PAKHOI TAKEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1939, Page 5

PAKHOI TAKEN

JAPANESE OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH CHINA HEAVY FIGHTING IN SUBURBS OF CITY. DRIVE INLAND PLANNED. B.v Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK. November 16. The Shanghai correspondent of the United Press of America says that the Japanese have occupied the port of Pakhoi after heavy fighting in the suburbs. The correspondent of the Domei News Agency with the forces slates' that it is planned to drive inland to Aiming, Gwangsi Province. A column may also be sent to Yunnan Province. He adds that the vanguard is already 30 miles inland, and Chinchow. Feneheng and other cities have been occupied. POSSIBLE DELAY ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. NEW YORK November 16. The Shanghai correspondent of the United Press says that according to the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman, Mr Wang Ching-Wei is delaying indefinitely his proclamation of the Central China Government at Japan’s request because certain matters remain to be clarified. The spokesman added that it was too early to predict the date of the withdrawal of the Japanese forces, which Mr Wang was reported to have demanded. The negotiations between the Foreign Minister, Admiral Nomura, and the Soviet Ambassador. M Smctanin. are al present restricted to economic matters. The spokesman ridiculed suggestions of a Russo-Japanese agreement for the partition of China. CHINESE DENIAL REPUT.SE OF JAPANESE REPORTED. NEW YORK. November 17. The Chungking correspondent.of the “New York Times” says the Chinese deny that Pakhoi has fallen. They claim the Japanese were repulsed at Lungmen after a night of bitter fighting and are maintaining an insecure foothold at Shisha, a few miles away. The Chinese are rushing reinforcements to Lungmen.