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DENIES PEACE PROPOSALS

Nanking Corrects London Report

Nanking. Nor. 1 The report published in a London newspaper to the effect that Japan had presented atx points to Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek for settlement of the present hostilities emphatically-denied by a spokesman of the Foreign Office

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JAPANESE WARSHIPS AGAIN

SHELL TAINAMSHAN · » Canton, Nov. 1: According to a report received here last night a Japanese warship yesterday shel- led Trinamshan near Chekwan. Four shells are reported to have been fired but there were damages.

Central News.

CORPSES STREWN IN KUINED

"THE DOOMED BATTALION"

Chapei Heroes

Honoured By

Government

Spend Peaceful Night In Settlement Camp

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SYRIA SUFFERS

FLOODS

Huge Tracts Under Water

Thousands Rendereil...

Homeless

Damascus, Oct. 31.

It is estimated that 50,000 have Deen rendered homeless through foods which have devastated the surrounding .countryside.

"Nanking, Nov. 1: The 800 Chinese soldiers and officers of the "doomed battalion," who strictly obeyed the

Alonk the Damascus-Aleppo orders of their superiors to hold

the on to the godown in Chapel and road no houses remain. In

village of Deirastily alone 500 latter to withdraw. have been pro-people are missing, and the village moted according to instructions of of Mouddamiye has been wiped out. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

It is reported also that the Na- tonal Government will be peti notioned to award honour medals to each of the men and officers of the "doomed battalion." M

TOWN OF TAYING Taiyuan, Nov. 1: Taying, a town west of Pingyirikwan Pass, now Hes in rulas and is strewn with stinking corpsesas the Japanse burnt down practically and slaughtered

all the houses

the inhabitants mercilessly upon the retreat recently, according a survivor who arrived here to-day.

The Japanese were forced to evacuate the town after suffering a serious defeat at the hands of the Chinese forces. Central New

FIERCE FIGHTING EXPECTED

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IN NORTH SHANSI

The other "lost battalion" under General Han Hsien-yuan, who was also ordered to hold to his post In Chapel last week, has now been iccated.

Special honours and compen- sation will be given to the soldiers of this battalion who lost their lives or were wounded- Central News.

"COMFORT" FUND Shanghai, Nov, 1: The Chinese Military Headquarters in Shanghai has presented $3,000 to the mem- pers of the "doomed battalion," who withdrew into the Interna- tional Settlement, as a "comfort" fund.

377 ALIVE

The Nanking Wen Yi Society, a Taiyuan. Nov. 1: Fierce fight- literary group. has also presented

out the Chinese heroes with $50. ing expected to break momentarily at Yunghsingtsun Central News. and Chuchlachuang in north Shansi as troops of the Japanese 11th and 19th Divisions have been massed there and are busily mak- ing preparations for a general offensive, a military report states, AS precautionary measure, heavy Chinese reinforcements have beon dispatched to these places, the report asserts.- Dentral Newx.

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JAPANESE ATTEMPT TO BREAK

Shanghai, Nov. 1. The unwounded survivors of the beleaguered battalion spent their first. unharrassed night since the fall of Chapel in an internment camp in the Western district under guard of British troops.

It is stated that 2 1ost their hyes and 24, were wounded in Saturday evening's dramatic run for life across the bullet-spattered MORALE IN TAIYUAN

creek, after a selge which thrilled Taiyuan, Nov. 1: "While Japanese the entire world. Altogether, 377 infantrymen have suffered severe men got out alive. reverses in northern and eastern The wounded were Shansi, Japanese planes are con-hospital, and the rest tinuing to bomb Taiyuan, pro- first taken to the barracks of the then to the Fusiliers. vincial capital of Shansi, in an Welch attempt to break the morale of Settlement Race Course and alter- the officials and people.

Following the severe bombing of the previous day. Japanese planes raided this city five times yesterday and dropped over 30 missiles on the city. Most of the buildings destroyed were dwelling houses. According to an investiga- tion nine persons were killed dur- ing the raids yesterday.-- Central News,

JAPANESE FAIL TO CROSS SOOCHOW CREEK

taken to were at

wards to the interniment. camp where they must remain for the duration of the war.

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Tributes are expressed on all sides to the heroism of the Batta- on, who fought garnely to the very last and withdrew from the stronghold only on orders from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek- Reuter.

CHINESE MOVING TOWARDS YENMENKWAN

Latest advices Taiyuan, Nov. 1: received from the front. report that the Chinese forces are closing in the highway north of Yenmen- kwan Pass and are threatening

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Shanghai. Nov. 1 Despite to cut off the Japanese line.

It is revealed to-day that the several #erce attacks launched yesterday. the

have Chinese forces launched a Japanese failed to gain any foothold on the prise attack on three Japanese Creek companies near Plugting on Oct. south bank of Boochow Chinese military quarters an- 28 and after a brief encounter broke up the Japanese units and killed Inounced,

Over 50 Since the Chinese withdrew over 100 of the men.

seized in addition to from Chape! and Klangwan four rifles were days ago, the Japanese launched four machine-guns- 20 attacks on the Chinese positions Central News. at Pelhsinching but failed to dis

Yesterday lodge the defenders. afternoon. 4,000 Japanese troops, preceded by a mechanised unit. launched another offensive but were badly' cut up and forced to retreat.

Another coluinn launched a frontal attack on the Chiness lines at Halaomanziang and were greeted with machine-gun fire and trench motors. Over 100 were, killed...

Central News

SHANSI CITY RECAPTURED BY CHINESE Taiyuan, Nov. 12 Tinghalen, strategic city in eastern Shang, has been recaptured by Chinese forces, military quarters here an nounced. The Chinese entered the elty on Oct. 29 and the Japanese troops are now fleeing towards the east.

The Chinese forces have blown up the bridge near Taholingkow and killed over 10 of the Japanese guards on duty thers- Central NewR-

"NINGPO BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES

Hangchow, November 1: Three Japanese planes raided Ningpo, important Cheklang coastal city yesterday, and rained 12 bombs on

houses city. Many The wrecked... Central News.

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CHINESE BOMBERS AGAIN

RAID CHAPEI

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Shanghai, Nov. 1: Despite the drizzle last night, Chinese bombers raided the Japanese positions in Chapel The planes drew ma- chirie-gun fire from the Japanese but flew away undamaged, Chinese airmen reported that a number of bombs released in Chapel started several ares. Central News

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CHINMEN ISLAND

FIGHTING

huge

with the loss of 200 lives.

There is still" no news of Sheik Youssef, King Ibn Saud's Chan- cellor, who left. Damascus Thursday for Baghdad.-

Reuter.

RALPH CONNOR

DEAD

Famous Canadian Author.

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Winnipeg. Nov. 1. The death 1s announced of Ralph Connor, the famous nove- list-

Ralph Connor was the pen name of the Rev. Charles W. Gordon, DD., LL.D. FR.S. Can. He had been minister of St. Stephen's, Winnipeg. since

1894 Born in Glengarry. Ontario, in 1880, he re- ceived his education at St. Mary'. Ontario, Knox's College, Toronto, and the Toronto University, sub- sequently spending two years in Edinburgh.

He was between 1890 and 1894 a missionary to the miners and lumbermen in the Rocky Moun- tains, and in the Great War he acted us Chaplain to the Cana- dian Forces at the front and was mentioned in dispatches. In 1920, he was appointed Chairman the Council of Industry for the Province of Manitoba, and had in his entire career taken a great in- terest in social service work.

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Amongst his best known publica- tions are: The Sky Pilot." "The Man from Glengarry," "The Re- calf of Love," "To Him that 'Hath" and "The Rock and the River."

GENERAL MATSUI HAS HIS SAY Presence Of Chinese Soldiers

Cannot Be Tolerated"

Berlin, Nov. 1. Within a short time the situa- Sino- tion at the front m the Japanese conflict will be such as to render a Far Eastern Con- férence absolutely unnecessary, ac- cording to a prediction by General Matsui in an interview with Her Huermann, the Shanghal corres- the "Deutsche All- pondent of gemeine Zeitung."

General Matsui said he expected a decision in the campaign on the Shanghai front, but added that the Japanese would, 1 necessary. march on Nanking and Haukow. They hoped to accomplish the evacuation of the Nantao quarter of Shanghai without force. Fur- thermore it

was necessary to secure evacuation of Pootung, where the presence of Chinese soldiers cannot be tolerated.

General Matsui sald be Was grateful for the Italo-German sympathy, and the interest Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini were showing in Japan, although both

were confronted with serious Euro- pean problems- Houtar

TURKEY WILL SINK SUBMARINES

instanbul, Oct. 31. The anti-piracy control" of the Mediterranean Sea and adjoining waters has been further strength- ered by the addition of 20 gun- boats and trawlers and squadrons of seaplanes," armen with machine guns, bombs and depth charges under the Commander of the Turkish Fleet for the patrol of Marmona, the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, by virtus of Turkey's Foochow, Nov. 1: According to pledges under the Nyon agree- reports received here today the ment.

Chinese Militia Engage Invading Japanese

chinese militia in the northern The Turkish Government has part of Chinmen Island are constrictly ordered the sinking of any tinuing to engage the Japanese roreign submarine sighted. bluejackets who landed there last

The commercial maritime route week.

has been sub-divided into ter zones controlled by sea-planes during the daytime.

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The militia in Tungshan district also taking the island are precautionary measures and will repulse the Japanese should the enter that invaders attempt to area

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