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The latest Chinese military despatches state that the situation has improved considerably in the Yangtse area during the past twenty-four hours.

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Japanese troops attempting to encircle Huang- chuan are said to have their centre at Sang- pengsze, their left wing at Kuchen and their right wing at Kaotien.

The Chinese command has decid- ed to shift its forces from one sector to another for the purpose of engaging the Japanese columns one at a time.

Japanese columns, says a Chinese military communique, are striking towards the Lushan mountain range, on which is situated Kuling, the summer resort where many foreign- ers are marooned by the hostilities.

The Japanese forces on Singtze-Tehan road continued their westward push this morning, while another column is moving north- ward towards Kuling,

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Mahweiling from the south, north-pondent of the "Deutsche Allge- east and east, it is claimed.

meine Zeitung," warns his readers Chinese troops south-west of not to doubt the readiness of the

Juichang, it is also stated, last

night launched an offensive, cap- British nation to take up arms in an turing severals hills, but the Ja-emergency. d panese under cover of an aerial

and artillery bombardment this Behind the peace-time Britain, morning, are said to have staged a with her essentially Liberal econo- counter-attack and to have driven out the Chinese again.-Reuter.

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mic system, stands - anchoríta- rian shadow Britain which can become a living organism over- night," says the writer. "This shadow Britain, of which there was An allegation that a wife had not the faintest trace in 1914, will "invented" a baby was made at give Britain an as yet unparalleled an Ealing matrimonial court re-fighting power in a future war. cently.

"Britain is faced by difficult Thomas Linacre, of Lonsdale-strategic problems, but her military road, Barnes, was summoned by strength to-day is incomparably his wife, Agnes Linacre, of greater than in 1914. In the next |Grange Park, Ealing, for neglect-three years there will be further ing to provide reasonable main-enormous increases in this strength, tenance. Her case was that her and this for the present, without husband recently stopped paying essential interference with Britain's £1 5s a week to her under a ver-peace-time economic system. bal agreement.

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For the husband it was alleged that Mrs. Linacre had told him that she had a baby, and that she Describing the shadow factory later confessed that she invented method of aeroplane production, the story in an attempt to bring Count Pueckler states that Britain him back to her. She also ad- is now able to produce 270 Grst- mitted writing a letter to her line aircraft per month. By 1940, mother-in-law, in which she des- he adds, Britain will be able to pro- cribed the baby, was

duce 700 a month, and in case of Because he thought his wife war she could manufacture 25,000 really had a child Linacre had first-line machines per year. increased his payments to SI 108,

a week, but when he found out In considering the reduction in that the baby did not exist he Britain's naval strength since 1914 | discontinued them.

Count Pueckler remarks that the The summons was dismissed. other naval Powers have reduced their respective strengths, even further.

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