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JAPANESE ULTIMATUM HOSTILITIES INEVITABLE. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, Tuesday. A Peking message says that Fang Chen Wu lias rejected the Japanese ultimatum. Hostilities, therefore, are inevitable to-morrow. A Japanese aeroplane has already dropped a bomb on Sliunyi, south of Niulanshan, but Japanese officials here declare that the Japanese forces will not cross the truce line in pursuit of the rabble. The Peking authorities are confident they will be able to safeguard the city. A FURTHER WARNING. (Received Wednesday, 8.54 a.m.) PEKING, Tuesday. Four Japanese bombers roared over Peking to-day, dropping a further shower of leaflets, reiterating the intention of the Japanese to drive Fang Chen Wu from the demilitarised zone in accordance with the ultimatum which will expire to-morrow. The Chinese Press fears the bandits’ chief, “Old Rat,” will attempt to create disturbances behind tlie lines in Peking and Tientsin.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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