Red Napoleon Near Peking

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 107, 9 May 1938, Page 7

Red Napoleon Near Peking

City Apprehensive WILL CHINESE RETAKE CITY? United Press Association. —Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. PEKING, May 6. The City is apprehensive that China’s Red Napoleon, General Chuteh, leader of the famous Communist Eighth Army, which taught China how to fight, is preparing to attack Peking itself, which many of the inhabitants are convinced will fall to the accomplished guerilla commander, who seized the moment when the majority of the Japanese garrison were ordered south to the sorely-stricken Shantung front. General Chuteh has infiltrated Peking with his supporters, against which the Japanese garrison is taking precautions by closing the city gates, placing machine-guns on the walls and searching everyone in the streets, even searching coffins at funerals. Meanwhile, heav£ fighting is proceeding at Tungchow, 12 miles east of Peking, while plain-clothed Chinese guerillas entered villages five miles south-west of the city. The Chinese maintain guerilla tactics throughout the occupied territories, besides moving heavy artillery to Chichung in the hope of determining a seven days’ desperate battle in the Yunho region, in the Chekian province. These guns were augmenting the bombardment. Ten thousand Jehol horsemen ambushed the wheatflelds at Tancheng and annihilated a Japanese convoy and destroyed its motor transport LULL IN SHANTUNG CONTESTANTS MASSING TROOPS IN TANCHENG AREA Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. HANKOW, May 7. The Chinese report a lull in Shantung, while the contestants are massing troops in the Tancheng area where the Japanese claim minor gains. 7000 CIVILIANS KILLED IN JAP AIR RAIDS MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. GENEVA, May 7. China has forwarded a Note to the League listing 33 acts of Japanese bombing against Chinese civilian populations in the last seven months in which it is estimated that 7000, mostly women and children, were killed. CHINESE OFFICIALS STAGE STAY-IN STRIKE Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. SHANGHAI, May 7. The Chinese Customs staff have embarked on a stay-in strike as a protest against the Anglo-Japanese Customs agreement.