The Archive · 1939

Advance in Shansi

Taiyuan, Mar, 6.

Tsinglo, headquarters of Gen, Chao e 9n the upper bend of the north-west of Taiyuan in was occupied by Japanese troóps at 2.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, according toa message from a noon.

Starting from Nantun, north of Tsinglo a Japanese detachment captured Yunganchen at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon and pushed on toward Tsinglo over trails blanketed with snow.

Other detachments were extending their operations in central and midwestern Shansi, the dispatch said.

Chinese troops retreating from Tsinglo were attacked at Tangshan in midwestern Shansi by a Japanese detachment which reached the town by forced marches after scattering the 428th Regiment of the Division of the Central Army on Sajurday. Two more detachments were rounding up guerillas north of the Fen River.—Domei.

Detroit, Mar. 5.

Fathera Charles E. Coughlin in hi broadcast sermon today predicted that Nazi Germany would have to effect a reconciliation with the Papacy or forfeit its affiliations with Italy, Portugal and Spzin. He s Pope Pius XII was "made to ord to solve problems existing between the Nationalistic Social Government of Germany and Christianity.

Father Coughlin said the Third Reich recognized the need for main taining the Christian religion but had made strenuous efforts to restrict the Papacy and Christianity by nationalist end racial legislation which rcpresented the State as supreme and the Church as its servant—United Press.

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