Evening star., 1938-01-02

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Sy the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Jan. 2-(Sunday) -
Two japanese columns moving rapidly
southwark to complete the conquest
OF Shantung Province today were con-
verging on Yenchow, important rail-
way junction near the provinces
southern border.
Japanese dispatches said the two
columns, skirting a Chinese resistance
center around Taishan, the sacred
mountain. already had captured Ping
yin and Feicheng, west of the Tient-
sin-Pukow Railway, which marks the
main line Of the Japanese advance.
Chinese Face Traps.
Capture of Yenchow. it was believed,
would cut off escape for the Chinese
forces still battling the invaders
around Taishan and the nearby city
of Taian. YenchoW is 10 miles south
Of Tsinan, the captured provincial
capital, and about 100 miles north of
Suchow, the junction of the Tientsin-
Pukow and Lunghai railways, the lat
ter being the main east-west trunk
line of China.
The Chinese at TaishaN were re-
ported led by the famous Christian
general" Feng Yu-hsiang. long among
the most bitter anti Japanese Of
Chinas military men.
japanese airplanes were said to
have dropped more than 700 bombs
IN the Taishan area, destroying or
damaging many Of the famous temples
that crown the mountain or nestle on
ITS slopes. Suchow also has been
heavily bombed by the Japanese air
forces. Two hundred Chinese civilians
were reported killed or wounded in the
faids.
:, Acts Against Terrorism.
The Shanghai Municipal Council,
ruling the International Settlement,
took stern measures to cope with ter
forism following yesterdays bombing
in which four Japanese soldiers were
wounded. Five grenades were thrown
At the group by unidentified persons,
probably from Chinese hotel at a
busy settlement corner. Several
Chinese pedestrians. including wom-
an. also were wounded.
In an emergency proclamation the
council gave the police sweeping au-
thority to search public or private
property for unauthorized arms.
threatened to expel from the Settle
ment any one committing armed crime
and Offering rewards up to $500 to
any one supplying information leading
to the arrest of terrorists or seizure
OF unauthorized arms.
The proclamation said any one COM
mitting an offense within the Settle
ment against any armed forces would
be handed over to the forces concerned
. Settlement authorities, Americans
sand Britons, hoped to prevent devel-
Sopment Of terroristic campaign
against Japan's domination of the
sShanghai area. Friday Lo Pah-hong,
eminent Chinese Catholic laynan and
philanthropist, was assassinated in the
French concession shortly after he as
ssumed leadership of Chinese COM
smittee cooperating with the japanese
in restoring normal conditions here.
New friction between japanese and
sother foreigners arose, however, when
,British Police Inspector George Ben
snett reported to the British consulate
Fgeneral he had been beaten by Jap
ranese marines when he went to naval
headquarters to explain a traffic
snlishap.
: Foreign quarters were apprehensive
shat the cumulative recurrence of fric-
stion might mean complete Japanese
susurpation of policing rights event.
sually.
Tsingtao Is Quiet.
Tsingtao, the Shantung port toward
(which japanese army is driving from
the west, was quiet, public safety
commission having restored order after
Two weeks Of destruction and looting
of Japanese property by Chinese forces
(which departed Friday.
One hundred eighty two Americans
remained in Tsingtao and its vicinity,
and Samuel Sokobin, United States
consul, reported all safe and all Amer
1can property unchanged. The de-
Ftroyer Pope arrived at Shanghai from
Tsingtao, bringing five children OF
american residents of the Shantung
port. About 70 Americans have left
Tsingtao since Chinese began burning
Japanese cotton mills and the jap
enese invasion Of Shantung began in
earnest.
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell comman-
To- ~f Trif fn1 CfafA
,Asiatic Fleet, announced his flagship,
the cruiser Augusta, would sail jan
uary for Manila. The Augusta had
been scheduled to leave Shanghai in
mid-December, but remained because
of the sinking Of the gunboat Panay
and the crisis at Tsingtao.
Admiral Yarnell and his staf1 will
remain at Shanghai, making head
quarters aboard the naval yacht Isabel,
now en- route here from Manila. The
Augusta, after five months in the
muddy Whangpoo River here, was
said to need an overhaul.
Hong Kong dispatches reported jap
enese airplanes heavily bombed the
outskirts of Canton. the South China
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ualties and damage were lacking.
Peace Overtures Rejected.
Foreign officials in Shanghai said
they had learned that Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek, China's leader, had
rejected Japanese peace overtures
communicated to him by DR.. Oskar
Trautmann., German Ambassador to
China, now at Hankow.
Suggested terms of peace were said
to have been forwarded to DR.. Traut-
mann by the Toxic government
through the German Ambassador to
Japan. Included were said to be:
An economic agreement under which