CHINESE SURPRISE ATTACK

Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 15

CHINESE SURPRISE ATTACK

SOUTH OF WUHU JAPANESE DRIVEN FROM POSITIONS Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, February 11. The * Daily Telegraph’s ’ Hongkong correspondent says 10,000 Japanese troops were rushed to Nanking to reinforce the garrison after a surprise nocturnal attack by Chinese, who crossed the Yangtse Kiang five miles south of Wuhu and launched a deter- ' mined attack, on the Japanese positions round Changbiayuayuan. The Chinese, despite withering, machine-gun fire, secured their’ objectives and drove the Japanese from the village. - DRIVE AGAINST COMMUNISTS PEKING, February 10. The Japanese Spokesman announced an intensified drive against Chinese Communists and their partisans in ‘ Shansi. He added that the Japanese in a battle extending'over several days wiped out Communists at Kuchiarchen, 20. miles north ,of Taiyuan. They captured five important leaders near Huan- ' ping and killed 90 in Shantung Village. They also arrested a number of suspects north of Tsingtao. The Japanese, at West Weihsen, attacked a unit of the Bth Route Army, inflicting heavy losses. TERRORISTS IN SHANGHAI ROUNDED UP BY POLICE. SHANGHAI, February 10The -police, rOunding up terrorists, found in the French Concession the head of a Chinese, hacked off with an axe, and a, note attached, saying: “This is a warning to the antiJapanese element.’HANKOW MERCHANTS . TO BURN JAPANESE . STOCKS. . HANKOW, February 10. , A conference df merchants under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce decided to hold a huge bonfire and burn remaining Japanese stocks., ■ ■ • BOMBING IF OPEN TOWNS CHINESE PROTEST TO LEAGUE. GENEVA, February 10. ... ■ The; Chinese delegation , handed to the ’ League Secretariat a protest against the Japanese bombing of open towns arid requested its transmission to all members of the Council and the Assembly...' 0 .:, . . ' , MUSTARD GAS : ; ALLEGATION 'AGAINST JAPANESE. HANKOW, February 11. (Received February 12, at 11 a.m.) The Chinese news agency alleges that the Japanese are using mustard gas in the Linjuaikwan sector of Lurghai. HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED SHANGHAI, February 11. (Received February 12, at 1(5.40 a.m.) ' Though admitting a forced retreat from Wuhu, the- Chinese assert that they checked at Senlipoo a Japanese attempt to turn. their flank north of Hanwei iq the hope of expediting an advance to Lunghai. Sever© fighting-with heavy casualties on both sides is reported at Liufu: The Chinese report that they annihilated 300 Japanese who were trying to gain a foothold on the north bank of the Hwai River, but the Japanese are in full occupation of Hwaiyuan, from which they are advancing* in a north- _ westerly direction.,