RAID BY CHINESE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 10

RAID BY CHINESE

TOWN RECAPTURED

SHANTUNG PROVINCE

CLOSE FIGHTING NEAR

NANYANG LAKE

tßeceived January 25, 2.20 p.m.)

LONDON, January 24.

The Chinese operating on the Japanese flanks 'in Shantung Province are reported.to have delivered a raid between -Tsiriing and Yingchow, recapturing :Sunchihtien in order to impede the.Japanese advance on the Lunghai railway.-

Close -fighting is progressing near Nanyang Lake. The Japanese are finding difficulty' in closing the 150-mile gap*' between .their troops along the railway owing to the harassing tactics of Chinese guerrilla troops.

.Relays of Japanese warplanes participated; in;. the longest series of air raids yet experienced in South China. The towns bombed included Canton, where: 20 • persons were killed. The Chinese "archies" returned heavy fire.

The Hong Kong correspondent of the "Daily; Mail" states that the British and German 'Consuls-General at Tsingtao made representations to Japan regarding -illegal■■• entry to property of their nationals.^ ';■*■■

- Japanese planes also bombed Ichang and Changsha. ..

The Japanese admit that they have evacuated Hohsien. They deny that this-represents a withdrawal, and say that-when mopping-up operations are completed the Chinese will again be ousted;if they,reoccupy the town.

. The i Japanese spokesman alleged that i Chinese dumps were found in compounds adjoining foreign embassies when: ■■ Nanking was occupied, and added that many Chinese troops have taken?refuge at the Embassies.