Evening star., 1939-03-22
Fighting Renewed
In Five Chinese
Provinces
Joponese-HeId Huinun
Munitions Center
Reported Roided
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, March 22.-The re-
slrgent Chinese-Japanese conflict,
once more characterized by far
flung positional warfare in addi-
ton to guerrilla operations, surged
toward new decisions in five dis
puted provinces today.
It was marked also by fierce naval
and aerial operations along the
East and South China coasts and
reports of Chinese air raids on q
Japanese airf1eld and a munitions
depot on Hainan Island-somewha
q rarity in the 20-month-old strug-
gle.
Advices on the turn of events in
Hupeh, Chekiang, Human, Kiangsi
and Kiangsu Provinces were divided
as to victory claims. Here is a
resume of reports by fronts:
l. Kiangsi-Hunan -Japane
smashed through three Chinese de-
tense lines in Northern Kiangsi,
advancing II miles down the Kill
kiang-Nanchang Railway. Chinese
left 1,100 dead. Japanese occupied
Shansiatu within 80 miles of Man.
chang, Human capital.
Hangchow Bay Towns Shelled.
Japanese artillery, in hill posi-
lions, continued assault on Wuning,
west of Kiukiang -Nanchang Rail-
way. Chinese turned back attempted
bayonet assaults on Wuning. Bat
tie line now runs 100 miles west
ward to Tungting Lake, Northern
Human.
-Chekiang: Japanese thrust
through rice fields and mulberry
groves south of Hangchow Bay. in
drive to occupy Central Chekiang.
Japanese warships in Hangchow
Bay sporadically shelled Ningpo,
Chinhai, Tinghai, Wenchow and
Haimen. Concentration of % war
ships and transports and plane car
rier indicated that Japanese plan
landing near the mouth of the Yung
River.
Japanese bombing planes attacked
towns along the Chekiang- g-Kiangsj
Railway. Invaders are in position to
advance on Shaohing, 30 miles SOUTH
east of Chekiang capital, Hangchow,
where there are five American Bap-
tist missionaries.
Three Towns Recaptured.
3-Hupeh: Month-old struggle
along Han River, Central Hupeh,
swayed back and forth, with neither
Japanese nor Chinese gaining ad-
vantage. Chinese have repulsed
Japanese attempts to cross Han
River for westward drive on Ichang,
nearly 1000 miles up the Yangtze
from Shanghai. Casualties have
been mutually heavy.
+Kiangsu: Chinese staged a
spirited counter drive against the
Japanese mopup, turning the tide
with recapture of Fowning, Szeyang
and Paoying, pushing entire battle
line back nearer Japanese-occupied
Hwaiyin and Haichow.
In the first air raids on Foochow
since last July 7, eight Japanese
planes assaulted the city twice with
demolition bombs. The bombs were
concentrated on Chinese barracks,
customs sheds and powerhouses.
Wang Escapes Assassination. Z.
Domei Japanese news agency
reported from Hanoi, French Indo-
China, that Chinese gunner had
fatally injured Tseny Chung Ming,
former Chinese government leader,
in an attempted assassination of
Wang Ching-Wei, former premier
who was expelled January l from
China's Kuomintang (Nationalist
party for advocating peace with
Japan.
Continued Japanese censorship in
spite of previous representations
caused United States Consul Gen
eral Clarence E. Gauss to lodge
fresh protest.
This protest specifically concerned
conflscation of volumes of Harold
Lashwells "World Propaganda,
which had been addressed to the
Chinese American Publishing Co..
and removal of the Chinese section
from the Asia Magazine.