| Show INVADERS TAKE KEY CHINA CITY SHANGHAI Feb 28 CR UP UPA A A A Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese army driving southward through Shansi province at th the western end of the great central centra China front reported today it ha had captured and driven th the Chinese defenders in a rout toward towar the Yellow river h has been provisional capital cap cap- ital Hal of the province since the Japanese Japanese Jap- Jap anese captured the capital cap cap- ital Hal miles to the northeast three months ago The reported fall of in indicated in in- the Japanese had driven drive s s' s some me 40 miles in two days sine since I smashing the Chinese resistance I center at En route th the invaders took and Chao Chao- cheng in heavy fighting This drive apparently was aimed at the great bend of the Yellow river where Shansi am and Honan provinces join Just south sout of the bend lies vital vita station of the railway and gateway tb to stronghold of the bitterly Japanese anti Ch Chinese Chi Chi- nese communists Thrust to Continue From the Japanese were expected to branch into two co columns columns col- col striking southwestward down the valley of the Fen river rive and southward through anc and both striving to reach th the Yellow river 85 miles south o of Of many Japanese thrusts seekIng seeking seeking seek seek- ing to cut the backbone of the entire Chinese military position position po po- the one in Shansi alone alon was making real progress Heavy bombardments in that sector sector sector sec sec- tor were demolishing Chinese defenses defenses de de- de and large tank contingents contingent showed the way to the infantry The drive threatened to push th the Chinese out of southwestern Shansi Shans thus completing the Japanese conquest conquest con con- quest of all aU territory above th the Yellow river The Japanese reported they killed or captured Chinese at sien alone City Waits Bombardment Warning that the Japanese in intended intended in in- tended to subject vital vita junction on the to heavy air bombardment tomorrow was wa given in leaflets dropped from planes over the city vital junction of the west east-west anc and south north-south railways railways railways rail rail- ways a major objective of Japans Japan's strategy East of Shansi in other sectors of the corridor held by Chinas China's armies along the the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese were firmly holding their own against the widely-extended widely Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese forces suffered a terrific bombardment February 14 H when Chinese were killed and in in in- Bombs dropped near the American Southern Baptist mission mis mission mis mis- sion and hospital but its staff es escaped escaped es es- harm Americans Periled Five Americans were reported still in Dr Stanford E. E Ayers Atlanta Ga Miss Katie Murray Kenansville N. N C. C Miss Grace Stribling Westminster S. S C. C and the Misses fisses Pearl and Bessie Reid of the Free Methodist mission mis mission mis mis- sion home towns not given In also 0 are 24 Italian Catholic priests and 21 sisters The Chinese air forces carried the war to the enemy today bombing bombing bomb bomb- ing Japanese concentrations at many points along the north bank of the Yellow river where the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese anese- were preparing to attempt crossings In Shanghai the new Japanese commander for central China General General Gen Gen- eral Shunroku Hata paid a formal call on Harry E. E Yarnell commander commander com com- mander in chief of the United States Asiatic fleet aboard the admirals admiral's temporary flagship the yacht Isa Isa- bel General Hata has replaced General Iwane Matsui recalled to Japan MOSCOW Feb 28 UP A UPI A dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis patch from Chita Siberia today reported reported re re- re ported one soviet soldier had been killed and another wounded in a fight presumably on the border of Siberia and Japans Japan's protectorates The dispatch said 12 armed horsemen horsemen horsemen horse horse- men rode into soviet territory and exchanged shots with Russian border border border bor bor- der guards Previously machine guns had been fired at the gu guards Soviet reinforcements arrived and drove the inv invaders back ack I II I TOKIO Feb 28 C UPI Tee The governments government's governments government's gov gov- I dictatorial national mobilization mob mob- I ili bill precipitated a a. new uproar uproar up up- roar in a a. lower house subcommittee I tee today Irked because Premier Prince I Konoye failed to at attend attend attend at- at tend the session at which they were to take up the highly controversial controversial controversial con con- I b bill i 1 committeemen shouted stamped their feet and I finally recessed The premier has been ill and the I lower house has persistently refused to listen to any other ministers minister's I explanation of the bill which has been roundly criticized as a fascist innovation and of such a nature as to deprive the Japanese people of their constitutional rights |
