CHINESE SUCCESSES

Grey River Argus, 12 February 1938, Page 9

CHINESE SUCCESSES

ANOTHER ON YANGTZE I ■ ( Enemy Rushes up Reinforcements [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received February 11, 9 p.m.) . LONDON, February 11. | The “Dally Telegraph’s” Hong Kong correspondent says: Ten thousand Japanese troops have rushed to Nanking in order to reinforce its garrison, after a surprise nocturnal attack was made by Chinese, whose forces crossed the Yangste Kiang River, five mile's south of Wuhu, and launched a determined attack on the Japanese positions round Changhiayuayuan. The Chinese, despite a withering machine-gun fire, secured their objectives, and drove the Japanese from the village. PAPER OFFICE BOMBED. BY JAPS AT SHANGHAI. SHANGHAI, February 10. A bomb caused considerable damage to the offices' of the newspaper “Hwameipao.” The assailant escaped. Another bomb was flung into the, paper “Wenweipao,” injuring three Chinese employees. The owner, Henry Cuming, received a letter from a Japanese terrorists’ 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 the “Hwameipao” received a similar letter. ! MANCHUKUO MOBILISES. [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] SHANGHAI, February 10. The Manchukuan State Council has passed genera! mobilisation, placing material and human resources on a war basis. POLICE ROUND UP SHANGHAI TERRORISTS. (Received February 11, 5.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, February 10. The police' are rounding up the Terrorists. They found in the French Possession, the head of a Chinese, which had been hacked off With an axe, and there was a note attached to it, saying: “This is a warning to the Anti-Japanese element !” CHINESE TO BURN JAPANESE GOODS. (Received February 11, 7.5 p.m.) HANKOW, February 10. . A conference of merchants, held here, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, decided to hold a huge bonfire in which to burn their remaining Japanese stocks. DRIVE AGAINST COMMUNISTS. BY THE JAPANESE. (Received February' 11, 5.5 p.m.) PEKING, February 10. The Japanese Spokesman announced that an intensified drive has been undertaken against the Chinese Communists and their partisans in Shansi Province. He added that the Janapese, in a battle lasting for several days, wiped out the Communists in Kuchrarchen, twenty miles north of Taiyuan. The Japanese also captured five ot the important Communist leaders near Huanping, while they killed ninety Communists in a Shantung village, and arrested a number of suspects in North Tsingtao. The Japanese, at West Weihsen, also attacked a unit of the Eighth Route Army, inflicting heavy losses. GENEVA, February 10. The Chinese delegation nanded to the League Secretariat a protest against the Japanese bombing of open towns, and requesting its transmission to all members of the Council and Assembly. Nickel For Japan CANADIAN REFUSAL. TO STOP EXPORTS. [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received February 11, 5.5 P-nt.) OTTAWA, February 10. “Canada cannot stop wars by prohibiting the export of nickel,’ so Hon. W. Deuler, the Canadian Min ister of Trade replied in the House of Commons to an Opposition demand for an embargo on exports ot nickel to Japan. . Only ten per cent, of the Canadian nickel output was utilised for munitions, >gaid the Minister. The prohibition of exports to Japan would not prevent the Japanese purchases, unless the export of nickel to Japan by all of the other countries were banned.