Canton, Apr. 17.
Gen. Chang Ying-kueh, commanding Chinese forces at Sunkai, 25 miles north-east of Canton, and Gen. Li Chen, deputy commander of the 151st Division, were seriously wounded during a Japanese attack on Sunkai on April 13, it was learned in reports reaching here today.
Sustaining heavy losses, several Chinese divisions entrenched in a sector north of Canton abandoned more than 1,000 dead following a Japanese counter-offensive launched on April 10 against a Chines> "April offensive" wing commanded by Gen Vu Han-mou, former Pacification Commissioner of Kwangtung, according to field reports—Domei. kang, at 12.20 o'clock noon. Capture of Sunyingkang followed almost immediately afterward, the reports stated.
The attack complemented the capture of Lokwei, in eastern Hainan, by Japanese naval forces last Saturday, the reports said.
Prior to the fall of Sunyingkang, the port of Poaokang, in eastern Hainan Island, was taken by a Japanese naval landing party, assisted by naval aircraft, at 10 o'clock yesterday Japanese on Spratley Islands Since 1917
Toyko, Apr. 17.
Japanese nationals have been mining rock phosphate on the Spratley Islands since 1917, the Foreign Office declared today in a statement announcing that the Government will promulgate in the Official Gazette tomorrow its decision to place the South China Sea territory under the jurisdiction of the Government-General of Formosa.
The Foreign Office statement said the Spratleys consist of a group of small, low-lying sand islands 4.5 to 14 ft. above high water level, each having an area of about ten acres, between French Indo-China and the Philippines. Most of the islands are in a region hazardous for navigation—Domei.
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