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FURIOUS FIGHTING ON ALL SECTORS

JAPAN NON-MILITARISTS AGAINST CONTINUANCE

OF HOSTILITIES

Important Privy Council Meeting On Oct. 21

MORE COWARDLY JAPANESE

BOMBING

Although the Japanese military authorities are maintaining the strictest censorship of all news regarding the Sino-Japanese crisis in North China and its reaction on the people of Japan-the non-militarists-the latest news received in the Colony indicates that, feeling is very strong in the Land of the Rising Sun against the continuance of the hostilities and it is expected that the climax to this anti-war feeling will be reached when the Privy Counci! tul! meets on October 21, when the non-militarists will demand a report on the situation.

For this reason it is felt the Japanese forces in. Nerth China will shortly be given the command to "ry and finish" off the defen- ders before that date in order that the mad militarists may be able to justify themselves in the eyes of the non-fighting class who not only look upon the expedition as an uncalled for waste of money but also regard it, like the rest of the civilised world. as a hurrible display of barbarism.

more

Dealing with the war itself, ed villages. with the result that non-combatants *nnocent yesterday saw more examples. ef

The Japanese also the

were killed. cowardly and despicable

Fince continued to attack fishing-junks, methods that have long become part and parcel of the it was reported and in this con- reliable source states Japanero Aghting machine- nection a

(Continued on Back Pagei "namely the bombing of undefend-

TRADE AGREEMENT

WITH GERMANY,

Wellington, Oct. 5.

ITALY RATIFIES AGREEMENT Rome, Oct. 5. Italy has ratified the Tri-partite Agreement signed in Paris whereby New Zealand has signed trade | Italy was to partake of a share in and finance agreements with Ger many. The trade agreement will come into force immediately while the financial agreement will begin in January next year.

The agreement provides increase of imparts by Germany of butter, hides and wool while New Zealand will increase her imports of Ger.

the

naval anti-piracy patrol in accordance with the Nyon Pact.-

Reuter's Bulletin Sermer,

man

The manufactured goods. agreement is similar to those signed-

British with other by Germany

Dominions.- Reuter's Bulletin Service.

PITILESS JAPANESE DRIVE MEETS WITH FIERCE CHINESE RESISTANCE

JAPANESE BOMBINGS HEAVIEST

HISTORY OF SHANGHAI WAR

IN

SHANGHAI, OCTOBER 5; FURIOUS FIGHTING CONTINUED ON ALL SECTORS TO-DAY AS THE JAPANESE FORCES RELENTLESSLY CONTINUED THEIR ATTEMPT TO-BLAST A WAY THROUGH THE CHINESE DEFENCES. THE FIGHTING IN THE CHAPEI AREA WAS ESPECIALLY BITTER BUT THE CHINESE ARE HOLDING OUT AGAINST THE PITILESS JAPANESE DRIVE, BOTÚ SIVES ARE

USING RIFLES, MACHINE GUNS, HAND GRENADES AND TRENCH MORTARS WITH THE JAPANESE ALSO EMPLOYING LIGHT TANKS IN THEI3 DRIVE. THE JAPANESE CLAIM TO BE PUSHING TO THE WEST FROM LOTIEN IN THE FACE OF FIERCE CHINESE RE- SISTANCE, AND TO HAVE REACHED A POINT FIVE KILOMETRES FROM KAITING ONE OF THE MAIN POSITIONS IN THE SECOND CHINESE LINES OF DEFENCE NOW GENERÁLLY

KNOWN AS THE "HINDENBURG LINE".

Captain Sawamoto, the first Japanese Army officer to larid at Woosung, was killed in action in this sector. He was a graduate of the Japanese War College and received the highest Japanese milt- tary honour possible, a sword from the Emperor.

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The Chinese admit that they have been forced to retire on the Lotien-Hiubang sector but say that they have been making the Japanese advance as costly as possible.

The Liuho-Lotien highway is still in Chinese hands.

Japanese planes continued to bomb Chinese positions to-day. One of them was seen by foreign observers crashing down in flames west of Tachang.

The Japanese observation balloon which was sent up yesterday. for the first time is believed to have been attached by a cable to a truck and moved in this way,

The Chinese Military authorities in 'Nanking emphatically deny the report that the Japanese have captured Tehchow in Shantung.-Reuter.

Spectacular Chinese Air Raid

U. S. Marines Evacuate Three Outposts For Half An Hour

Shanghai, October 5: A spectacular Chinese air raid brought a climax to the day's heavy fighting. An unknown number of planes appeared shortly after sunset and drew intensive fire from Japan- ese warships off Shanghai and Woosung whose tracer bullets and exploding shells provided a beau- _tiful_pyrotechnic display for wateliers in the foreign area. The severity of the Japanese bombings to-day is shown in a Chinese communique which describes them as the heaviest in the history of the Shanghai war. Planes, rained entire loads on restricted areas and went to fetch fresh cargoes of bombs. The Japanese bombings were so intensive that three outposts held by United States Marines had to be evacuated for half an hour.

The Chinese declare that the bombings failed to dislodge their troops or break their morale and state further That there were heavy casualties on both sides in Chapel where two Japanese tanks were reported to have been disabled," one captured. The Chinese claim to have got the upper hand in the sanguinary fighting in Chapel where the Japanese are reported to have rushed 3,000 troops from the Klangwan area to reinforce the "battered lines held by the marines."-Reuter.

RECOVERY FROM DEPRESSION

London, Oct. 5: The Minister for Labour, Mr. Ernest Brown, stated that. West Cumberland was making good recovery from the re- cent depression.. He added that several schemes are now in hand there whereby the Government ex-

WAR MATERIALS UNLOADED IN SINGAPORE

Singapore, Oct. 5.

Fifty camouflaged lorries

K.C.R. TRAFFIC”

Increase Since Closing Of River

There has been considerable in-

crease of traffic on the Kowloon- Canton Railway since the closing and tanks and four hundred at the river trame to the Chinese tons of ammunition are report-port.

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pect to further reduce unemployed to have been unloaded here!'. Major Walker, General Manager

ment.- Heuter's Bulletin Service.

THE DOLLAR

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TT. ON NEW YORK: 30-11/16 TT. ON LONDON: 15. 2.7/id.

Loodan Silver Marke

(From Our Own Correspondent).

London, October 5. London silver prices to-day were unchanged, as follow:-~

Spot. Forward.

"Dally from a German steamer. The of the Railway, told a car material is understood to traffic was now well balanced.

Press" reporter yesterday that the

I have been criminally consigned conditions on the railway are

ither to Hong Kong or South sormat" China,-

Renter's "Bulletin Service.

R.M.A. DORADO

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