EASTERN OFFENSIVE

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1933, Page 5

EASTERN OFFENSIVE

JAPANESE - SUCCESS STRATEGIC POINTS CAPTURED. /United Preso Association—JJy Electric? Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.59 a.m.) : TOKYO, February 28

A War Office bulletin' reports that ;| progress is everywhere -better than ■expected, and many important strategic •points have been captured. Advice® received statg that the soldiers are suffering ; from severe cold, - the temperature being thirty degrees below zero. -CHINESE- TOWN GAPTURED. SHANGHAI, February 28. ' A message from Mukden states that the silencing of the Chinese radio station at Hsiaowo, sixty -mileis east of Ohifeng, indicates that, the to.wn has fallen to the Japanese, tihus enabling a rear attack on the Ohifeng defences. ; The Chinese are retreating, and according to instructions, Japanese Iplane® are following, causing. heavy casualties. SITUATION TENSE AT TIENTSIN. JAPANESE ERECT BARRICADES,.^ \ (Received this day at 10.12 PEKING,' February ••2dp s&S!ii - A tense situation is. reported at Tientsin where the Japanese are erecting barricades of barbed wire.-, ih , the streets between the Japanese corices- '' sion and the Chinese in the city, causing belief ,among the native population that trouble is pending. V. " It is estimated that thirty thousand Chinese are available for the defence of Tientsin. The Japanese consulgeneral- at Tientsin lias requested the Chinese authorities to take prompt ~ . measures to ensure the safety of Japanese lives and property. ' ,