HURLED BACK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19454, 13 October 1937, Page 6

HURLED BACK

SHANGHAI AREA INVADERS CHINESE COUNTER MOYE JAP. DRIVE IN NORTH DESPERATE RESISTANCE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—Unitnd Press Assn. (Reed. Oct. 13, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. A report from Shanghai states that the Chinese repulsed an attempted landing to the north-west of Liuho. causing havoc among the Japanese with machine-guns. Chinese counterattacks hurled the Japanese back at Tazang after an advance of two miles. The Tokio correspondent of The Times states that Japanese rnotorised columns are pushing forward as speedily as possible to gather the fruits of the Shihchiachwang victory on a 70-mile crescent-shaped front on the western tip of Tsinghsing to the west and south-west of Lwanchcng. They have already captured Chaochow and Yuanshih, 20 miles to the south of Shihchiachwang. The furthest advance reached was at Kaoyi, another 10 miles to the southward, where the Chinese are concentrating. The Japanese bombing of the Chinese avenues of retreat by troop trains continues.

The Japanese are still pressing the advance toward the Pekin-Hankov railway. The Chinese, some of whom are fighting a desperate rear-guard action, are hastily digging defences in the neighbourrood of Changteh, a large walled town in the northern Honan area, in the hope of stemming the general retreat. The Japanese capture of Tsinghsing is important as it cuts the railway to Taiyuan. Japanese from the north captured Hsinchol, 40 miles north of Taiyuan, which is isolated from the railway.

BOYCOTT OF JAPAN SUPPORT IN CANADA LEAGUE COMMITTEE (Reed. Oct. 13, 1.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, Oct. 12. A committee of the League of Nations Union of Canada has been authorised to co-operate with other organisations in a plan to boycott Japan.