Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1938 — Page 4
Planes Bomb Hankow Defenses
Loyalist Offensive Making Gains in Teruel Area.
(Continued From Page One)
Consul General at New York, received Constantin Smetanin, Russian Charge d’Affaires, this afternoon and rejected a new Russian protest - against incidents on the frontier. In turn Horinouchi asked that Russia “reconsider her own. attitude.
‘patches/said that the situation on ntier was quiet this morning. A War Office communique said , that Russians subjected the Kojo vicinity on the frontier to a trench mortar bombardment last night but that since then there had been no action. The Domei News Agency said that Russian infantry attacked the Japanese lines last night under a “bom-
bardment” of star shells but were | today.
repulsed. (Star shells are used to light up the no man’s land between trenches at night so that any prowling detachment may be made a target for machine gun and rifle re )
Soviet Indignation
At Japs Continues
MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (U. P)— Nation-wide indignation over the Siberian border incidents continued today. An article by Ivan Papinin, Polar hero, was published
in all papers. It said: “The Japanese Samurai (militarists) got what they deserved but this apparently is not enough for them. “Infuriated, they are vainly trying to break through the inviolable armor of the sacred Soviet frontiers . . . our Red Army and fleet ¢ are strong as never before and equipped with powerful armament.”
Hankow Defenses Bombed by Japs
SHANGHAI, Aug. 4 (U. P)— The Chinese fought grimly in the blistering heat of the upper Yangtse Valley, slowly falling gack toward Hankow. Chinese authorities admitted the loss of several strategic towns within the outer defense ring of Hankow, but they were determined to
defend the provisional capital to
the end. The Government had officially abandoned Hankow to continue in Chungking, 600 miles farther up the Yangtse River. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his military advisers remained behind, however, to command the defense. It appeared to foreign observers that the Japanese intended to blast their way to the provisional capital by ‘aerial bombings. Many new airplanes from Japan were shipped through Shanghai to the front.
Japs Bomb Hankow Area
Japanese planes bombed almost every section around Hankow still being defended. The Japanese authorities claimed wide successes and believed that resistance soon would be broken. One huge aerial battle was reported in a Japanese communique which claimed that Japanese planes met 54 Chinese planes near Hankow and shot down 32. In addition, the communique said, seven “cleverlyy camouflaged” Chinese planes were destroyed at the Hankow airdrome. Chinese air headquarters asserted that 12 Japanese planes were shot down and that the wreckage of seven of them had been located. Four Japanese pilots were said to have been captured.
Chinese Claim Victory
The Chinese claimed one aerial victory. That was at Anking, in Anhwei province east of Hankow, where Chinese planes raided a Japanese gunboat concentration and assertedly damaged one of them. Two Japanese pursuit ships were said to have been downed while the Chinese planes were returning to their base. The furious Japanese bombings appeared to be having the desired effect. The Chinese fell back from Hwangmei and Lungping, two strategic towns north of the Yangtse River. Hwangmei is on the outer defenses of Hankow about 100 miles from the provisional capital. As the Japanese drove forward - north of the Yangtse their warships, based at Kiukiang, 135 miles below Hankow, began maneuvering upriver, blasting away at the Chi-
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nese positions on ‘both north and south shores to prepare the way for the troops. The . Japanese again’ unofficially warned foreign shipping to stay out of the fighting zone. Japanese naval authorities alleged that French flags were painted on the decks of two Chinese gunboats near Ochang, about 30 miles west of Hankow, and since French awRhorities denied that any of their warships were in the vicinity the gunboats were bombed. The Japanese claimed that many Chinese ships of all descriptions were flying foreign flags making it a “miniature league of nations as far flags are concerned.”
Claim Annihilation of Loyalist Brigades
HENDAYE, French-Spanish Fron- | ¢@ tier, Aug. 4 (U. P.)—Two of the four Loyalist international brigades which crossed the Ebro River in the surprise offensive against Gandesa have been wiped out by Moroccan shock troops, the Rebels asserted
The Rebels said the position of the Loyalists on the Ebro front was desperate. Cut off from their bases by Rebel aviation, which kept the Ebro clear of pontoon bridges, the Loyalist offensive was halted and they fought stubbornly to hold their gains. Rebels said their troops destroyed the 14th International: Brigade, composed principally of Canadians and Czechs, and the 76th Brigade, known as the Marseillaise and made up of Belgians and Czechs. The Rebels asserted that their air raids were directed only at military objectives, but for nearly three hours late last night and early foday Rebel planes attempted -to bomb the center of Barcelona, according to dispatches from the capital city. It was the first raid on Barcelona
since July 24, but many other Loy-
alist towns and villages along the coast have been subjected to bombings, some daily. It started at 10:50 p. m. and continued until 1:40 o’cilock this morning. The uncanny steadiness with which the searchlights were kept centered on the raiders forced them to flee. Anti-aircraft guns fired at them from all directions. The planes were clearly visible despite the fact they were flying at about 13,000 feet. Barcelona crowds, unmindful of the danger of scattering shrapnel, stood transfixed by the
spectacle.
The raiders returned again and
again, but each time they were forced to turn out to sea to escape. One plane was believed to have been hit. The bombs which ' they iopped caused considerable destruction. in one or: two. streets, but the casualties were low. There were reports
that only two persons were killed
and 25 injured.
‘Germany Protests Flight
Of Czech Airplanes
BERLIN, Aug. 4 (U. P)— Germany protested vigorously to Czechoslovakia today against an alleged incursion of German: territory by a Czechoslovak airplane, the semi-official D. N. B. News Agency reported. The agency reported yesterday from Glatz, 12 miles from the Czechoslovak Frontier, Czech planes circled about the town for some time. Attempts by the crews of the planes to: photograph Glatz - were observed, the. agency said. “The German minister to Praha
protested sharply to the Praha
Government,” today’s -announcement said, “and demanded the punishment of those responsible for the intentional flight over the German frontier by Czech planes.”
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Japan Seeks Peace With Russia; [MEXICO FIRM
IN ANSWER TO
Cardenas Rejects Offer of Arbitration From United States.
By GARDNER HARDING Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Flatly rejecting arbitration as ‘a means, and “preferential” treatment of American claims as a principle, ‘President Cardenas has replied Secretary ‘Hull's note of July 21 offering no concessions either to good neighbor policy or to expropriated American claimants. The note from Mexico * pointed out that Mexican agrarian codes apply on an equal basis to foreigners and Mexicans, and that Mexican legislation provides for no preferential treatment for foreigners, thus making it impossible to indemnify American claimants on any | other basis than that now being pursued.
Believes F. D. R. Would Do Same
- Admitting Mr. Hull's: contention that whenever foreign property in the United States was expropriated under the social policies of the New Deal program, prompt cash compensation was paid to claimants, President Cardenas maintained that such settlements were only made because the United States was a wealthy nation, President Cardenas made clear his opinion that if President Roosevelt
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