1938-10-11 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 11, 1938.

CHINESE RESISTANCE WILL LAST MUCH LONGER

JAPANESE AS USUAL TOO OPTIMISTIC

Hankow, To-day,

In spite of confident Japanese expectations that their troops will be in Hankow by November 3, foreign military observers believe that Chinese resistance will last much longer.

BRITIONS LEAVE FOR PRAGUE

BRITAIN'S

SHANGHAI LOSSES

London, To-day.

The Lord Mayor of London and British Legion officials proceeded to Czecho-Slovakia yesterday. They travelled from Croydon by air and changed to another ma- chine at Brussels.

The Lord Mayor is going to Prague in connexion with relief work, while the Legion officials are making arrangements for po-

ter.

Although the Japanese advance shows no signs of licing the plebiscite areas-Reu

slackening over a wide front, the magnificent Chinese victory in the Tehan sector will, it is felt, soon bear results.

The entire population of the Wuhan cities went mad with joy yesterday over the Chinese victory, described as the greatest since Taierchwang.

The news spread like wildfire was demolished by Japanese hom- and fire-crackers were set off in the bings. streets both to celebrate the victory It is also denied that the Japanese as weil

QUIET DOUBLE TENTH IN SHANGHAI

:

SHANGHAI, TO-DAY. BRITISH ECONOMIC «LOSSES · IN SHANGHAI SINCE THE OUT- BREAK OF THE SINO-JA- PANESE CONFLICT AS DIS

A TINCT FROM THOSE OF PURELY MATERIAL CHARAC- TER HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED BY THE BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN SHANGHAI TO AGGREGATE BETWEEN FIVE AND 6-1/2 MILLION POUNDS STERLING.

British investments, before the outbreak of the conflict, aggregat- ed 180 million pounds sterling.

Shanghai's share in Chinese for- eign trade has declined as follows: From January to May 1987, 61 Hankow, To-day.

per cent. of imports into China pass- Nothing untoward happened in ed through Shanghai, while 52 per Settlement and cent, of exports from China passed the French Concession amidst the out by that port. celebration of the Double Tenth,

the International the Double Tenth occupied Yunghsin, stating "The a8 Festival, China's Independence Day. Japanese not only did not capture Throughout the day newspaper | Yunghsin but they were not even offices, news agencies and military anywhere near the town."-Reuter.

organ received continuous telephone calls asking for either confirmation or further details of the victory. The National Military Council issued several communiques to give out more information.

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LINDBERGHS IN BERLIN

From January to May 1988, how- China's Independence Day, yester-ever, Shanghai's share of imports

to day, according

Shanghai was only 23 per cent, and of ex- Hankow, To-day.

ports only 29 per cent. message.

Ports of South China were the Further details regarding the

of Handbills of a patriotic nature chief beneficiaries of these changes. Chinese sweeping victory west

-Trans-Ocean. com-were distributed and posters put Tehan were contained in munique issued late last night by up by Chinese in the International Settlement, but no disturbance was MYTH BROKEN

the National Military Council. Chinese observers considered the According to the communique, created.

Machine-gun and rifle fire was victory as a good omen on the occa-the Japanese main force sion of the anniversary of the birth engaged the Chinese there com-heard from Nantao on the night of of the Chinese Republic. Not a prised two regiments of the 106th Oct. 9 and early yesterday morn- few believed that it marked a turn-Division and the 101st Division. ing. The cause of the firing was ing point in the current war situa- They attempted to break through unknown. tion. It was pointed out that the the Chinese line at Wangchialing, morale of the Chinese troops would Changling and Changkushan, lying have been greatly heightened by to the west of Tehan, and envelop this signal success and more stiff Tehan.

A report received from Paris resistance would be put up against The Japanese offensive was laun-has reported that at about 2.80

that Col. Lindbergh has the Japanese drive on the Wuhan ched on October 4. On October 6 p.m. yesterday, while he was walk-states

the Japanese succeeded in breaking ing along Des Vouex Road Central already left Le Bourget for Berlin With the myth of the invincibility through the Chinese positions at near Morrison Street, an unknown but a subsequent message indicates stole that the Lindberghs postponed their of the Japanese Army once more Wangchialing and Changkushan, person approached him and broken the Chinese forces are ex and the Chinese retired a little $160 in Chinese currency, and $80 departure for one day. pected to fight with greater con- distance back. fidence than ever before, News.

area.

Central

FURTHER SUCCESSES

station retreated towards the north-

CORDON TIGHTENED The Chinese started a counter-

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Central News.

Berlin, To-day. Colonel Charles Lindbergh and his wife are expected to arrive here to-day when Col. Lindbergh will attend the Lilienthal Congress on

A Chinese named Liu Ting-fong, Aeronautical Science.

in Hong Kong, money,

Ocean.

Duff-Cooper To

Spill The Beans?

Trans-

LONDON, TO-DAY.

Hankow, To-day. attack on October 7. Changkushan, The Peiping-Hankow Railway to Changling and the hills in the the south of Sinyang has now been neighbourhood changed hands se- cleared of Japanese troops, declar-veral times on October 7 and 8. ed the Chinese military spokesman On the morning of October yesterday afternoon at the press the Chinese right and left wings

MR. DUFF COOPER, WHO TEN DAYS AGO RESIGNED THE conference.

succeeded in surrounding the He added that the Japanese. troops which had occupied Liuling panese, and gradually tightened the PORTFOLIO OF FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY IN THE cordon around them. The sanguin- CHAMBERLAIN CABINET BECAUSE OF DISAGREEMENT east following repeated Chinese ary battle lasted until early yester- WITH THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT, HAS day morning when, the Japanese SIGNED A CONTRACT WITH LONDON'S LEADING EVENING One body of Japanese troops were practically totally annihilated. PAPER THE "EVENING STANDARD," UNDERTAKING TO is said to have crossed the rail-Only about 200 men slipped through FURNISH REGULARLY FOR PUBLICATION, ARTICLES ON

FOREIGN POLITICAL QUESTIONS. way and is at present surround the Chinese cordon and fled

The "Evening Standard" announ~| It is asserted in newspaper cir- ed at Laoliushan, west of the northerly direction.

actually ces that to-night, Mr: Duff Cooper cles that the remuneration that Railway. The spokesman also declared strewn with Japanese dead and under the title "Who Wants War?" Mr. Duff Cooper is to receive for that since the railway tracks have wounded, and arms and ammuni- will publish an answer to the Fue- his collaboration with the "Even- been badly damaged in the vicinity tion abandoned. Central. News.

assaults.

of Liuling, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, northbound trains could not yet reach Sinyang but the through service is expected to re- sume shortly, after repairs have been completed. Reuter.

KICHUN DENIAL

Hankow, To-day. Japanese claim to occupation of Kichun, on the north bank of the Yangtse, was categorically denied by Genéralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters yesterday.......

The battlefield was

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hrer's Saarbruecken speech. Mr. ing Standard" amounts to £4,000 Duff Cooper's articles are awaited per year

by the general public with the keen As a member of the House of ent interest, firstly because it is ex- Commons, Mr. Duff Cooper draws

ther particulars of European in- Trans-Ocean.. |ternational occurrences of the last The Royal Observatory reports four weeks and secondly because that feeble anticyclonic areas are of what Mr. Duff Cooper has hither- situated over North China and to to written. the east of the Bonins.

WEATHER FORECAST pected that they will reveal furan emolument of £800 yearly.

is

of

The depression or typhoon situated about 350 miles east North Luzon, moving northwest.

inds, ́ ́ mo- The denial states that fighting is Local forecast E. still going on in the town which, derate; fair generally;

A fine of $5 was imposed by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen this morn- ' £4,000 A YEAR.

ing at the Kowloon Magistracy on Two of his beat known works Mr. A. G. James, of 8, Aimal Villas, are his book on Earl Haig, British Austin Avenue, when summoned for Commander-in-Chief in the World failing to show front lights whilst Road $7.15 War and his studies on Napoleon's driving in Nathan '1 Foreign Minister,

mon September

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