Loss of Shansi Admitted

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1938, Page 5

Loss of Shansi Admitted

(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 13. The Peking correspondent of “The Times” says a Japanese spokesman has admitted the loss of the Shansi Province to the Chinese, adding that the Japanese, after the fall of Chengchow, will mop up the Chinese brigades occupying Shansi. Meanwhile, military necessity has compelled the burning of villages and cities. The Japanese have closed two schools and the Catholic University, because the principal German priest refused to allow students to participate in 'the celebration of the Japanese victory at Hsuchow. A Hankow message says that floods, due to Japanese breaking the Yellow River dykes, submerged 100 villages and rendered homeless thousands of people, besides threatening the area between the Hwai and Yellow Rivers. With the Japanese-corftrolled radio station and several Japanese shops as objectives, anti-Japanese demonstrators threw five bombs, injuring five people and keeping the riot squad, assisted by British troops, running from point *o point in the International Settlement in order to quell the bombing.