CHINA & JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1938, Page 5

CHINA & JAPAN

CHINESE ATTACK

PROVES SUCCESSFUL.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright}.

LONDON, February 11

The “’Daily Telegraph’s” Hongkong 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 Tviang River, five miles soutli of Wuhu, and launched a determined attack oil the Japanese positions Aon ncl Cha nghi'a yu ayu an. The Chinese, despite a withering machine-gun fire, secured their objectives, and drove the Japanese from the village.

A POLICE MOVE

SHANGHAI, February 10

The police are rounding up the Terrorists. They found in the French Concession 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!”

JAP. GOODS TO BE BURNT

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

PEKIN, February 10

The Japanese Spokesman announced that an intensified drive lias been undertaken against the Chinese Communists and their partisans in Shansi Province. He added that the Japanese, in a battle lasting foi v several days, wiped out- the Communists in Ivuchiarclien, twenty miles north of Taiyuan.

The Japanese also captured five oF 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.

REFUSAL TO STOP EXPORTS

OTTAWA, February 10.

'“Canada cannot stop wars by prohibiting the export. of nickel,” so Hon. W. Dealer, the Canadian Minister of Trade replied in the House of Commons to an Opposition demand for an embargo on exports of nickel to Japan.

Only ten per, cent of The Canadian nickel output was utilised for munitions, said the Minister. The prohibition of exports to Japan would not prevent the Japanese purchases, unless the export of nickel to Japan by all of tho other countries were banned.