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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1938

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INVADER'S

DILEMMA

London View Of Proposed Nanking Puppetry

-ARMISTICE-

AGAIN

DENIED

Burgos, To-day. Repeated reports that a Span- ish Republican delegation had ar- rived in Burgos, via Teruel, to negotiate an armistice with the insurgents, were officially denied last evening.

The insurgents, it is stated, "are not interested" in negotiat- ing an armistice, since their aim is to "liberate Spain from Bolshe vism, and with this end in view the fight will be continued until ultimate victory is achieved." Trans-Ocean.

BELATED JAPANESE

ADMISSIONS

Shanghai, To-day.

No Contribution

To Rejuvenation Of China

London, To-day.

The new "government of Central China," to be in-

WITHIN THE

DAYS

THE ERNMENT.

TOKYO, TO-DAY.

“GOV-

CH THE JAP-

augurated in Nanking, is the subject of a lead-ANESE HAVE BEEN ENDEA- ing article in "The Times" this morning. The newspaper says that Japanese officials have de GIN ITS ACTIVENES WITH

VOURING TO ESTABLISH IN CENTRAL CHINA, WILL BE

NANKING, SAIS AN AN-

berr

clared that the organisation of the Chiese IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS IN Maritime Customs in Shanghai will be main-NOUNCEMENT IN TOKYO. tained intact and that the Japanese Govern-1 The ment is known to hold the view that the foreign Repablic debt service should continue to be the first with the charge on Customs revenues,

nothing but

But any satisfaction which It represents foreign holders of Chinese bonds conqueror's will and could not me might derive from this circum-vive their defe stance, is likely to be dashed by a day.

of North

The

will fly the same North China:

the

In the meantime, Japan's at tempts to set up

their knowledge of the tragic INVADER'S DILEMMA plight of Shanghai and its hinter- General Chiang Kai-shek's Gov governments in their place will land, which are producing no-ernment is fighting on in the belief trouble them me more than does thing and are living on their capf-that they can hold out longer than her refusal to ognise the Japanese headquarters here yestal.

the enemy, and that in a few Government which her army and The new Nanking administra-months time he will be seeking to air force have been doing their have been engaged for about ation, therefore, seems unlikely to escape from the "Invader's best to destroy for the last six-

contribute to the rejuvenation of dilemma." month in extensive operations in China which the Japanese Goy-

terday stated that Japanese troops

the region to the west and southernment profess to desire. west of Lake Tai, and to the north-

west of Hängchow.

HANDICAPPED BY ORIGIN It is handicapped by its origā and the bitterness engendered by

These operations have led to the Japanese excesses during the reoccupation of a large number first weeks after the fall of Nan- of small towns, including Liyang, king,

Kwangteh and Ningkuo.

That the Japanese have issued

a special communique on these HOLDING UP OF

operations is felt to be an indi- cation of the extent of the gueril. la warfare that is still in pro- gress in the Shanghai hinterland

NETHERLANDS

and in the Wahn region. STEAMER

va

BELATED CONFIRMATION

With reference to the report on the holding up of a Nether- lands - steamer in the Canton

It is also belated confirmation of River Delta, the owners of the Chinese reports that irregular ship in question, Messrs. Nether hands had been meeting with num-lands Harbour Works Co., state erous successes and had recaptur- that undue prominence has been ed a number of towns.

Chinese guerilla units, some of them several thousand strong, are still active in the Wahn region, notably to the west of Lake Tai,

and appear to be working under unified com

that the road Hangchow with

given to the incident.

Their tugboat Beimer,” tow- ing a lighter, which carried a cargo of 400 tons of coal, was stopped off the island, Taishan, by an officer of a launch of the Imperia wanted to

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