Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-19 | Page 3 | Chinese Saly 4000 in Fight

CHINESE SLAY 4000 III FIGHT 1 8HANGHAlMayJattJP Chi- nose troops hsva recaptured Tung-pen, Tung-pen, north of tha Yangtze river, killing 4000 Japan ess troops In their second biggest victory of tha Chi-nsss-Japaneae war, Chinese dispatches dis-patches assarted today. , Tungpeh la on tha border of Ho-nan Ho-nan and Hupeh provinces, 140 miles northwest of Hankow, Fighting had been proceeding In the area for aome time. According to the Chinese advices, , Chinese stormed the Japanese lines and captured the city after eS hours of hand to hand fighting in tha suburbs and the city streets. Chinese troops pursued fleeing Japanese remnants and reoccupied a number of villages in the area, , according to tha Chinese reports. The Chinese asserted that it waa their biggest victory since the battle of Taierhchwang, In the Soochow area, early in the war. It had been noticed here that , Japanese reports had been almost silent regarding the Honan area for two daya before the Chinese reports of a victory. Turn Back Raiders Dispatches from Chungking asserted as-serted that Chinese pursuit planes r turned back a fleet of Japanese bombers and shot down two. The Japanese, it was said, were bound for Chungking, the capital, when the Chinese planes encountered them near Kueifu at tha head of 1 the Yangtze river gorges. United States marines and British Soldiers aided police today In blocking block-ing off various parts of the International Inter-national aettlement with street barricades bar-ricades and raiding Chinese hotels and homes In search of Chinese ' terrorists." The raids, ordered by settlement authorities, were Intended to remove re-move any basis for Japanese complaints com-plaints that anti-Japanese elements were being permitted to operate ' freely under the protection of foreign for-eign authority. Previously two Chinese Chi-nese newspapers had been suspended suspend-ed for publishing anti-Japanese articles. ar-ticles. Asks Protest The American Post Mercury company, which published the Chinese Chi-nese language Tam-Ei-Pao, asked the American consulate general to protest to French concession authorities au-thorities against the confiscation of today's issue of tha paper, and he requeated damages. International aettlement authorities authori-ties had previously suspended the newspaper for publishing part of a speech by Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Chi-nese leader. It waa held that the publication of the apeech was "det- , rimental to peace and order in the aettlement." Consul General Clarence E. Gauss promised to Investigate.