NIGHT ATTACK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22961, 12 February 1938, Page 13

NIGHT ATTACK

DETERMINED CHINESE

JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS

10,000 TROOPS FOR NANKING

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 11, 6.30 p.m.)

LONDON, Feb. 11

Tho Hongkong correspondent of the Daily Telegraph "says that 10,000 Japanese troops have been rushed to Nanking to reinforce the garrison after a surprise night attack by the Chinese. The latter crossed the Yangtse River, five miles Bouth of Wuhu, and launched a determined attack on the Japanese positions round Changhiayuan.

Tho Chinese, in spite of a withering machino-gun fire, secured their objectives and drove tha Japaueso from the village.

ANTI-COMMUNIST DRIVE

INTENSIFIED OPERATIONS SUCCESSES BY JAPANESE (Reeelred February 11, 5.5 p.m.) PEKING, Feb. 11 The Japanese spokesman announced that an intensified drive is being made against the Chinese Communists and their supporters in Sliansi. He added that the Japanese in a battle lasting several days wiped out the Communists at Kuchiarchen, 20 miles north of Taiyuan, and captured five important leaders near Huanping. They arrested a number of suspects north of Tsingtao. The Japanese at Weihsen attacked a unit of tho Eighth Route Army and inflicted heavy losses.

JAPANESE TERRORISTS BOMBS IN SHANGHAI BRITISH NEWSPAPER OFFICE SHANGHAI, Feb. 10 A bomb considerably damaged the offices of the Hwa Mei Pao newspaper. The assailant escaped. Another bomb •was flung at the offices of the Britishowned newspaper "Wen Wei Po, injuring throe Chinese employees. The owner, Mr. Henry Cumine, received a letter from a Japanese terrorist organisation warning him that if he published anti-Japanese material he would receive the same fate as a Chinese editor, whose severed head was found in the French Concession. The American publisher of the Hwa Mei Pao received a similar letter.

The police, when rounding up terrorists, found in the French Concession the head of a Chinese hacked off by an axe. A note attached said: "This is a warning to anti-Japanese elements."

GENERAL MOBILISATION MANCHUKUOAN RESOURCES (Received February 11, 5.6 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 11 The Manchukuoan State Council has passed a general mobilisation Act placing material and human resources on a war basis.

BOMBING OF TOWNS PROTEST BY CHINESE (Received February 11, 5.5 p.m.) GENEVA, Feb. 11 The Chinese delegation has handed to the League Secretariat a protest against the Japanese bombing of open towns, and requests its transmission to all members of the Council and the Assembly.

APPEAL BY SWISS

INTERNATIONAL ACTION (Received February 11, 0.30 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, Feb. 11 The Geneva correspondent of the Times says 200 Swiss members of Parliament have urged the Federal Government to communicate with other countries and the International Bed Cross with a view to ending the bombardment of open towns.

MERCHANTS' BONFIRE

(Received February 11, 6.5 p.m.) HANKOW, Feb. 11

A conference of merchants at Hankow, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, decided to hold a huge bonfire to burn their remaining stocks of Japanese goods.