1938-06-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1988.

JAPANESE ATTACK ALONG YANGTSZE BROUGHT TO HALT Japanese Claim To Tsienshan Repudiated Troops Hold Back Japs. Waist Deep In Water

Hankow, To-day.

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RAIDS ON BARCELONA

Barcelona, To-day.

The city was raided three times early this morning.

Outlying suburbs were attack- ed in the first raid and 15 were

Aided by the flood waters of the Yellow River, the

Chinese have successfully stemmed the Japan-killed and 13 injured. Most of the ese advance on Hankow, it was reported here yesterday.

Strong Chinese detachments concentrated in the vicinity of Tsienshan have effectively blocked Japanese progress and in contradiction of Jap-

anese reports, it is stated that Tsienshan is still in Chinese hands.

The Japanese attempts to cross over the flooded Tsien river have also been frustrated.

JAPANESE RETREAT

Chengchow, To-day. Menaced by the worsening flood The Japanese fleet has proceed- situation, the main body of the ed farther up the Yangtse river Japanese forces, have hastily extri- to the point about 80 kilometres eating themselves from eastern to the west of Anking but all at-Honan quagmire, and have started tempts to land further troops a general retreat to Kweiteh. have also been frustrated.

Large numbers of trucks, fully It is declared that the Japan-loaded, have been in a continuous ese have so far not succeeded in eastward stream. landing a single soldier on the:

At Chungmow, eastermost out- south bank of the Yangtse.

post, only a skeleton force remains. On the eastern bank of Chaokao,

FORTRESSES RAIDED

bombs dropped in the second raid fell on the bench and coast but the southern district of the city suffered in the last raid when four were wounded.-Renter.

FAMED 88TH DIVISION SHOT

Hankow, To-day.

For failure to carry out the orders of his superiors, General Lung Mu-han, commander of the 88th Division, was court-martialled and executed on Friday by order

MORE PASSPORT of the Military Affairs Commission.

CASES

General Lung, it is officially an- nounced, twice disobeyed the or- ders of the High Command when A fine of $50 was to-day imposed defending Lanfeng.

When first. derending the

city, on Rufo M. Arreglado, a Filipino, charged before Mr. W. J. Lockhart |General Lung was instructed by Smith with entering the Colony Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to without a valid passport.

take up position inside the city. In- An expulsion order was made. stead, he ordered his troops to the Defendant went to the United vicinity of the railway station, States, but was sent back. On his south of the city. way to Manila, he came ashore here Later, when ordered to evacuate and did not return to the ship when Paiyunshih-towards Lanfeng, Gen- it sailed.

eral Lung for the second time dis- obeyed, giving as excuse confused conditions, at Lanfeng.

no valid visa.

Defendant said that he had been in the Colony several times. It was pointed out that this time he had

General Lung 'redeemed himself when his troops recaptured Lan- Edgar W. Zandon, an American, feng from the Japanese. His gross disobedience of military orders, fined $25 by Mr. W. J. Lockhart however, was considered by the Smith on pleading guilty to enter-court martial beyond pardon.- ing the Colony without a valid pass- Central News.

The Japanese Air Force car-where a wide gap has been forced ried out a raid on the Matang by the surging waters of the Yellow fortresses commanding the Yang-River on the main dykes, the Jap-residing at the Peninsula Hotel was tse river near the junction of the three provinces Anhwei, Kiangsi and Hupeh, but accord- ing to Chinese reports the bombs dropped resulted in no serious damage. Trans-Ocean. CLAIM DENIED

anese have retreated to the east.

Japanese recoiling from their southward advance on Kihaion have also withdrawn to the Shan- tung_border.-Central News.

Kinhwa, To-day.

port.

Cheung Tung-yam, 17, was sen-. Kwok Yung, 20, was this morn tenced to three months' hard la- Hankow, To-day. A Japanese warship near Yuhwan, ing sentenced to three months' hard bour by Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith In an interview with Reuter last an island to the northeast of Wen-labour and ordered to pay $13 at the Central Magistracy this mor- night, the Chinese military spokes-chow, laid a barrage on the main-amends at the Kowloon Police ning, for the theft of a gold watch man denied the Japanese claim tha land yesterday.-Central News. Court, for stealing a gold ring, and chain from Wong Kan-shiu,

HO CHENG-CHUN

from a woman in Kum Chun Stree. [who was working in Connaught on Saturday.

Road Central yesterday.

Hankow, June 20.

former

Chienshan had been occupied, stat- ing that the Chinese garrison were holding out in the city and fresh General Ho Cheng-chun, reinforcements had arrived tī Chairman-of-the-Hupeh-Provincial- strengthen its defence.

Government, has been appointed

The spokesman further express- Director-General for the Execution ed confidence that the Chinese of Military Law 'to succeed General would hold the Japanese on the |Lu Chung-lin, now Chairman of the ́ Anhwei-Hupeh border where, it is Hopei Provincial Government.- stated, the mountainous terrain is Central News.

all in favour of the Chinese.

A small Japanese detachment NO NEW CHINA

landed yesterday morning at West Wuhu, stated the spokesman, but it| was quickly repulsed.

CURRENCY

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· Hankow, To-day. WAISTDEEP IN WATER

British press reports to the Despatches from the Yangtse effect that the Chinese Central front paid a great tribute to the Government intends to introduce Chinese soldiers defending the Ja new system of currency and has south bank of the River where the already printed new banknotes, troops were standing "waist-deep are declared to be false by the in water" as the Yangtse has ai Chinese Finance Ministry. present, inundated the south, banl near Kweichih, 30 miles from Nan king.

It is stated that there is no necessity for an introduction of a new currency since the mone- Chinese troops are stubbornly retary control measures now in sisting the landing of the Japanese effect are adequate for maintain- forces despite a terrific bombarding the stability of Chinese cur- ment from aeroplanes and war-rency.

ships.

Chinese official circles described statements by the "Reformed Gov- ernment”” on the Yellow River floods as not worthy of comment. :

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Trans-Ocean.”

TOBACCO SMUGGLING

Cham Nam, 45, unemployed, was, JAPANESE CONSTERNATION fined $23.80 or one. month's impri- Such statements have neither sonment by Mr. W. J. Lockhart status nor respectability. Unofficial Smith at the Central Magistracy Chinese circles, however, attach this morning, for the possession of significance to these statement: fifty cigars and dutiable tobacco. since they obviously expose the Ng Tai, was also fined $28 or one consternation of Japanese circles month's hard labour for the posses- that their plans to drive towards sion of two pounds of tobacco in Chengchow and Hankow have re-Connaught Road Central near Mor- ceived a severe setback-Reuter. rison Street last Saturday,

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