AMOY CITY

Grey River Argus, 9 February 1938, Page 5

AMOY CITY

SURRENDER WANTED Japanese Threaten Air Attack [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received February 8, 11.30 p.m.) HONG KONG, February 8. The Japanese blockading fleet delivered an ultimatum to the city of Amoy, threatening to destroy Amoy from the air, unless it surrenders. According to Chinese reports from Amoy, the city has practically no anti-aircraft defences. CHINESE CLAIM SUCCESS. SHANGHAI, February 7. The Chinese claim to have recap-, tured Yuhang, and are attacking Fuyang, where the Japanese garrison is fiercely resisting. They launched a new attack at Wuhu, in which they have taken Lukiang, five miles from the objective. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is personally directing the defence of the Lunghai railway, for which purpose he has thrown in one hundred thousand fresh troops. The Chinese, .advancing in a snow storm, reached the outskirts of Yuhang, ten miles west of Hangchow. HANKOW, February 7. The Chinese have begun a counteroffensive on the southern section of the Tientsin-Pukow railway, supported by bombers piloted by foreign legionaries, who saw wave after wave of Chinese surging to the attack. The bombers effectively attacked the hostile artillery and infantry near Pengpu. JAPANESE ATTACK. IN THE SOUTH. SHANGHAI, February 7. Japanese warships and aircraft almost completely destroyed the Teung-chau-Canton Delta, and also without opposition occupied Lungkow Gulf. CHINESE UNITY. AUCKLAND, February 7. The war with Japan has had one beneficial effect on China that only a grave national emergency could have brought about, according to Mr T. W. Doo, a well-known Chinese importer in Auckland, who has returned with his wife and members of his family after four years spent in his native country. “To-day, China is more closely united than ever she has been before,” said Mr Doo. War has' made the people forget petty differences of local politics, and the Government under which the country had been advancing during recent years was finding it easier to'introduce progressive measures for the betterment of the nation as a whole. * CANADIAN BOYCOTT ADVOCATES TORONTO. February 7. The Canadian branch of the League of Nations Society passed a resolution urging the fullest Government'aid to China, and a voluntary public boycott of Japanese goods. The Legion of War Veterans dissented, in favour of international action. A representative was nominated to the World Boycott Conference in London next Saturday.