The Archive · 1933

VOLUNTEERS IN MANCHURIA Renewed Activity in East Liaoning Border

Peking, Apr. 8 tive In Manchuria, "According to a Chinese volunteers ar! again actelegram received here from. Wang Feng-Kuo, commander of the Chinese volunteers on the eastern Border of Liaoning, his men ave occupied Tunghua ili east Liaoning. Gen. Wang says that he has more than 5,000 men under him and that forees ave equipped with trench "Ta Kung Pao" special from Chinchow states that "more than 3,009 Volunteers axe concentrated at Fuhsin in northeast Jehol.. 'They are threatening the vicinity' of the Tahushan-Tungliao Railway. Japanese troops are being rushed there to engage them it is stated.—Reuter, Purely Local Operations Tokyo, Apr, 10.

Commenting on the Japanese offensive, which was launched this morning' at four points along the Great Wall, a spokesman of the War Office asserted it was a purely local operation for the purpose of adjusting the line for practical considerations necessitated by the constant Chinese attacks on the Japan.

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