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NANKING TROOPS STOP
SHANTUNG
OFFENSIVE Twenty-Five Fresh Divisions Now Organised
MR. HIROTA ON❘ Crack Government ZEISS-INQUART
Force Restored APPEALS FOR To Full Strength
JAPANESE POLICY
Tokyo, To-day.
Hankow, To-day.
Answering questions at a press interview this morning, Mr. Koki Hirota stated that the Gov. China has organised 25 fresh divisions of troops,
ernment had definitely severed all relations with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Japan, he added, will now pro- ceed to do its utmost to help the new regime.
Questioned regarding the new troops being sent to China, he said that their main task would
from any
"invasion" from the
Chiang Kai-shek forces.
according to Chinese press reports here.
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NAZI ORDER
Vienna, To-day.
An appeal to Austrian Nazis to maintain order and not to take ad- vantage of their recently won freedom, was the main theme of a
The crack Nanking Government divisions have also radio address by the Minister of been restored to maximum strength, and their the Interior, Herr Zeiss-Inquart, presence on the Shantung front during the yesterday. past week was sufficient to scotch all Japanese plans for an advance into that province.
be to protect the new government Military observers are surprised at the outstanding accomplishments of the provincial troops along the Hwai River, where the Japanese were forc- ed to purchase every foot of ground at extreme sacrifice.
He declined to answer ques- tions about Japan's military po- licy, but
the tacitly admitted likelihood of the Japanese forces assuming a purely defensive role on reaching the Yellow River, tackling the guerilla problem and assisting in the development of the occupied territories.
He stated that Japanese troops "would not protect the new gov- ernment for ever." They will be withdrawn when the new regime is sufficiently well organised to stand on its own feet Our Own Correspondent..
MACHINE-GUN ATTACK ON CANTON TRAIN
Canton. 1 p.m., To-day."
It is learned that a train pro ceeding along the Samsui-Canton Line this morning was” machine- gunned and bombed by three Ja- panese planes.
On receiving word that an air- raid was in progress at Canton the train stopped and the pas- sengers took to the countryside for safety. A few minutes later three planes appeared in thé vioin- ity and dropped four bombs on the stationary, train, and machine- gunned it.
Three carriages are reported to have been smashed to bits, but › whether any of the passengers were wounded or killed cannot yet he ascertained. Our Own Corres pondent.
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He assured his audience that the time for celebration was now past and he urged the mainten- ance of discipline so that the Berchtesgaden programme might be fully realised.
"Peace at home” should be the general stogan.
The Minister warned. Nazis not Japanese successes along the Japanese penetrate deeper into to misuse Nazi symbols or songs or Peiping-Hankow Railway and in the interior, and this is beginning use the Nazi salute when it could Shansi are not regarded as seri- to play an important part, as be interpreted as a challenge to ous blows to China, it being foreseen from the beginning of those of another political outlook. pointed out that the Hankow the conflict.. Trans-Ocean.
Trans-Ocean. railway is being defended only by second class Shansi troops in order to afford the first line divi-
sions an opportunity for rest, NEW
while Shansi has always been re- garded as more or less a reserve district for guerilla warfare.
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The policy in Shansi is to force the enemy to throw his en-| tire forces into the fighting in order to break through the front lines, and then to give way begin guerilla warfare in order to harass the enemy's already
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CONTACT WITH COAST
The question of fmaintaining
contact with the coast is becom- ing more and more difficult as the
AUSTRIA AND
MANCHUKUO
Tokyo, To-day.
It is reported in the Japanesa press that Austria will shortly. an- nounce recognition of Manchukuo and that other Central European Powers
will follow suit.
Further adherences to the 'anti- Comintern Pact are predicted. Own Correspondent.
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