Communist All-Out Offensive In North
CHUNGKING, APRIL 11. CHINESE COMMUNIST FORCES HAVE STARTED AN ALL- OUT OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE PEIPING-MUKDEN RAILWAY IN AN EFFORT TO HAMPER THE OCCU- PATION OF MANCHURIA BY THE CHINESE NA- TIONAL FORCES, IT WAS. OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC- ED TONIGHT.
THOUSANDS OF COMMUNIST SOLDIERS. ARE ATTACK-
ING SICHONG, 37 MILES NORTH-EAST OF SHAN
BETWEEN PEIPING AND HAIKWAN, MIDWAY MUKDEN, WHERE THE RAILWAY RUNS ALONG. THE COAST OF THE GULF OF LIAO TUNG, THE AN- NOUNCEMENT SAID. FANGTAI CHINA'S MOST RAILWAY JUNCTION JUST NORTH OF PEIPING, WAS ALSO BEING ATTACKED. The Peiping-Mukden Railway
Tanshan, Haiyang and a num.
rans southeast from Peiping to ber of other cities between Tien- Tientsin, where it turns sharp sin northeast for the 360-mile run aleo to Mukden, the churia capital.
and Shanhaikwan are being attacked in the an- Ancient Man- Communist offensive; the
nouncement added.
Dakotas' Fine Job
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1940,
MARSHALL ZHUKOV
REPLACED
Berlin, Apr. 11.
The appointment of "General,
MILITARY COURT DRAMA
(Continued From Page 1) ese, including four: women, to Stanley. We were sent there in a lorry belonging to Messrs. Lane, Crawford.
In
da ghter replied 'that one of dias and others. He denied hay- the men was surnamed Szeto and ing threatened F. X. d'Almada Remedios with a revolver when the other Fana and that Fan the latter had asked permission to wa: about 21 or 22. After the daughter Ind given him this in- go upstairs to fetch his cont.
the party were Yoshimoto and an
boen ordered to drive them to Ho Mun Tin, Worg claimed.
Proceedings will continue morning at 10 am.
announced at today's he was released in July, 1948, formation, the mother asked him Indian called Yusuf Shah. Ho had
Control
Vassili Sokolovsky as the Soviet member of tho Allied. Control Council, replacing Matshal Zhu- kov, was
the Allied meeting of Council.
General Sokolovsky ako inform ed the Council that he had been appointed Commander-in-chief of the Soviet occupation forces in Germany::
The Allied Council has sent an
to appreciative letter Marshal Zhukov, also, congratulating hity Deputy Minister of the Soviet armed for
on his
ces.--Reuter.
Resolution
On Pakistan
New Delhi, Apr. 11. A resolution demanding, Pakistan, separation of Moslem and. Hindus, and the setting up of
In Manchuria itself three Communist divisions are report- ed to be massed at Szepingkai, 100 miles northeast of Mukden.
two constituent assemblies Other Communist units are re ported to have captured Siakiu- was passed in the early morn- tai, 26 miles northeast of Chang- ing hours yesterday by the chun. More than 16,000 Com Moslem Lengue Legislators'J after an attack on a patrol near
al- Convention. munists, it is added, have Palembang (Sumatra), have been found mutilated, the Al-ready entered the vital Central railway junction
Batavia, April, 11.
of two abldiers, reported on April 1 as missing
The bodies
Manchurian
ted Miltary Headquarters in of Harbin, Batavia announced today.
ncar
Bridges Blown
Wong proceeded to relate that
made to sign a when he was document to be ready to work for two Japanese in connection with the Special Branch, During his detention, be claimed, he was subject to the usual interroga
about her husband.
He related to them what had happened and the mother then told him that the two men who had extorted
money from, her had, told her that Lau Pak-wai wna very badly treated the night tion and torture.
he was arrested. He then told He was arrested on June 4 or her of the condition he had seen 5 when he
was taken to the hor husband in that night and Kowloon Gendarmerie. There he had said that from his appear was asked about Jackie Lau and ance it seemed that this must admitted knowing him. A few have been so. She then asked days later he чуда taken to him if it would be ponsible for Nathan Road and the Dor Jai her to send her husband any Kee Cafe to search for Jackie thing. Being in no position to Lau, being accompanied by two tell her if she could, he attempt. Chinese detectives, Hung Fated to comfort her by saying that and Lam Tak-hei, and by Mort- her husband bad sufficient food yama. He was then taken to the
and clothing. Supreme Court where he occu- pled Cell No. and later to Stanley where he was put in Ceil No, 27 in G Block, next to the prison hospital,
Australian Invasion
In July, after he was released, he again visited her as he want ed to tell her that the matter concerning her son was closed. When he was about to be rolcas- ed, he had asked Kwan if Lau Pak-wal was also to be released and Kwan had replied that ▲
time.
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