Tokyo, Jan. 24.
The most recent operations in North Manchuria have vaulted in an immense extension of the area, which the Japanese troops have to be sprend. Prom the Soviet border on the. west. to the Soviet border at Pogranitchnaya on the east, a distance of 1,200 kilonieor here in ad some ct line 2) "numerically weak strung out, with detachments aerating at various points 250 kilotietzes northward of this lin. These are Lieutenant-General Hizose's 10¢0 Division, with headquarters at Har-in and responsible for the eastern ion of the CER, and. the. dis.
Matsuki's 14th Division, bared Tsitsihar and responsible for the western fection of the CER as far the Khingansy and Major-General lttori's 14th Brigade of the 7th Division, with headquarters a ponsible for the re-
C.E.R. to the Soviet border. Of The Japanese Embassy to-day! began a publicity campaign against China by cireulati a series of maps, apparently aiming to support the Japanese contention that, in the years between 1921 and 1931, Manchuria was not under the direct control of the Central Governments at Peking and Nanking.
The laps also purported to show the various' areas of China that! were controlled by diverse political Rovernments during that decade.
Whether the ulation of maps among foreign affairs experts and Political cixeles was designed also to port statements made. before the League of Nat: Yosuke Matsuoka, the chief Japanese delegate, Was not clear, but that they, and the statements accompanying them, constituted an attack the Chinese Government was evident, One of the foot notes said that, for the past 20 years, disorder had reigned in China and that a million square miles had been abandoned to Copies were sent to many cials, semi-oficial organisations interested "in foreign affairs and to newspapers, The accompanying document. was of considerable Tength and the sut-Ject matter differed little from the statements that have been made in recent months by spokeenten. for the Japanese Government in Tokyo.
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