1938-04-06 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1938.

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TAIERCHWANG ACTION NEAR DECISIVE PHASE Japanese Concentrating All Forces On Town

TROOPS HOLDING ON STUBBORNLY

Hankow, To-day.

With the Japanese stubbornly

holding on in the north-eastern,

ese forces are employing all avail-

Mere Heap Of Burning Ruins

Hankow, To-day.

Reports from the Taierchwang front last evening indicated that the battle for possession of the town is now approaching the decisive phase.

C.N.A.C. PILOT DIES OF TYPHUS AT CHUNGKING

Chungking, To-day.

Mr. Harry G. Smith, an American

section of Taierchwang, the Chin-Japanese reinforcements are being concentrated from Wisconsin and one of the round the town, and the violence of the fight-best known air pilots in China, ched ing in what appears to be the final phase of the in hospital here yesterday after- battle has increased.

noon of typhus fever.

able resources in a determined

attempt to oust the enemy.

Since early on Monday morn-

ing both sides have fought furi-Taierchwang long ago was reduced to a mere heap pilot of General Chiang Kai-shek,

ously for possession of this key city on the north bank of the! Grand Canal, says a Chinese mili- tary communique.

of burning ruins.

Fresh Japanese reinforce now reverted to the Japanese. ments are arriving practically Trans-Ocean. Since possession of Tafer-

without interruption. Yester- chwang will largely determine the day, some 2,000 men arrived at outcome of the present battle on Tangtaochang, north of Lingyi, the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, the while a force of several thousands, Japanese attacked the Chinese

was landed on the south coast of

FUSHIEN ATTACK.

Hankow, To-day.

Smith was a former personal

Mr. T. V. Soong and Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang.

For the past six months he had been flying air liners between Chungking and Hankow for the China National Aviation Corpora- tion:

Smith is survived by a wife, The Japanese are renewing daughter and two sons, residing their attempts to establish a foot- near Los Angeles. Reuter. hold on the southern bank of the Yellow River.

lines persistently, pouring in Shantung. heavy artillery and machine-gun fire on the Chinese positions, but It seems that the Japanese out- the Chinese have refused to yield flanking manoeuvres object of ground and are fighting off which was to reach Talerchwang tried to force their way across ed. gamely the repeated Japanese as- from the Lingyi sector, has ap- the river at the town of Fuhsien

saults.

nected with the mobilisation law Last evening their infantry and military budget will be discuss-

parently been successful, since after intensive artillery prepara- the conference will bring important

Casualties on both sides are re-reports describing yesterday's tion, but were repulsed. ported to be heary-Reuter.

SIR ARCHIBALD

operations declare that the pre- Occan. sence of a force of several thou- sand Japanese has been estab-

ished a tanningchen, 25 kilo-

CLARK-KERR metres north of Taierchwang-

Hankow, To-day. Generally speaking, it appears

Political quarters expect that

Trans-decisions regarding the conduct of

TOKYO WAR CONFERENCE

military operations in North" and Central China, and the consolidation and reconstruction of territory oc- cupied by Japanese troops.

Measures for the co-ordination of military and industrial mobilisation It is stated that the British Am-that the fortunes of war, which

Tokyo, To-day in Japan, Manchukuo and North bassador to China will depart for during the last fortnight have A conference of divisional com-China will, so it is declared, like Chungking on Saturday to present favoured the Chinese, in the hot-manders of the Japanese Army be-wise be discussed at the conference. his credentials to President Linly-contested triangle Lingchang-gan at the War Ministry yesterday | Before the conference opened, the Sen-Our Own Correspondent. Nanchwang Taierchwang, has At the conference, which will last divisional commanders were receiv-

for four days, various problems con-led by the Emperor.-Trans-Ocean.

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Striking Revelation Of Japan's Lost Grip In Shantung

Shanghai, To-day."

Chefoo, which has been in Japanese hands for many months, was the scene of a miniature bat- tle again yesterday, it is learned from an un- impeachable source.

Chinese guerillas had apparently trickled into the outskirts of the town during the previous night, and at dawn yesterday opened fire on the Japanese.

Succeeding in calling out a larger cities throughout the moderate sized Japanese force, north-east part of the province. the guerillas retreated outside Reuter.

the town, the Japanese follow- ing straight into a neatly laid ambush.

At least two truckloads full of dead were seen to return to the city, and the sound of fighting continued until nightfall, when the Chinese escaped into the hills apparently undetected.

STRIKING EVIDENCE

Travellers returning to Chefoo from a tour of Shantung add that following the calling up of vir tually all Japanese garrisons in the province for the attack on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, the Chinese Nationalist fag is now flying in three-quarters of the

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BLUEJACKERS

Peiping, To-day.

It is now revealed that the Japanese force engaged in fighting outside Chefoo with Chinese guerillas on Saturday and Sunday, and which suffer- ed severe casualties, was.com- posed of bluejackets.

to

The guerillas returned Chefoo at 2 o'clock in the morn- ing and entered the western section of the town, where they engaged the Japanese garrison." Fighting was still progressing in the afternoon.

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