JAPAN’S NAVY

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1933, Page 5

JAPAN’S NAVY

REACHING OUT This Year’s Manoeuvres IA us. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received May 16 at 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 16. The “Daily Telegraph’s” naval correspondent. Hector By waler, draws attention to the Japanese naval manoeuvres to be held in August, which will be on an unprecedented scale. Two 1 hundred vessels will be engaged. The venue of the manoeuvres, lie says, is significant, being in the neighbourhood of tho ex-Gcrman islands of Ihe Western Pacific, comprising the Mariana. Caroline, Perlaw and Marshall groups. This area, is openly described as Japan’s foremost rampart against aggression. It has, ho adds, boon made clear that Japan intends to hold these islands. Any manoeuvres are designed to test their value as a basis tor the Japanese battle fleet ami its auxiliary forces.

JAPANESE OFFENSIVE. EXODI’S FROM FEKIN. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) SHANGHAI, May 15. A large concent ration of Chinese troops is reported at Tongshaw. where gunfire is distinctly audible. General Yuhsueh Chung. commandant of the Taku-Tieutsin area, announces that he will resist to the uttermost. The Japanese have captured Shihhsia, an important Chinese position south of Kupeikow Pass. In the Kupeikow region, Japanese have reached a point eight miles northward of Miyun. whence the entire civilian population has fled. PEKIN, May 15. Nervousness regarding Japanese in tent ions is rapidly increasing. Many well-to-do Chinese are leaving Pekin, in flic belief that a Japanese occupation is imminent. As a precaul iona ry measure. the American Legation has advised American women ami children Io evacuate the Tungchow mission centre, 13 miles eastward of Pekin, in consequence of reports that the Japanese intend occupying the town.