JAPANESE ADVANCE

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1933, Page 5

JAPANESE ADVANCE

SUCCESS REPORTED I VICTORY IN JEHOL IN SIGHT rUniteJ Prosn Association— r Jy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) GENEVA, March 3. News has reached here that the Japanese are within sight of complete victory in Jehof. ’pile Japanei-e now claim they have advanced beyond Lingyuan, occupying Pc/ikmig, and expecting to take Pingch'ua.n shortly. It is after passing Pingohuan that the rea-1 Japanese difficulties will commence, for the route to Jeliol is only along narrow defiles not wide enough to accommodate two motor cars abreast. The Chinese are securely entrenched on hilltops. It is believed the Japanese will resort to machine gunning from aeroplanes.

CHINESE' ABANDONING JEHOL.

-SHANGHAI, March 3,

A flash telegram from Peking states that it is reliably reported that Chinese commenced 'to abandon Jeliol this morning.

The Japanese report the capture of the last large town in their path toWards Jehof, and seventy miles remain,, mainly open uneven country.

TOKIO MINISTER RECALLED.

TOKIO, March 3. It is officially understood that Chang Pso-Pin, Chinese Minister at Tokyo, is likely to be recalled, but a Charge d’Affaires remains, and relations are unbroken. SUICIDE AS PROTEST. TOKYO, March 3. A youthful proletarian suicided by Hari-kari in the Premier’s official residence, leaving behind a memorial of protest against the Government favouring the capitalists and the sugar company's tax evasion scandals.

Another proletarian simultaneously committed Harikari in an anteroom of the war ministry.

The reasons for both are officially withheld. '

CAPTURE OF PINGCHUAN.

(Received this day at 9 a.m.) TOKIO, March 3

Pingchuan has been captured fifty miles from Chengte, whence aeroplanes report the Chinese are retreating.