1938-07-29 — Page 11

REINFORCEMENTS

Strong Counter-Attacks Meeting With Success

Tide Turning In Fighting

Round Kiukiang

Shanghai, To-day.

BRITISH TRADE IN BALKANS

London, To-day.

HANKOW RAIDERS INTERCEPTED

Hankow, To-day. Thirty-six Chinese planes in- The Cabinet will meet to-day for tercepted Japanese aircraft yes- the last time before the Parliamen- terday morning when the air- tary recess and will deal principally raid alarm was sounded.. with Britain's trade relations with

Over 10,000 Japanese troops are now proceeding the Central and South-East Euro-

up the Yangtse from Nanking to reinforce the troops in the Kiukiang area.

The Chinese are also strengthening their forces

with troops from Hankow.

pean countries, which

Official details of the clash were dis- have not yet been released.

Our Own Correspondent.

cussed in yesterday's session!

Most of Cabinet Ministers will leave London on Friday but "The

The Chinese who withdrew to casualties were suffered by the Times" says that Lord Halifax will try seat in Yorkshire once a week

to visit to London. the region south-west of Kiu-Japanese on July 26 and 27.-Cen-remain in constant touch with the in order kiang have already clashed with tral News.

the Japanese and a violent bat-

tle was reported yesterday with aircraft from both sides support- ing the infantry.

The Japanese at Hukou and Pengtseh are still being attack- ed, according to Japanese reports, the Chinese object being appar- ently to cut communications be tween Anking and Kiukiang.

Vernacular reports this morn- ing state that eleven Japanese gunboats were sunk yesterday morning when the Chinese Air Force raided the Japanese below Kiukiang. Our Own Corres- pondent.

NORTH BANK OPERATIONS Hankow, To-day.

The Japanese have now trans- ferred their activity to the terri- tory north of the Yangtse bend, between Nanking and Hwang- chow:

Japanese troops have approach- ed to within 15 kilometres of Taihu, which lies about 100 kilo metres north of Kiukiang and other Japanese units are advanc ing on Taihu from Wangkiang and from Susung evidently in- -tending--to-force the Chinese troops to surrender the town by flanking manoeuvre.

Fighting going on around Tai- hu is reported to be extremely fierce, both sides submitting the other to a murderous artillery bombardment.

Railway communications be- tween Hankow and Changsha are interrupted again but it is anti- cipated that they will be restored in a few hours. Trans-Ocean.

IMPORTANT CHINESE

SUCCESSES

Nanchang, To-day. Embittered by the loss of Kiu- kiang, Chinese troops are furious- ly counter-attacking.

ex-

Violent fighting raged on the whole of the zigzag front tending from Pengtseh, to Kiu- kiang. The Chinage in the Hu- kou-Pengtseh sector made an im- portant advance, recapturing a number of points, including Shih- poling, Meilangkow and Laota- shan. The rear of the Japanese occupying Kiukiang is threaten- ed.

Chinese reinforcements dis- patched to the Poyang Lake sec- tor have succeeded in cutting Japanese communications be tween Klukiang and Kutang.

Chinese military reports claim that heavy Chinese reinforce ments are still guarding the Lion Hill bector

anese attack yesterday

tral News.

fighting

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