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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

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JAPANESE SUFFER TREMENDOUS LOSSES

Manager,

According To Soviet Version Of Border Battle

GUERILLAS

SWARM ROUND SHANGHAI

Shanghai, To-day. Guerilla activities of Chinese irregulars in the neighbourhood of Shanghai are causing the Japanese grave concern and have necessitat- ed the rushing of several Japanese regiments to the district.

Clashes have taken place prin-

cipally near Chapei and Kashing on the Hangchow-Shanghai Rail- way line where, according to Jap- anese reports, the Chinese were compelled to retreat with severe losses.

A Japanese announcement issued last evening states that the Chinese have formed a com- plete regiment near Fenkiao which is 70 kilometres southwest of Shanghai and in an encounter yesterday the Japanese lost 20 men. Another clash between the Chinese irregular and the Japan- ese troops occurred yesterday to the south of Shanghai.

Chinese reports arriving here indicate that the guerilla bands are very active near Quinsan and Wusih on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, the Chinese forces in this district numbering several thousand. Trans-Ocean..

Continuation Of

Hostilities Feared Inevitable

Moscow, To-day.

BRITON KILLED

BY JAP. BOMBS ON YANGTSE

Hankow, To-day.

A Briton Captain. J. G. C.

The Chinese Second Engineer

"Tremendous losses" are claimed to have been in- Crawley, of Dublin, in command of flicted upon the Japanese during all day fight- the Chinese Customs Cruiser, ing at Changkufeng yesterday, according to "Chiangsing," was killed at 4.30 the Tass Agency, which says that the Japanese p.m.. yesterday when six Japanese offensive was resumed at dawn yesterday. seaplanes bombed the vessel at a When the Japanese were crossing into Soviet terri-point 36 miles below Hankow,

tory they were subjected to artillery fire and air bombing from the Soviet side. Tremendous indignation” at the "provocative ac- tions" " of the Japanese militarists on the Far Eastern front was expressed at crowded meet- ings in the big cities of Soviet Russia, accord- ing to the Tass Agency.

by

At one meeting the workers, tarists have been encouraged in requested the Soviet Government their provocational actions to rebuff very vigorously the certain Japanese diplomats. Japanese militarists.

Under the conditions, con- Speakers at a meeting of the

of the hostilities Textile Workers declared that the tinuation Soviet Youth were ready for the fraught with extremely serious! enemy who intends to encroach consequences, is regarded as in-

Reuter. upon the peaceful working peo- evitable. ples of Russia.

"The reports of the flights of Soviet bombers over Manchurian and Korean territories, circulated by. the Japanese telegraph agencies and newspapers, are emphatically refuted by compet ent Soviet circles," says the Tass News Agency.

VIOLATIONS DENIED

It is pointed out that since the beginning of the conflict, the So- viet Government has declared that it intends only to defend the territory belonging to the So- viet, and that by strictly

KOREA BOMBING

BOMBING these instructions, both

CHARGE

Tokyo, To-day.

4.

A new Soviet air attack on a Korean town is reported last evening by Korean Army, Head- quarters, according to which a planes squadron of Russian crossed the frontier last evening at six near Changkufeng and bombed the Korean town Kojo 6 kilometres

Changkufeng

has not yet

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of

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and air forces remain exc within the limits of the territory.

It is supposed that the above reports have been cir- culated deliberately by in- terested Japanese militarists in order to justify their re- peated attacks on Sovlet ter. ritory, and the tremendous losses which they have had to bear.

FURTHER FIGHTING

INEVITABLE

The assumptión is also ex- pressed that the Japanese milf

and a boat-boy were both killed

and the cruiser was gutted by fire..

The survivors are returning to Hankow by junk.

Owing to the fact that Captain Crawley is a British subject, the Royal Navy despatched H.M.S. Gnat to the scene at 5.30 a.m., this morning to bring back the body, which is expected to arrive in Hankow shortly.

It is pointed out that the "Chiangsing" was not engaged in removing beacons, but was carry- ing out normal duties.

Mrs. Crawley, an expectant mother, is at present in Hankow.

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