JAPANESE INVADERS

Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 9

JAPANESE INVADERS

HAICHOW OCCUPIED CITY FOUND IN RUINS CHINESE REVIVE “SCORCHED EARTH" POLICY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, March 4. The Domei Agency claims that the Japanese occupied Haichow. The captors found Haichow, which was once a flourishing centre of the salt industry and the eastern terminus of the Lunghai railway, in complete ruins, representing the incarnation of the “ scorched earth ” policy. BOMBING OF BRITISH TERRITORY JAPANESE PAY -COMPENSATION. LONDON, March 4. It is confirmed by the Colonial Office that the Japanese authorities paid £1,250 to the Hongkong Government as compensation in connection with the bombing of Hongkong territory a fortnight ago. DEVELOPMENT OF MAHGHUKUO PEOVISION IN JAPAN’S BUDGET. TOKIO, March 4. (Received March 6, at 8 a.m.) The Budget appropriates £21,700,000 in 1940 for development in Manchukuo, compared with £8,500,000 in 1939. ATTEMPT TO TRAP GUERRILLAS CHUNGKING, March 5. (Received March 6, at 2 p.m.) In order to overcome the Eighth Route Army of guerrillas in Shansi province, the Japanese are erecting blockhouses in the hope of enclosing them in an impenetrable ring. GOVERNMENT TRANSFER DENIED BY CHINESE. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 6. The Chinese Consulate has x-eceived the following Chungking cablegram: The Japanese report that the Chinese Government intends to remove to Kunming, in the Yunnan province, is absolutely without foundation.