CHIANG KAI SHEK TO TAKE PART
JAPANESE PERFORM REHEARSALS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, February 16. The Japanese are perlormiiig rehearsals preparatory to their attempt to capture '('impel. ‘I 1 1 roe large fires were started at dusk in the Kiangwa area wlu-re the .Japanese are taking their positions. The Chinese apparently are preparing to meet the oltcnsive as heavy reinforcements arrived, and a large concentration is taking plaec along a wide trout. The Chinese lines in some places are barely half a m:le Irom the Japanese. hut. both sides are with-bold-ing their fire.
The rumour that General (Mining Kai Slick is coming to Shanghai l<> assist ill the defence was si reilgl liene,] t.oda v u hen tv. (i thousand ol Ins poisons! crack troop-, reached ( heugjo. The cessation oi heavy fighting
around the SeltlemenL. with intensive military preparations by both sides is causing Hilarities more alarm than tile actual Chapel lighting, since tlie pending hostilities will undoubtedly drive the ( hinese towards the Settlement. boundaries
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1932, Page 5
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