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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 24,
ANOTHER BATTLE AT KUPEIKOW.
JAPANESE DESIRE TO WITHDRAW
Peking, Apr. 23. Chinese sources report fierce fighting at Kupelkow since Friday and claim that the Japanese wore! Frepulsed after a sovere angage- ment in which several heights changed hands several times.
Chinese casualties are ast!mat- ed at over 2,000-Renter.
Chinese Claims,
the battlearea, the Japanese may altor thoir professed plans and rush all available forces to the Great Wall and begin the on- slaught on a larger scale than ever-Reuter.
JAPANESE PLANS.
Desire to Withdraw To Great Wall.
1933.
FOREIGN VIEWS
JAPAN INCREASINGLY INVOLVED
London, Apr. 22. The self-imposed taak of establishing order in Manchuria Is leading Japan even further afold, declares The Times, discussing developments in the Far East.
The paper ndda "There is little doubt but that the Japaness realise they are getting into deep water A PAN-ASIA PLEA and are incapable of coercing In- deßaitely an unsympathetic popula- Tokyo, Apr. 22. tion from Siberia to Peking. Peking, Apr. 23. Having completed the tank of
Japan would certainly come to It is officially reported that terminating the Chinese pressure anainienble arrangement with tho casualties on on the Jehol border and pushing Chinese if the Chiuese would agree there were heavy both aides in the fighting in the the Chinese beyond artillery range to recognise the State of Manchu- Kupelkow region. The Chinese of the Great Wall, the War Office kus. Some arrangement between claim to have succeeded in des-to-day announced that the Japan-China and Japan ia the only alter- troying the Japanese headquarters ese troops operating to the South native to perpetual armed conflict and killing more than 200 Japan-of the Wall since April 10 have between the two great nations. cao and capturing 30 prisonera been ordered to cease operations Renter Special.
and halt the pursuit. and plenty of ammunition.
However, the Japanese received] A War Office spokesman inti- will that the Japanese heavy rainforeentents and compell-mated
ed the Chinese troops to return to withdraw to the Great Wall their original positions.-Reuter.
JAPAN'S PLANS.
Renewal of Fighting Dispels Optimism,
As Communqiue show the extraordin- soon as they are satisfied that the ary methods that Japanese pro- Chinese do not intend to renewpagandists are taking. their attacks, but will bomb from
"Asin for the Aslaties: Yellow troops at- the air any Chinese
races Wake up: Manchukuo is tempting to re-enter the neutralParadise: Jehol is like a bad be zone formed by the Japanese withdrawal.
Later.
fore coming into full blossom: the Imperial Japanese Army comes Despite the Japanese War from Heaven, loving Pence, main- taining justice and suppressing Office's optimism that Shanghai, Apr. 23. paign south of the Great Wall has bandits in co-operation with Man- The renewal of fighting at been completed, latest press dis- chukuo: the Japanese Army Is Kupelkow has dispelled the optim-patches report heavy fighting at the strongest in
the cam-
'the world."
lam created by the announcement Kapelkow, where the Japanese These are the text of the leaflets in Tokyo yesterday that the claim to have repulsed the Chi-that have been dropped. Japanese troops had been ordered neso offensive.
to cease operations and halt their! Five Chinese divisions are re purauit. There is no doubt that ported to have participated in the the Japanese will not rest until attack.-Reuter.
they achieve by force what they have falled to secure by uegoth-
tion-a neutral zone to the south of the Great Wall.
Strange Propaganda.
It is anfe to say that in view of the bombings which have ac
leaflets and companied thesd which killed and mangled scores of civilians the general popula tion doubts the descent from Heaven.
Peking, Apr. 22. Some of the loaflets which are While at present there is no being dropped by the millions on Most people, however, who re- indication that the Japanese in-villages and towns in North China coived thoso leafleta are unable to tend to drive on to Peking, it la by the Japanese aaroplanes have read them and the educated pub- feared in some quartors that if the been received in Peking and lic appear to be more amused than Chinese fling more divisions into their translations In an official impressed-Reuter.
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