CHINESE MANPOWER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 252, 23 October 1937, Page 9

CHINESE MANPOWER

CEASELESS COLUMNS ATTACK NEAR DAZANG THOUSANDS IN THE FIELD (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SHANGHAI, Oct. 21. About three hundred thousand troops are engaged in the Chinese counter-offensive near Dazang. Big guns and ceaseless columns of Chinese reinforcements pass the dead and wounded left on the roadside. Coolies are carrying steel plates for machine-gun positions and engineers are building “pillboxes” under fire in obedience to the order to defend Dazang at all costs. But Dazang is only a name, having been demolished by the artillery and aircraft. The Japanese tried out nine of the latest type of huge naval bombers in the raid on Nanking. Forty bombs were dropped on the military aerodrome from an altitude of 15,000 ft. CHINESE COUNTER-ATTACK FIGHTING AT DAZANG SHANGHAI, Oct. 21. The Chinese are launching a counter-attack against the Japanese, who have been attacking Dazang. BOYCOTT OF JAPAN SOUTH AFRICAN UNIONS CAPETOWN, Oct. 21. The trade unions are organising an anti-Japanese boycott and are urging the Government to close the ports to Japanese goods. TO BE REPATRIATED CREW OF SILKSWORTH Received Oct. 22, 8.47 p.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 22. i The whole of the Silksworth’s Chinese crew are to be repatriated to : China at the cost of those who chartered the ship. An agreement to this effect was reached overnight. Meanwhile, the Chinese Consul is caring for them. The thirty who were arrested appeared at Newcastle to-day charged with absenting themselves without leave, but the charge was withdrawn. It is hoped to obtain a white crew to take the steamer to the Far East.

CARGO NOT TO BE WORKED JAPANESE LINER IN FRENCH PORT ygia Received Oct. 11, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 22. The Marseilles correspondent of the Times reports that dockers refuse to load or unload cargo from the Japanese liner Kashima Maru due from 1 London to-day as a protest against the aggression in China.