Jap. Line Broken

Northern Advocate, 30 August 1938, Page 7

Jap. Line Broken

(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. Chinese pressure, says a Shanghai message, exercised owing to their occupation of Tsienshan, Taihu and Susuang, resulted in the shattering of the Japanese communications between the Yangtse Valley and the Anwhei Plains. They led in turn to imperilling the Japanese front east of the Tapeh range, as far as Hwangmei, on the front west of the vital point of Anking. The Peking correspondent of “The Times” states that guerilla troops exploded a mine under a Japanese miliary train 50 yards outside ' the city wall, destroying seven freight cars and a section of the track. This is the most, daring exploit reported in this area. ’ Britishers Move On.

The Shanghai correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that British residents have evacuated the fashionable Shanghai suburbs of Hungjao, as the result of Japan despatching troops thither in order to resist a threatened attack by 4000 or 5000 guerilla fighters, whose scouts set fire to the bridge outside . the golf course, and hoisted a Chinese flag before withdrawing, without a. shot being fired. ’