CONFLICT IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 22808, 17 November 1937, Page 11

CONFLICT IN CHINA

MORE JAPANESE TROOPS ARRIVE LULL IN FIGHTING IN SGOGHOW Ptesa Association —By Telegraph —Copyright SHANGHAI, November 16. (Received November 17, at 11 a.m.) One hundred and fifty thousand more Japanese troops have arrived. The Japanese have appointed a new mayor and chief of police in Greater Shanghai. Both Chinese with and without Japanese sympathies in the municipality refuse to recognise them, describing them as puppets. The fighting has lulled in Soochow. CHIAOSHAN CAPTURED TOKIO, November 16. (Received November 17, at 11 a.m.) It is stated that the Japanese have taken Chiaoshan, five miles north-east of Sinan. HEAVY AIR RAIDS ATTACKS ON TSINAN. NANKING, November 16. (Received November 17, at 11 a.m.) Heavy Japanese air raids are reported at Tsinan., The defenders were ordered to hold the position, but preparations are being made to move the capital to Ningyang if Tsinan falls. REINFORCEMENTS POURING INTO SHANGHAI NANKING, November 16. ■ (Received November 17, at 1.45, p.m.) An unceasing stream of Japanese reinforcements is pouring into the Shanghai area, augmenting • the troops to 250.000. ' Colonel Watteville, representative of the International Red Cross, estimates the Chinese casualties on all fronts after the opening of the eamipagin at 800.000. The Japanese are not interfering with importations of medical supplies. Admiral Hasegawa, following General Matsui’s example, contributed 10,000 dollars to relief work. Japanese captors in South Hopei turned back northward and scattered the 29th Army and 'guerrillas, which threatened their communications.