The Archive · 1937

Japanese Flags Flown

'The villages are now flying fags supplied by the Japanese soldiers, 'The "Japanese "admit that many irregulars, having discarded their arms and' adopted the appearance of said, also.

Sictories sto ete the lora in the freed area, but are disorconvin Ne peaceful peasants, are probably sul at ultimate good of China, He added, @2nized and helpless. A rigorous

wholeheartedly congratulate "and sereh ts being condvcied for hidden Japanese on their successful cccup: 4 7° Japanese hoped to rescue the the ™unitfons. three Catholic. brothers kidnapped from the seminary at Heishankou "Whole-hearted Ca-Operation" five weeks azo, but when they ar=

Maj-Gen. Kita also revealed that several thousand Chinese in Tientsin paraded with Japanese flags and banners. These banners, he said, were inscribed with slogans such as Down with the Communists," and alization of Ca-operation between China and Japar the Chinese public fully cognizant of the real situation and prepared "to reject misleading rumours and statements made by Chinese offals and military leaders, he pointed out, operation between China and Japan His bound to smoothly develop in the future. rived at the village " schoolhouse where the prisoners had been kept, their captors had fled. "It is believed that they are now at a point five miles to the west of Nankow Pass.—Router.

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