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15,000 Japanese Die In Taierchwang Battle

S'HAI BRITISH

MERCHANTS

PROTEST

Shanghai, To-day. Japanese endeavours to mono- polise the China trade were the sub- ject of sharp attacks by British merchants at the annual meeting of the British Chamber of Commerce yesterday.

The chairman declared that these

In

New Offensive Begun In Lincheng Sector

Hankow, To-day.

following up the Japanese troops who are in full retreat from Taierchwang, the Chinese troops

SIX JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN

Hankow, To-day.

Ten Japanese bombers raided

on the south Shantung front have reached the Ichang, 300 kilometres west of town of Yihoo, only 10 kilometres south-west Hankow, yesterday, says an offi- of Yihsien, and have driven the Japanese fur-cial announcement. ther back on Yihsien.

efforts of Japanese business circles At the same time, another Chinese column is ad-

which had the unstinted support

of the Japanese military--were to be regarded as "unfriendly acts.”

The chairman demanded that

foreign business houses in Ja panese-occupied areas be allowed to work on exactly the same con- ditions as the Japanese.

This had hitherto not been the

case.

CUSTOMS SCANDAL

It was also demanded that

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On their way back to the aero-

vancing from Lincheng, on the Tientsin-Pu-drome in Shansi from which they kow Railway, in the direction of Tsaochung, in had started, the raiders were an attack on the Japanese right flank.

attacked by Chinese pursuit Chinese military circles believe the Japanese

evacuate Tsaochung without a fight, planes on the Hupeh-Honan bor-

the der, and six machines were shot

positions have become untenable owing to the down.-Trans-Ocean. Chinese flank movements.

The Chinese believe that the

triangle Taierchwang-Taochung-JAP.

Ja-Lincheng will be cleared of Ja-

panese goods arriving in Shanghai Panese troops by noon on Saturday.

by Japanese steamers should

TE-

In the fighting round Taierch- *ceive exactly the same Customs wang, it is computed that 15,000 Ja- other panese were killed, while 15,000 are

treatment as the goods of foreign importers.-Trans-Ocean.

JAPANESE

FIRM ON BAN ON

U.S. JOURNALS

apese

Shanghai, To-day.

now in retreat.

SPOKESMAN'S

DENIAL

Shanghai, To-day.

reiterated that the Japanese cap- tured Taierchwang on April 3, and that mopping up was completed two days later.

The Chinese claims of victory he Replying to the Chinese claims described as "purely imaginative,” Foreign circles in Hankow cannot of success at Taierchwang, the Ja-and the Japanese, he announced, understand why the 50,000 Japanese panese military spokesman to-day are still in Taierchwang Beuter. reinforcements failed to get through in time to take part in the fighting. -Trans-Ocean. -

JAPANESE MASSACRED

Hankow, To-day.

A Chinese military communique issued late last night declares that

It is reliably learned from Jap-after an encircling movement, be

sources that henceforth, tween 7,000 and 8,000 Japanese editions of the "Evening Post troops were killed in the massacre and Mercury" or the "China, resulting.

Weekly Review"

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The containing

Chinese captured many "maliciously disparaging" refer- tanks, armoured cars, machine- ences to the Japanese forces, or guns and rifles. "persistently anti-Japanese mat- erial," will be banned from the mails.

The Chinese spokesman, com- menting on the battle, stated the victory was all the more important First, because the Japanese The "Post" and "Review" are attempt to capture Hsuchow, and the only two American publica- thereby effecting a junction with tions in Shanghai-Reuter...

the forces south of the Tientsin- Pakow Railway, has received a

JAPANESE LOSSES heavy blow, and

Secondly, because it was the heaviest Japanese defeat since the Japanese casualties on all fronts beginning of hostilities, and was

Chengchow, To-day.

in China up to end of March were bound to affect the morale of the

about 307,000, while the existing Japanese army-Beuter.

strength is about 350,600, according

to a conservative estimate figured

here

Japanese reinforcements

ing in a steady"

heavy losses- The

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