THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 9, 1988.
JAPANESE IN STRAITS AT
DIRE
PIHSIEN
Two Columns Isolated And Surrounded
ROOSEVELT
PLEA FOR A BETTER WORLD ORDER
Washington, To-day.
On the eve of the meeting of the League of Nations Council, Presi- dent Roosevelt, in a message read over the wireless by Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, called the nations of the world to make "a joint effort to construct a new and better world order.”
The President declared: "Co- operation in a solution of economic problems offers one of the prac- tical approaches to a task which the world must undertake.
"There is a general growing realisation that no nation, or group of nations, can enjoy prosperity or plenty when a large part of the world is in economic distress." Reuter.
President Roosevelt's message was pledged to a course of internation: al economic co-operation, and will spare no effort in loyally contin- uing that course.-Reuter.
added that the United States
$200,000 LOSS IN KOWLOON FIRE DISASTER
Advantage Claimed CUSTOMS GO
:
In Attack From
Anhweit
Shanghai, To-day..
BACK TO WORK: AWAIT HANKOW
Continuing the drive northward towards Hsuchow INSTRUCTIONS
Shanghai, To-day, Chinese employees of the Shanghai Customs, who
came
and the Lunghai Railway, the Japanese offi- cially claim the capture of Siukiao, where the Hieh River crosses the Tientsin-Pukow Rail-out on strike on Saturday as they way 30 kilometres north of Pengpu. Further east, a supporting column is stated to have
completed the occupation of Fowning.
Siukiao and Fowning are both
60 miles south of the Lunghai JOINT CONTROL
Railway. Siukiao is due south of Hsuchow, while Fowning is south of Haichow, terminus of the railway.-Reuter.
JAPANESE TROOPS
SURROUNDED
OVER DISPUTED
Hankow, To-day. ISLANDS
Washington, To-day.
The Chinese claim to have com- pletely surrounded 4,000 Japan- ese troops east of Taierchwang, where the Lunghai Railway of an Anglo-American agreement
crosses the Grand Canal,
and
It is understood that the terms
also to have cut off near the vil- providing for joint jurisdiction over lage of Pihsien, a division of the disputed Pacific islands of Japanese troops about 8,000 Canton and Enderby, will be an- strong.
Despite their heavy losses the nounced shortly. Japanese are refusing to surren-
"New
objected to working for the "re- formed government" at Nanking,
have decided to continue. work temporarily.
The decision was taken at a
meeting yesterday
mass
ing.
even-
Work will be continued under protest pending instructions from Hankow.-Reuter.
SOVIET CHARGES · SABOTAGE
Moscow, To-day. Wrecking in the chemical indus- try caused the failure of the entire
เ
1987 Plari, declared M. Kaganovitch, Commissar for Heavy Industry, yes- terday. Later, according to the
He added that more wreckers and der and are making desperate at-York Times," negotiations will be
Antarctic spies had been found in this in- tempts to hold out in their extended to cover the strongly fortified. positions regions, where huge areas at pre-dustry than in any other, owing to against superior Chinese forces. sent are in friendly dispute between the vital part it played
nation's defences.-Reuter. Apart from these developments the two countries. Reuter. the situation on the South Shan- tung. front has undergone little change:
SHANSI OFFENSIVE Difficulties confronting the Japanese on the South Shantung front have necessitated with- drawal of Japanese troops from northwest Shansi, where the Damage, estimated to be over Chinese have started a new of- $200,000, was suffered by the fensive and have already advanc- Chinese Ministry of Communica-ed to the immediate neighbour-
hood of Tatung-Trans-Ocean.
NO COMMUNIQUE tions when a large quantity of
Shanghai, To-day. telegraphic apparatus and equip-
No kind of communique was is- was destroyed by fire in
Japanese sued yesterday by the Chatham Road yesterday morning. headquarters here regarding the fighting in the northern section of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
ment
The goods were temporarily stored on the reclamation near the Kowloon 'Football Club for transportation to Canton and Hankow. The fire occurred at about 10 a.m. and was not com- pletely extinguished until well after 12 noon.
The cause of the fire is still un- known.
U.S. BUDGET DEFICIT
Trans-Ocean.
H.M.S. GRAFTON
SAVES SHIP FROM REBELS
Gibraltar, To-day.
WAE
The British destroyer Grafton went to the assistance of the Bri- Washington, To-day. - tish steamer Refast, which The American Budget will have pursued by two Spanish “insurgent deficit of approximately $744,-armed trawlers off Gibraltar yester- 000,000 for the fiscal year 1989, if|day.
President Roosevelt's spending for The trawlers thereupon altered the recovery programme is fully course and headed for Ceuta.
The Refast was formerly the carried out, according to estimates
made for Congress by the acting Nantucket Chief, which was detain- a fortnight at Palma by the budget director, Mr. Daniel Belled for
insurgents in "January-Reuter. Reuter
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