MORE FIGHTING
SHANGHAI EXPECTATIONS
JAPAN HOLDS STRATEGIC POINTI IN JEHOL.
situation at shanhaikwan. Shanghai, March 7Though there will undoubtedly be more fighting in the near future, in addition to skirmishing, there is little possibility of serious opposition to the Japanese who hold all the strategic points in Jehol, reducing the defeated forces to complete helplessness. Although Peking remains quiet, the authorities have taken every precaution to prevent disorders. Martial law has been declared and all gates are heavily guarded and closed at nightfall. Almost all the Chinese, with the exception of General Sun Tien-ying’s forces which defected with a considerable number of General Tang Yn-lin’s men, are now within the Great Wall. However, the situation at Shanhaikwan is pregnant with dire possibilities, as the Chinese are concentrating there in considerable strength, including two divisions of General Chiang Kai-shek’s forces.
Kobe, illustrating the eompletenesn of the preparations, has issaed a communique which states that only one Japanese was killed and 30 injured in the whole of the Jehol campaign. The Manchukuo Government announces confiscations for the benefit of the poor, and also the encouragement of poppy growing, guaranteeing a high price for opium for the financial rehabilitation of the province. Hitherto the Jehol Government’s opium production has been cited as the reason why it is worthy of deposition.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 73, 8 March 1933, Page 8
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