FIGHTING IN MANCHURIA
Endless Guerilla Warfare TERROR OVER WIDE AREA Japs. Invest Walled City REPLY TO CHINESE ATTACK LEAGUE COMMISSION POWERLESS. (United Fress Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 9.50 a.m., to-day. SHANGHAI, May 9. Conditions in Manchuria are going from bad to worse. The Japanese are engaged in endless guerilla wartare and occasional major engagements ao-amst the Manchukuo Forces which are instituting a region -of terror m many parts, burning villages, destioying railway tracks and stations ana terrorising the countryside. The Japanese to-day ordered a general attack on a Chinese brigade and occupied the walled city of hancheng. This followed the Chinese burning oi Tungho City compelling the Japanese oarrison to take refuge m transports on the river to escape the hre. , Meanwhile the League of Nations Commission is unable to make much headway in the investigation oT the Manchurian situation owing to fighting in the majority of districts.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 10 May 1932, Page 5
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