Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-23
HEAVY LOSSES
ANNOUNCED IN
NANL|NC FIGHT
Eight Bayonet Charges OF Jap
anese Repulsed By Chinese
With Machine Gun Fire
ULTIMATUM GIVEN CHINA
Japan Reiterates Determination
To Advance Beyond Great
Wall If Resistance Met
BY RANDALL GOULD
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


United Press Staff Correspondent
PEIPING, Feb. ga desperate
battle with heavy losses on both
sides was announced by the Chi
nese today in the vicinity of Nam
ling.
The Japanese stormed the Chi
nese positions after a preliminary
air bombing and heavy artillery
barrage, the Chinese reported.
Wave after wave of green clad
Nipponese broke against the Chi
nese trenches as eight bayonet
charges were made.
Chinese armies defending Jehol
province against the powerful Jap
anese war machine dug in along a
$50 mile front, to block the Japan
ese drive for annexation of Jehol
TO the state of Manchukuo.
Although heavy fighting had o.
CURED along the eastern Jehol
border, where the main Chinese
and Japanese forces were concen-
trated Chinese sources here agreed
that the main Japanese offensive
was not yet under way,
The Chinese were equipped with
modern engines of war and were
using the trench tactics defeloped
in the World war. Involved in the
impending battle for Jehol we're in
fantry, cavalry, artillery, machine
guns, tanks and airplanes.
Anti -Manchukuo volunteer ar
mics recruited among the Chinese
were divided into eight corps. Land
over which the Japanese planned
to advance was planted with
mines. The cities of Kailu, Hsing-
lichi, and Shuenyang were sup
piled with anti-aircraft guns, ma
chine guns and mortars.
Regular Chinese troops and
guerillas cooperated on the Jehol
front One important guerilla lead
er decided to support the Japan
ese however. He was the "volun-
teer general Liu Kusi-Tang, COM
manding 10000 soldirs, who joined
the nese-Manchukuo forces.
NANKING, China, Feb. %. tU.p>
- A request that International
pressure be brought to bear on Ja-
pan in order to avoid a bloody war
in Jehol province will be made to
the league of nations tomorrow by
China, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Lo Wen-Kan declared today.
Prolific in numbers and entruSi-
aSCic in patriotism, China will suf-
fer appalling losses unless Japan
abandons her present campaign OF
aggression, Lo said.
He made clear that China would
not beg the league to exert force
but was merely giving it a chance
to prevent wholesale slaughter.
Let them come" the minister
said of Japan's military plans.
They perhaps will kill one hund-
red million of our people but we
are very productive. We will send
more of our men,"
I'VE are unarmed and unclothed;
we possess no shells but each Chi
nese can stop one. Our lives are
our ammunition. We prefer death
to slavery"
NANKING. China, Feb. %. U.P)
"A Japanese ultimatum ordering
the Chinese to withdraw from the
province of Jehol was received by
the government at p. m. today.
Three ultimantums demanding
Chinese withdrawal from Jehol
have been prepared by the Japan
ese, United Press dispatches from
Peiping disclosed on Feb. a.
One is from Toxic to Nanking.
Another is from Changchun, cap
ital of Manchukuo, to General Yu-
Lin, governor of Jehol. A third is
from General Nobuyoshi Muto.
Commander of the Japanese forces
in Manchuria, to Marshal Chang
Hseuh-Liang.
1t was not indicated whether the
ultimatum would be delivered SIM
ultaneously or serially at brief in
tervals. The main japanese drive
was expected to start within "a
hours after delivery.
The Chinese have announced UNI
equivocally they would ignore the
ultimatums.