Activities of Japanese troops in the mountainous area south of Chao-hsien, 60 kilometres north-west of -Wuhu along the Yangize, and along the waterways linking Lake Chao with the Yangtze were announced in a Japanese army communique issued yesterday morning, In ce-operation with the Sakurai detachment, the communique said, the Sano detachment routed Chinese Reinforcements on. Yangtze According to Chinese military circles, the Japanese operations in the Yangtze valley between Tatung and Anking have become considerably restricted following the arrived of Chinese reinforcements which have taken up positions between these two towns.
The Chinese report that 37 Japanese warships have dropped anchor in the vicinity of Tatung and that some of these warships ate inter. mittently engaged in shéllhmg the Chinese riverside fortifications near Anking.
Yesterday afternoon, Chinese aeroplanes carried out a sudden raid on these Japanese warships. One Chinese plane made a power-dive in the effort to drop its bomb onto a Japanese warship, Chinese reports state. The pilot, however, failed to recover control over his machine with the result that it crashed on to ihe deck of the warship. Further particulars about this crash are not forthcoming.
The Japanese advance up the Yangtze valley is causing considerable anxiety in Chinese military circles, although itis confidently believed that the Japanese will not be able to capture the river forts without attacking them from the land side. Apparently, Chinese quarters here are reckening on the Japanese making a combined naval and land attack upon Hankow.—Trans-Ocean. guerilla bands in the mountains south of Chaohsien in operations started on June 8.
The communique said the Japanese forces are guarding the waterways between. the western shore of Lake Chao and the western shore; of the Yangtze opposite Wuhu for a distance of 150 kilometres; British Everest Party Gives Up SPECIAL ro THE "N ch."
Darjeeling, June 11.
Members of the British Everest Expedition have decided to give up their attempt to scale the mountain owing to the unfavourable weather, according to statements bf coolies from Sikkim. All are said to be returning. The monsoon broke a few days ago.—Reuter.
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