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YANGTSE POSITION OBSCURE Heavy Fighting Proceeding Round Kwangchi

Official Reports Lacking

Hankow, To-day.

The positions of the Chinese and the Japanese forces, north of the Yangtse, remains obscure owing to the lack of official messages from the front.

It is, however, learned semi-officially that furious fighting is continuing around Kwangtsi. The Japanese launched cavalry attacks south of Kwangtsi, but were routed by the Chinese.

The main Chinese army in the while Chinese detachments are also Kwangtsi area are still holding their holding Shuanchenyi, on the high- original positions.

way between Kwongtsi and

According to messages from the Huangmei. Tehan region, there appears to be The Japanese, at Huangmei, are a lull south of the Yangtse, the Ja-reported to be desperately fighting panese waiting for reinforcements their way to the west in an before driving southwards to Nan-attempt to relieve a Japanese chang. Our Own Correspondent.

column which is surrounded near Kwangtsi-Reuter.

TEHAN RETIREMENT

Hankow, To-day. Chinese despatches admit that the Chinese were yesterday 'forced to abandon the strategic hill to the north-eastward of Tehan, owing to severe aerial and artillery bom- bardment.

The Chinese are said to have withdrawn to new positions south. westward of Fukingshan.

A Japanese detachment which advanced. Westward from Hushib along the highway towards Huang- chuan (Kwangchow) is reported to have been engaged by the Chin-

ese.

KWANGTSI BATTLE

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JAPS. CLAIM SUCCESS

Tokyo, To-day.

For the first time in eight days the Japanese newspapers report a claim that on the southern bank of success for Japanese troops. They

advanced into Hupeh. the Yangtse, troops from Kiangsi

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The Cookhouse Call for campers on the sand du cawl, the popular South Wales holiday centre.

CHARITY FRAUD GIRL DEALT WITH

Charged with obtaining money

The Japanese had been held up by false pretences, purporting to be ten days by the stubborn resistance collecting for charity on behalf of of the Chinese. At the same time the Fruit and Vegetable's Guild, the Japanese newspapers report Kowloon Branch, Yip Man, 39, and fad that the Japanese troops on the Lam Hon-sang, 25, were fined $30 north have advanced and after a or six weeks' imprisonment by Mr. Although the Kwangtsi battle is several days' air attack, occupied K M. A. Barnett at Kowloon to absen still raging, the crucial stage in the north alopes of the Tapieh day. the present engagement was con- Mountain chain. This had been cluded when the Japanese forces. one of the strongest bulwarks of

"turned back on September 8,”

That day, it is stated, the Japan- ese troops pushed beyond Kwang- tsi and reached Chailing, but here

the Chinese forces.-Trans-Ocean.

the Shantung and Kwangsi defend- LEAGUE SANCTIONS

JUNKS BURNED

More than

LENIENTLY

during the

morning

the money from

a suitcase. Later the money wa

found at her address.

The girl was fined $10 or

month's hard labouri

Mrs. F.- A. Smith,

residing at

Foochow, To-day.

room No. 701, Gloucester Hotel, has Chinese junks off reported the loss of a wrist watch,

30:

AGAINST JAPAN the Fallen coast have been pillaged valued at $135.

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and burned by Japanese marines in the past few days.

The crews were killed and their

the sea.

ers, realising that once they could cross Chailing, the Japanese would be able to use mechanised units for a push to the West along the highway via Kishui and the north

Chungking, To-day. bank of the Yangtze, towards Han-

It is high time the League -- of ] kow, drove back the Japanese after Nations took positive action against corfises thrown into a day-long and bitter battle..

Concerning the fate of Kwangtsi, peace and order, declared Mr. Tsou

Japan in order to preserve world Central News. Chinese sources. declare it a city of Lu, member of the Kuomintang the dead, belonging neither to the Japanese nor the Chinese.

Central Executive Committee, OCCASIONAL RAIN

Kwangtsi, contrary to press re-speaking at the weekly memorial ports, is said to have no city wall service at the National Government

Headquarters yesterday.

and it is now a mass of ruins as a result of Japanese bombing from the air and artillery fire.

The opposing forces are stated to be facing each other in the hills around. Kwangtsi.

VILLAGES DESTROYED

The Royal Observatory reports.

China If the League applies sanctions that the anticyclone over with determination and courage, it continues to increase in intensity: pressure remains relatively low in recover. its lost pre- will not only

the trough extending from... Ind stige, but also win renewed world-

China to the Carolines. For wide support, said Mr. Tsou.

N. EX winds,

cloudy The present world anarchy, in

casional ra probably im his opinion, arose“ om the failure

League

аралеве the past. Central

Since all the villages in the aggr

News vicinity of the battlefield have been destroyed by the bombing of the Chinese troops, the front line finds food very scarce and many are subsisting on melons.

sony krog A. Chinese military spokesman reclaimed that about 2,000 Japanese are at present surrounded in the me sad vicinity of Kwan gtsi. The Chinese,

he said, are holdin aw the hills to the

dat

the Westward of

Kwangtsf

LINES CUT

Hankow, To-day.

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Lau Chi, aged 85, a rope maker, and Hui Fan, aged 29, tailor, were between Hsu- admitted to the Kowloon Hospital sores on head, foot or hody, in fact al allments. generally, She-Ko is likew ng on the Lunghal yesterday suffering from stab of the greatest efficacy, Obtainable

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News.

Lau Chi is In a serious condition.