WAR IN CHINA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 45, 21 January 1938, Page 2

WAR IN CHINA

FIGHTING NEAR SHANGHAI. ANXIETY AROUSED. (United Press Association— By Electric • Telegraph.— Copyright.) Received January P-n^ Thp Dailv Telegraph’s Tokio corresOuter l Mongolia, with whom she is alincreased by more in antiv and chanised divisions and cavalry divisions, also an ! '"f division and 1500 ; P lanes,.|t >s also leered that Britain -is supplying the Soviet with 20 submarines and 10 he fleAvy UnS " rain interfered/ with the Japanese operations for W BP tanks, artillery, and mfantiy we e concentrated against the Um ese guerrilla forces m the Rootling area across the Mhangpoo fiom the International Settlement. The Japanese move is causing renewed anxiety, as it is feared it might involve the occupation of the wlio.e of ShangMean while in the settlement the French police, in lightning raids, arrested 89 Russian and Chinese terrorists and seized quantities of arms and ammunition. The raids are continuing nnd further mass arrests are expected. It is believed an extensive plot lias been forestalled. The .Times Shanghai correspondent says wireless communications > hav<s been partially reopened, operating in the name of the previous Administration from the same offices, and contacting Hong Kong. Manila and Batavia. It is expected that the Japanese, will announce that foreign wireless agreements wili be respected.