SECOND PHASE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 15, 19 January 1939, Page 7

SECOND PHASE

WAR IN CHINA New Army Being Trained TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY DIVISIONS “WILL BE ON OFFENSIVE” ,By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigbtl Received Jan. 18, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 17. Protessor Cnang I'eng vnun, a member o. Inc x-eop.e’s I'uliucal Council, interviewea on lus arrival by air irotn cmuigKUig, sani g4U divisions, each oi 10,000, were being trauieu tor the second pnase of the war anil 3J,0J0 were oe.ng framed as officers. China, during the first phase of the war, fought cnieliy on the defensive, but she would be on the offensive in the second phase. China was ready for a prolonged war, and was supremely confident of victory. Arsenals, and even aeroplane lac.ories, had sprung up in the south-western provinces. Chinese casualties were formerly three to one, but now the position was exactly the reverse. The Japanese troops totalled 1,000,000, but nearly 400,000 were mobilised in Manchuria.

MANDATED ISLANDS ALLEGED MOBILISATION BY JAPAN. ■Received Jan. 18, 5.5 p.m. GENEVA, Jan. 17. The Chinese delegate to the League Council, Dr. Wellington Koo, declared that Japan had ordered the mobilisation of the mandated islands, which was detrimental to the mandates sy m and the policy of the League. China reserved the right to raise the question in the Assembly. JUNK RECAPTURED BRITISH DESTROYER. INCIDENT AT HONGKONG. HONGKONG, Jan. 17. The British destroyer Thanet chased a Japanese destroyer and forced it to give up a Chinese fishing junk which which it had captured and which was registered locally. The Thanet picked up the junk’s crew from a dinghy.