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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1938.

CORPSES STREWN IN NO-MAN'S-LAND

Regular Trench Warfare On Manchurian Border

FULL RED ARMY DIVISION

NOW ENGAGED

(From Reuter's Special Correspondent)

Yuki, To-day.

Severe fighting with very heavy losses on both sides, is occurring without interruption, on the Soviet-Manchurian border.

Only a few hundred yards separates the opposing forces, but between them stretches a veritable no-man's-land, with corpses strewn here and there, abandoned machine-guns half-buried in the sand and a couple of tanks standing wrecked and derelict.

SOVIET AIR RAIDERS RANGE OVER WIDE TERRITORY

Tokyo. To-day.

The communique issued by the Japanese War Ministry regarding activities in the Changkufeng dis- trict states the Soviet bombers

The Soviet now have one full division, of troops consisting of twenty thousand men and 200 tanks, and at least 100 planes concentrated in the trouble area, according to generally accepted estimates here.

The Japanese forces are not so large as the Soviets, but never- theless they are considerable.

The incident has now de- veloped into a series of regular battles on a minor scale along a front about four miles in length, both sides being dug in behind fortifica- · tions.

WOUNDED SOLDIERS

Occasionally in the midst of visitations over the territory were surrounding quiet, a wounded the largest military demonstration soldier in the no-man's-land may since the beginning of the be seen trying to drag himself

back to his own lines. hostilities.

It is impossible to check the One hundred planes bombed the casualties and material wreck- Japanese positions in the Changku-age as the ground is very broken feng region as well as the Railway and no thoroughly accurate esti-

To

50 YEAR OLD "FLYING, SCOTSMAN” ~ RUNS AGAIN. celebrate the Jubilee of the famous railway race to Edinburgh' In 1888, and also the introduction of new rolling stock for the "Flying Scots- man" the L.N.E.R. recently ran the famous original "Flying Scots- man" of 1888 hauled by the equally famous locomotive "The Stirl ing" single driving wheel express No. 1: No. 1 was taken out of York museum specially and the original coaches have been, collected from 'all parts of the country. The famous old train left Kings Cross this afternoon on a run northwards and at Stevenage the passen- gers were transferred to the new 1938 "Flying Scotsman" thus ex-. periencing in a single afternoon 50 years of railway history. Photo shows The famous old locomotive hauling the "Flying Scotsman" from King's Cross.

station and the military depot on

on mate can be made. However, the TYPHOON EAST

the south bank of the Tumen River. Japanese claim that attacks by All attempts by Soviet troops to the Soviets of the Japanese posi- force the Japanese out of their tions have been abortive, the positions, southeast of Changkufeng enemy being thrown back to their were repulsed, according to the Ja-original positions "with heavy panese communique, after a fierce losses."

hand-to-hand fighting.

No prisoners have been taken A new Soviet attack was launch-by either side since the beginning ed but without success.

Reuter. A great of the incident. number of soldiers were killed and several tanks destroyed.

A Soviet air squadron bombed the camps and other military objectives behind the Japanese lines yesterday morning.--Trans-Ocean.

WORST EVER

Yuki, To-day.

The Soviet air-raids are de scribed as being the worst since the beginning of the in- cident.

The Japanese authorities de- clare the Soviet planes were not

NEW FRONTIER VIOLATION

Tokyo, To-day.

NAHA

OF

HEROIN PILLS

Li Loong, aged 40,, was this morning sentenced to five months'

The Royal Observatory reports hard labour when he pleaded guil- the pressure is highest over Man-ty to possession of 110 heroin pills churia, and is relatively low, over in Wongneicheong Road.. South China. The typhoon is pro- Defendant had two previous con- bably situated to the East of Naha.victions and will now be automati-'

Forecast: S. and S. E. winds,cally banished. moderate; fair to showery.

The rainfall for the 24-hour per- A frontier violation by Soviet iod ending at 10 a.m. to-day amount- soldiers near Suifenho on the bored to 0.69 inches, which brings der between the Soviet Union and the total since January 1, up to Manchukuo is alleged by the 40.95 inches. Japanese Kwantung Army Head- quarters, it being declared that 12

Soviet soldiers crossed the frontier.

K.C.R. TRAGEDY

the

Ho Yuet, an employee- Kowloon-Canton Ralway, was killed on Saturday when he was knocked down by a train in Taipo

Miss Lily Cheng residing at No.

and began to dig trenches there. Lee Ying, aged 7, knocked down In the ensuing clash with by a public car in Lockhart Road Manchu troops, two Russians were yesterday, was admitted to the 43A Conduit Road bas reported that killed and one taken prison

prisoner. Queen Mary Hospital suffering from she lost a handbag ontaining $55

înjuries to the face.

The Japanese communique em- phasises the fact that the territory which the Soviet soldiers attempt- content with attacking the Ja-ed to occupy was undeniably Man- panese troops, but were flying churian, even according to the

ma-

well into Korean territory and proceeding to bomb and chine-gun numbers of "defence- less villages,"

Both the Japanese military authorities and the troops on the front lines are confident of beating off the attacks of the Soviets:...

If given an order to advance

Hunchun Treaty.-Trans-Ocean.

they will quickly "annihilate the enemy."

So far, however, the only or-

hold ders have been to

the trenches built along the line the Japanese claim is the lawful frontier.-Reuter,

Cam

BRAND

from a tent in Shek O yesterday:

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