THE HONAN FRONT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 11

THE HONAN FRONT

CHINESE SCORE HEAVILY ADVANCING NEAR TANGHO COLLAPSE OF JAPANESE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, May 16. The Daily Telegraph’s Hongkong correspondent says the Chinese have apparently scored heavily in Honan, claiming the collapse of the Japanese between Tangho and Pinghsih. The Chinese dominate the south bank of the Yangtse-kiang between Nanking and Kiukiang. THE LANDING AT AMOY JAPANESE REJECT PROTEST SHANGHAI, May 16. Coincidentally with the categorical Japanese rejection of the municiqpal council’s protest, the English French, and American Consuls at protested against the landing of Japanese bluejackets at Amoy. CHINESE DECLARATION CAN HOLD OUT INDEFINITELY

CHUNGKING, May 16. The Japanese failed to encircle the Chinese between Sinyangchow and Siangyang, in Northern Hupeh and Northern Honan. The Chinese spokesman declared that the Chinese could hold out indefinitely. The Chinese based at Nanyang were exerting pressure on the Japanese right wing in Tangho. Others crossed the Han River to threaten the rear and left wing of the Ichang-Hankow railway. Heavy fighting continues in the Tangho, Suihsien, and Tsaoyang sectors,