Of the fourteen alleged terrorists who were arrested in a number of raids carried out in the French Conis. Cotton Export [dise Guests Railway Japanese Communications Attacked at Many Points Reported to be under the "cer tralized" command, Chinese guerillas on the eastern front are attacking the communication line held by the Japanese garrison force along the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai Hangchow Railways and their attacks have been so fierce that during the past few days the railway communication has been disrupted and the long distance telephone system destroyed. The telephone. service has not yet been restored and the fighting is still going on, it is claimed by Chinese reports, Quoting arrivals from the war-torn areas, the reports state that during the past few weeks when the Japanese have been trying fo. attack Wenchow and other Chekiang coastal districts Chinese regulars and guerillas have made "apparent Apart from the communication line, the rest of the territory is cómpletely under the control of Chinese forces whose activities have caused nervousness among the populace and the Japanese, it is asserted.
The Japanese garrison forces, it is stated, only try to hold their original positions and owing to their numerical inferiority they refrain from engaging big bands of Chinese forces. On Wednesday, attacks were launched by Chinese forces on Kashing and Wuklang which forced the train service to stop.
Other confirmatory reports state that recently an important conference was held somewhere in western Chekiang jointly by ré- presentatives of the Chinese army, the Kuomintang and administrative officials. Forty eight proposals bearing upon the situation were discussed at the meeting. Methods of coordination among the various units of the army and of recruiting militiamen are said to have been decided upon although no official details have been disclosed, In determine Secretary of Agriculture that a rate should be sought for which the possibility of an increase would be as remote as the possibility of a decrease, He also declared that he believed the programme should Lo made effective as soon as possible, in order that the shipping of cotton would not be unnecessarily delayed. At the same time, Mr. Wallee recommended that all payments to be made, at least to the end of the calendar year, would be in respect of the 1099 crop.—Reuter.
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