Blue Funnel s, Phemius will berth at Holts Wharf, sometime this tur he should for ongkong on Monday.
Another Saturday's expected arrival is the H.AL. Hindenburg, whish is due from Dairen at the is Te: any's Installation in xas n Pootung, from where she leaves for uly 18.
Nagasaki, the N.Y.K. sasaki Maru leaves the company's hart tomorrow at 9 am. The D.K.K. Hoten maru leaves from the company's wh Dairen, tomorrow for Tsingtao and at 11 a.
m. Sailing the same time, the OSK. s. ton Maru will leave the OS.K. r Keelung and Takao (Formosa) tomorrow at 11 am.
Among t press of J Manila, ye: led in the s. y, were: rein, Mr. M. Kolob Collins Mrs. L. P. M and Mr Hill.
"Those who left for North China ports, in the s. Tingsang, yesterday, included:
Comdr Moore, tidren, ports, in New Drive; Soldiers Ate Dogs and Cats Peiping, July 13.
ITH the arrival of reinforcements, the Japanese forces in Shansi have begun their third: large-scale Shansi campaign since November, launching a general offensive across the Fen River, south of Pingyang.
Official reports reveal -that several Japanese garrisons in that area have been beleaguered, and that planes have been dropping them food supplies, as the Chinese have cut off all other methods of communication.
The Japanese declare that they again propose to "annihilate" the Chinese divisions operating in the southern corner of Shansi.
—Reuter.
Peiping, July 13.
In a wide, sweeping movement across the hills of southern Shansi, Chinese Charged With Jepanese troops today had succeeded in lifting a prolonged Chinese siege. of three towns Beleaguered in one of these cities. a Japanese garrison was compelled to eat dogs, cats and other animals to ward off starvation, field dispatches revealed, The Japanese operation, started two weeks ago, apparently aims at forcing the Chinese troops, variously estimated to number between 150,000 and 250,000, to fall back south from the area to the swollen waters of the Yellow River, Latest reports stated that Japanese d occupied Pucheng, about lo metres north-east of Yellow River near the sout! eastern border of Shansi, and Wai strategic key point neal border, 30 kilometres
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