Cat And Mouse
(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 10. The "Daily Telegraph's" Shanghai correspondent says that the Japanese activities around Nanking are like those of a cat playing with a mouse. Well informed circles believe the Japanese can capture the city as soon as their leaders desire. Already Japanese tanks have been twice inside the breached walls and come out again. The army command is still hoping that China will sue. for peace before the capital falls. The Chinese, on the contrary, are hoping to draw the Japanese deep into the hinterland after the capital , has been taken. "The Japanese peace terms. I learn from semi-official sources," adds the correspondent, "are nothing less than complete domination of north and central China, and the establishment of a Japanese concession in Shanghai northwrd of Soochow Creek. Foreign rights and Customs will be respected, but Japan will constitute herself judge of the merits of the claims."
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Northern Advocate, 11 December 1937, Page 7
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