JAPANESE DRIVE
SOUTHERN SHANTUNG REACHED BITTER FIGHTING ALONG GRAND CANAL [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received March 21, 9.5 p.m. LONDON, March 21. Japanese troops smashing their way down the Tsinpu railway, reached the southern border of Shantung, where they captured Hanchwang, 20 miles from Suchow. says the Shanghai correspondent of the Times. General Li-Tsung-jen, one of China’s ablest soldiers, commands this region and offers bitter resistance, including hand-to-hand fighting along the Grand Canal, the railway bridge over which the Chinese dynamited. The Japanese assert that Li-Tsung-jen’s provisions in Kwangsi and Szechewan are retiring in disorderly fashion into northern Kiangsu, leaving 7000 dfad. The Japanese have taken over the Chinese coalmines here and now control 60 per cent, of China's coal output.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 68, 22 March 1938, Page 7
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