CAVALRY GENERAL SURRENDERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 78, 2 April 1938, Page 9

CAVALRY GENERAL SURRENDERS

REPORT FROM NORTH CHINA. Received April 1. 8.40 p.m. TOKIO, April 1. Despatches from North China announce the surrender of Li Fuhwa, the commander of guerrilla cavalry, and twelve thousand men. PLIGHT OF CHINESE MILLION AND A QUARTER STARVING. PEKING, March 31. Japanese reports indicated that one and a-quarter million Chinese are starving and a million on the brink of starvation owing to floods and warfare in that portion of Honan, north of the Yellow River. CHINESE LINES HELD COUNTER-OFFENSIVELY SPENT. HANKOW, March 31. The main force of Chinese is coun-ter-offensively spent since the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, but there is no sign of the Chinese lines breaking. CHINESE REOCCUPY TSIAKO JAPANESE LOSSES ESTIMATED AT 4000. HANKOW, March 31. Reanimated by their successes on the Tientsin-Pukow front, where they annihilated a thousand Japanese witn hand grenades and two-handed swords in bloody street fighting at Taierchwang, the Chinese have again occupied Tsiatso, northern Honan Szean, in northern Chekiang, suffering three thousand casualties compared with the Japanese loss of four thousand.