CHINESE PRESSURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 8

CHINESE PRESSURE

SHATTERING JAPANESE COMMUNICATIONS PART OF ATTACKING FRONT IMPERILLED SUGGESTION OF SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 11.50 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 29. Chinese pressure, exercised owing to their occupation of Tsienshan, Taihu and Susuang, resulted in shattering the Japanese communications between the Yangtse Valley and the Anwhei Plains, leading in turn to imperilling the. Japanese front east of the Tapeh range, as far as Hwangmei. on the front west of the vital point of Anking. MINE EXPLODED UNDER TRAIN. JUST OUTSIDE PEIPING.' CITY WALL. (Recd This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 29. The “Times” Peiping correspondent states that guerillas exploded a mine under a Japanese military train fifty yards outside the city wall, destroying seven freight cars and a section of the track. This is the most daring exploit recorded in this area.

BOLD ATTACK

GUERRILLAS MENACE SUBURB OF SHANGHAI. STRONG JAPANESE FORCE DISPATCHED. (Recd This Day, 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 30. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Shanghai correspondent says Britons are evacuating the-fashionable Shanghai suburb of Hungjao as a result of the Japanese despatching troops there in order to resist a threatened attack by four or five thousand guerrillas, whose scouts set' fire to a bridge outside the golf course and hoisted the Chinese flag before withdrawing, without a shot being fired.