Leaving only a. small" detachment effect the complete. occupation of Maimon, which was frat entered by Vanguard units on Saturday and high was completely occupied yes-{erday morning, Japanese columns on Saturday evening surged into Hwang. West of Haimen. feld' reports here approximately lo metres Hated 'The Japanese drive was begun at 230 'o'clock on Saturday afternoon from 'Haimen, and after' a concerted four-hour seance, occupied Hwang. Yen. Sanklangkow, at the mouth of ihe" Yungning River, a. tributary. of he Ling River, wes taken by" the Japanese during their drive against Rapidly consolidating. their posttions after a. series of smashing) auults"'on Chungking. defence positions, two eracke Japanese. columns this inaening crushed the Chungking '31a Division comprising 2,00" men between two currencies were at once spotted by every one of them. The Chinese "papers ssvert. that" north hina has" lost" over $70,000,000 through the flux of money due to this difference.
Although this gute is certainly a very. considerable exaggeration, the Postal" authorities of north China, anyhow, found that there was a large deerensé in. their income, For the minor financial. geniuses it on the {dea of remitting, say $100 worth of FRB. to Shanghai, exchanging them for $140 worth of National dollars and buying that amount of stamps, which were sent back to Peiping and. sold for $40 PRB. A very simple way of geting rich quick.
order, therefore, to stop the use of stamps which had not been bought in north China, the Post OMe sued 23 Postal Notification to the effect that utter, April 1 letters over 8 cents neat "letter postage) "and parcels could only be posted at 2 post. fice, where the stamps must be bought and Mixed on. the spot. Therefore, in theory, a s0-cent loiter posted in a pillar-box or a parcel to which the Stamps have already been fixed will not be se cepted or delivered. and swept into Haimen, strategic city fon the banks of the Ling River in Eastern Chekiang.
Haimen, which capitulated at 9 o'clock yesterday) morning, was cupied by the Japanese for the dust time since the commencement of the resent Sino-Japanese hostilities.
'Tsiense, on the other side of the river from Haimen, also was taken. shortly after landing operations' were completed on Saturday morning, Was revealed in' eld" despatches.
Chungking defence positions only eight kilometres from Ningpo, impor-fant commercial centre in' eastern Chekiang province, were being hammered mercilessly by Japanese artil-Jong yesterday morning, Held reports) revealed.
'Other columns, assisted by aircraft were reported {0 have routed Chun; king defenders offering opposition at Chenshan, Chaokia and Fangchien, south of' Chinhai where' Japanese runite landed early on Saturday morming.
'Both Japanese aerial and navat' forces are ce-operating closely with Jand units ta the advance south from Chinhai, reports said. Te was added that. the advance' has been progrossing steadily despite the many creeks and destroyed roads.
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