GENERAL ADVANCE.
Japanese Offensive Launched South of Great Wall.
CHINA'S GREAT MISTAKE,
KOBE, April 12.
An official statement issued yesterday declares that Japan's patience is exhausted and, because the Chinese, mistaking restraint for weakness, still persist in attacking the Japanese positions, a general advance south of the Great Wall has been launched.
Owing to the vast superiority of the Japanese in arms, their advance is rapid. The Chinese are leaving equipment and corpscs and fleeing. Unless an agreement is reached for a neutral zone, a halt by the Japanese now will be most difficult.
Tokyo dispatches indicate the success of the joint Japanese-Manchukuo drive necessitated by the continual attacks on the Japanese positions. Chinese troops menacing the Great Wall have been dispersed westward of Lanlio River.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 87, 13 April 1933, Page 7
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