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DEFENCE

EPIC GOLDEN

OF

BRIDGE

BY DEATH SQUAD

THE STUBBORNNESS OF THE CHINESE DEFENCE OF NANCHANG

£30,000,000 FOR FRANCO

IS REVEALED BY THE FACT THAT CASUALTIES ON BOTH SIDES DURING THE PAST. 96 HOURS HAVE BEEN THE SEVEREST OF ANY ENGAGEMENT IN THE ENTIRE SINO-JAPANESE WAR.

Japanese communiquos admit that Japanese losses have been

The Spanish Nationalist au- severe, but give no figures.

thorities are seeking to recover It is claimed, how-some £30,000,000 gold de- ever, that in one day's posited in France by the Re- fighting the Chinese publicans, losses were 3,700 dead and 770 were taken prisoners.

An official Japanese com- munique this morning claimed that the strongly- reinforced Chinese defences on the upper reaches of the Siu River have crumbled in the centre and it was stated that at 6 a.m. to-day the Japanese were within four miles of Wuning, the former Chinese G.H.Q.

Taipingshan and Tanghutow are claimed to have been cap- tured by the Japanese during all-night fighting.

STUBBORN RESISTANCE The Japanese communiques admit that the Chinese resistance has: been surprisingly stubborn.

At no point have the Chinese aban- doned their well-fortified trenches and the Japanese advance has been made possible only by the virtual

This is only an estimate. The exact amount deposited is

not known.

The Bank of France, holds £20,000,000 in bars. This was deposited by the Bank of Spain in 1931 as security for a loan. Other large amounts have been deposited at. various French banks. It is not yet known how much of this has been spent. The remainder will be credited to the Na- tionalist Government..

Another item is gold and sliver seized by the French Customs at Cerbere., It is to amount to believed

£1,500,000.

HUNGARIAN

SLOVAK

DISPUTE

wiping out of Chinese defence post-New Move Along

tions with point-blank artillery” “dré ̈ and low-flying bombers.

The Chinese Third, Sixteenth, 53rd and 77th Divisions bore the brunt of the Japanese attack.

The Sixteenth Division, which was

Southern Front

BRATISLAVA, Mar, 27. HUNGARIAN IRREGULARS

JAPANESE MECHANISED units, similar to those employed in the cap- reorganised following severe losses and Free Corps units are report- ture of Nanchang, entering Kwaiyin City is month.

TOKYO CAMPAIGN

AGAINST BRITISH

SHANGHAI, Mar. 27.

HAINAN

With footholds in Hainan, Conton and Formoso, and in her mandated island in the Ladrone and Caroline groups, Japan rings the United States outpost in the Philippines, and straddles the route from Singapore to Hough ong, and Shanghai,

DOMINIONS MAY TAKE OVER OWN DEFENCE SERVICE

LONDON, Mar. 27. THE FOR M I DABLE growth of German domin-

ance

in Europe lends heightened importance to the April 14 Defence Con- ference to be held · ́at Wellington, the New Zea- land capital.

Faced with Britain's pre- occupation in Europe, both the antipodean Dominions must now re kon more than ever with the imperative necessity of making their own defences self-reliant.

The United Kingdom's-dele--

gates to Wellington will un- doubtedly explore means of

assuring the maximum dominion

contribution to the security of the British Isles,

Whereas the Dominions would be

in the Battle of Tehan last October, ed to have entered Slovakia to able largely to trust to their own

has again sustained heavy losses in the defence of the Wuning area.

Unique In History

flags flying above them.

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The

£10-a-head in Australia

SYDNEY, Mar. 27. AUSTRALIA is to spend £63,000,000-equal "to_nearly £10 per inhabitant—by the year 19-10-41 on strengthening her defences,

The Australian Navy vole is up from £15,333,000 to £20,- G48,000; tho Army vote from £11,612,000 to £15.705,000- and the Air Force bill from £12,- G12,000 to £10,414,000,

The Australian Air Foro las placed orders "for bombers in Britain and--the -United Blaics, and will soon futal 212. ́ ́war- planer Ila personnel will in- crease by 000 men a year for the next three years.

The standing array has been doubled from 10,000 men to 20,000. In addition, 26 cam- paign, recently launched by Mr. Lyons, Federal Premier, to re- cruit à militia of 80,000 men, is expected to be completed in -a-few days.”

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Rebel C. in C. Killed

Shot Dead In Round-Up JERUSALEM,

Mar. 27. ABDUL RAHIM, the so-called rebel comman- der-in-chief, was shot dead while trying to break a cordon thrown round à village neár Nablus to-day.

Another report says that the first shooting outrage. for some weeks resulted to-day in the serious wound- ing of a Jew in the Muarara quarter of Jerusalem.

A 48-hour stay-at-home order has been imposed in the area.

Another Jew was shot dead in Tiberias, and the curfew immediately imposed.

was

A third outrage occurred at Haifa where a Jewish supernumerary con- stable was fatally wounded when shols were fired at. a mail van- Reuter Special.

LATEST

Missing Plane Returns

Student Pilot Spent Night At Mirs Bay

Just

na three-Far East Aviation Training School planes, one of which was to have taken a "Telegraph” re- porter to search for the

missing student, were warming up at Kal Tak Airport this morning, the lost plane was secu streaking for the Colony,

At 10.20 am. George Hunny, the missing pilot, stepped from his Hornet

day, across the southern frontier home herself would be obliged to Franco's Big Effort 3.15 p.m. Yesterday."lost" stace at Medzev, where they are Britain attempting to occupy frontier import 50,000 tons of foodstuffs daily villages.

for 305 days a year.

Lengue at the southern end of

EMPIRE SECURITY

Dominions owe un important con-

payer.

To End War

HENDAYE, Mar. 27. THE NATIONALISTS to-day

march

on

He told the "Telegraph" that he had lost his direction owing to bad

the visibility and had landed on beach at Mirs Bay at 4.15 p.m.

He spent the night in Mirs Bay and remalued there this morning until

visibility became good enough for

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Further Late Nows

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The Japansee are now in complete control of Nanchong, the Rising Sun

At the same time the Aghting on for being hoisted above the Castle the eastern trontier is reported to bei Britain Icels, moreover, that the Gute nt 0.40 p.m. last night.

subsiding. Thus, for the Grst Guns in history, Negotiations to settle outstanding tribution to the safety of the Mother drove through the Loyalists Nanchang's 999-year-old walls, 22 questions miles la circumference, have allen Slovakia began at midden Yeuters Empire's security as well as the Im- lines in south and central Spain him to take off again for Kal Tak

between Hungary, and land which provides the Navy for the Since the beginning of the Christian REICH "PAINFULLY SURPRISED perlal Airlines postal and other ser- and prepared to

Berlin, Mar. 27. vices at the cost of the British tax- Madrid, without any important THE JAPANESE-CONTROLLED Chinese lan-Era Nanchang has never been occu-

Political circles are painfully sur-

resistance. by an invading force.

Canada is regarded as being safe; nonrest it came to invasion prised" at the "renewed anti-Gern South Africa is considered capable apparently, bogged

The 'negollations for surrender are guage newspapers are waging a violent anti-British was during the Taiping Rebellion last incident caused by the Polish Western of repelling any serious ralds from Defence

because the Council felt they WCTC campaign, such slogans as "Destroy the British Flag," century

The Taipings besieged the city for Polish Corridor" at: Bromberg, ac- Germany or Italy while India is unable to control the anarchists and a month but were unable to penetrate issued to the foreign press to-day, attack from the axis powers.

cording to an inspired statement deemed to be out of reach of mass others. the walls.

According to Nationalist advices sidents credit for the city's remark

In the minds of Nanchang re-Poland are increasing:

which adds that anti-German riots in

Australia and New Zealand, the Republican troops are fighting although remote from Japan, are with the civilians in the suburbs of able record of inviolability is due to authoritatively stated that nothing is posed to bombardment and invasion mediate surrender.

A Warsaw message says that it is nevertheless admitted to be more ex- Madrid, demanding the city's im- the city's great deified saint, Esu known of any serious incident at owing to their long coastlines and Chin Yang, who at one time saved Bromberg. the province from flood by Idilling a

Isolated positions.-United Press. Minor incidents involving Germans dragon snake which was threatening and Poles are constantly being re- to make the province a part of the ported, but nothing has occurred to Yellow Sea.

Justify the language of the Berlin statements-Reuter,

"Boycott British Goods," "Confiscate British Property," and "Drive Out All Britons", being splashed in heavy type

: on the front pages.

An American missionary from

Nanking states that the Japan TRADE WAR

ese-controlled newspapers there! are appealing to the employees

of British, including the Consu-

lates, to leave their -posts.- Reuter.

ATTEMPT TO END CHUNGKING, Mar. 27, The "New China Daily", the Communist organ here, cuitori-

IN EUROPE

as

Rumania Informs Happiness"

Britain Of Pact

LONDON, Mar. 27.

the

ally reviews the latest anti- British move which is being House of Commons on

IN A STATEMENT in the carried out by the Japanese in German-Rumanian trade agree- the occupied zones in China.

It says the move Includes the ment, the Premier, Mr. Neville retrocession of the International Se Chamberlain said that the

HUNGARIAN OFFENSIVE

BRATISLAVA, Mar. 27.

Anglo-Russian Trade Parleys

Moscow, Mar. 27.

The Nationalists have announced that General Franco has also opened a new offensive in the Toledo and broken the Republican lines,

It is reported that he has Co- ordinated the Pozoblanco drive in a pincers action against Ciudado Real.

United Press.

Dissension In Cabinet?

Tory Conference On Thursday

LONDON, Mar. 27. CONTINUED REPORTS of dissonsion in the Cabinet are not aken seriously in well- informed Parliamentary quar-

Hau cast the dragon into a well and

a result he was in AD. 200| delfied and made "Universal Lord of Many temples in all

A reliable report from Perjes staies; A communique issued after Mr. R.

DRIVE ON TOLEDO parts of China are dedicated to him. that the Hungarians have launched S. Hudson's talks with Soviet officials,

Burgos, Mar. 27. Sacrificed Lives

an, offensive in the Michalovce and states that, the foundation laid for

General Franco's forces have struck Sobrance sector.

trade negotiations will be continued in the Toledo sector. The most thrilling episode inį the entire battle for Nanchang in being used.

Bombing planes and artillery are in London.

Viaws were exchanged on the in- Republican front, and to have pene-

They claim to have broken theters, "Reuter" learns. revealed by a Japanese admission) This offensive coincides with the ternational situation, and persorial trated to a considerable depth. of the bravery of a fone Chinese Slovak delegation's departure to contact has been established for co-

The Republicans are stated to be squad which sacrificed itself In Budapest for peace negotiations. operation in International affairs in disordered flight near the Toledo order to dynamite the famous The reports state the offensive was Reuter.

bridgehead-Router. Chungcheng (Golden) Bridge well organised. The bombing planes across the Kan River.

and artillery first pounded the Slovalc

Hungarian occupation' as far as pos-

Italy Now Has Enough Oil

Rome, Mar. 27.

The Italian Economie Agency to-

Consultations regarding the de- claration on aggression are proceed- ing normally, and the Cabinet is solidly behind the Premier'on. this matter.

No pledge has been given France ITALIAN AIR CLAIMS

on the subject of conscription, and no dissension in the Cabinet on the Rome, Mar. 27. It is officially stated that Italian question is apparent. legionary aviation in Spain has tion at the present is a review of the The foremost matter for considera- brought down 003 enemy from the beginning of the Spanish voluntary national register promised

alrcraft

tlement in Shanghal and the Kowloon Rumanian Government had in-self inside a concrete plilbox outside advanced but were repulsed by the The Chinese squad barricaded it defences after which the infantry leased territory, the return of Hong-formed His Majesty's Govern- the Castle Gate of the city and, with Slovaks. kong to China, the boycott of British ment that the agreement con- machine guns, commanded all ap- It is assumed here, that this was goods, prohibition of British shipping and the abolition of all British in-tained no political clause, and proaches to the bridge while sappers made us a lost effort to advance the terests and privileges in China,

that Rumania had not signed | worked under fire to place the sible in case tile negotiations are day declared that Italy is now able civil war until March 22. The Immediate goal of the Japan-away her economic indepen-dynamite charges, ese anti-British movement, is the dence..

Repeated efforts by, the Japanese to based primarily on the territory each to produce enough ́petrol for her during the same period were 50 destruction of Sino-British friend-

cross the bridge, were frustrated by army holds-United Press, ship, thus cutting" Bellishi nasis- At the end of his statement, Mr. the hail of machine-gun fire. fances to China.

the

Tanks were finally brought. Into Chamberlain said that extension of action. The tiny Chinese unit was The eventual objective, the editorial | Anglo-Rumanian trade, and says, will be a Japanese movement promotion of better relations between completely wiped out by cannon fire, the bridge, however, it blew up with As the Japanese tanks were crossing

to wrest British rights and interests the two countries was a matter to in the Far East into Japanese hands, which His Majesty's Government

TIE UP WITH EUROPE attached the greatest importance. Primarily, it adds, the movement has nothing to do with the Chinese masser, though the Japaneso have encouraged the puppets in Peping (Continued on Page:4.).

BRITISH MISSION GOING

In this connection, the Premier mentioned the recent decision to

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a terrific detonation..

The dynsmiting of the bridge the held up the. Japanese advance Info] Nanchang for ten hours, and ex-of plains the reason why the railway slation was esptured at 5 o'clock in

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avlation needs--Reuter.

LITHUANIAN SHAKE-UP ·

•KOVNO, Mar. 27.—The Lithuanian Cabinet has resigned. This forms climax to the political crisis which resulted from German occupation of Blemeli

The President has given General, Joban Tsernins; the Chief Staff, the task of forming a new cabinet.

It is understood that the utmost will be done to form government uniting all parties—United Press.

Italian air force losses in Spain officers and 233 other ranks, while 00 aircraft were lost-Reuter Special

Gold. Exports To

- Czecho-Slovakia

for the end of March.

There are indications that new developments will result, and that comprehensive scheme for com pulsory physical training of youth Es a possibility.

Ministers intend to pursue' every laspect of national organization that 'can be flited Into the Premier's pledge that conscription will not be Introduced during, pesce time, pan

Mr. Nevlile Chamberlain, as fender of the Party, will attend the meeting --- London, Mar. 27. .... of the Central Council of the National The Czecho-Slovak Restriction on Union of the Conservativo"" Unions Banking Accounts Bill passed its third | and Associations at Westminster on reading--to-day and received the March, 80, and will address — the Royal Assent-Reuter. :

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