The Archive · 1938

Incidents in Poland

Warsaw, May 2. Several incidents marred May Day festivities throughout the country yesterday, The most serious took place in ihe Lwow district, where a bomb exploded during a Socialist parade, resulting in several persons being injured, At Kielce, one person was killed and several injured in a clash between—National-Democrats tanti-

Semitic extreme-rightists) and Sodalists, At Poznan, six people were wounded in similar circumstances.

In Warsaw itself, a bomb hidden in Wuranow square exploded at 11 a.m. just where a Jewish parade was to have passed but fortunately the itinerary of the parade was altered at the last minute, Two passers-by were injured by- paving-stones which were projected by the force of the Hankow, May 2.

Chinese mobile columns are now. most active in Hopei province, with the forces operating in Northern Hopei in the angle between the Peiping-Hankow Railway and the Peiping-Tientsin Railway, causing the Japanese especial anxiety, according to Chinese reports received here today. t The Chinese troops who occupied Laishui, in North-western Hopei, west of Kaopeitien, on the Peiping-Hankow Railway, are' stated to have moved north-eastward, cutting the Peiping-Hankow Railway at Kaopeitien, Chochow and Lianghsien.

They have also blown up the Liuliho River railway bridge, between Chochow. and Lianghsian. Chinese troops are said to have occupied Chochow on April 29, but to have withdrawn later when the Japanese rushed up reinforcements.

Meanwhile, the Chinese mobile units which occupied Yungching, south of Peiping, between the two railways, are reported to.be moving north-with a view to cutting the railway at Lenfang, between Peiping and Tientsin.

The main body of the Chinese mobile forces, Chinese despatches assert, is fourteen miles from Peiping, but the vanguards have advanced to within seven miles of the ancient capital Meanwhile, Chinese mobile columns are said to be harassing the flanks of the Japanese forces all along the highway running from Nantung northward through Jukao and Tungtai to Yenchen.

One Chinese detachment is stated to be attacking Yenchen from the east, while the main body of the Chinese forces is holding the Japanese north of Yenchen.—Reute:

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