JAPANESE ADVANCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 14 January 1938, Page 6

JAPANESE ADVANCE

MAIN TIODY CHECKED STIFF RESISTANCE POSSIBLE

(Received 14th January, 12.50 p.m.) HANKOW, 13th January. The Chinese are forming a semi-cir-cular line through four villages below Tsining, from where the Japanese are advancing in a fanlike movement threatening Kewiteh, Mingvhuan, and Tangshuan, on the Lunghai railway. The Chinese are favoured by many rivers, on the banks of which stiff resistance is possible. The first alignment of Chinese check- | ed the main body of the Japanese at j Tsining. where the latter inaugurated a reign of terror, messacring civilians. The Chinese claim to have killed 2000 Japanese in street fighting prior to the

evacuation of Tsining. The Chinese have retaken Chuchow, Yungnien. Feihsang and Kwangping. The Domei News Agency at Shanghai states that the Japanese, striking southwards from Tsingtao. occupied Taliutien, eight miles south of Nanyang. repulsing three Chinese divisions.

While the Chinese are massing in an attempt to withstand the Japanese on the Tsinim? front. Misc Aenps Smedlcv.

the American authoress of “Chinese Red Army Marches.” an associate of Madame Sun Yat Sen arrived at Hankow with a vivid account of Chinese guerilla warfare. She spent three months at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army at Wutaishan, and declares that the whloe population of Shansi is uniting against the Japanese despite desperate hardships. Thousands of guerilleros were marching barefoot in deep snow and wading neckdeep in freezing rivers. Many lost their hands and feet from frostbite in night operations, the lack r-f meal’ll st **>ices precluding treatment. People evacuated the villages as the Japanese approached. taking foodstuffs and poisoning the wells.