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Hupeh

Mountain

Warfare

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FANCHENG, Apr. 10 (Central News) Intense fighting is raging on the southern slope of the Tahung mountain rango in central Hupch.

A Chincao regiment regained Ching Feng Shan, a strategic hill, on morning

of April 13. In the after- noon the Japanese called in more than 1,000 reinforcements and made a counter-attack with the support of bombing planes and artillery.

bloody engagement ensued.

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At noon on April 14 o Japanese cent of about 1:000 men in- Kollenpe, Tungchlachung and Fengehulling. Fighting raged until fell, After a brief Jull, the counter-attack

Sunched a

under cover of darkness and repulsed the enemy from, several points. The contending forces are still holding out

each other near

ICollenpo.

agher Japanese

unit of about 1,000 men pushing toward the south- eastern slope of the Tahung moun- tain range is intercepted by the Chinese at Kuchengping and its neighbourhood.

HUNGRY DOGS

IN TOKYO Serious Menace

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Apr.

.16 (Domel).

of foracious Warning that cases attacks upon children carrying candy and women with packages by stray dogs had Increased alarmingly re- rently in Tokyo, the Police Depart- ment asked all citizens to co-operate

clty

in

ridding the of such canines.

Twenty cases of persons bitlen by dogs were reported to the Police Hoard's veterinary section in

in a single With more than 10,000 stray day. and unlicensed canines in Tokyo, the local force

force of dog-catchers cannot cope with the altuation adequately, Although during the lost four months, 6,782 dogs were picked up by Tokyo's three groups of dog cat- chers, the personnel of canine chasers is inadequate to nab the agile canines.

Pact Imparts

New War Zest

To Japanese

SHANGHAI, Apr. 16 (Reuter) Japanese military and naval activities in South China bave Increased fol- lowing the conclusion of the Soviet- Japanese neutralliy part, according

report

ort appearing in the local leading Chinese newspaper.

The report says that the whole of the Japanese forces in South China are now being reorganised for possible southward penetration and

the

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that more marines have appeared in South China waters and have extended activities to the Bay of Bengal.

It is further stated that Japanese troops in Ipinan, an island of the coast of Indo-Chinn, have been im- pressing able-bodied Chinese work- ura-lo forma South China Sen Transport Corps,

Mackenzie King At White House WASHINGTON, Apr. 18 (Reuter), The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, who is expected here to-day, has been invited to tea at the White House by President Roosevelt, Over teacups, it is ex- pected that the two statesmen will bearing upon war problems.

Thursday,

APPRENTICES FOR DEFENCE-Shortage of skilled labour in Amorica has started General Motors on an emergency training programino. in which young men are being taught specific operations against the time when 60,000 skilled operators will be needed. The time will be about May 1, when the concern starts running in high on defence orders. Hore aro sconos from the unique pro-

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gramma: Top, young trainees war. tor H., Anderson operato cathode ray oscillograph, in Saginaw, Mich., plant, loft, Arthur Murphy, Indianapolis Tech graduate, loarns to drill split line on acroplane engine crankcase, at Allison division, near In- dianapolis. Right, youngsters hard at it, in Programmo is carried Flint, Mich., plant,

on simultaneously in 40 of the plants.

Petain Said Secretly Supporting de Gaulle

"Marshal Petain is a secret supporter of Gen. de Gaulle, leader of the Free French," said Alfred. Neumann, a German novelist on arrival in New York from the south of France.

"One day Marshal Petain an Gen-de-Gaulle-will-join-forces- with the French Commander-in- Chief in French Africa, Gen. Weygand and drive the invaders from France," he says.

"Everywhere In unoccupied France you hear whispers among the French people of a future alliance between the de Gaulle and Weygand forces,

"The French know their salvation rests in Britain, the United States, and in Frenchmen bulside France.

"Gen. de Gaulle appears a saviour

GIRL IS RADIO PIRATE

A NEW pirate radio operated,

it is believed, by a girl and

Wedding Air Sung By Count

April 17, 1941.

What Hitler Loses In Balkans

the

LONDON, Apr. 18 (Reuter)-In a special commentary in New York on April 14, Anne McCormick columnist, says, "The Balkan cam- paign is costing Hitler more than it will be worth if he wins. What will Germany gain on this peninsula that she did not have before? The British may lose a toe held on the Con- tinent which will not affect the out- come of the war.

"The Yugo-Slava and the Greeks may suffer what they suffered yes- terday and come back stronger than cvor. But the Germans are paying heavily for what they expected would be delivered gratis.

"The most that the Nazis can win Is two more hostile populations to police, more sabotago "and reduced supplies. The labour that served them before has, been diverted to fighting, and damaged towns, railways and farmlands will take a month to repair."

Browder Names Successor

(UP).-

NEW YORK, April 10 Robert Minor, veteran communist, has succeeded Earl Browder es General Secretary of the Communist Party in the United States.

Browder must serve four years in prison for using a fraudulent pass- port. Els sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court, and he is expected to begin his sentence next month.

The

position of General Secretary corresponds to the party post held in Russia by Josef Stalin. Minor, who is 63, has been a dominant figure, tharing

with power

William Z. Foster, national chairman, and Browder.

Browder announced Minor's selec- tion at a "farewell" party the Young Communist League gave him re cently.

Oil Factory Destroyed

LONDON, Apr. 16 (Reuter)The Norwegian Admiralty in London to- day revealed the name of the place on the Norwegian coast that was success- fully raided on Saturday last. It was Ock Fjord near Hammerfest.

The statement adds that the object of the raid was to destroy the fish-oil factory, the output of which was being taken by the Germans, and which was of great importance in the manufacture of explosives.

All machinery of the factory was destroyed. There Was no Inter- ference from German troops, aircraft or warships.

Night Flying Ace Of R.A.F.

Adds Three To His Bag LONDON, Apr. 16 (Reuter).—One British pilot of a night fighter shot down three German bombers last night,

the Air Ministry announces. This

ace was recently awarded the and promoted to Commander of his Squadron for marked ability in night flying, and he has now destroy-

"THE Volce that has Thrilled the World" was heard at a Lon-D.F.C. don-wedding-recently, at which both the Fridegroom and the offi- ciating priest were descendants of men who fell at Flodden.

Count John McCormack was the singer.

The marriage of the Master of Semmill to Cecilia, clder daughter of Mr and Mrs B. E. Dunbar- Kilburn, of Sandford St Martin,

Oxfordshire, was performed by

ed ten nocturnal raiders.

A fellow pilot shot down two bring- ing the Squadron's total bag to five. Total of Eight LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuter).—It is learned that two more enemy bom- bers were destroyed over England last night making a total of eight."

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France. They feel convinced that ing Ita'y the truth about the Pelain, in his secret heart, prays for defeats in Libya and Albaniņ de Gaulle's success with British aid." Ovra, the Italian secret police,

London Hopes John Cowles, writing in the "Min-are trying to track down these neapolis Star Journal," says London new "Freedom" broadcasters. hopes that Gen. Weygand and French colonial forces in Africa, with much of the French Navy, will soon throw

in their lot with Britain.

The Secret

The secret of their success, so fur, in uvo ding delictin, appears to lie

the operators' mobiuty..

Speaking to Free French suppor-in ters In London, Gen. de Gaulle bitterly denounced the Vichy regime panely u e pariable transmitters

the cruntry, to broadenst from different points in

"What fuck for Ritter and Mus solini when those who claim to be a French Government also claim their ulding ideo is not only to arrest defeat but also to support their victors," he said.

"What luck for Hitler when orders from Vichy, neutralised the second largest navy in Europe,"

Briton Thanks "Red Eagles"

The "Red Eagles" of London

(American Home Guarders) received

The girl has been heard as an announcer.

Valentin, of Che'sen, at St James Church, Spanish-place, W.

An Old Friend

On his mother's side Father Valen- 'n is descended from James IV of stand, who fell at Flodden in 1513 side of Sir John Sempill,

of the_bridegroom. Cont MC^"m ̃ ̃k

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old

of Lord Sempill, sang Cheng Franck's "Panis Angeli- eun," the same pris he sang at my daughter's wedding eight years ago.

Sempl who is 47, was miely married to the only

LONDON, Apr. 10 (Reuler),~~ The Stock Exchange ruled very quiet with orice movements narrowly ir- regular. Operations were inclined to mark time in view of the uncertain war news.

were

Gilt-edged home rails tended to be casler, but industrials mostly well maintained, and oils were steady, apart from a half-crown fall in Anglo-Egyptians to £4 2s. 6d.

Foreign bonds were easier with declines recorded in Chinese, Japan- tse, Brazilian and Egyptian bonds.

Wall Street was very quiet.

One pesker sold: "The Ducer of the late Sir John Lavery, QUAKE CLAIMS

may be in power, but women, your men have guns, they can sabotage factorles, paralyse transport,

"Every shell that falls to explode is a shot in the heart of our enemies

the Fascists."

Clinics To Mend Brosch. Libs

Clinics to mind broken limbs are recently a large bronze plaque bear to be established throughout Britain. gle American Eagle and the InThe methods to be used were deve- scription: "The seal of our country loped in a German military hospital

clue to the sender was a card: when plaster of parls ran out during

"Presented to the 1st American the last war.

The plaque was hung on the wall of the "Red Eagles'" headquarters.

*** **** widowed six years ago.

ceremony was one of

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wedful seen in London the war.

The bridegroom-n well-known m-was dressed in the kilt of tant house, with a row of medal ribbons on his tight-fitting

d'anval tunic. Aadress was elven during the wedding by Archbishop Godfrey, the Annstolle Delegate for Britain.

THE WARRIOR AND

THE WARNING

WHOLE CITY

VICHY, Apr. 16 (Reuter)—Most of the 15,000 inhabitants of Colimax are believed to be cliher dead or in- Mexico yesterday, states a despatch jured in the earthquake that rocked

from Mexico City.

Three-quarters of the town is re- ported destroyed.

FIRE IN TOKYO

**TOKYO, Apr. 16 (Router)--Eight hundred and twenty houses were burned down and 5,000 people Mohammadu, -68-year-old Emir of rendered homeless by o Are at a Teman, a district in Northern Nigeria, town in the Toyama district, 180 by more than 33,000 peonie miles northwest of Tokyo.

than 1,0001

Motorised Squadron Home Guard by The usual treatment is to encase an Englishman in remembrance of a fractured arm or leg in plaster and and stretching more the happy years spent in the USA. strap it to the bed, sling it up, or use, quare miles. was in his youth a Good luck to you all.”

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Recently he heard a bugle call from Loranz Bohler, faced by the nation lines. It was meant as u shortage of medical supplies, had to ro warning, but the Fmir was taking enclose broken arms and legs less no chances. He had heard of air rigidly, and he encouraged patients a sirens. Without waiting to sum- to exercise them and promate good man any servants or officials circulation to prevent stiffness and nished to his sword, a bow and ulyer of arrows, and ran up the swelling,

monet to look for the attacking plane, a crack nt any

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