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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
NANKING TROOPS STOP
SHANTUNG
OFFENSIVE Twenty-Five Fresh Divisions Now Organised
MR. HIROTA ON Crack Government ZEISS-INUQART
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 Goy-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, hel said that their main task would
according to Chinese press reports here.
NAZI ORDER
Vienna, To-day.
An appeal to Austrian Nazis to to take ad- maintain order and not to
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 from any "invasion" from - the Chiang Kai-shek forces.
He declined to answer ques- tions about Japan's military po- licy, but tacitly admitted the 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.
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 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 slogan.
to
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 th 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 ous blows to China, it being foreseen from the beginning of those of another political outlook. He stated that Japanese troops pointed out that the Hankow the conflict.-Trans-Ocean.
Trans-Ocean. "would not protect the new gov-railway is being defended only by ernment for ever.' They will be second class Shansi. troops
in withdrawn when the new regime order to afford the first line divi- 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 the vicin- ity
and dropped four bombs on the stationary train, and machine- gunned it.
Three carriages are reported have been smashed to bits, but whether any of the passengers were wounded or killed cannot yet
ndent:
A be ascertained. Our Own Corres-
sions an opportunity for rest,
while Shansi has always been re- garded as more or less a reserve district for guerilla warfare.
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 and begin guerilla warfare in order to harass the enemy's already
NEW
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tion.
CONTACT WITH COAST The question of · maintaining contact with the coast is becom- ing more and more difficult as the
AUSTRIA AND
MANCHUKUO
Tokyo, To-day......
It is reported in the Japanese press that Austria will shortly; an- nounce recognition of Manchukuo and that other Central European Powers will follow suit.
anti-
Further adherences to the Comintern Pact are predicted.-Our- Own Corresponder
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