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RESUME

ATTACKS

TO-DAY

Fifteen Machines Bomb Changkufeng Hill.⠀

NEW BOMB ATTACKS IN PALESTINE

Jerusalem, To-day.

Hope Of Cessation CAPTURE OF

Of Hostile Acts

Disappointed

Tokyo, To-day.

Hopes of a cessation of hostile activities by the So-

Drastic measures by the British authorities have failed to prevent new bomb outrages. A military lorry was attacked on the road] It from Ramallah to Nablus

оп

Monday afternoon.

"Arab irregulars fired at the lorry and severely wounded three British soldiers. Several insurgents said to have been killed.

are

In the vicinity of Tulkaren aero- Arabs drome, the bodies of two killed by unknown assailants were

found.

From Haifa, four new bomb out- rages are reported which, however, fortunately, failed to have serious consequences since merely one Arab was slightly injured by bomb splinters. Trans-Ocean.

RECORD OF TRAGEDY July has been a record month in Palestine with a total of 148 Arabs

killed during and 60 Jews

the 201 month, while 256 Arabs and Jews were injured.

The British casualties have been two British soldiers killed and six wounded, as well as three British constables Wounded during the month.-Reuter.

ROUND WORLD AIR TRAVELLER

Port Washington, New York,

To-day. The seaplane "Nordwind". took off at 5.00 p.m., (N.Y.T.) towards Portugal via the Azores with Cap tain Hans Bertram aboard. He is planning to make a record-breaking 24,000-mile circuit of the globe in 19 days and 21 hours, using only scheduled planes. Reuter

Later.

SUSUNG CLAIMED BY JAPANESE

Shanghai, To-day. Japanese capture of Susung, on the north bank of the Yangtse, almost directly north of Hukou,

viet and Japanese forces on the Manchu-Soviet border were shattered this morning. is learned from the War Office that fifteen Soviet was officially claimed by the planes "crossed the Manchukuo border" and Japanese military spokesman at bombed Changkufeng this morning. The this morning's press conference.

He admitted that the Chinese damage is described as "negligible. Reuter. had put up stiff resistance, in indication of weakness, as could be the walled city, barricading The boming is stated to have learned from reports broadcast by themselves in houses and build- started at 7.40 a.m. to-day, but the Khabarovsk Radio the duration of the attack and "Restoration

status streets, but he asserted that after other details are not yet avail-quo ante by the Japanese had now an effective artillery barrage, been practically accomplished, the the Japanese entered the gates of spokesman declared.

Susung at 8 o'clock last night. Further developments would de- atti- pend on the Soviet Russian tude.

able.

CABINET IN SESSION The news arrived, in Tokyo when the Cabinet was holding a meeting at which yesterday's de- velopments were being discussed.

of the on, ings, and manning barriers in the

If Moscow should. not finally come to reason, the situation must be regarded as very serious.

The spokesman declared that the Japanese were now pushing on towards Hwangmei, approxim ately 11 kilometres south-west of Susung, while aerial observations revealed that the Chinese were retreating west towards Kwang-

There was a full attendance of Ministers, who are expected to

Asked whether the reports of the continue the discussion until

press regarding antsi. lunch-time and resume the ses- Japanese

The spokesman claimed that as "energetic protest in the form of sion this afternoon.

The War Office spokesman, in-warning," were correct, the spokes- a result of these latest operations. terviewed by Reuter, ridiculed man replied: "No such state- and the capture of Susung, the as a complete falsehood the al- ment had been issued to the Japan-Japanese now have a very good

highway to Hankow. Reuter. leged Soviet claim that Soviet ese press. Trans-Ocean. troops yesterday re-occupied the disputed area and inflicted 400 casualties on the Japanese, Reuter.

Tokyo, To-day. Tension is high in political circles here, and it is not lessen- ed among the public at large by the scanty information published regarding the nature and scope of hostilities on the border.

Orders have been issued to the newspapers prohibiting the publi- cation of any reports on events other than official communiques and banning all comment on the incidents. Our Own Corres- pondence,

**STATUS QUO ANTE The action of Japanese troops in

MARDAM BEY TO region of Changkufeng is explained

VISIT ANKARA

Jerusalem, To-day.

by the spokesman of the Japanese Toreign Office as the unavoidable consequence of provocations by the Soviet.

The original withdrawal of the The Turkish Government has in-

in order to vited the Syrian Premier, Mardam Japanese

idents had been Bey, to visit Ankara on his return avoid further

the Boviets ne an from Paris, it is cted in official Interpreted Damascus

Merdam

accepted the

nclared, has the Syrian

opposition who were

rther imprisoned have been released.

rang-Ocean,

report states that the members of

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