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THURSDAY,

FEBRUARY

3, 1938.

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PENGPU FALLS

FALLS TO

TO JAPANESE ASSAULT

CHINESE LINES Expert To Teach Hongkong Air Defence

SHATTERED BY BOMBARDMENT

Bitter Resistance At Tingyuan Encountered

Shanghai, Feb. 3.

The capture of Pengpu, as recorded by Japanese despatches from the front, has greatly surprised observers here who expected the Chinese would hold up the attack- ing force for at least a few days. The occupation of this city is important, inasmuch as it boasted the strongest de- fence works south of Hsuchow, the main object of the present drive.

Pengpu, moreover, is an important industrial centre in Anhwei and in the course of its history has more than once found contending forces in civil wars fighting for its possession.

The Ja anese now have a little more than 100 miles to go before they reach Hauchowfu, so unless the Chinese collapse their task is still a large one.

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According 10 Japanese sources the attack on. Pengpu was launched at dawn yesterday by the right wing the advancing uriny which marched along the Tientsin-Pukew railway and proceeded to the assault after one of the most intensive bombardments of the present war. In this bombardment Japanese air- men claim to have inflicted

very

heavy losses upon the Chinese and to have all but levelled their defence works.

The advancing left wing Infantry. during this period of bombardment, were operating along the highway

35 miles south-

leading to Ting about 24 miles east of Pengpu from

SINGAPORE ALERT FOR ATTACKERS

Air Patrols Out Night And Day

Singapore, Feb. 3. Throughout yesterday the aircraft

the nearest point of the defending Singapore-from-the naval

• Tientsin-Pukow railway. Tingyuan attack" anticipated falled to sight

was overcome.

is claimed to have been taken by the the "enemy", which is steaming some-

resistance where to the north. after a bitter Japanese

The planes scoured South China Meanwhile, the Japanese centre and Java seas without result.

Anxiety prevailed as the coming of was moving along another highway and occupied Fengyang, 16 miles darkness blinded the watchers on the cast-soul-cast of Penipu, and three coust and in the air and the Invaders! be advancing miles from the nearest point on the were suspected to

rapidly through the early night. rallway,

Air patrols will continue to search The lull on the northern

throughout the night, however. continues.Reuter,

Gunfire was heard at one lime during the day, but it was stated this was not due to any action of the

Fenyang Captured

front

Shanghai, Feb. 2.

approaching "enemy" but to test the According to Domet despatch, ordnance of the défending examinn- Fenyang, key Chinese stronghold to tion service which ensures that mer- the important Chinese city of Pengpu. chantmen shall enter harbour under on the southern section of the Tien-control of the defence works. tsin-Pukow railway, was occupied this moming.United Press,

In And Out Of Taining Hauchow, Feb. 3. **Military

reports received here state that a Chinese mobile unll actually broke into Tsining elty in

sudden stinck on the January 28 but withdrew from the city the next morning. In the con- fused fighting inside the city during the night scores of Japanese soldiers, were killed.

night of

Current reports that Tsining city was recaptured by the Chinese forces ure belleved to have originated from the entry of this mobile unit,

The Japanese troops now stationed in Taining are estimated at about 800 equipped with eight tanks, three armoured cars and over 20 field pieces. They are still besieged by the Chinese.-Central News.

Confused Fighting

Isuchow. Feb. 3. Confused fighting is taking_place

The volunteers participating in the manoeuvres are officers and ralings of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, | which is stiffening the outer defences at night-time in patrol boats.--- Reuter.

STOP PRESS

AIR RAID ALARM IN CANTON

left flank of the southern sector ofjanil-alreraft guns. the Tientsin-Pukow Itallway.

SURVIVORS VISIT WOUNDED COMRADES

Two Fliers Perish On Ocean Hop

Tragedy

Paris, Feb. 2 has overtaken the Italian air record bid across the southern Atlantic by Signor Stoppani, who recently broke the west-to-cast time mark and -was-attempting-a-new-record-on-

the return flight,

Whilst flying from Port Natal

to Dakar, Slappan sent out an 8.0.9. saying that he was obliged to turn back owing to engine troubi.

The distress signals wrre picked up by the German floating air base Westfalen and a Ger- man seaplane was despatched to the rescue.

The seaplane found Stoppani's seaplane afire. Stoppanl Was saved, but his two companions perished-Reuter,

Scientists Marooned On Ice Floe

Floating Island Falls To Pieces Beneath Them

Moscow, Feb. 2."

Behind the Japanese lines of action, but not far enough to be out of sound of heavy guns, Japanese soldiers, survivors of some balle with the Chinese forces, here visit wounded com-

rades in an advance hospital.

CHINA'S "RED" CHIEFS

DIRECT ANTI - JAPANESE FIGHT FROM CAVE. CITY.

(Special to "Telegraph") By GEORGE WANG

United Press Correspondent

Yenan, Feb. 2.

An open truck loaded with petrol for the Eighth Route Army brought me here to-day after a three day dash through mountains, valleys, rivers and dust-storms. My feet are frozen, and my cheeks swollen due to the zero temperature encountered throughout the wild dash to the Chinese Soviet capital.

•

Yenan is over 6,000 feet above sea-level, and 300 miles north of Sian..

cave-

The city's population, which is by, refugees tremendously swollen and students, dwells mostly in caves, forming a unique city of dwellers surrounding the city proper, which is only half a mile in diameter and is surrounded by mountains pilted with thousands of ancient and modern caverns.

UNIVERSITY IN CAVES

The famous anti-Japanese Resist-

University, operated by anco

the

Die

SEEK TO CONTROL AIR WAR

Protection For Open Towns In Spain Requested

Britain, France Make Appeal

Paris, Feb. 3.

COLONY TO FOLLOW

'.

SYSTEM ADOPTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

Wing Commander Perkins Given Three-Year Task; Leaving For Far East At Once

London, Feb. 2. Wing Commander Steele Perkins, Air Raid Regional Inspection for the London and Middlesex districts, has been appointed Air Raid Precautions Officer for Hong- kong.

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In an interview with Reuter, Wing Commander Perkins said that he has been actively engaged in Air Raid Precaution work since 1932, when he was with the Committee of Imperial Defence. He then went to the Home Office, where his services were utilised by the Air Raid Precautions Department when it was established.

Three Slain Tentatively Identified

Hankow, Feb. 2.

The Hongkong appointment will be under the Colonini Ofee and is for a period of three years.

In the first instance, said Wing Commander Perkins, he will devlač air raid precautions for Hongkong similar to those devised for England, subject, of course, to local conditions and to the concurrence of His Excellency the Governor

Wing Commander Perkins, who has already spent eight years in Hong-

It is believed possible that the kong with the Royal Navy and Royal frree Americans which the Elehth Air Force, is returning to the Colony Route Army reported as having been to take up his new appointment on

February 11Reuter, slain by Japanese soldiers at Shoyanı, Shanal, were Mr. and Mrs. Alva Harsh, of Peterburg, West Virginia, and Miss Minerva Nether, of Zavern,

belonging to Church Brethren Mission

California, all shoang.

the

At

These three are reported to have

As a result Chinese and Japanese accused

LEAGUE REFORM

teft their residence on December 2 and never to have returned. SHELVED each other of their murder-United

Pres.

BRITAIN. AIMS TO DESTROY PIRATES

France And Italy Preparing To Co-Operate

SANCTIONS. IN "STATE OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION"

Geneva, Feb. 2. All plans for the reform of the League Covenant have been shelved until the meeting of the Assembly in September.

The Committee of Twenty-Eight concluded its discussion on the ap- plication of the principles of the Covenant this afternoon and adjourn- ed sine div.

Although no decision was taken, and many apeakers professed their faith, hope and confidence in the Lengue's future, the general im- pression is that if sanctions are not dead, they are at least in a state of

Proposals Sent suspended animation.

To Capitals

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London, Feb. 2.

Only three Powers-Sweden, Swit- zerland and Chile-inferred that they (reserved the right to resume liberty

action in

In any circumstances which might arise.

of

Some of these cave-homes house the highest administrative bodies of the Communist regime. As an example, the headquarters of the Chinese One of the most remarkable Route Army, as well as the offices of Communist Party and the Eighth stories in the history of the the district government, are burrowed Arctic is being flashed to Moscow into the side of the mountains, where by the five Russians who are they are safe from invaders by both marooned on NT icc-floe six land and air. Canton, Feb. 3, The air raid alarm sounded this hundred miles from the North morning when Japanese planes Pole. passed close to the city, apparently. Yesterday the leader of the Soviet hending for

The great majority of the states the Canton-Hankow expedition, M. Papanin, reported by Eighth Itoute Army and which is the

meeting between Mr. comprising the Committee of Twenty- rallway.

wireless that the drifing lee foe on goal of thousands of pligrim-studenta

Eden, M. Charles Eight reaffirmed their attachment to Several bombs were dropped a few which the party had camped had from the entire country, occupies 170 Spanish Government in its reply to Corbin, the French Ambassador the Covenant and obviously sincerely

It is authoritatively stated that the Anthony on the west bank of the Chih River,miles west of Salchuen and the cracked down the centre.

modern caves, which provide class-

desire to see more universal support and at Sanhochi, Machlakang, Yen- detonations were clearly audible here, Saving their precious selentle rooms and dormitories for over 1,000 decided to cease immediately all air dor, Count Grandi, which was

Anglo-French approach, has to London, and Italian Ambassa- for the League-Reuter Speciai, tengaau, Tunghalapu, points on the together with the deflance of the instruments, the party of ive studenta.

Russians took shelter on one half of

this The Frontier District Government bombing reprisals if the Salamanca Gunfire in clearly audible at Lin-sighted three planes flying high and rapidly disintegrated.

A foreigner telephoned that he had the tee-floe us the remaining hall) (by which name the Soviet regime is Insurgent authorities also undertake jheld at Foreign Office

administers

to end aerial attacks on civilian afternoon, Insted for half an now known) hwakwan, north of Mingkwang on heading south. It is believed they Now, in a further dramatic mos-

Lour. the railway line,

also bombed sections of the Hankow sage, M. Papanin reports that the Ningsha and Konsu provinces, with

square miles of territory in Shenal, populations-Reuter.

OFFERS Good offiCES As the bloody engagements drag line.-Reuter,

party was forced to hurriedly abandona 10tal population er about 600,000,

The British Foreign Scoretary London, Feb, 2. on, countles on both the Chinese

the remaining portion of the lee floc All taxes have been and Japanese aldea are mounting.

suspended at 4 o'clock this afternoon, The Japancar losses during the last

When within this area, and every farmer French Government in its desire to regard to the tightening of the INDISPOSED few days are estimated by milliary,

their floating island commenced to with whom I talked seemed cheerful

discriminate bombing of open towna qunrters at 6,000. Chinese canunities

and happy. Tokyo, Feb. 2. They are now on another ledge are admitted by these quarters in be

in Spain, the British Government Mediterranean, which M. Corbin tremendously impressed by was The Emperor of Jon in suffering drifting ice, measuring only 50 by the brotherly co-operation between good offices in trying to obtain an convey to

has offered both sides in Spain its and Count Grandi undertook to also great, though the exact figures

30 yards.

their respective are not given--Central News.

Although their own personal danger the people and the government, and

agreement wheroby danger to the

Governments. The nature of must be great, the heroic flusslans also by the economic equality which civilian population might be reduced. have radioed that they have managed has been so effectively carried out.

-Reuter,

the proposals is not disclosed. to nayo all the aelenting equipment,..

Ills Majesty the King granted an GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS ECONOMIC EQUALITY together with the precious data of

"London, Feb. 2. Interview to the Prime Minister, Mr. their observations, and sufficient food As an example of the equality, the The Government has accepted the Neville Chamberlain, for half an hour supplies to fast three months. highest salary of a Government motion of Mr. Morgen Jones, Labour, in the evening.

It understood that the French Their temporary home is stendily officiat la$5 a month, but only Mao expressing the opinion that the grow- drifting away from the north Pole Tre-tung, the President of the Soviet ing horror of the aerial bombard- and Italian Ambassadors will teles

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SIAM'S PRINCE SEES KING-

London, Feb. 2. His Majesty the King received Prince Chula Chakrabongso of Stam ai... Dücklngham Palace......... to-day- Reuter,

JAPANESE EMPEROR

from a slight cold. There is no cause for anxiety, states ли oMelal an- nouncement,--Router.

(Further Simms News on Page 12.)

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-(Continued on Pape:6).

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