STRATEGIC GAIN
CHINESE FORCE
HEAVY FIGHTING
THREAT TO TOWN REMOVED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received May 31, 1 p.m.)
HANKOW, May 30.
Despite stubborn resistance by the depleted divisions of General Dohihara after losing 4000 killed since they crossed into East Honan, the Chinese re-entered Sanyitsai, a strategic point north-east of Lan-
Heavy fighting continues, as a resuit of which the Chinese have removed the threat to Tungkwan, besides recapturing Yungchi and Yumenkow.
FLANKING MOVEMENT
JAPANESE CLAIM
SHANGHAI, May 30.
The Japanese claim to have outflanked the Chinese at Chengchow and to have forced an entry into Pohsien, 40 miles south of Kweiteh, from which the Japanese are hastening to relieve General Dohihara's army, against which General Chiang Kai-shek is directing an , offensive from Chengchow.
PLANES OVER JAPAN
BELIEVED TO BE CHINESE
(Received May 31, 1.15 p.m.)
TOKIO, May 30.
Two warplanes, believed to be Chinese, flew over the Japanese island of Kyushu, the southernmost main island of Japan.
JAPANESE CABINET
VICE-MINISTER OF WAR
UEUT.-CENERAL KIDEKI TOJO
(Received May 31, 9.10 a,m.)
TOKIO', May 30.
Lieut.rGeneral Kideki To jo, chief of staff in Kwangtung Province, who was recalled, has been appointed ViceMinister of War.
A NEW RAILWAY
HAI PHONG TO NANNING
STIR CAUSED IN TOKIO
(Received May 31, 9 a.m.)
TOKIO, May 30,
A stir has been caused by the news that a group of French banks is backing the construction of a railway within six months to connect Hai Phong (Indochina) with Npnning (Kwangsi), which, next to Hong Kong, will be China's best route for importing munitions from Europe.
REFUGEE PROBLEM
INFLUX AT HONG KONfi
NEARLY A MILLION
HONG KONG, May 30.
The 750,000 refugees already here were at the weekend by 9000 from Canton and many from Amoy. There will soon be 1,000,000 to succour. The situation is most difficult owing to the lack of accommodation and anxiety lest cholera and smallpox should break out.
Inoculation is being carried out as hastily as possible, and the authorities are considering closing the frontier.
It was reported last week that cholera had broken out in Shanghai,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 126, 31 May 1938, Page 11
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