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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
JAPAN BROUGHT TO A STANDSTILL
Lines of Communication Paoving Highly Vulnerable ITALIAN
NORTH CHINA CAMPAIGN PRO-JAPANESE TAKING NEW TURN EX-MAYOR OF
SENTIMENTS
Rome, To-day.
That Italy will be obstructive to any attempt on the part of the League of Nations to take steps re- garding the Sino-Japanese conflict, is evident by comments in the en- tire press.
•
NORTH SHANTUNG
WITHDRAWAL REPORTED
Tientsin, To-day.
The Japanese advance on all fronts in North The editor of the semi-official China has come to a complete standstill.
"Giornale d'Italia" is unusually caustic and asks what value any measures adopted by the League could have.
He answers his own question by opining that Soviet intervention in China could be legalised in this
manner.
It is clear, he says, that the
League's action in supporting China has removed "the last po achieved through the Nine-Power
sibility of understanding being
Conference.
"OPPOSITION TO PEACE !!” Thus the League provides renew- ed proof of its operations in opposi- tion to peace and international understanding.
TIENTSIN NOW UNDER ARREST
in
Shanghai, To-day. Chinese organisations Shanghai have cabled the mili tary authorities in Nanking de- manding the death penalty for General Chang Tze-chung, for- mer Mayor of Tientsin, who is blamed for the loss of Peiping and Tientsin
Japanese headquarters here give as their ex- planation the necessity of regrouping their forces and giving them a rest, as well as of adequately se- curing their lines of communication so that the
Meanwhile, General Chang arrival of much-needed remforcements will be conchang is reported to have arrived tinuous and unirapeded.
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Tze-
in the capital from Shantung in the custody of General Chin Teb-
Chang
of Shantung General Han Fa-chu.
The problem of filling the gaps along a frontun, representative of General Sung stretching over a distance of several hundreds of Cheb yuan, and General kilometres reveals itself as ever more difficult since Yeh, representative of the Governor. the distance from the Japanese bases of operations increases and appears likely to become a major pro- blem on which the result of the campaign in North China may well depend.
Chinese guerrilla fighters are finding their way through the Saying that the League is taking gaps in large numbers and are a more cautious attitude towards repeatedly damaging lines of the Sino-Japanese conflict than to-communication, wrecking am wards Italy at the time of her munition waggons and isolating "settling of
with the small Japanese forces. Losses Abyssinian slave dealers,"
have been high behind the lines. the
Meanwhile, Japanese head writer concludes that even this fact proves undeniably that Italy could quarters announce that when the never live in harmony with the offensive is resumed, the Yellow principles of the League even when River will be the objective.--
Trans-Ocean
accounts
these are as lax as they are at pre- sent.Trans-Ocearc
MA CHAN-SHAN IN SUIYUAN
Peiping, 2.15 p.m., To-day. General Ma Chan-shan, hero of the Nonni River battle in 1931 and leader of the anti-Japanese guerillas in Manchuria for long afterwards, is reported to have clashed, leading a strong force of cavalrymen, with Mongolian cavalry in West Suyuan.
JAPANESE SAID TO BE IN RETREAT Withdrawing In North Shantung
Tsinanfu, 2 pm. To-day The arrival in North
ung of
finaly
Japanese reports admit that is still
the Mongolian troops were shat-though fighting, it is now tered and scattered.- Our Own passed beyond them, Correspondent.
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It is stated that General Chang
Tze-chung will be tried by the Gen- eralissimo himself Reuter.
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