HOLDING JAPS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 5

HOLDING JAPS

CLAIM BY CHINESE

HAN RIVER BATTLE

GUERILLA WARFARE

INVADERS’ BLOCKHOUSES

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 7, noon) LONDON, March 6. The Chungking correspondent of The Times says that the Chinese frustrated all Japanese efforts to cross the Han River.

The latest estimate of the number of Chinese troops is 2.000,000 adequately officered and of excellent morale, while Japanese prisoners display increasing war weariness and anxiety to return home.

In order to overcome the Chinese Eighth Route Army guerrillas in the Shansi province, the Japanese are erecting blockhouses in the hope of enclosing them in an impenetrable ring.

VIOLENCE IN HANKOW WOUNDING OF CONSUL PASSAGE AFTER CURFEW (Recdj March. 7, noon) HANKOW, March G. Japanese sentries struck and slightly injured the Portuguese Consul who was attempting a passage in the administrative district after curfew. Chinese raiders killed a guard and servant while unsuccessfully searching for the Japanese leader Chin 'Lung-Chang residing in the French Concession.

NO MOVE INTENDED

'CHINESE GOVERNMENT

(Pel- Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay,

The Chinese Consulate-General has received a cablegram from- Chungking stating that a Japanese report that the Chinese Government intends to remove to Kunming, in the Yunnan l Province, is absolutely without foundation.