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五拜禮·號八十月二英港香 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1938.

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-CHINESE ARMIES MAKING SLOW GAINS

KWANGSI UNITS Chiang to Fling 40 Divisions at Invaders

JAPAN TO

STRIKE SWIFT BLOWS AT ENEMY BUILD

Altered Strategy Gives Troops Confidence In

Li Chung-Jen's Ability

(Special to "Telegraph")

Tungshanku, Feb. 18,

Headquarters of the Chinese army. here, only a few miles from Hsuchow, admits that Lianghsiation, 85

NEW CHINA

Implores Help Of World Powers

London, Feb. 17.

Japan will maintain her polley of an "Open Door" for the purpose of promoting the welfare of the Chinese: people. and will welcome the cultural and economic co-operation ). of the interested, powers, especially Great Britain, in the rehabilitation of Clilaa, declured Viscount to-night al a dinner of the Japon Society, at which he was the guest of honour.

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objective is the stabilisation, olice and for all, of our relations withi

Viscount Ishi! said: "Our chiire

destroyed from time to time

the Government. often huy

miles north from this point, has not yet been recaptured.chion upon a basts which cannot be However, Tsohsien, 90 miles to the north, is at present enveloped and Chinese units are in the suburb. But the Chinese artillery has refused to fire for fear of wounding Chinese civilians still in the city.

blocks

evict

hostile to us, an whim of Chinese ก occurred in the past.

Japan desired the restoration of China as her natural market," said the Chinese units, are also entrenched in the northern re-establishment of such a inarket and emphasised that the speaker, section of Tsining. They advanced a few

petition throughout the world. But would go for In relieving trade com- yesterday, threw up machine-gun emplacements, crept depend upon the rehabilitation and the restoration of that maritet must into the houses and fired from the windows, The reconstruction of China herself. Japanese garrison, heavily armed, is attempting to hold by the closest co-operation between This could only be brought about on to its position in the hope that reinforcements will talks about Japan's desire to

Japan and Britain. It was folly to come up. But it is probable that the road which rein-foreign interests, for without the co-

operation of other powers, Japan Je forcements must travel will be cut by the Chinese.

could not attain the object she had in view. "A reconstructed China, *General LI Chung-Jen's head-

STRATEGIST

working amicably with us, all will quarters told me that the Fifth Route

| bring about that permanent peace in Army's mobile forces have swooped

the Far East which Jupan, no less down from the north-east through

than any other country, so carnestly ground emptied of Japanese troops,

desires," concluded, Viscount Ishii- to recapture Mingkwang. The

Reuter, Japanese troops were meanwhile trying to push westward into Ankwel province.

These Fifth Army are Kwangal-born, and a hardy crowd

"men:

The Chinese main body is moving | south from Kuchen, and has recap- tured Tsaolaochi, ten miles north of Pengpu.

As a consequence the Chinese attack on Hwaiyuan forced the Japanese to retreat southward. -United Press.

Strategy Altered

Hsuchow, Feb. 18,

Chinese military strategy has undergone a drastic change since the Shanghol positional warfare. I have found the Fifth Military District, which embraces Shantung, Klangsu and Anhwei, under the command of General Chung-Jen, organised on (Continued on Page 4.)

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CHINESE STILL HOLD WEIHWEI

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LI CHUNG-JEN

NEW NAVY WILL COST AMERICANS MILLIONS

Programme Requires Staggering Sum

New Political Move Made In Austria

Seyssinquart's Visit

To Germany.

Berlin, Feb. 17. The French Ambassador made his first visit on Herr von Ribbentrop, new German Foreign Minister to-

day, after which it was announced

that all foreign questions concerning France and Germany were discussed.

TO THE LAST MAN!

Insurgent Spanish troops have fought with great courage

in and around Teruel. When they were, temporarily on the Here Loyalists have trapped some of them and are calling for defensive they fought to the last man to hold their positions. their surrender.

STRUGGLE FOR HANKOW EXPECTED TO BE LAST BIG POSITIONAL FIGHT

China's New Army To Make Desperate Bid for Victory

Hankow, Feb. 18.

The last great positional fighting in the present war, before which the battle for Shanghai and the struggle for the Lunghai railway are expected to pale, will be fought in the province of Hupeh, possibly near Hankow, is the opinion of competent observers here. Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek hopes to put at least 40 divisions into the field for this battle, and expresses that it will be Japan's Waterloo.

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idence

A stream of all the most modern weapons of war— heavy guns, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns and automatic rifles have been steadily flowing into China

FRIGHTFUL STORY OF from abroad. These weapons are daily distributed to

TSINING'S CAPTURE TOLD BY SURVIVOR

(Special to "Telegraph")

Hsuchow, Feb. 18. Unimpeachable information brought through the Japanese lines has been placed in my hands. I am unwilling to give the source of my information, but I testify to its reliability. I learn that the Chinese have been living in a reign of terror under Japanese rule in Tsining since January 11. It is a fact that the Chinese are at present counter-attacking Tsining and street fighting is reported to be going on..

My informant states that the Japanese Inid hands on

It is understood that the Austrian all women and girls, irrespective of age, with the excep- question was also raised, and the

German view stressed that the recent tion of those who took refuge in the Baptist, Presbyterian to the and Catholic Mission compounds. In the early days

developments contributed strengthening of peace.

the "new army," composed of reorganised divisions and new ones emerging from the drilling grounds.

Mander Asks If U.S. Will Share Docks

London, Feb. 17. Mr. G. le M. Mander (Lib.) · will ask Mr. Neville Clamber- lain. the Prime Minister, on February 22" the Bellish Government would be prepared to enter into negotiations with the United States Government for the latter's use, by lease or otherwise, of a portion of the Singapore naval dock."-Reuter.

Britain Still

Backs Stresa

of the Japanese occupation, he declares, anyone Understanding

husband, mother or children-who attempted to interfere were killed by the Japanese.'

Not Able To Judge Effect Of Austro- German Accord

If the Chinese are defeated in this great battle, the Government and the army .are, withdrawing to the moun- tains in the north-west and south- west. The Chinese will try to hold The seven provinces of Szechuch, Yunnan, Kweichow, Kwangal, Shensi, Kansu and Chinahal. There will be no more positional fighting, but China's resistance, it is predicted, will be continued unabated in the form of guerilla operations from one end of the country to the other. **PREVEN

Observers here, do not minimise the importance of the battle for Hsuchow, but regard it, and other battles to be fought for the Lunghai railway as only curtain-ralsers to the great' de- cisive clash to follow.

Air Challenge

air

Chinese aircraft are expected be- fore long to offer serious challenge to Japan's supremacy in the air. With the arrival of bombers and pur ault planes from Russia, England, France and Americo, and the new pilots being turned out from various aviation schools, the. Chinese Great expectations are entertained

force is growing stronger every day... here in connection with Herr

•Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is Seyssinquart's appointment us Minis-

'constantly visiting the different fronts ter of Public Security and Federal

by air, Only recently he made an, Lender of the National Political Do-

especially important tour, accom- partment. It is reported that he is

panied by the Kwangsl leader, Gen- uniting the police force and Ministry first arrived in Tsining they ordered planes dew over. the Presbyterian He asserts that when the Japanese] On the same. day four Japanese

cral Pel Chung-hs), China's master of the Interior under the one ad- ministration which is generally re-all homes to leave the doors open at compound and machine-gunned the

strategist, who was once Chiang's Implacable foe, but la now his close garded as the most Important deve-night time and anyone who did not place, but no-one was hurt.

London, Feb. 17.

friend. In a common cause. At Lin lopment, next to the amnesty which pen, was stain. Many have been was granted.

feng in south Shansi, they conferred killed.

Foreigners Well Treated

The policy of the British with Chu. Teh, Mao Tse-tung, and Government continued to be in other commanders of the Eighth Japanese

According to my information, the spired by the joint resolution of Route Army drawn from the com- with respect and regretted the bomb the Stress Conference, declared munist army then at Kaifeng, the

foreigners

capital of Honan. They poured over Lord Halifax, Lord President of maps, and discussed ing.

Six hundred refugees are living in the Council, when replying to- with Li Chung-jen, Commander-in- the campaign ed that 10,000 the Baptist compound. It is repo-day for the Government in the Chief of the Chinese forces on the

preliving in" the Roman Catholle Mission yard foreign affairs debate. Lord Tientsin-Pukow railway, and a host

of other commanders. United Press.

Halifax added that the efficacy of that resolution depended upon

Tactica Have Changed the loyal co-operation of... all ·

Although their decisions were kept

The first vialt Herr Seyssinquari My lnformant advises that all made in Berlin to-day was to the women and girls at Tenghsien or chief of the political police, after any other place in the path of the which he saw Herr von Ribbentrop Japanese advance be kept hidden. before he was

received by Hert Adolf Hitler, Herr Seyssinquart's Taining, the mission hospitals were

When the Japanese had arrived i visit to Berlin is described as being filled with pitiful cases of people unoffelai-Reuter,

wounded in a terrible manner.

NO CONSCRIPTION IN PEACE TIME

Bombs In Mission Compound

There

trented the

BRITAIN WON'T BAN CHINESE EGGS

London, Feb. 17.

......

Pelping, Feb. 10, The official claim made by the Japanese yesterday that they had captured Welhwel was modified when the Japanese stated that advancing forces engaged in a fierce battle at the Wolhwei Station a mile or

parties to it Britain, France secret, this much is known: The On January 10 two bombs landed i north of the town, in which 1,000

in the Daptist Misalon compound and

and Italy and not on the Bri- Chinese tactics have been changed, Washington, Feb. 17. Chinese were killed:

window panes were broken, and

and there has been an The Japanese then swung

Rear-Admiral Dubose, Chief of

tish Government alone. west-

important frames smashed. One bomb fell in

reshuffling of troops. While Chiang ward nearer to two other columns Naval Construction, testified to the

London, Feb, 17.

So far as the resolution referred to Kai-shek attaches great importance pushing along the south-east corner Naval Affairs Committee to-day that

the school yard, made a huge crater The Premier, Mr. Neville Chamber-and

to the maintenance of the Independ to the battle for Heuchow, the main" of the Shans province.

President Roosevelt's naval expan lain, stated in the House of Commonsd put the water system out of

Asked in the House of Commons not yet in a position to estimate the not be concentrated commission: It shattered the cast Weihwe! Is sill in Chinese hands. Programme would cont over today that the present Government end of the church. "It was a bright whether he would take steps to pro effects of the recent Austro-German the fall of Nanking, Chinese

ence of Austrin, the Government was fighting strength of the Chinese will Independent Japanese columns are G$1,000,000,000.

there. Before would not introduce conscription sunshiney He estimated that 40 warships during peace time.

day. "advancing along, the left bank of the

was anhibit the importation of Chinese agreement, but Government American flag flying from the top liquid eggs to prevent a rise in watching the situation

was manders nt different points fought Yellow River from South Hopel, and would cost G$731,005,000, that 22 This reaffirms the pledges given by of the water

ion developing their own battles without any co- and another typhold infection from this sources with close attention. occupied Yangwa,

ON

Baldwin's Government pre- from the church steeple, and also Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister

ordinated plan. For example, when reaffirmed primary school building. The com- laboratory examinations of Chinese on Pass and world apps- troops to smash their way to victory pound is in a mest" my informant of bed not revealed the presence of and the Government was pursuing Governosal General Han Fu-chu,

disease-producing organians Reus sold of Shantung, Who

with energy, examination of the ques-cently executed for dereliction of tions raised when he vialled Berlin. duty, aut tight in Shantung doing

Lord Halifax added: "Not: the nothing. least of the problems confronting un pa to-day is to make provision : for

Chiang Kai-shek helleves this ispek securing a peace which may not ex- of co-ordination has been remerton alude peaceful revision and Change and that thage will be diferent where such may be rightly required: the battle for the Lunghel tallwar

Reuter

A new Japanese offensive has been launched in Shanal, and the vanguard of the Japanese forces has entered Pingyao Reuter.

(Further Stop Preza News "on" Page 123

auxiliaries would cost $248,451,000, Earl

and that mine-sweepers and tenders vlously-Reuter Bulletin. would east a further G£72,000. The

estimates were exclusive of the cost

of

1,000 fighting planes,

He explained that the United States navy had no plans for materially changing the size of the two 35,000 fon warships provided for in the Navy Supply Bullpen barn 20

tower

of

large flag on the root of the Health, declined, and added that, Lord Hallfoy the Japanese were using all available.

states. EURASIA PLANES

Lupa ter. The Chinese gateman was killed RESUME FLIGHTS but a foreignor sitting in" the dining

room was unharmed.

QUARANTINE LIFTED Hankow, Feb. 10.

January 11 shell entered it Members of the commitee pointedThe Eurasia Aviation Company has forelmor's Und-room, struck the foot Quarantino restrictions imposed by out that only a relatively small por resumed Its regular air mail and of an iron bed and smashed it, broke the Government of Formosa against Loss of the $1,000,000,000 would be passenger service between Slantu, the mirror and shattered the window arrivals from Hongkong on account expanded In 1939-Reuter.

Lanchow and Ningala-Reuter,

penge there, and la“ the bathroom. of cholera have been removed.