Assassinations To Prevent Jap. Thrust Southward
(Received noon.) NEW YORK, December 19.
According to the Shanghai correspondent of the “New York Times, ’ : the Chinese in the Yangtse Valley are assassinating prominent Japanese army officers and business men to prevent the withdrawal of Japanese troops from the Yangtse for the thrust southward. This action accords with Chiang Kai-shek’s policy of preventing encirclement by Japan’s seizure of the East Indies. Japan has been forced to increase the garrison in the bigger cities on the Yangtse. Government Crisis. The puppet Government at Nanking faces a crisis due to the Chinese banks declaring that they are unwilling to support the regime’s financial arrangements unless its head (Wang Ching-Wei) is relegated to a minor capacity. There has also been a split in the puppet Government in favour of the Finance Minister (Chow Fu-hai), who was formerly a'Communist,
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1940, Page 5
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