FIGHTING IN CHINA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1938, Page 7

FIGHTING IN CHINA

TEN THOUSAND JAPANESE SURROUNDED SUPPLY LINES BEING HARRIED. INDICATIONS OF SHORTAGE i OF MAN POWER. HANKOW, April 14. The Chinese have captured Chiyuan and Pinglu, and are also storming the walls of Yihsien. They have surrounded 10,000 Japanese. Shanghai reports that 10,000 Chinese regulars appeared at Sunkiang to assist the guerrilla fighters in harrying the Japanese supply line from Wuhu to Nanking. In support of the belief that the Japanese are short of man-power, the Chinese report that a gale blew over straw dummy soldiers used at Yishien to delude the Chinese into thinking that they were confronted by a larger army than that actually facing them. A shortage of supplies is holding up the Japanese-Shantung campaign. A Soviet notification of the suspension of trans-Siberian visas is believed to mask secret new concentrations of Soviet troops in view of the tension between the Soviet and Japan.

JAPANESE CLAIMS EIGHT CHINESE DIVISIONS LIQUIDATED. SEVERAL TOWNS CAPTURED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. (Recd This Day. 10.15 a.m.) TOKIO. April 15. The Domei Agency reports that the Japanese forces in Shansi have liquidated eight Chinese divisions in the Tahsing Ranges and have captured several towns.