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JAPANESE ONSLAUGHT AT TAIERCHWANG

Fifty Thousand Men Engaged In The Action

H.K. DUAL BROADCASTS

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All Attempts To Break Down Resistance Fail

Hankow, To-day.

THUNG HUA DISTURBANCE AT MA TAU WEI

Incorrect reports appearing in

Committee announces that the The main centre of military operations on the Tien- the local vernacular press are be-

broadcasting transmitting apparatus has been installed in the new build-

ing at Hung Hom and it is now possible for a re-arrangement of transmissions and programmes to be made.

- Beginning on 8th. May, ZBW (medium wave) will be used for

tsin-Pukow front continues to lie to the south-lieved to have led to a demonstra- east of Taierchwang and to the north of Pih-tion by striking workers of the sien where according to Chinese estimates the Chung Hwa Company at Ma Tau - Japanese are attacking with some 50,000 Wai this morning. troops. All attempts, it is reported yesterday evening, to break down the Chinese resistance struck on March 11, returned to around Taierchwang have failed.

European programmes only; Chin- Meanwhile the Japanese are renewing their efforts

ese programmes will be transmit- ted simultaneously on ZEK whose power now is expected to approxi- mate that of ZBW.

The hours of the programmes will be, 12.30 to 2.15 p.m. and 6.00 to 11.00 p.m. daily, except Sundays, the hours for which remain a's before

to cross the Grand Canal near Pihsien with the intention of gaining control over the eastern sector of the Lunghai Railway as preliminary to attack upon Hsuchow.

The workers, who originally

the plant at 6 a.m. this morning, apparently having been misled by

reports that the management had agreed to the strikers' terms, to be confronted by a notice that if they wished to return to work, they would have to sign on the Com

pany's terms.

With

the workers becoming restive, the police Emergency Unit was called to the scene and by 9 o'clock the crowd had dispersed.

The equipment which has made this increase of power possible is of an experimental nature and it All reports reaching here yester-guerilla forces are still extremely may therefore not be quite so day evening from the front are active north of the Yellow River. immune from interruption as the alike, in claiming that the Japanese Here they are said to be engaged

"The -"China Mail" understands smaller transmitter.

have gained very little ground durin harassing the Japanese garri- ing the course of the last three days. sons which have been reduced in that Mr. R. A. C. North, Secretary The Japanese troops have, however, strength on account of the fighting for Chinese affairs, is discussing the situation with the Company's succeeded in occupying Lienfanshan in the Shantung province,

Guerilla bands are reported to general manager at the Secretariat which lies north of Pihsien and con- stitutes an important position for have recaptured a number of vil-for Chinese Affairs this afternoon. SAME FREQUENCIES·

(Continued im Page. $4) an advance upon this latter city. The short wave transmitter

The Japanese for their part con- ZBW3, (9.52 megacycles per tend that the Chinese report about second) will be used for the trans- the capture in this same region of -mission of the European

gramme from 1.00 to 2.15 p.m. and the town of Tancheng is without 8.00 to 11.00 p.m. and it will be foundation. They claim that their used for the transmission of Chin-troops are still in possession -ese programmes from 700 to 8.00 Tancheng although having to beat p.m. daily. On Sundays the morn-- off extremely furious attacks launch- ing services will also be relayed ed by the Chinese forces on the short wavė,

pro-

There will be no alteration in the frequencies of ZBW and ZEK, which will remain at 845 kilo- cycles and 640 kilocycles per second.

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ments at present engaged in the G. F. ALLSTEEL. FILING CABINETS: immediate vicinity of, Tancheng are said by military quarters here to have been ordered to hold their posi tions at all costs so as to ward off as long as possible the menace of a Japanese uank attack in the direc

AMBASSADOR INtion of Hsuchow.

SHANGHAI

Shanghai, To-day.

STERN STRUGGLE

A stern struggle is going on for possession of the village

Nan

The British. Ambassador, Sirangcheng, near the yang, south of Tsining which is likewise Archibald Clark-Kerr, and Lady Kerr, arrived in the "Empress of a position of strategical importance. Canada" yesterday afternoon from Hồng trong Router.

SMALLPOX

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Military headquarters in Hau- chow sent a request for reinforce- ments to recover the village of Nanyangcheng from the Japanese. The arrival of fresh troops will, it Nine cases of smallpox were re-is believed, frustrate the Japan- ported to the local Health Depart ese plan to carry out a surprise at- ment in the last 48 hours. Five tack on the Lunghai railway, west were in Kowloon, two in the Har of Hauchow. bour one in Victoria and one in Aberdeen,

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