said yes terday that no decision has yet been reached as regards the pur chase of Mexican silver.
He added that a decisión wou not be taken until after April when the United States cominitine to buy Mexican silver during March, expireRenter
WEATHER FORECAST
of
se-
heavy fighting continues. The Ja- In the front section of Lingyi,
have captured Peita and Shalinze, panese have advanced here and
small towns north of Lingyi
IN THICK OF BATTLE The Chinese commander-in-chief, General Li Chung-yen, is personal- ly in the thick of the battle, and on Saturday, when the Japanese counter-attacked, was in the great- est danger.
General Chang Kai-shek is also still at the northern front.
According to an unconfirmed re- port the Chinese have recaptured Kaifeng, on the other side of the Fengchin, 30 kilometres north of
Yellow River.
Very little news is being receiv Jed from the Shansi front. It is de
clared, however, that the Chinese have retaken a number of places in
thern Shansi.”
It is again stressed in Hankow that the Lunghai Railway is in no danger-Trans-Ocean.
ACROSS YELLOW RIVER- Peiping, To-day
Several thousand Chinese troop
The Royal Observatory reports have anaged, unobserved, that the anti-cyclone has moved into cross the Yellow River i
the Pacific to east of Hokkaido, Honan, causing the Japanese som
but a weak
the
The
east
derate
Cremains over.
noving north
se claim to have re- body of 3,000
othe
AMERICA TAKES REPRISAL
Washington, To-day. Arising out of the dispute over expropriation of the foreign, oil companies in Mexico, it is au thoritatively stated that the Unit- ed States Government, has abro- gated, as from April 1, the agreement for purchase of Mexi can silver.
This agreement had been re- garded as the major factor in stabilising the Mexican currency system-Reuter
strikers-and
Kailan
strick
eri-
armed
officials are consulting with British officials in Tientsin. Renter
SEVERE AGRAM QUAKE
Belgrade To-day. earthquake occurred at at noon yesterday fasting minutes.
tre of the disturbance was Kainik district, 70 kilometres
of Agram
Several chimneys collapsed and
roofs crashed. cassaties.
shere were
one village the church steeple collapse though no one was injured. Trans-Ocean.
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