GUERILLA TACTICS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 5

GUERILLA TACTICS

— Presa Assn.-

Chinese Harrying lnvaders in Shansi MORALE ST1LL UNBROKEN

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(Eeceived 9, 8.45 a.m.) 0 v LONDON, Nov. 8. The London Daily Heraid's correspondent at Shanghai interviewed General Ohuteh, Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Eoute Army. He said that the Japanese, in order to take Taiyuanfu, wero compelled to throw eight divisions and several independent brigades, totalling 180,000, with tanks cavalry and guns, into northern Shansi, but even if Japan occupied all the northern Chinese railways and cities the war would continue. The Japanese, General Chuteh added, did not dare leave the cities for fear of annihilation. The Chinese were arming an5 organising against the Japanese. Japan could not exploit her conquests for three years, nor conld she afford to maintain 400,000 troops in North China. "The Communist troops still based in north Shansi are daily taking heavy toll of the Japanese by large-seale guerilla attacks," General Chuteh added, The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Shanghai says that following the capture of Taiyuanfu the J apanese will be able to occnpy five provinces north of the Yellow river. There is no sign of a collapse of the Chinese morale.