EASTERN STRIFE
JAPANESE VIEWPOINT. EXPULSION OF INTRUDERS. COMMENT ON REPORTS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.; Received January 25, 8.5 a.m. TOKIO, Jan. 24. The foreign spokesman, in a statement concerning the military operations south-west of Jeliol, said the sole object was to expel certain Chinese intruders from Manchukuo. He added that reports abioad that the ultimate object is to occupy North China or menace the Trans-Siberian Radway were highly coloured fabrications. In view of the announcement that the Jehoi-C'liarhar border dispute had been settled, great surprise lias been caused at Pekin by the receipt of Chinese official dispatches from Kalgen, reporting that a combined Japanese and Manchukuo force, 200 U strong supported by artillery and aeroplanes, launched a vigorous attack on the Chinese lines between Kuyuan and Tulisikou. Japanese aeroplanes dropped ooml)3, while the two Chinese cities were shelled by artillery. CHINESE LOSSES. SITUATION QUIETER. Received Januaiv 25, 12.10 p.rn. Pekin, Jan. 24. The Chinese casualties in the JeholCliarhar clash are now estimated at between forty and fifty. According to the latest reports the situation is quietening. The Japanese military authorities here say that two Japanese were killed and six wounded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 49, 25 January 1935, Page 7
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