CHINESE BLOWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23320, 13 April 1939, Page 11

CHINESE BLOWS

SUCCESSES CLAIMED" JAPANESE DRIVEN BACK RETALIATION EXPECTED MORE TROOPS LANDED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. April 11 The Chinese Embassy in London, in reporting successes in Central and South China, announces that the Chinese have driven the Japanese 12 miles eastward from Kaoan, in the north of the Kiangsi Province. A Chinese flying column has attacked Fenghsin. The Japanese, now reinforced, are apparently planning a retaliatory drive toward Changsha. The efforts of the Chinese in Central Hupeh threaten to sever the Japanese communications after the recapture of Tienshatien and Huangchiatsi, while the Chinese southern advance has reached Shiching, 10 miles from Canton. Two hundred and forty Chinese officials in the Japanese-controlled Government at Nanking are reported to have been killed and many to have been taken prisoner by guerilla fighters. These include magistrates and staffs of recaptured towns. The Japanese claim that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's offensive has been repulsed in Southern Shansi. A message from Hongkong says the city of Namtau, in the vicinity of which the Japanese landed, is reported to be in flames.

Fourteen hundred Japanese troops have landed at Taishing and are reported to have captured Shekwan. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says Chinese gunmen shot dead a puppet Government official, Dr. His Shihtai, jun., and wounded two others, including a Chinese constable, who fired on the murderers.

INFLUX OF JEWS REFUGEES FROM GERMANY THOUSANDS GOING TO CHINA SHANGHAI, April 11 It is expected that more than 10,000 Jewish refugees will arrive in China from Germany by the end oi: May. At present there are 6700 in Shanghai and 600 are due to arrive on April 25. Three thousand are expected in May. It is reported that the bookings made involve the arrival of Jews at a rate of 1000 a month from June to September.