GRAVE FEAR IN TOKIO
CHINESE OFFENSIVE
TOKIO, 12th November
The Japanese Command in Manchuria has learned from an intercepted Chinese wireless message that attacks are being planned with the object of driving the Japanese out of North and South Manchuria.
Tokio officials gravely fear the possibility of the Chinese staging an offensive, and relying on their numerical superiority to force out the Japanese —an action which is regarded as regrettable in view of the League Council meeting on 16th November. A representative of the North China "Daily News," who at present is in Harbin, wires that he has actually seen a photograph of a Japanese ultimatum to the Governor of the Province of Hei Lung-Kiang, ordering him to vacate Tsitsihar, the capital. __
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1931, Page 7
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GRAVE FEAR IN TOKIO
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1931, Page 7
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