JAPANESE ARMIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 10

JAPANESE ARMIES

ASTRIDE OF INNER

MONGOLIA

RUSSIAN ROUTE CUT

(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received September 4, 2.15 p.m.)

LONDON, September 3. Although the Chinese are reported to have overwhelmed 60,000 Japanese on the Shanghai front and to be rolling their line back along fifteen miles of a twenty-five-mile front, the Shanghai correspondent of the "Daily Herald" states that Japanese armies equipped with the most modern arms, after marching like robots across the desert and through mountain passes, today were astride of Inner Mongolia, thereby obtaining a major strategic success, as they have cut the overland route by which Russia might have reinforced China. Moreover, Japan can now mass her forces on the flank of Outer Mongolia, Russia's military ally. ■.'.,.