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Decision Communicated To Hankow Leaders

GRIM PICTURE

OF RETREAT FROM HSUCHOW

(From Reuter's Correspondent on the Shantung Front)

TO-DAY.

HSUCHOWFU,

FLYING OVER HSUCHOW-

FU IN A JAPANESE AERO- PLANE, I SAW LARGE FIRES

STILL RAGING BUT ALL THE

FOREIGN MISSIONS IN THE

Favourable Turn SUDETENS'

In Lunghai Railway Battle

Decisions of great importance to China have in the last week been taken in Berlin and communi- cated to Hankow, the “China Mail" learns from a very reliable source.

RECALCITRANT ATTITUDE

Prague, To-day.

The Sudeten German Party, at a meeting last night, protested against the measures taken by the Government in the Sudeten

Firstly, the German military advisers with the Chin-districts.

ese Government, it is understood, are to be They declare these measures withdrawn from Hankow, where they have are contrary to the constitution, as there has been no sign what- been directing Chinese strategy in the hostili-ever of any revolt or resistance. ties against Japan, and

CITY SEEM TO BE INTACT, Secondly, Germany is to cease the export of arms,

WITH THEIR FLAGS CLEAR-

LY VISIBLE FROM THE AIR.

munitions and aeroplanes to China. The "China Mail" learns that some of the German military ad- visers are leaving Hankow within

FAVOURABLE LUNGHAI

The railway stations are still burning, while fifteen abandoned a week. Chinese trains are lying in the sidings.

TURN Hankow, To-day.

BRIDGE INCIDENT STATEMENT

Prague, To-day.

The Sudetens also objected to the British attitude, which took

it for granted that the Czech

Government intended to meet all legitimate demands of the Sude- ten Germans.

The party saw no possibility of entering into negotiations with the Government until the guar- antees previously asked,

| given. Reuter.

|bridge to German territory.

are

were alleged to have The Czech Foreign Minister, mined a bridge on the German Dr. Krofta, has apologised to the frontier), showed that the Czech German Minister in Prague for soldiers merely tried to cross the the deplorable incident.-Reuter.

Our plane, leaving the city, ant strokes against Japanese A rapid succession of import- followed the lines of the Chinese units at several points along the the official enquiry in regard to when they saw German customs It-is-semi-officially stated that The soldiers,-it-is-stated, fled- withdrawal, and peering down-railway have now removed the the bridge incident (when Czech officers. wards, we could see men fighting, threat along the Lunghai line soldiers swarming and dying like ants

between Kweiteh and Lanfeng. along the dusty roads and green

The recapture of Ifeng, five fields while Japanese tanks and

kilometres east of Lanfeng, is cavalry continually harassed the confirmed by a telephonic mes- Chinese rearguards.

sage from the front. The major- ity of the Japanese troops hold- ing the station were slain during Dozens of flaming villages the Chinese assault, while the could be discerned from the air, remnants scattered to the north-1 set on fire by Japanese bombing west and northeast. when the retreating Chinese en- Peichieh, another important deavoured to halt and obtain shel-point thirty miles east of Kai- ter under the village walls. feng, was recaptured at two

FLAMING. VILLAGES

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o'clock yesterday afternoon after G. F. ALLSTEEL FILING CABINETS. large column of Chinese troops an encounter in which the Jap- marching in formation. Hearing anese lost several hundred men.

the sound of our plane, they halted and stood motionless in an endeavour to escape attention.

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With the return to Chinese KEELOX RIBBONS & CARBONS." hands of Peichieh, the threat to Kaifeng has been removed. COLUMN SCATTERS

Disconnected detachments of the Japanese Another column which we passed vigorously attacked in the vici army, are being later, scattered in all directions, throwing themselves headlong into and Niutichuan, which have all nity of Neihwang, Yehchnikang ditches and vainly attempting to been retaken.. bring down our machine with rifle West of Lanfeng, Japanese fly- ing detachments succeeded in Later still, a Japanese pursuit reaching Hinglung and Luwang plane ominously dashed towards us stations yesterday but were later through the mist but, identifying | driven back. Central News.

ARMY STATEMENT us, skimmed away.

Army Headquarters has issued Down below there seemed to be the following communique: an endless flow of Japanese columns "Conforming to the policy of supported by armies of trucks and holding. positions only so long as tanks, marching forward for an strategically worth while,-Hsuchow other attack in this apparently end-was given up on the 20th with less war. Reuter,

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