FAR EAST CONFLICT

Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 11

FAR EAST CONFLICT

CHINESE MAINTAIN GUERILLA TACTICS LULL IN SHANTUNG FIGHTING Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, May 8. The Chinese maintain guerilla tactics throughout the occupied territories, besides moving heavy artillery to Chinchung in the hope of determining the seven days’ desperate battle in the Yunho region.Ten thousand Jeho! horseman lay in ambush in wheatfields at Tancheng and annihilated a Japanese convoy, destroying its motor transport. The Chinese report a lull in Shantung, and the contestants are massing troops in the Tancheng area, where the Japanese claim minor gains. BOMBING OF CIVILIANS CHINESE NOTE TO LEAGUE. GENEVA. May 7. China has forwarded a Note to the League of Nations listing 33 acts of Japanese bombing against Chinese civilian populations in the last seven months, in. which it is estimated 7,000 persons, mostly women and children, were killed. STAFF ON STRIVE PROTEST AGAINST ANGLOJAPANESE AGREEMENT. SHANGHAI, May 7. The Chinese Customs staff has em- . barked on a stay-in strike as . a protest against the Anglo-Japanesc Customs agreement. ON THE HSUCHOW FRONT EXTENSIVE JAPANESE COUNTERATTACK. SHANGHAI, May 8. (Received May 9, at 1 p.m.) Chinese and Japanese confirm the launching of an extensive Japanese counter-attack, despite tropical storms, on the Hsuchow front. The Japanese, who claim initial successes, are delivering . secondary offensives in Haingsu .Province,, also in the Nanking area, resulting in the occupation of Chaohsien. The Chinese claim that two Japanese detachments, 4,000 and 8,000 -strong, are encircled | between Taierhchwang and Tancheng, and-face annihilation. The Chinese are delaying resumption of the general offensive in the hope that the Japanese artillery will be bogged in the mud.