ATTACK MAINTAINED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 7

ATTACK MAINTAINED

CHINESE OFFENSIVE JAPANESE ON DEFENCE GUERRILLAS CUT RAILWAY [By Telegraph Prese Association — Gopyrlghtj Received Feb. 16. 7.30 p.m. HONGKONG. Feb. 15. The right wing of the Chinese offensive at Honan is within 25 miles of Yoyang, while (. hmese guerrillas have cut the CantonHankow railway between Yoyang anil Hankow and may force the Japanese to withdraw eastward to avoid isolation from their bases at Hankow. WAR IN CHINA HUGE COST TO JAPAN. TOKIO, Feb. 15. Supplementing the Japanese Budget, a Government spokesman stated that an addilienal £600,090,000 would probably be required by a special military Budget, and a general supplementary Budget was being submitted to the Diet shortly. It was previously reported that the Army and Navy account for onethird of the Budget. The expenditure of £215,000,000 had been approved by the Diet; also a special war Budget of £77,000,000. ORDER TO RESIST CHINESE IN HAINAN ISLAND GUERILLAS NEAR HANKOW AERODROME RAIDED CHUNKING, Feb. 15. General Chiang Kai-shek has ordered General Wang, commander of the garrison on Hainan Island to continue resistance to the Japanese occupation. In the meantime guerillas have reached the outskirts of Hankow and raided the Wuchang aerodrome. Prince Sha, the aged Mongolian leader, who arrived at Chungking by air, states that. Mongolians supporting General Chiang have inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese in the western part of Inner Mongolia. JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF HAINAN Received Fem. 16. 5.5 p.m. TOKIO, Feb. 15. Japanese routed a Chinese force and occupied Yulin, the most important harbour in Hainan. 200 TANKS FOR CHINA SHIPMENT FROM I.S.A. RANGOON, Feb. 15. An American steamer is unloading 200 light tanks for delivery to China. IRON FOR MUNITIONS i DRASTIC MEASURES IN JAPAN TOKIO, Feb. 15. Iron lamp-posts, railings, benches, and lids of manholes are being removed from all streets for the manufacture of munitions. Ash-trays and braziers in all Government offices are also being scrapped.