TO CUT OFF SHANGHAI
POWERFUL FORTIFICATIONS BEING BUILT hU.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright’ (Received 6th December, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, sth December. The “‘Daily Herald” says that Japan is building powerful fortifications, an air field and a vast military camp, near Shanghai, in order to cut off the city and forcibly maintain, if necessary, her refusal to reopen the Yangtse River to commerce. Naval engineers are carrying out the work with the aid of an army of Chinese prisoners and forced labourers, 30,000 of whom are excavating and filling in the swamp near Kiangwan for 1 the airport with bricks and stones from ; the ruins of Chapei and Hongkew. Sales of confiscated Chinese land are financing the entire undertaking. JAPANESE GENERAL REPLACED (Received 6th December, 10.0 a.m.) TOKIO, sth December. The former Minister of War, General Sugiyama, has replaced General Terauchi in supreme command of North China.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 6 December 1938, Page 7
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