A "PINCER" MOVEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

A "PINCER" MOVEMENT.

A flgantle ptncor movement te dislodf* the Culuesc from the Shanghai area la twin* undertaken •/ the Japanese.—Caul*.

The "plncer" movament k • favourite military movement of tit* Japanese, who uaad it with auooeea in their campaign against tl»a German colon/ of Kiaochau, in North-Kant China In 1914. Unable to utaka much progress <in a frontal aseault at the etart, the Japanese, ignoring th« fact that China, was then a neutral in the Great War, broke international rulea and landed trooiw in North China. Theee eoldlera marched across Chinese territory and attacked the German* from the inland aide of the colony. The' Germane did not expect thia, as they naturally thought that the .lu.]>ilii«-mo would abide by International Luw. That was, of courae, at a time when International Law in war would eventually be totally disregarded. Moat credit for the capture of Kiaochau goea to the Brfitiah troop* (South Walea Borderer*) and Britiah Indian troona co-operating with the Japanese, but this fact the Japanese alwaya try to bide, in the attempt to give all the credit to tbelr own eokUera. /