STRANDED PARTY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23276, 20 February 1939, Page 10

STRANDED PARTY

MOUNTAIN SANATORIUM V NAVAL OFFICERS TO RESCUE ANGLO-AMERICAN ACTION, (Received February 19, 7.20 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 18 X-< Lieutenant - Commanders Stafford, ti Commander of . the British gunboat Ladybird, and Jeffs, commander of> the United States gunboat Oahu, have left . Kiukiang to evacuate 80 British and .•-•American missionaries and patients g are stranded in a sanatorium on top of Ruling mountain (3500 feet). 'They will travel 25 miles ou foot. 'X-r Killing is surrounded by Chinese, f'- against whom the Japanese intend to launch an offensive after the evacuation 5 of the stranded people, for which pur- % pose both sides have offered the naval ' officers safe conduct.. MUST BE BUILT UP THE JAPANESE ARMY WAR MINISTER'S WARNING (Received February; 19, 5.5 p.m.) , - • • TOKIO, Feb. 18 The Minister of War, Lieutenant- - General Itagaki, in the Diet, said the ' Army must be built up in quality and The future might demand that every Japanese become a soldier. • There was also need to improve Japan's i armaments and tactics.

GARRISON SURPRISED

r~ COUP BY THE CHINESE < Independent Cable Service (Received February 19, 7.20 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 18 ; The Chinese claim to have surprised \ a Japanese garrison in a sudden attack Hand to have recaptured the strategic Kicity of Hukowsien dominating the ?inorthern end of Poylang Lake. They i can now threaten Japanese shipping on | *khe Yangtse River and. also bottle up f Japanese warships.

BIG OIL DEPOSITS

I CHINESE TO EXPLOIT

LONDON. Feb. 17 The Chinese Ministry of Economics | !s planning large-scale exploitation of newly-discovered oil deposits in the cSingkian Province, and the Ningtsing mountains, says a message from Chung"if'Jang. -T Foreign experts report that the oil '"there is sufficient to supply the world ' for 30 years.