THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 18, 1988.
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DEFENDERS OF HSUCHOW STILL IN CONTROL
No Intention Of Withdrawing From Zone
Extreme Alarm
Declared To Be Unjustified
Hankow, To-day. The Chinese, who hitherto have not admitted cut- ting of the Lunghai Railway by the Japanese, last night claimed that their troops were suc- cessful in several clashes.
It is officially stated that the forces defending Hsu- chow are still in control, and that there is no in- tention of withdrawing.
While deep anxiety prevails over the situation at Hsuchow, the Chinese military authorities em- phasise that extreme alarm is unjustified.- Reuter.
TOKYO CLAIMS.
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Their chief objective appears Tokyo, To-day. be the town of Tsachien, which is north of The Japanese claim that after situated 40 kilometres several days of successful opera-Kweiteh in the extreme southwest tions, their net of steel is tighten-corner of the Province of Shantung. ing around Hsuchow.
The Chinese are holding the line One column is said to have occu-running parallel with the Lunghai pied Pawangshan, six miles south Railway.
of the junction, and another Co- It is extremely difficult at present lumn is reported to have taken to obtain reliable information re- Shihpali, five miles to the west ofgarding the situation at Hsuchow since the commercial telephone lines are interrupted.
Hsuchow.
The Japanese claim to have cut the Lunghai Railway at five points. -Reuter.
CLAIMS PREMATURE
Shanghai, To-day.
The Chinese assert that the Ja- panese reports which claimed the Taierch- captured of Pihsien and wang, are untrue and that these that points are still held by the Chinese the Japanese troops are not so troops. Trans-Ocean, close to Hsuchowfu as they have claimed during the past two days,
It is reliably learned here
GUERILLA ACTIVITY
Peiping, To-day.
.
and that they have definitely not Simultaneously with the concen- reached Siaohsien, the small but trated Japanese attacks on the important military point about 13 Lunghai Railway, Chinese irregu- miles south-west of Hsuchowfu.
lars are reported to be displaying great activity in Northern-China.
The railway line from Suiyuan to Tatung, it is stated, has been cut
The Chinese are still holding-the- Japanese at Yungchen and the fighting is reported to be develop ing favourably. The Japanese van- in several places and attacks guard which struck out, after guerillas on the Peiping-Hankow reaching Yungchen last week, to- railway are also reported.-Trans- wards Siaohsien, was ambushed by Ocean.
the Chinese near Siaohsien, and re-
treated in confusion.
MENGCHEN BATTLE
A violent battle is also reported
POLICE
to be raging around. Mengchen, BESIEGED IN
where the Chinese are still mak- ing efforts to re-take the town.
It is confirmed that the Japanese have crossed the Yellow River in the Peiping-Hankow
Line area
north of the Lung-Hai Line, but it
BOHEMIA TOWN
Prague, To-day.
by
is reliably learned that they have Two thousand Sudeten Germans not yet reached the Lung-Hai Line.
Traffic on Lung-Hai Line has, how-besieged the police headquarters of ever, been suspended between the town of Saaz in Western! Hsuchowfu and Kaifeng, as Ja- Bohemia yesterday. panese planes in large numbers
Kaifeng and Kweiteh`are
still
A young Sudeten German who
are consistently bombing the line. had unintentionally smashed a blazing as the result of recent air-shopwindow of a German business- man a few days ago has been taken raids.
to the police station.
+ ar-
After his release it was alleged that he had been beaten by the police.
Large re-inforcements have rived in the region north-east of "Kaifeng, between Kaifeng--and Kweiteh.-Our Own Correspondent.
MINOR GAINS
A crowd of 2,000 thereupon gathered and could be dispersed The Chinese admit that the Ja-only by the intervention of Sudeten panese made some minor gains in German Party functionaries." The German Senator. Bock west Shantung yesterday. The Ja- Sudeten panese captured the towns of Yue-lodged a protest with the Czecho- tal, Chinhsiang, Kueyeh and Ting-Slovakian Minister of Interior and tao and are thus now advancing, on leaders of the Sudeten
Party authorities.-Trans-Ocean. a semi-circular front;
German
Queen Mary paid a visit on May 6 to the Milday Mission Hos- pital, Shoreditch, London, and had a cheery word with many of the patients. Here is Queen Mary enjoying a joke with one of the pa- tients. (Copyright: By Air Mail).
EGYPT INSISTS
TARIFF IS NOT ANTI-LANCS.
In the
Cairo, To-day.
CLIPPER MAIL
A change in air mail times for the Clipper for Manila and America was announced this morning. The Clip- per was due to arrive at 11 a.m. and is leaving to-morrow morning
at 8.30. The mail will close at 5 p.m. to-night for registered and 6 a.m. to-morrow for ordinary letters.
course of its reply to the British Ambassador to the that Italy's trade has greatly in- representations against the new creased in cheaper articles pre- tariffs on British cotton goods, viously supplied by Japan.
The Government's present action the Egyptian Government is un- derstood to reiterate that the in-is intended to correct that position creases are in no way
directed and give the required protection to
the local industry. against Lancashire.
The reply points out that the The reply adds, however, that 40 per cent, surtax, against Jap-Egypt is awaiting Lancashire's de- anese goods has not led to any tailed case and a ready exchange Lanca-of views towards a friendly under- perceptible increase in cashire's exports to Egypt, but standing.-Reuter.
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