THRUSTS RENEWED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 13 October 1937, Page 7

THRUSTS RENEWED

JAPANESE AT SHANGHAI ADVANCE AT KIANGWAN PLAN FOR BIG OFFENSIVE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SHANGHAI, Oct. 11. The cessation of the rain has enabled the Japanese thrusts to be resumed at Kiangwan, where an advance of a mile on a four-mile front is claimed. General Iwane Matsui, the Japanese Commander-in-Chief, declares that preparations for the big offensive are almost complete. The Chinese report that General Li Chung-yen, Governor of Kwangsi f rocince, formerly a bitter opponeit of General Chiang Kai-shek, and who fee. a revolt last year, is aeropla.fing ■ o Nanking to offer to mobilise three million men to assist General Chiang Kai- shek.

Peking ieports that despite deep snow the Japanese have occupied Liangcneng, 50 miles south-east of Suiyuan city, on which Mongolian cavalry are advancing after occupying Patow, the terminus of the Suiyuan railway. DOMINANCE ASSURED * JAPANESE CLAIM Received Oct. 12, 5.5 p.m. TOKIO, Oct. 11. The Chinese are now holding only a small corner of the Province of Hopei, according to Japanese claims, which declare that the capture of Shihchiachwang assures them of the dominance of North China. An official naval statement claims that Japanese warships have so far beached or sunk seven Chinese cruisers and eight gunboats, have sunk a destroyer, a tropedo-boat,| and a survey vessel, and have also destroyed 324 Chinese ’planes, and wrecked eighteen aerodromes and ten arsenals. The Japanese have lost 39 ’planes, but no ships, and the casualties total 1133.