London, Oct. 13.
'Announcing his resignation leader of the Brit Blackshirts, Sir Oswald Mosley said today, "I have fought a' great battle against odds far greater within the movement than those without. I entered polities a rich man and leave a poor one."
Hankow, Oct. 14.
The Japanese forces in the vicinity of Sinyang, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway 100 miles north of Hankow, are crossing the Peiping-Hankow Railway, and pushing into western Honan in two columns, according to Chinese reports.
One of these is said to have crossed the railway north of Sinyang, and to be engaging Chinese troops at Shihpalimiao, to the northwest of Sinyang.
Another column, it is reported, crossed the railway in the vicinity of Liuling, south of Sinyang, and is now engaging the Chinese. troops at Chingshihchiao, to the west of Liu-ling.—Reuter.
Chinese Progress Round Sinyang Hankow, Oct. 14.
On the Peiping-Hankow Railway Chinese forces after reportedly recapturing Liuling station are pushing northward according to Chinese military sources. A Japanese detachment is at present attacking Chinese positions at Tangchiaho, northwest of Wushengkwan, strategic pass on the Honan-Hupeh border, it is reported.
A Chinese military communique admits that Japanese troops yesterday penetrated a section of the Chinese line southwest of Yangsin. It adds that a Chinese column moving up to the front southwest of Huangchiao encountered Japanese vanguards and repulsed them in an engagement.
When Japanese warships off Shih-hui yao below Huangshihkang on the Yangtze exchanged shell fire with Chinese shore batteries, one Japanese ship was sunk and another damaged, the communique claims.—Reuter.
Leading officials of the Blackshirts described newspaper annouritements of their leader's resignation as a hoax and a forgery. They said Sir Oswald had no Intention of resign-
Disowned by his Tory father in 1926 when he entered politics for Labour, Sir Oswald was Labour member of Smethwick until 1981.
Disgruntled in 1930 when the Government rejected his unemployment scheme, he resigned from his Lancaster. A post, of Chancellor of the Duchy of
The idea of founding a Fascist movement had then not yet occurred to him. He remained within the Labour Party, satisfying himself with leading a small group of insurgents until March 2, 1931, when he announced the formation of a "New Party" whose principles differed from all the old parties "in our demand for a complete revision of Parliament which will change it from a talk-shop to a work-shop."
The Labour National Committee expelled him from the party.
Unbiased observers have said the "New Party," the precusory of the "British Union of Fascism," was built on the sands of psychological ertor,—United Press.
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