CHINA’S AMAZING VITALITY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21323, 18 April 1939, Page 7

CHINA’S AMAZING VITALITY

TRANSFER OF KEY INDUSTRIES

Checking Nipponese

Pressure

Onward Sweep of New

Offensive

Important Points Captured

United Press Association—By Electric Tilegraph—Copyright

(Received April 17, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 16.

“The Chungking correspondent of "The Times,” says that the Chinese Government has astonishingly succeeded in removing vital industries to the interior. Electric plants, 330 cotton mills, and iron and steel works, aggregating 130,000 tons of equipment, were taken to new sites, chiefly at Szechwan. A cotton mill of 50,000 spindles was transported thousands of miles by road, railway and steamer junks through the Yangtse gorges despite air attacks, and were dumped on a barren hillside, where 4000 coolies are levelling the site. In the meantime 2500 spindles were operating in temporary sheds.

ONWARD SWEEP OF CHINESE IMPORTANT CENTRES OCCUPIED United Press Association—By Electne Telegraph —Copyright (Received April 17, 6.30 p.m.) CHUNGKING, April 16. The Chinese have occupied Tsengchen, Tungshu and Fushan. , OFFENSIVE ROLLS ON IMPORTANT CHINESE ADVANCES United Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Indep orient Cable Service (Received April 17, 11.43 p.m.) HONGKONG, April 17. The Chinese offensive rolls on along an entire 1500 mile front. The Chinese are steadily closing in Canton, leaving the Japanese only an outlet at Pearl River, which at present is being kept clear only by an overwhelming superiority of naval guns. The Chinese have captured on the Yellow River, the strategic city of Maotsin, thus removing the threat to communications with Russia.