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OCCUPATION OP HAINAN. JAPANESE DETERMINATION. (Independent Cable Service.) TOKIO, Feb. 17. The newspaper Asahi says that Japan will occupy Hainan Island as long as Marshal Chiang Kai-shek resists. “Japan must remain in South China while the British and French continue to aid China,” says the article. General Kanazawa declares that armed junks have been transshipping arms at sea and bringing them to Hainan to await a favourable moment to run to the mainland. This is now impossible.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 11
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80UNTIL WAR ENDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 11
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