CHINESE ATTACK

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 7

CHINESE ATTACK

SURPRISE AT NANKING A NIGHT OPERATION / JAPANESE REINFORCEMENTS United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Feb. 11 The Hongkong correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that 10,000 Japanese troops have been rushed to Nanking to reinforce the garrison after a surprise attack by the Chinese. The latter crossed the Yangtse River, five miles south of Wuhu, and launched a determined attack on the Japanese positions round Changhiayuan. The Chinese', in spite of a withering machine-gun fire, ■secured their objectives and drove the Japanese from the village'.

MUSTARD GAS USE BY JAPANESE CHINESE ALLEGATION United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 12, 1.16 p.m.) HANKOW, Feb. 11 A Chinese news agency alleges that the Japanese are using mustard gas In the Llnjual-kwan seotor, Lunghal. FORCED TO RETREAT CHINESE ADMISSION SOME SUCCESS CLAIMED United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 12, 12.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, Feb. 15 Though admitting that they were forced to retreat from Wuhu the Chinese assert that they checked at Senli-poo a Japanese attempt to turn their flank north of Hang-wei in the hope of expediting the advance to Lunghal. Severe fighting with heavy casualties on both sides is reported at Liu-fu. The Chinese report that they annihilated 300 Japanese trying to gain a foothold on the north bank of the Hvvai River, but tiie Japanese are in full occupation of Hwai-yuan, from which they are advancing from the northwest.

COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY ACTIVITY IN MANCHUKUO CENSORSHIP LIFTED United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright TOKIO, Feb. 11 The lifting of the censorship reveals that an alleged Communist conspiracy in Manchukuo late in 1937 resulted in 482 arrests, including women. Eightyfive were sentenced to death, 64 to penal servitude, 31 paroled, 26 acquitted and 156 cautioned. The remainder are still on trial. The police report that they attempted to disaffect the Manchukuo troops and instigate banditry.

ENEMY OF MANKIND A CHINESE REQUEST AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 12, 1.45 p.m.) HANKOW, Feb. 11 A group of Chinese pubiio bodies telegraphed to the Conference of International Peace to he held in London on February 13 urging it to declare Japan the enemy of mankind, demanding sanctions, also refusal of recognition of the puppet governments, and banning- export of munitions to Japan, but allowing them to China. The telegram says that Japan has occupied 818000 square miles, onefifth of China's territory. The number of Chinese' refugees is 125,000,000, or one-third of the country’s population. A GRUESOME WARNING SEVERED HEAD DISCOVERED United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright SHANGHAI, Feb. 10 The police, rounding up terrorists, found in the French Concession the head of a Chinese hacked off with an axe and a note attached saying: “ This is a warning to the anti-Japanese element.”

CHINESE BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS BURNED United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright HANKOW. Feb. 10 \ conference of merchants under the auspices of Hie Chamber of Commerce decided to hold a huge bonfir and burn their remaining stocks of Japanese goods. (Continued in next column)

ANTI-COMMUNIST DRIVE JAPANESE DECLINE United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright PEKING, Feb. 10. The Japanese spokesman announced an intensified drive against the Chinese Communists and partisans in Shansi. He added that the Japanese in a battle over several days wiped out the communists at Kuchiarchen, twenty miles north of Taiyuan and captured five important leaders near Huanping. They killed 90 in a Shantung village, and arrested a number of suspects in North Tsingtao. The Japanese at west Weihsen attacked a unit of the eighth route army inflicting heavy losses.