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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 1, 1988

Doihara Division Still Holding

Out o

Hankow, To-day. The Chinese forces have re-occupied Chiahotan and Yangkatang, strategic points between Saiyi- chai and Lanfeng, along the Lunghai Railway, according to a telephone message from the front.

The Japanese troops encircled in villages north- west of Lanfeng are said to be holding out at present inside Sanyichai and Chuhsinchai. Japanese forces attacking Pohsien, in north-west Anhwei, south of Yangchen, were dispersed by the defenders, states a Chinese communique.

Another

Chinese statement[ says that several hundred Japan- ese troops were discovered near Suhsien, south of Mingchuan, on Monday afternoon..

Meanwhile, Chinese mobile units operating in Shantung have reached a point south of Taian in the vicinity of China's sacred mountain, Taishan. Reuter.

TIGHTEN GRIP

Chengchow, To-day.. Troops of the Doihara Division, trapped northwest of Lanfeng are now in a precarious position as the Chinese have further tightened the ring round them.

In another general onslaught, the Chinese inflicted further ca- sualties on the enemy. The vil- lages where the Japanese are still holding out are said to be littered with dead and wounded.

KWEITEH CHECK

-POPE'S

8IST BIRTHDAY

Castel Gandolfo, To-day. His Holiness the Pope celebrat- ed his 81st birthday yesterday,

Castel Gandolfo was beflagged and many messages of congratula- tion were received, including one from Cardinal Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State, on behalf of the Eucharistic Congress which has just concluded at Budapest. -Reuter.

CHOLERA IN

EPIDEMIC FORM

The advance of the Japanese IN SHANGHAI

column westward along the Lung-

hai line from Kweiteh meanwhile

has been checked by the Chinese

at Chutsi and Tsingliangssu. An-

Shanghai, To-day.

Cholera cases within the Inter-

other column is pushing toward national Settlement have recently Ningling southwest of Kweiteh, greatly increased in frequency

where the situation is reported to be tense

until-they-have-now-assumed the Afierce artillery duel took form of an epidemic. place yesterday between the For these reasons the Japan- Chinese and Japanese batteries ese Consul-General, Mr. Hidaka, across the Yellow River at Kuan-has notified the Shanghai Con- tai.

Central News.

POHSIEN BESIEGED

sular Corps that subjects of third powers like Chinese would only be permitted to enter the part of the city occupied by the Graye tension prevails at Pohsien, Japanese on production of an in-

oculation certificate.

Hankow, To-day.

in north Anhwei, according to mili-

› Inoculations are to be carried

tary advices received from the out by June. 7.Trans-Ocean.,

front late last night.

· Concentrating their artillery fire

on the east, west and south city better able to hold out until the gates, the Japanese attempted to arrival of reinforcements.-Central storm the city in a series of News.

onslaughts.

The Chinese repulsed attack after attack. The city was still

ese hands late last night,

totally besieged.

Chin- though

A Chinese battalion sustained heavy casualties. Centrál News.

KUHSINGTSI STORMED

Chengchow, To-day.

JAPANESE CLAIM RELIEF

OF DOIHARA

Shanghai, To-day. In the fighting at Lanfeng on the Lunghai Railway, the Japanese claim to have succeeded in relieving detachments of the Doihara divi- sion, partly surrounded and vio- Braving intense fire, a Chinese lently attacked by the Chinese. unit has broken into Kuhsingtsi, The claim was made by the Ja- north of Lowang, used by the Doi-panese spokesman in Shanghai, who hara troops trapped on the south said that Japanese troops, brought bank of the Yellow River as a from Kweiteh, drove back the stronghold, and is engaging, the Chinese troops sent against them Japanese in bloody close-range and advanced further west. There- fighting.

upon the Chinese facing the Doi- Chinese grip has been further hara division, feeling themselves tightened after the re-occupation of threatened by the pressure at their a number of vital points, including backs, withdraw towards Kaifeng. Tsinglungpu, Taalchwang. Hwai- ' Thereby, claimed the spokesman, chiatún, Lanfengkow and villages the peril threatening the Doihara northeast af Sanyicha Diyan division which apparently advan- shortening, ced too rapidly “seems to have been their defence li in order to be removed."-

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