Fight for Walled City

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 46, 24 February 1938, Page 7

Fight for Walled City

NEW JAPANESE COMMANDER IN CHINA United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright SHANGHAI, Feb. 22. General Matsui, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forces in China, has departed for Tokio by air. His successor will be General Shunrutu Hata,' with Major-General Kawabe as chief of staff. The Japanese, according to a Tokio message, have captured the walled city of Hwaiking, ten miles north of tho Yellow river. The fate of the defender, General Sung Che-yuan, is unknown. The Japanese bombed Hangchow, 300 miles north of Canton, from the air. GRISLY WARNINGS HUMAN HANDS FOR CHINESE JOURNALISTS Chu Tse-tung, editor of the Chinese language paper Hwa Mei Pae, received a package containing a human hand and a note demanding cessation of antiJapanese articles, m default of which “another present’ 7 would be sent to him. Sammy Chang, journalist and former director of publicity at Nanking, received a similar package. JAPAN’S WOOL IMPORTS TOKIO, Feb. 28. According to the Governments present plans, imports of wool in 1938 are likely to approximate 540,000 bales.