CHINESE DRIVEN BACK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 9

CHINESE DRIVEN BACK

150-MILE FRONT

CLAIM BY JAPANESE ’ LUNGHAI RAILWAY [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) TOKIO, April 28. The Japanese claim to have driven back the Chinese along a 150-mile front on the Lunghai railway. The Japanese captured Hohsien, 35 miles south of Nanking, and routed the Chinese at Shuangkichen, three miles west of Hangchow.

GREAT BATTLE IMMINENT. WELLINGTON, April 29. The following cablegram was received by the Chinese Consul from Hankow this morning:— On the border of Shantung and Kiangsu provinces both the Chinese and the Japanese are heavily reinforcing their lines, and a second great battle—the first was fought at Taierchwang—is imminent. There is now severe fighting in villages ten kilometres east of Tierchwang, also in the territory north of Pihsien. There is evidence of the enemy’s intention to recommence attacking from south of the Hwai River. Two thousand enemy troops have crossed this river, and about one thousand are again threatening Yiencheng.

NEW COMPLICATION FRESH DEMANDS BY JAPAN. MOSCOW, April 28. The Tass news agency says that instead of accepting the Soviet's request to come halfway and settle ten of the points of friction, Japan made new demands which complicate the position, including the immediate signature of the long-debated fisheries convention.