London, Ma Europe is more at case than for many days past as a result of some relaxation of the tension over Czechoslovakia.
Both British and foreign circles in London feel that, while there is no Hankow, May 24.
JETER fighting is raging east of Kaifeng, capital of Honan, where the situation is admitted to be critical for the Chinese.
Chinese troops are stated to be launching a desperate counteroffensive, employing mass tank attacks, in an effort to halt the Japanese advance.
Two Japanese columns are pressing upon Kaifeng, according to Chinese reports.
One of these, advancing from Chihsien, south of Lanfeng, is stated to have reached Hsinlung station, east of Kaifeng, while the other, from Lanfeng, is said to have reached Lowang, another station east of the Honan capital. ground for undue optimism. at any Chinese forces, advancing west-Tate a respite in the crisis has been
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