JAPANESE WAR IN CHINA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20839, 22 September 1937, Page 7

JAPANESE WAR IN CHINA

VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN IN PROGRESS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received September 22, 12.25 a.m.) SHANGHAI, September 21. A new Japanese offensive has begun in the Lotien and Kiangwan sectors. JAPAN’S STEADY PRESSURE IMPORTANT GAINS CLAIMED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright TOKIO, September 20. The Japanese claim that they are pressing on in North China and have occupied Hingho, an important strategic centre, south-west of Sulyuan, consolidating their positions on the Tientsin- Pukow railway, and attacking the Chinese at Tsangchow and Tacheng, the latter of which is on the eve of capture. The Japanese in South China, hotly pursuing the Chinese, occupied Kucheng, 25 miles from Paotingfu. CHINA’S NEW DEFENCES LARGE FORCES OPERATING United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright PEIPING, September 20. Japanese troops in the Hopei province advanced seven miles along the Peiping-Hankow railway to a line bordering the Yishu River. The vanguard was constantly engaging skirmishing parties, the Chinese firing from the cover of millet fields. Ten Chinese divisions along the Peiping-Hankow line and 20 along the Tlentsin-Tslan line, are desperately building defences, in hopes of checking the Japanese, but the situation is precarious, owing to lack of artillery, tanks and planes. Mongol cavalry, supporting the Japanese, invaded the Sulyuan province and occupied Shangtu, defeating 1500 Chinese.

The Japanese air bombed Haichow and Suchowfu on the Lunghai railway.

RUSSIA’S STRONG PROTEST ALLEGED ATTACK ON STAFF OF EMBASSY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, September 20. Russia is strongly protesting to Japan against the attacks on the staff of the Russian Embassy in Tokio, including the wives of two members, who were insulted.