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SANGUINARY FIGHTING OF AN IN- TENSITY UNPRECEDENTED SINCE THE JAPANESE OFFENSIVE IN NORTH HUNAN BEGAN, RAGED ALL DAY YESTERDAY ON THE CHINESE FLANK NORTH-EAST OF |CHANGSHA AS LARGE CHINESE REINFORCE- 'MENTS LAUNCHED A SERIES OF HEAVY COUNTER-ATTACKS, · RESULTING IN CON- SIDERABLE CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES. Į

The greatest threat to Changsha is the Japanese column driving down the highway, where the scene of the bitterest battles has shifted to Kaochiaó · (Tall Bridge), 45 kilo- metres north-west of Changsha after the Japanese captured Chinching (Golden Well), 100 kilometres north of Kaochiao, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning.

Throughout-the-day while the tide of battle to the north-east and north was at its height, squa- drons of Japanese bombers in re- lays subjected Changsha to terri- fle bombardments.

kow Railway:— Chinese forces fought the landings stubbornly, Inflicting losses on the Japanesę. While 'a Japanese gunboat was damaged and sunk by Chinese Morale of the Chinese forces at shore batteries, over ten othera the semi-circular front extending kept up the shelling at Hsikiang-

the Pingkiang-Changshan kow to the west of Lulintan. highway to the Canton-Hankow

Fighting also continued on the Railway has

never been

better north bank of the Milo River as despite reverses both along the Chinese detachments attacked the highway and the railway lines.

from

gun-

Meanwhile, Japaneso boats in the Tungting Lake con- tinued to land troops at, Ying- tien, 20 kilometres north of Helangyin at 'the Halang, River | to the west of the Canton-Han-

MERCHANTS

WANT TO MOVE TO INTERIOR

Information emanating from Chinese banking cir- cles in Shanghai is to the effect that the four, Chinese government banks have just set aside $60,000,000 more for help- ing Chinese business men and manufacturers to re- establish their businesses in the interior free

China, says the ching

TAYLOR GARSON AYRES Sheng News Agency.

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To facilitate the new credit ser- vice, the banks · have established branch offices in all key districts. of the country and their lead has been--followed by commercial institutions, it is said. "Chinese |business leaders and bankers in Shanghai are said to be very keen about moving their business to the Chungking-controlled interior In view of the difficult situation confronting them here,

Branch Offices Established

They have also established branch offices in the interior pre- paratory to ・ evacuation ... fram Shanghai, Chinese business men and manufacturers in Shanghai- are said to have been hard hit by the changed situation in the city, especially since the outbreak of the European war which hos rên« dered it difficult to send ships t

to Shanghai.

kl. Owing to difficulties In com- "munication "within their country 'they have found "It almost im- -posalbia to push tho' salo of their gooda. In the homo: market', and their alternativó 7 is to "mako goods in frea, China ang. to or- port them to foroian? countrios, It is explained.

The Increased prices of coal and electricity has also prompted them to change their ....business," "policy, while the delayed arrival of limit-- ed' quantities of raw material, hos forced them to curtail their pro- gramino of production,

rear of the Japanese columns, try- ing to cut off contact between the Japanese on the north and south banks of the waterway.

Railway Tracks. Torn Up

MATTERHORN RECORD

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The ascent of the 460-feet "overhang" beneath the Fuggen kamm took seven. hours.-Reuter.

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OFFICERS NOT "OLD BLIMPS"

"The Secretary for War attaches the greatest importance to the Home Guard and will do every- thing to make it not only efficient but contented," said the Financial Secretary to the War Office.

"A feeling spread abroad in some quarters that senior officers- are a lot of old blimps is. not shar ed by the War Office," he declared The lesson of Crete had been thoroughly learn, he said, and it was not possible to overestimate -In an effort to prevent speedy the support the Home Guard could transportation of Japanese rein= | give the Amy In the event of air- forcements for the drive on Chang- borne invasion of this country, sha, Chinese 'troops In Hunan, assisted by guerillas, have

V torn up the tracks in the 55-Ko- metre "stretch of the Canton-Han- kow Railway between Yangloutse and-Yochow.

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Meanwhile, Chinese north Hunan confirm that the For distinguished service in Japanese have suffered heavy designing aeroplanes commissioned casualties during the last week of by the Red Army Air Force" the fighting, over 100 trucks, fully Presidium of the Supreme Soviet loaded with wounded troops, hav- of USSR has awarded Orders and ing been seen speeding northward Medals of USSR to 13 designers along the highway to Yangloutse. and workers of the special techni-

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