JAPANESE ADVANCE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 5

JAPANESE ADVANCE

CHINESE RETREAT

HOSTILITIES NEARING PEKING.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

SHANGHAI, May .14. Chinese official bulletins to-night .admit a general withdrawal in face of. the Japanese offensive launched simultaneously in the Kupeikow and Laun river regions.

The Chinese a t Nantienmcn, just southward of Ivukeikow, sustained three thousand casualties in the. past three days. The Japanese crossed the Luan river, carving a way througn •two divisions.

The Japanese have advanced south of the Great Wall, through the Kupeikow Pass. This advance is creating considerable' anxiety lest, eventually, it should prove that the Japanese intend to capture Peking. The Japanese are now advancing toward Minum on the Kupeikow Roan, only forty miles from Peking, .which is now hurriedly being thrown into a posture of defence. Sand'bag barricades are being erected in the principal locations of. the ;:eity. .At Nantienmen the Chinese fortificatioQ:s, have been ’completely obliterated : Jjyjgnesa artillery .fire, . Japanese advance '.continues*.

EVACUATION BY CIVILIANS,

(Received this day at 10.45 a.m.)

PEKING

May 15

Nervousness regarding Japan’s intentions is rapidly increasing, and many well-to-do Chinese are leaving Peking in the belief that the Japanese occupation is imminent.

As ia precautionary measure, the American legation has adviged American women and children to evacuate Tung Chow, a mission centre, thirteen miles eastward 'of Peking, in consequence qf

reports that the Japanese intend occupying the town. , ~. . ,In the Kup6s6w region the , Japanese reached ,a point' eight .miles northward of. Miyun,' whence the' entire civilian population fled. 1 , ,

FURTHER JAPANESE SUCCESS.

(Received this day at 10.10 n.ih.l

SHANGHAI. May 15

Large cpndfentration of Chinese troop s i« reported at where gunfire is distinctly audible. General Yuh : Such Chung, commandant of the' T'aku Tientsin area, announces thkt he will resist to tHe uttermost.

. The Japanese have’captured Shihhsia, an important; Chinese position, south of the Kupeikow Rasa.