Morning Press News 
IT.S.S. HOUSTON 
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25 July 1938 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Shanghai : 
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Re c ohd. 0 i t e r ing Japanese airmen reported Saturday night that the 
fortress of Klukiang, i-roediate harrier to the Up the Yangtze 
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down the Yangtze from Hankow , General Chiang nai ohek s general 
headquarters. 
Hendaye : 
S-nani sh Government counter-attacks Saturday rurther slov-ed down 
the Insurgent's drive toward Valencia while the too yoar old 
Spanish war burst into new activity on two other utejoi iron /.> 
jn Estemandura and Catalonia. The Government’s armies m 
Northwestern Catalonia rear the French frontier pushed a strong 
offensive against insurgent positions around Sorte, about 80 
miles from Barcelona. 
London: 
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Peggy Hopkins Joyce, four times married, sayes she envies 
quiet suburban wives who live their lives ao mg washing. She 
savs she would like to settle down to that mind ol a life with 
a good man. '’’Being the world’s most famous and most glamorous 
woman is getting to be a bore”, she modestly conixfea. 
Moscow: 
» a. • * p „;, A .,np 7 thfit 1 1 1 rifirsons had been executed 
An official report showing tnat ix* +h 
durinsr the June purge in the Ukraine was on ale toua* v^th the 
Soviet Supreme Attorney. The Attorney said the oonaemned 
included 29 members of party committees, 8 army oxiioers 
4 secret police, and 73 rank and file members ox the Communist 
Party . 
Hankow : 
The citv of Kiukiang lay in wreckage and smouldering ashes 
tonight awaiting capture by the Japanese. T ^© Jhines- li- 
before the city continued to hold grimly against the forces 
of the Japanese attack but the defenders were preparing to 
fall back. 
All dav fires roared uncontrolled through the city of Kiukiang 
from which all the civil population had been - evacuated . Build- 
ings of -masonry had been wrecked . Meanwhile , a new xleet ol 
Jaoanese Naval vessels arrived at ^ Shanghai to take part m 
campaign aeainst the temporary Chinese capital Oj. hankow, the 
fleet was expected to proceed up the Yangtze to rovide rein- 
forcements and supplies for the army battling tlie hinese 
positions at Kiukiang. The Government is ready to evacuate 
Hankow, if necessary, and move to a new capital xarther m th 
interior of China. 
The Chinese government announced its troops have recaptured 
Tungcheng and Sucheng in a counter offensive against the Japs 
in Chahar Province. The cities were taken by the mva e o 
earlier in the war. 
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