FIGHTING IN FAR EAST

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 81, 17 March 1933, Page 6

FIGHTING IN FAR EAST

JAPAN MAINTAINS POSITION. NOT ADVANCING PAST WALL. okio, March 16. A War Office official officially con tradicts reports of severe fighting at, Hsifengkou. Despatches confirm the Japanese reports that their forces are maintaining their position and require reinforcements. They are not advancing beyond the Great. Wall. CONDITIONS IN JAPAN. AN AUSTRALIAN'S IMPRESSION. Sydney, March 9. Mr C. N. Spiller, director uf a firm of cotton-waste merchants, returned yesterday from n visit to Japan, where he purchased supplies of cotton-waste. There are SOO cotton mills in Japan, and Mr Spiller found some of the cot-ton-waste mills busy on the munu. facture of gun cotton for the Japanese forces Japan appeared to be united on the Manchurian campaign Mr Spiller cud, and there also seemed to be a good deal of hostile feeling against mericans “I was taken for an American, and shop-girls refused to serve me cn. til convinced that I was Hiitisli.” lie Said "British peoph are in mail favom in Japan, and I was shown great friendliness during my stay Leading Japanese business men expressed He opinion that it was a mistake to terminate the Anglo-Japanese alliance. 1 was asked one or two questions abo-it the White Australia policy, but in the main the population is very ignorant about the n hereabouts of Australia.”