Threat of Attack
JAPANESE BLUFF?
Skirmishes on North-Eastern Chinese Borders
30,000 TROOPS MASSED
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 12, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 11. The Pekin correspondent of “The Times” says that while SinoJapanese negotiations are proceeding at Nanking, about 30,000 troops from Japanese controlled Chahar, equipped with Japanese planes and tanks, surround the north-eastern borders of Suiyan, on which an attack is expected at any moment.
Isolated skirmishes have been going on for several days all along the border, which are believed to have been made as tests of the strength of the defenders. All were beaten off with losses to the attackers. Many well-informed Chinese consider that the threat of a big attack is Japanese bluff, hoping that a threat of further loss of Chinese territory will make Nanking more amenable to the Japanese proposals regarding North China and a joint anti-Bed Pact at Shanghai,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 282, 12 November 1936, Page 7
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