BETWEEN TWO FIRES

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3996, 10 April 1933, Page 7

BETWEEN TWO FIRES

POSITION OF (TTINKSK TROOPS lii it message to tln- London Daily .Mail from Tokio Mr. (1- Ward L*rice tells of aii unhappy predicament in which the Chinese troops garrisoned on the Great Wall find themselves If the Japanese advance tlie Chinese must stay at their posts. In their rear their compatriots have been ordered to fire on them if they retreat. The Japanese higher command, tired of Chinese sniping and threatened night attacks, the Chinese relyinj? for immunity on the Japanese undertaking not to advance beyond the Great Wall, has sent General Okainura to ur.icc the Government to agree to the Japanese advancing to establish a clear zone beyond the wall. The Government is reluctant to authorise the advance, owing to the risk of international complications. The Chinese will ho !o blame in th< i event of a. resumption of the conflict. says the special correspondent of the Daily Mail in Pekin*?. Their rcinniunhiuc announces that 4500 Japanese have been killed, 7000 wounded and 10,500 captured. This total exceeds the full strength of the Japanese in Jehol provinceThe reports induct 4 belligerency in the Chinese public, and may possibly compel Chinese officials to save their faces hy hostilities which would lead to the Japanese occupation of North < ’hina. A < 'liinese whose farm was bombed said it was nothin*? compared to the activities of Tang Yu-lin’s retreating soldiers*