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March 1, 1933

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CHINESE FIRM AT PASS; Hurl Back Repeated Flanking Attempts in South of Jehol. JAPAN GAINS IN THE NORTH One Column Sweeps Through Towns Near Chihfeng and Another Slips Around Foe. USE OF GAS IS CHARGED Japanese Say 170 Soldiers Have Been Taken to Mukden Suffering From Poison.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Japanese rept capture of Hsiawa, Fangshen, Laokushan and Chienping, in central Jehol, and surrender of Chinese General commanding Chihfeng; Shamoashan Pass and Peichangyingtze in South Jehol reptd captured; Chinese hold Paishihtsumen Pass; Japanese comdr at Tientsin protests against entrenchments made by Chinese General Yu Hsueh-chung; Japanese rept use of poison gas by Chinese

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HITLER SUSPENDS REICH GUARANTEES; LEFT PRESS BANNED; Emergency Decree to Combat 'Communist Terror' Voids Constitutional Safeguards. CURB ON STATES PROVIDED Berlin to Seize the Executive Power, in Any Failing to 'Restore Law and Order.' ALL RED PAPERS BARRED Prussian Socialist Organs Also Suppressed as Aftermath of the Reichstag Blaze. HITLER SUSPENDS REICH GUARANTEES

By Frederick T. Birchall.special Cable To the New York Times.by Frederick T. Birchall

Von Hindenburg issues emergency decree suspending all constitutional articles guaranteeing private property, personal liberty, freedom of press, secrecy of postal communications and right to hold meetings and form assns; many newspapers suppressed; Reich authorized to seize executive power in any State "failing to restore law and order"; 130 Communists and pacifists jailed for questioning about Reichstag fire which is made basis for suppression

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