JAPANESE OFFENSIVE
MANCHUEIAN EEPOR rJJ
STUDENTS' AGITATION
DEMAND FOR WAR
United Press Association—By Electric Tel*,
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(Received 10th December, 10 a.m.)] SHANGHAI, 9th December. Urgent telegrams have been received at Nanking, stating that the Japanese arc preparing an offensive against Chinchow, the provisional scat of the Manchurian Government, and the last stronghold of the Chin* ese in the three Eastern Provinces, Severe cold, preventing operations in the Heilung Kiang area is believed to be responsible for the Chinchow decision.
An urgent conference lias been called at Nanking of Shanghai's leading Chinese financiers and industrial magnates to discuss the threat of a general strike by students who are virtually controlling the capital. The students, after establishing a garrison headquarters in defiance of the ' authorities, continue to demand war, the abolition of direct negotiations with Japan, the dismissal of Dr. Wellington Koo, and the departure to Manchuria of the President, General Chiang-kai-shek, with a change of the Government's foreign policy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 9
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JAPANESE OFFENSIVE
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 9
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