Big Advances on North China Front
— Press Association-
REVOLT THREAT IN MANCHUKUO
(By Telegraph-
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(Received 1, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, 11 Septemlber 30. IA. further Japanese poundiilg occurred to-day in Shanghai. This is regarded as the preliminary to a big' offensive. The barrage did not penetrate the Chinese defences, and has now eeasedAnticipating a Japanese advance up the Yangtse^ the Chinese •re tinking stone-laden junks. As part of a triple offensive iii North Ghina, the Japanese are ^eported to have smashed the Chinese littes and to have advanced within 15 miles of the Shantung border, capturing the strategic Ttmgkuang statioii, which is oU the Tientsin-Pukow line* The Japanese spokesman announced to-day that, as a precautionary measure, Japan was sending 120,000 troops to Manchukuo to meet a threat of revolt. * General Hanfuchu, Governor of Shantung, has pledged ellegiance to Marshal Chiang Kai-sliek. Tokio alleges that British as-well as Russian anti-aircraft guns being installed at Nanking* . '■
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 7, 1 October 1937, Page 5
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