Two probable diving champions of the future can often be found at practice at the Kingfisher Pool, Woddford, Essex. They are little Maureen Dodds, aged nine and Rex Hayden, aged eight. Cyril Lax- ton, the famous swimming coach, predicts that they will both be champions one day. They are his pupils. A perfect double. An unusual picture of a double dive, the divers being. Maureen Dodda and Rex Hayden. (Copyright).
One of the small tanks taking part in Mobile Division training in Stockbridge, Hants, broke a driving track and turned completely on the main London-
over into a ditch in North Street, Panthe
Southampton road. The breakdown lorry arrives to take the tank away. (Copyright).
Bringing Up Father
HERE'S ANOTHER LETTER FROM MY BROTHER-HE'LL ARRIVE TODAY INSTEAD OF TOMORROW BLESS HIS HEART-HE'S JUST A DEAR-
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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOB!
Chinese Successes In Tehan Area
Hankow, To-day.
Fighting is continuing at Liuling station, on the
Peiping-Hankow Railway south of Sinyang.
A Japanese cavalry detachment is holding the sta- tion against Chinese counter-attacks, it is re- ported here.
Japanese forces are attacking the Chinese positions south-east of Hsintien and north-east of Macheng.
On the southern Yangtse front, Chinese troops have recaptured Wanchiashan, north-west of Te- han, according to a Chinese military communique.
Chinese LONDON KEEPS BLUECHER
Japanese troops who crossed the Fu River south-west of Yanghsin launched a vigorous
attack last night upon the Chin- STORY ALIVE
ese positions on the north bank, of the river guarding Yanghsin.
LANDING REPULSED
London, To-day: The "mystery" of Marshal It is claimed that the Chinese Bluecher, commander of the Red on the south bank of the Yangtse Far Eastern Army, continues in repulsed a landing attempt by the British press to make an out- Japanese bluejackets at Wei- standing claim on public interest. yuankou. The naval landing Papers like the "Evening party was carried up from Tien-Standard" publish reports from chiacheng by a transport under their own correspondents to the the escort of six warships.
effect that Marshal Bluecher "is In an engagement between still alive" but is being kept pri- Chinese shore batteries and Jap-soner in Sverdlovak.
LIULIN OCCUPATION
anese warships, three Japanese Reason for this and other new warships, it is claimed, were arrests in the Soviet is said to damaged, and two motorboats be the struggle now going on for sunk by artillery fire. Reuter. possession of supreme power.
It is alleged that after having Hankow To-day. himself co-operated in obtaining Official messages received here the condemnation of Marshal last night confirm that Japanese Tuchatchevsky, Marshal Bluecher troops have occupied Liulin, a became involved in a plot to over- town south of Sinyang on the throw Stalin and Voroshiloff.
Trans-Ocean. Peiping-Hankow Line.
Chinese troops are now concen- trating at Cock's Hill where they will attempt to drive the Japanese away from the railway track. Our Own Correspondent."
OUTFLANKING
Hankow, To-day
Reports from Nanchang state
FREE CORPS DISBANDED
Reichenberg, To-day. Reichs-Commissar Henlein, AB leader of the Sudeten German Free Corps, issued the following
that the Japanese forces operating mand last night: between Juichang and Wuning are!
com-
"I dissolve the Sudeten German
now moving south-eastwards, per- Free Corps as from to-day. I en- Hermann sumably to outflank the Chinese trust my deputy, Karl forces at Tehan, gateway to Nan-Frank, with the execution of this command and with the dismissal of chang.
Fierce fighting is reported in members of the free corps to their that area Our Own Correspon homes."-Trans-Ocean.
dent.
houses.
KOTIEN RAID ·
Hankow, To-day. Previous to the raid, the five Five Japanese planes raided the enemy planes, together with three small town of Kotien, forty kilome-others, made an extensive recon- tres east of Hankow in the south naissance over a wide area in the did not bank of the Yangtze, at three o'clock vicinity of Hankow, but yesterday afternoon. Several mis- approach the city limit.-Central siles destroyed a number of civilian News.
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