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CHINESE ORDER GENERAL OFFENSIVE Determined Attempt To Turn Tide Of Battle

NO CRACKING IN FORTNIGHT'S

·ATTEMPT

TO DENY

SINKING

Shanghai, To-day. Reports that two Chinese pas- senger vessels were sunk by Ja- panese planes near Macao,-were- described by the Japanese naval spokesman to-day as a "malicious fabrication with an obvious ulter- ior purpose.”

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The spokesman maintained that the only attack recently made on Chinese vessels was on April 17, when a number of Chinese craft were sunk following attack on a Japanese warship.-Renter.

(See Our Own Correspondent's Story in Page Nine),

ANOTHER SHOCKING H.K. JUNK MASSACRE

Twelve fishing junks, with the entire crews numbering almost 100 persons, are to-day reported miss ing, believed to have fallen foul of

TAIERCHWANG

SECTOR

Hankow, To-day.

REFUGE IN COAL MINES

Shanghai, To-day.

At dawn this morning the Chinese Command order- More than 500 Chinese refugees, ed a general offensive along the entire line mostly women, children and old north of Taierchwang in a determined attempt men, it has just been revealed, to turn back the Japanese forces which are spent a fortnight during the recent pushing southward from Yihsien towards fighting in South Shantung, in the Ideep shafts of a coal mine near Taierchwang.

Result of the action was not yet known by the mid-Tsaochwang.

Reuter.

the

survive on food they had brought with them.

They crouched in the depths of dle of this morning, but meanwhile the situa-the earth by the light of ficker tion at Tancheng is admitted by the Chinese jing candles, and just managed to to be critical. Wireless reports from Hsuehow reveal that savage fighting is taking place in the Taierchwang area, where the Japanese have thrust the weight of four divi- sions in a determined attempt to wipe out the defeat of the Isogai and Itagaki Brigades.

HOLDING GROUND Thousands of wounded pouring through Hsuchow in the last 24 hours is indicative of the violence of the combat, and, point out foreign military observers, of the fact that the Chinese are

a Japanese armed trawler, accord-holding their ground. It would ing to a report made to the Hong be impossible for the Chinese to get out their wounded unless they Kong Fishermen's Union.

were holding on to their positions

TANCHENG BATTLE

It is learned that on Thursday at all costs. Our Own Corres- night, 14 fishing junks, all regis-pondent. tered in the Colony, proceeded to waters close to Cheung Chau Island, but outside the limits of the Colony, and cast their nets, fishing separately.

an armed

A few hours later Japanese trawler went alongside one of the junks, Japanese sailors boarded it and threw the occu pants overboard. They approach- ed another junk and did the

same.

MACHINE-GUNNED

The occupants of two other junks, fishing closer to British waters saw what was happening, discarded their nets and made for! Hong Kong. The trawler trained machine-gunson

the fleeing junks but failed to hit any of the

crew.

As none of the remaining junks have yet returned to the Colony, It is feared that their crews all serished the hands of

the

Hankow, To-day. Heavy fighting was reported all day yesterday from the vicinity of Tancheng, but there is no indication that either the Chinese or Japanese have made important gains,“

The Japanese forces are aim- ing at pushing on south from Linyi through Tancheng, in or- der to cut the Lunghai Rail- way at Sinancheng, on the bor- der of Kiangan and Shantung.

If the move is successful it will not only mean that the railway will be finally cut at one place, but will presenta serious threat to the Chinese right fank, and should the Ja- panese troops advance along the railway to Hanchow, the Chin- ese forces west of Taierchwang will thereby be compelled to fall back on the Grand Canal:

NO CRACKING

forces may be forced

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to fall back anyway, for Japanese are furiously attack- ing Taierchwang from direction of Yihsien.

the

Three Chinese columus are putting up a stubborn defence at a position north of Taier chwang, and show no sign of cracking.

Another threat to the Lung- the hai Railway comes from Japanese pushing on relentless- ly to Pihsien, in Kiangsu, on

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Many, however, were so weak when emerging from their re fuge that they had to be medical- lly treated. Trans-Ocean.

the east bank of the Grand Canal, and only six miles from the rallway.

are

The Chinese, however, stated to be holding Pihsien.

Reuter

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