SMALL PORTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 9

SMALL PORTION.

Japan Controls Mere Fragment Of * China. REPORTS FROM GOVERNMENTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLIXGTOX, this day. The Chinese Consul has received advice from Chungking that the executive at \uan published statistics showing that the Japanese military nominally have occupied nine provinces out of 28, but actually they control onlv small areas outside the main communication arteries and municipalities. These statistics are compiled on the basis of reports received from provincial Governments in the nine so-called occupied provinces, namely, Kaingsu, Chekiang. Anhui. Kiangsi, Shantung, Honan, Shansi, Hupeh and Hopei.

The number of hsiens or counties in these nine provinces total 796. The statistics show that the Chinese Government is still exercising complete political and administrative control over 48!) hsiens. or 61.44 per cent of the total. The Chinese Government exercises partial control over 248 hsiens, or 31.15 per cent. These figures do not include municipalities, such as Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Tsinan, Hankow and Tsingtao.

The number of counties under complete Japanese control is the highest in the Hopei Province, where the Japanese control 44 out of 132 counties, or 33 per cent. The Japanese completely control 14 per cent of the counties in Kiangsu, 3 per cent in Chekiang, and 3 per cent in Honan. In other words, the number of counties in the nine provinces under complete Japanese control totals only 7.41 per cent.