FALL EXPECTED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 43, 30 November 1937, Page 5

FALL EXPECTED

AWAITED HOURLY BY JAPANESE. HEAVY FIGHTING AT KIANGYIN. JAPANESE ADVANCE ELSEWHERE (United Press Association—Copyright.. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) TOKIC, November 29. The Japanese admit that heavy fighting is proceeding at Kiangyin, but the fall of the city is expected hourly, eliminating the second “Hindenburg” line from Kiangyin to Wusih. Only a few minor fortifications lie between the Japanese and Nanking. The Japanese are reported to have captured Ushing, west of Lake Taihu, amd to be advancing on Nanking along Shanghai-Nanking and Hangchow-Nan-king railways'. The Japanese captured Changchow. Forty persons were killed and 100 wounded when a Chinese passenger train was bombed at Shuanclieng. NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. THE ATTITUDE OF JAPAN. NO THIRD-PARTY ACTION. LONDON, November 29. The Tokio correspondent of 'The Times says that ±he Prime Minister (Prince Konoye), oil his way to Western Japan to worship at the national shrines, made a policy declaration to the press, in which he stated that Japan did not object to neutral Powers offering to arrange direct negotiations between Japan and China, but -would not tolerate third-party negotiations. Japan will negotiate with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek or the Kuomintang, if Nanking co-operates. Otherwise the war will continue until the Chinese are crushed. f! , . BOY'S BRAVERY RECOGNISED. PETS RESCUED UNDER FIRE. NEW YORK, November 28. The American Humane Association has announced the award of its Heroes Medal to Valentine Holdosi, a Russianborn schoolboy of China, but how to locate him or get the medal to him is a problem. The association is unable even to learn of the fate of'-its own Shanghai •branch. It does not know whether the boy is yet alive, and it has appealed to the Chinese Consul, who has referred the matter to the American Consulate. Because of the partial Japanese occupation of the International Settlement, the boy, after fleeing from his home, which was situated in the Shanghai- area and which .was undergoing shelling, realised that his pets, a chicken, two dogs and two canaries, had been left with a single day’s ’ food. Failing to obtain a permit to enter the zone, he slipped into the sectors which alternately were the targets for Japanese shells and Chinese snipers, and rescued his pets, unharmed. Later he reached the Whangpoo wharf, whence the police escorted him to the temporary headquarters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

BOY ALIVE AND WELL. (Received This Bay, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 29. The United Press correspondent has notified the Humane Association thatthe recipient of its Heroes Medal, Valentine Holdosi, is alive and well, and could be .reached through the United States Consul at Shanghai. “VICTORY MARCH" PLANNED. SHANGHAI, November 29. It is understood that a “Victory March” by the Japanese troops through the International Settlement is being planned for to-morrow. PLANE PARTS FOR CHINA. AN ALLEGED SHIPMENT. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) TOKIO, Nov. 29. The Domei News Agency says that when the Danish freighter Marchenmaersk arrived at Kobe from New York, the police discovered that she was carrying bombing aeroplane parts for Hongkong, consigned to China. THE CONTROL OF SHANGHAI. FRANCE SUPPORTS BRITAIN. LONDON, November 29. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” it is understood _ that the French Government, without sending an individual Note, has instructed its Ambassador to Tokio to inform Japan that France associates herself with the British Note in demanding a consultation about the future of the Chinese Customs at Shanghai. , The Japanese at Shanghai have

issued an assurance that Tokio will give “due consideration” to the interests of the Powers in the Chinese Customs revenue. BIG DECLINE IN TRADE. IMPORTS BY CHINA. GENEVA, November 28. The League of Nation’s monthly bulletin of statistics tor November shows that a fall has taken place in imports into China from 21,500,000 old gold American dollars in July to 9,600,000 in August and 6,000,00 in September and October. _ (1 . .. The exports from China are down by nearly half for the same period. Japanese imports dropped from 60,500,000 to 41,000,000 in the same period, but exports were less affected.