OFFENSIVE ROLLS ON

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 172, 18 April 1939, Page 9

OFFENSIVE ROLLS ON

Chinese Close In On Canton STRATEGIC CITY RECAPTURED (Independent Cable Service.) (Received April 18, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, April 17. Reports from Hong‘Kong state that the Chinese offensive,rolls on along the entire 1500-mile front. The Chinese are ’steadily closing in on Canton, leaving ,the Japanese with the only outlet by the Pearl River, which is at present being kept clear only by the overwhelming superiority of naval guns. The Chinese have captured the strategic city of Maotsin on the Yellow River, thus removing the threat to their communications with Russia. The Chungking correspondent of “The Times’’ says that the Chinese Government has to an astonishing extent succeeded in removing vital industries to the interior. Three' hundred and thirty cotton mills, electricity plants and iron and steel works aggregating 130,000 tons of equipment have been taken to .new sites, chiefly in Szechwan. A cotton mill of 50,000 spindles was • transported 1000 miles by road, railway, steamer and junks through gorges in the Yangtze Valley despite air attacks and dumped on a barren hillside where 4000 coolies are levelling the site. In the meantime 2500 spindles are operating in temporary sheds. CHINESE BOND ISSUE Financing Second Stage Of War CHUNGKING, April 15. The Chinese Government officially announces the forthcoming issue of 600,000,000 dollars worth of bonds to finance the second stage of the war. The Chinese have blown up four bridges on the Tientsin-Pakow railway, disrupting traffic between Tientsin and Nanking. The war has not affected the Chinese tea industry. The figures are the highest for the past five years, exports totalling 01,767,0001 b. . MORE TOWNS OCCUPIED LONDON, April 16. The Chungking correspondent of “The Times” says that the Chinese have occupied Tsengchen, Tungshu, and Fushan. JAPANESE SHOOT DOWN PASSENGER PLANE CHUNGKING, April 14. Three Japanese warplanes shot down a Junkers passenger plane belonging to the Sino-Gel-man Eurasia Company near Laokas. The German pilot was wounded, but the passengers were unhurt.