50,000 CHINESE TROOPS RUSH NORTHWARD TO FIGHT JAPANESE.—Charging that Japan is deliberately provoking war with China in the area srurounding Peiping in an effort to make of Hopei province a second Man chukuo dominated by Tokio, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist dictator has ordered 50,000 crack troops northward to reinforce the 29th Army already engaged in stiff fighting against manoeuvring Japanese forces. Japan has ordered General K. Katsuki, one of her most trusted commanders, into the area to take command and is rushing reinforcements to her troops. Observers believe that China is prepared at last to make a stiff stand against further Nipponese encroachment and that a new Sino-Japanese large scale war is in the making. Some of Shek’s well-trained and well-equipped Nationalist troops now rushing northward are pictured in review formation, with the astute Chinese Nanking dictator inset.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 4

50,000 CHINESE TROOPS RUSH NORTHWARD TO FIGHT JAPANESE.—Charging that Japan is deliberately provoking war with China in the area srurounding Peiping in an effort to make of Hopei province a second Man chukuo dominated by Tokio, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist dictator has ordered 50,000 crack troops northward to reinforce the 29th Army already engaged in stiff fighting against manoeuvring Japanese forces. Japan has ordered General K. Katsuki, one of her most trusted commanders, into the area to take command and is rushing reinforcements to her troops. Observers believe that China is prepared at last to make a stiff stand against further Nipponese encroachment and that a new Sino-Japanese large scale war is in the making. Some of Shek’s well-trained and well-equipped Nationalist troops now rushing northward are pictured in review formation, with the astute Chinese Nanking dictator inset.