Relief Fund for Students, Teachers, Also Begun London, Oct. 15.
The Lord Mayor will officially open a relief fund for sufferers from the war in China on Thursday after a broadcast appeal the previous evening.
Sir Abe Bailey has already forwarded £1,000. Although he did not make it a condition, he expressed the desire that £275 of it should be allocated to the Lester Hospital in Shangh ai to meet urgent medical supplies.
Several other handsome contributions have been promised and indications are that there will be a heartening response throughout the country.
A meeting of University students met in London last night, called by the British Committee of the International Student Service to launch an appeal supplementary to the Mansion House Relief Fund, for £4,000, to be raised in England, if possible, before the end of the year. This money it is intended entirely for the relief of university students and teachers in China. This is part of the international appeal for £10,000. Prof. Chang Peng-chun, of Nankai University, was the chief speaker at the meeting.—Reuter.
Tsinan Again Threatened Tientsin, Oct, 15.
Driving deeper their wedge into Shantung, Japanese troops last' night captured the walled town of Ping-yuan, 80 kins. north of Tsinan on ihe Tientsin-Pukow Railway. The bitter engagement lasted for eight hours. Another detachment, advance" ing parallel to the railway, yesterday afternoon occupied Tukiaotsi, 16 kin, south-east of Tehchow.—Domei, "Dare-to-Die" Heroism Yuanping, Oct. 15.
A "dare-to-die" unit of engineers, according to field headquarters here, was instrumental in the Japanese capture of the strategic Chinese Positions at Hsiawangehang village, in northern Shansi province, To dislodge the 2,000 Chinese defenders, this unit "offered to blow up the Chinese positions with bombs and charged the Chinese positions at dawn this morning, successfully blasting through the Chinese defences." The statement added that the Aihara unit "poured into the breach and after three hours of desperate fighting, took the village," which was put in flames—Domei,
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