WARFARE IN CHINA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23162, 7 October 1938, Page 12

WARFARE IN CHINA

Chinese bomb transport • . ~ ' (Received October 6, 6.30 p.m.; &di - • SHANGHAI, Oct. 6 r _ The Japanese claim to have captured Wu-tai-sshan,:, headquarters of the Chinese guerilla forces, who have reJigate.d,. but are still fighting strongly. 1 using trench mortars bombarded a Japanese transport on the jYaiigtse; killing two men and wounding fSar.: A Press Association telegram from Wellington says the Chinese Consul is in' receipt of the following cablegram, frffe Hankow: —South of Sbangcheng, in ;Honan, there was sanguinary fighting: The enemy launched general offensyss one after the other, but all were repulsed/ 'the enemy suffering more than IOiOOO losses. We captured more tbfcn lO hills Realising that their attacks had been fruitless, the enemy rerjnqved= their troops elsewhere. Our Air Force bombed Loshan, inflicted heavy losses and frustrated the enemy's retreat to Sinyang. There was fieifca fighting in the Juicnang sector, soiitß pi the Yangtse. In an incessant bombardment of our positions, .the Japanese used gas shells, It appears that;'fighting will be centred on this sector. Dviriijg two months' fighting on tlai banks of the Yangtse, the Japanese haVe}' sustained no less than 10.000 'v £ j V, JAPAN'S MANDATES \ • ■, * "/ l DECISION TO RETAIN* |t ; ' . . • { J. / TOKIO. Oct. 6 The Foreign Office spokesman stated to-iiay that Japan would retain her majnclates in spite of the severance of reljitidris' .with. the League of Nations. The mandates were derived, not from thd'League, but from' the five-Power Conference.'' '