CHINESE OFFENSIVE
DRIVE TOWARDS WUHU. JAPANESE HARASSED. MINERS IN PITCHED BATTLE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 39, 11 a.m. SHANGHAI, Jan. 18.
Fighting on the Yangtse and Yellow Rivers is proceeding in the snow-cov-ered countryside. The Chinese offensive is directed towards Wuhu.
Two Japanese warships steamed upstream and fired a heavy barrage. The Chinese flying columns are harassing the Japanese communications on both fronts. The Japanese, in an offensive on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, have captured Chowshien and Mingkwang. Japanese bombers, intent on cutting off China’s supplies by the CantonHankow railway, have dislocated 'the train service for six days in succession.
The Chinese report that 7000 miners in Formosa, many of whom were armed, revolted in a pitched 'battle against the Japanese, after which they withdrew to the mountains. Thirty thousand Chinese are making a forced march eastwards from the Honan*Shansi border to stem the Japanese attack on the Shantung front, whero it is reported that 400,000 Chinese have massed with the object of preventing the junction of the Japanese north and south armies.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 9
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