JAPANESE DRIVE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 178, 26 April 1938, Page 11

JAPANESE DRIVE

Taierchwang Onslaught

Unabated

NEW CHINESE TROOPS

Kai-shek Claims Enemy Near End Of Resources

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received April 25, 8.15 p.m.) Shanghai, April 24.

Tlie Japanese onslaught toward Taierchwang continues with unabated fury. The Chinese are rushing up reinforcements.

The Japanese claim to have captured Tancheng, 12 miles from the Lunghal railway.

General Chiang Kai-shek, ordering his armies to deliver a decisive blow, stated: “The Japanese are reaching the end of their resources. They are employing wearied troops from the Hopei. Shansi, Kiarigsu and Anhwai provinces for a desperate drive on Shantung, where already they have repeatedly failed.”

A Hankow report says the Chinese claim to have received numerous reinforcements and to have repulsed the Japanese attacks forcing the Japanese back on Yihsien.

The Chinese are reserving 300,000 troops in order to await a critical opportunity of flinging them into a furious offensive raging in North Suchow. The Chinese claim to be holding their ground despite the activity of Japanese artillery and aircraft..

The Chinese claim scattered guarrilla. successes, but these cannot be regarded as of definite importance as affecting the general issue.

PANAY INDEMNITY

Full Payment Made

Tokio, April 22

The Foreign Office states that £442,000 was handed to the United States Embassy in full payment of the Panay indemnity. The affair is .thus “amicably settled.”