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TRUTH ABOUT
"PUPPET"
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
PEIPING'S
GOVERNMENT
Japanese Unable To Persuade Chinese To Cooperate
CHINESE
LEAVING
FORMOSA
Taihoku, To-day.
The Chinese Consul is reported to be leaving for China, via Hong Kong, in the Hakone Maru to- morrow, accompanied by the mem- bers of his staff and a number of Chinese residents in Formosá...-- Our Own Correspondent.
2,000-MILE IRON RING ALONG MANCHU BORDER
3
Foreign Observer HUGE BOMBS
Sceptical Of Success
Berlin, To-day.
DROPPED IN
SHEK PI REGION
Canton, 1.10 p.m. To-day.
A foreigner telephones Reuter The present situation in that part of North China that eight Japanese planes have under Japanese occupation, and the ineffec- just dropped more than ten bombs tiveness of the Japanese puppet “prov ional in the vicinity of the airfield and government” at Peiping, are described by the Shekpi, north of Tungshan. Peiping correspondent of the "Deutsche All- The bombs fell with a deafen- gemeine Zeitung."
ing explosion, shattering houses and rattling windows of houses
a
large crack in the wall. From the
The correspondent declares that normal conditions throughout Tungshan.
have by no means been restored in North The Italian Consulate on the China by the Japanese, that the country is not outskirts of Tungshan now has fully under Japanese control and that the new roof of the Italian Consulate it "government" to the great disappointment of can be seen that one, or probably the Japanese, has not been able to secure the two, fires have broken out. co-operation of leading Chinese and is facing The foreigner adds that this great difficulties.
A.A. GUNS IN ACTION
was the severest raid in several
guns
A two-thousand mile line of frontier fortifica- tions is being construct-
Life is being made extremely it impossible to find Chinese who months. ed by the Soviet Far East unpleasant for the Japanese troops are willing to accept office the Army,
parallel with by Chinese volunteers and guerilla
new government," since not only and beyond the Manchu-bands, and although the cold wea- does every Chinese who lends his breaking in the clear blue sky all
ther has aided the operations of
name to the Japanese endeavour. kuo border, the "China Japanese mechanised units, the ap-realise that a nationalist bullet Mail" learns.
proach of the thaw will undoubted awaits him, but also all Chinese of ly increase the difficulty of their
distinction refuse to accept a posi- problems.
(Continued on Page 24)..
LITTLE ACHIEVED
Starting in the Lake Baikal region, Russia's iron guard, rapidly nearing completion, runs south-east to the Manchukuo The correspondent presumes that border and then along the Amur the Japanese will confine their ad- River and the Korean border to vance to the regions bordering on Vladivostock.
the main highways until May or According to reports from Mos-June, in order to be able to hold Cow, these steps are being taken these vitally important roadways.
has "in order to protect discoveries of "Generally speaking, little
declares, rich oil deposits stretching
been accomplished," he from Lake Baikal to the Pacific."
“and complete military occupation NEW MILITARY ROAD of the territory would require more Although Inside already strong- troops than are at the disposal of ly-fortified Russian territory, this the Japanese on the mainland of new-found oil area is within a day's China, and Japan may be compelled striking distance of the Manchukuoto bring fresh troops from home.” frontier.
Its discovery means the revi sion of Russian tactical plans
based on a strategical retreat
from the frontier into the Siber- ian hinterland in the event of a Japanese attack launched from Manchukuo,、
New military roads from Lake Baikal to the Amur River have also been completed.
Japan's hopes are placed
Sin political development, for which the "provisional government" is intended to be the directing
be force, but these hopes 1
must regarded with a high degree of scepticism, since the “govern- ment" is by no means an estab- lished fact.
CHINESE REFUSALS The Japanese thus far have found
HEAVY RAID ON CHANGSHA
Hankow, To-day.
Details are not known, but a severe bombing raid was report * coming_through states carried out by Japanese planes that a huge column of smoke is in Changsha this morning, the to
be
seen in the vicinity of the aerodrome being the principal aerodrome. Our Own Corres- objective.
pondent.
Anti-aircraft
thundered into action, white puffs of smoke
round the raiding planes, but hits were registered.
no
in Since most of the bombs fell the country, it is believed that the damage was only very slight and no casualties are expected. Reuter.
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