THE WAR IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 9

THE WAR IN CHINA

FEW FOREIGN LEGIONARIES MOSTLY AIR PILOTS FriM Association—By Telegraph-Copyright • LONDON, February 10. The Peking correspondent of ‘The Times ’ says General Teranchi’s headquarters assert that the foreign legion fighting in China consists of 315 Russians, 152 Americans, 124 Frenchmen, 55 British, and 5 others, of whom 550 are air pilots and anti-aircraft gunners. BATTLE OF LUHGHAI developing on large scale. SHANGHAI, February 10. ’ The battle of Lunghai is developing on a front of 400 miles, says the Shanghai correspondent of ‘ The Times. The Japanese are estimated to be employing eight main armies. JAPANESE TERRORISTS BOMBS THROWN IN NEWSPAPER offices. SHANGHAI, February 10. (Received February 10, at 11 a.m.) A bomb caused considerable damage to the offices of the newspaper .‘Hwameipao.’ , The assailant escaped. 'Another bomb was flung into the building of ' the British-owned newspaper ‘ Wenweipao,’ injuring three Chinese employees. The owner, Mr Henry Cumine, received' a letter from a Japanese terrorist organisation warning him that if he published anti-Japanese material he would receive the same fate as the Chinese editor whose severed head was found in the French concession. The American publisher of * Hwameipao - received a similar letter. MANCHUKUO ON WAR BASIS SHANGHAI, February 10. (Received February 11, at 11 a.m.)_ The Manuchukuoan State Council passed a general mobilisation plan, placing material and human resources On a war basis.