CABBAGES AS BOMBS
FARCICAL WARFARE IN CHINA
WOMEN CAPTURE TOWN Reed. 11 a.rn. SHANGHAI, Sunday. There are indications that the Soviet forces are not taking war seriously. Following the capture of Hailar, it now transpires that the town was taken by a women’s battalion. Similarly, the Soviet planes stunting over the Chinese lines are dropping cabbages and stones, instead of bombs. Serious bombing, however, on the eastern and western fronts demoralised the Chinese who are withdrawing whenever they are seriouslymenaced. The Mukden correspondent of “The Times’’ reports that the preliminarynegotiations for a settlement, between the authorities at Mukden and Moscow have not reached a definite conclusion, owing to Moscow’s insistence that the second of her conditions, which was the reinstatement of M. Yemshanoff and M. Eismont, former manager and assistant-manager respectively of the Chinese Eastern Railway-, shall be fulfilled before the negotiations for peace are opened. It is understood that the Mukden authorities are pressing for the appointment of a new manager and as-sistant-manager, the aim being to eliminate Red propaganda, l'or which they blame the previous managers. They- are awaiting the concurrence of the Nanking Government before replying to Moscow.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 9
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191CABBAGES AS BOMBS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 9
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