SOVIET ADVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 261, 4 November 1929, Page 7

SOVIET ADVANCE.

e 'Planes, Troops And Gunboat In Manchuria, * i ATTACK ON LAHASUSU. Q r SHANGHAI, November 3. Two thousand Enssian cavalry, fivi aeroplanes and sis gunboats opene< " a new attack on Lahastisu, Man 3 etmria, on "Wednesday, according t< I an official wireless report from iXuk r den, t Following upon the fighting the Eus i sians broke through three Chines* 1 defence lines near Fuchin. There th situation also i≤ reported to be critical Admiral Shen Hung-li, in- command o c the Chinese, is retiring. i At Huachuan two Eussian gunboat i were sunk. It was the greatest attacl i made since the crisis developed. It i b still uncertain whether General Blueche i will commence his repeatedly threatenei J advance.

PACIFIC RELATIONS.

Food And Population Problem; Discussed. CONFEBENCE IN JAPAN. TOKYO, November 3. ! At the Pacific Relations Conferenc . yesterday the discussions -were devote :to food and population. The strikin • contrast between countries saturate [ with population like Japan, Java an ■ parts of China and the sparsely settle ■ countries of America and Australi •were discussed on scientific grounds an ! without feeling. : With the large increase in th Japanese population it was admitte , that the standard of living had bee raised, but a further rise was deeme : unlikely if the increase in the popula tion continues. i America's policy of escludin? Asiati labour from entering the Philippin Islands under the United States lav was questioned: also Asiatic migratioi to the Pacific Islands. The burning question of extraterrifcon alitv is now" being , discussed. Various plans of comnroniise based on the admis sion of the Powers that extraterritori alitT was temporary are being discussed in order to find a modus vivendi.

ACTORS KILLED. i

! BRISBANE MOTOR TRAGEDY. ;Received 12 noon.) : BRISBANE, this day. Two actors, Arthur Aldridge and Kvrle McAllister, were killed in a motor smash near Wvnnam. The car was found overturned and the men ■were lying dead on the roadway.

PRECAUTIONARY STEP.

BATTLESHIP SENT TO JATFA. LOXDOX, November 3. The battleship Eamilles has gone to Jaffa from Malta. The Admiralty states that this is part of the precautionary J measures adopted in connection vrith i the situation at Jerusalem.