THE FAR EAST

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 80, 16 March 1933, Page 9

THE FAR EAST

OOLONOR BEING ATTACKED JAPANESE ADVANCING Shanghai, March 15. The joint Manchukuo and Japanese operations, according to Peking messages, are now extended into Charhar. Manchukuo troops, commanded by General Liuk Wei-tang, are attacking Dolonor from Western Jehol, while 1000 Japanese with ten field guns are advancing through the Utun district on Charhar. MATERIAL LOSS MADE GOOD A JAPANESE GESTURE Toklo, March 15. The Government lias assigned 3,000,000 yen to the relief of material losses by foreigners and Japanese suffered during the Shanghai and Manchurian incidents. The province of Charhar—variously spelt on the maps as Chahar, Chakhar and Chakhary—forms the extreme north-western part of the Chinese Republic outside Manchum. It forms a comparatively narrow tong’ic of ter'ritory lying in between the Jehol Province, now virtually in Japanese occupation, and Mongolia, at one time, nominally at least, under Chinese rule, hut since 1915 an “independent” republic under Russian protection and influence. Dolon-nor is tho chief town of the Charhar district and is situated well to the north.