JAPANESE FORCED BACK

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20982, 10 March 1938, Page 9

JAPANESE FORCED BACK

BATTLE FOR YELLOW RIVER COUNTER ATTACKS BY CHINESE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 9, 6.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, March 8. The Japanese compute the Chinese casualties to date at 800,000. Half a million Chinese are now operating on various fronts. After crossing the Yellow river, north of Shansi, the Japanese were hurled back by irresistible Chinese counter attacks. The Japanese are now shelling the Chinese positions across the river. JAPANESE BREAK THROUGH STRATEGIC MOVE BY DEFENDERS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 10, 1.30 a.m.) HANKOW, March 9 Under a heavy artillery barrage a Japanese force succeeded In crossing the Yellow River at the Szeshui Station on the Lunghai Railway. The Chinese blew up dykes, the flooded area immobilising tanks and drowning many of the enemy. MESSAGE TO CHINESE CONSUL “WILL DEFEND TO LAST MAN" United press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright WELLINGTON, March 9. The following Hankow cablegram has been received by the Chinese Consul: The military spokesman stated that the Chinese will defend Shansi to the last man, and are determined > not to retire across the Yellow River. They have destroyed all the bridges and railway carriages on the southern sector of the Tung Pu Railway, and all vessels and Junks belonging to the people in Che vicinity of Fenglin have been removed elsewher e. MISSIONARY KILLED LOOTING AT METHODIST STATION United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright SHANGHAI, March 8. An English missionary, Mr R. H. Goldsworthy and e. number of Chinese students were killed during the looting of the London Methodist Missionary’s Station at Yunnan.