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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1938.

CHINESE COUNTER-ATTACK

ON MENGCHEN FRONT

Fierce Fighting Now In Progress Round Town

Onslaughts

Continue In South

Shantung

operating in the southern Shan- a direction towards the Lunghai tung war zone are in action, in- Railway, increasing the pressure dicate latest messages from that on the Chinese positions to such region.

an extent that the Chinese troops

The Chinese advanced further are beginning to retire in north- northwards from Taierchwang ern direction along the Tientsin- yesterday. This morning heavy Pukow Railway.

The messages, moreover, claim

fighting was reported near Tan- that the Japanese forces at

cheng, where Chinese troops are

slowly driven back to their for-

have

hotly engaged with the Japanese. Mencheng which are said to Shanghai, To-day.

The Japanese have also launch- aken one thousand prisoners from A violent counter-attack was launched by the Chin-ed an attack at Hanchwang, but he Chinese who lost 2000 dead, are Vernacular getting ready for an advance north- ese on Mengcheng yesterday afternoon in an have been halted.

reports state that they are being wards.

LAKE TAI INCURSION attempt to re-take the town from the Japanese

The spokesman of the Japanese mer positions leaving thousands who occupied it a few days ago.

of dead and wounded on the authorities also claimed that a force Fierce fighting is in progress north and north-east battlefield.Our Own Correspon of 6,000 Chinese soldiers has been completely surrounded by Japanese of the town.

in the region of the lake Tai, south- west of Shanghai.

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JAPANESE CLAIMS

Our Own

Shanghai, To-day. A number of Japanese planes in residential areas.

Reports by Japanese sources bombed Hsuchowfu yesterday. Correspondent.

SOUTH SHANTUNG BATTLE declare that the Japanese troops No damage was suffered in mili-

Shanghai, To-day. continue to advance along the tary zones, but several civilians were killed when the bombs fell All Chinese and Japanese forces] Tientsin-Pukow Railway line in

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This announcement is sensational insofar as it admits that the Chinese have succeeded in penetrating into the region southwest of Shanghai which the Japanese have always claimed has been completely cleared of Chinese troops for some months. -Trans-Ocean.'

JAPANESE ADVANCE

Hankow, To-day. More than 1,000. Japanese troops at Tancheug, in south-east Shan- tung, have advanced ten kilometres south and are now at Hunghuahu (Red Flower Village), states а Chinese report.

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Their aim, says the report, apparently to cut the Lunghai Rail- way east of Hsuchowfu, at Sinan- cheng, which is only eight south of Hunghuahu.-Reuter.

PENGPU BATTLE

Hankow, To-day. Japanese forces from Pengpu are reported to be attacking Kucheng, and fighting at present is progress- ing at Suchiatsi, south of Kucheng, The Japanese forces at Wen- shang, west of Yenchowfu and south of Tsining, are attempting to force a crossing of the Grand Canal in order to launch a drive. -into-west-Shantung,-according-to-

Chinese reports,

The Chinese on the west bank of the Canal are engaged in a bitter fight.

Meanwhile, Japanese forces at Tsining and Nanyangcheng are stated to be preparing to cross the Grand Canal further south, while Japanese forces at Pupang, on the Shantung-Hopei border, on the west bank of the Yellow River, are moving east to support the present Japanese drive in west Shantung.

Reuter.

ARMY RECRUITS

London, To-day. Recruiting for the Regular Army continues to run at a high level compared with a year ago. Figures for the London area last week show that the number of enlistment more than doubled at 119.-British Wire- less.

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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1988.

MEETING OF CZECH PARLIAMENT

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PRAGUE, TO-DAY.

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Berlin Stages Big LAND AND SEA

Show For Führer

Berlin, To-day.

THE CZECH PARLIAMENT Berlin staged a grand reception for Adolf Hitler

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WHICH MET YESTERDAY FOR

THE FIRST TIME AFTER LONG INTERVAL ADJOURNED TILL THURSDAY AFTER A SES- SION OF ONLY ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES. ·

The adjournment which is rather remarkable in view of the prevail- ing political tension is so political quarters here point out obviously due to the fact that the Govern- ment Parties are anxious to avoid any political debate at the present moment since they have not yet definitely decided what attitude is to be adopted towards the Sudeten German question.

CONTROL ROUND SPAIN

London, To-day.

It is understood that the ques-- control of Spain has been settled satisfactorily

upon his return from the visit to Italy. Early in the morning the entire city had donned fes-tion of land and sea tive garb for the occasion. German and Ita-between the British and French lian flags decorated the Lehrter Railway Sta-Governments in private discussions. tion and the entire road from the station to the Chancellery in the Wilhelmstrasse. Before sun-mittee

It is expected that other mem- bers of the non-intervention com- will find no difficulty in

Discussions will continue in re-

set, huge crowds were making their way to the agreeing on this point. station and the big square in front of the Reich-gard to the question of withdrawal stag.

by categories, and it is hoped it will be possible to hold a meeting of the committee early next week. -Reuter.

The crowd cheered vociferously when Field Mar- shal Goering and Count Magistrati, Italian Ambassador to Berlin, and other notable per-attend the A. D. C. production of His Excellency the Governor will sonalities passed on their way to the station to "Distinguished Gathering" at welcome the Fuehrer.

That the Sudeten German Party did not seize this first occasion for a parliamentary discussion of its ņu- merous complaints so the Sudeten German quarters point out merely shows the exemplary discipline of that Party which thus once more demonstrated that it wishes to do

The special train arrived shortly nothing which might give the Czech after ten-thirty. Its arrival was Government a pretext for the asser-the signal for tion that the Sudeten Germans ob- tion of enthusiasm, which, nourish- a great demonstra- tructed or prevented a solution ined by fireworks, was a remarkable the National Minority problem.~ spectacle. Trans-Ocean.

FOUR R.A.F. ACCIDENTS IN ONE DAY

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In his address of welcome, Field Marshal Goering said that bounded joy had taken possession of the entire German nation from the moment when the Fuehrer had re-entered Germany. A jubilant na- tion had greeted him from the mountains of the Tyrol, from the towns and villages of Bavaria, Thuringia and Prussia. It was a single manifestation of loyalty and affection. The nation had follow- Yesterday was a black day for fraternal Italian people with

ed the course of the visit to the the Royal Air Force since no fewer dent interest and the German than four fatal crashes, claiming people felt itself honoured

reading of the honours conferred the lives of six officers and two by the Duce to the Fuehrer. mechanics, are reported from various parts of England.

London, To-day.

ar-

when

MAGNIFICENT HOSPITALITY

The gratitude felt by the German Two of the crashes occurred in people for the magnificent hospital- Huntingdonshire where a mili-ity extended to the Fuehrer by the King-Emperor is beyond words. tary instruction plane and Blenheim bomber of the latest The greatest of all, however, is the type crashed in flames in the response evoked by the words

which the Fuehrer same hour.

and the Duce sealed their mutual friendship.

"It is not a mere chance that this

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The third plane crashed near the Hemsewheel aerodrome in Lincolnshire and the fourth in century has produced two such the vicinity of Kenley, in Sur-statesmen, two men of such out-

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SCHOOL OF MATRIMONY

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greatness. But it is through Divine ordinance that these powerful statesmen have con- cluded a friendship which is a friendship between two great na- tions.

And if concluded Goering-you have established eternal pence; and the Duce has confirmed it, then Germany's first school, providing this friendship shall likewise be training in matrimonial duties to for all times.”

Berlin, To-day,

as to

girls pledged to be married will be SEARCHLIGHT CLUSTER opened at Wannsee near Berlin An especially impressive feature on "Mother Day," which is cele-jof the reception was the manner in brated in Germany on May 15th. which a close cluster of search- The course of training will last lights with beams of blueish light 6 months, and will include, apart was directed upwards, so from ordinary domestic economy seem tied together, and followed in subjects, special instruction in all the wake of the Fuehrer's car as it modern aspects of housewifery. moved through fantastically illum- -The Wannsee school will be a model inated streets in places with a of its kind. It will contain a num- deep red glow-on its way from ber of two-roomed dwellings with the station to the Wilhelmstrasse, furniture purchased by the 1,000 which, in contrast to the rest of Reichsmarks marriage loan grant the route, was flooded with white by the State to young couples who light.

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otherwise would not be in position Almost immediately after his ar to enter upon matrimonial life. rival at the Chancellery, Adolf Hit- In these two-roomed dwellings ler responded to the vociferous the candidates for marriage will calls from the vast multitude on learn to become exemplary wives. the Wilhelmsplatz and appeared on Later, on similar schools will be the balcony alone with, Fieldmar- established all over Germany--[shal Goering and Dr. Goebbels.— Trans-Ocean.

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China Fleet Club Theatre on Thurs- day, 19th May.

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