CHEKIANG INVASION
Seen As Prelude To Smashing Blow
NEW YORK. January 22
Mr. Hallett Abend, Shanghai correspondent of the “New York Times,” says the Japanese army spokesman described the invasion of the Chekiang Province as a mere prelude to a smashing blow designed to rid the Shanghai, Hangchow and Lake Taihu areas of anti-Japanese elements and safeguard law and order on the eve of the establishment of Mr. Wang Ching-wei’s Government. He claimed that troops had already crossed the Chientang River and captured the city of Siaoshan. a Chinese base.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 102, 24 January 1940, Page 10
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