Kwantung government officials believe that this is a most deplorable state of affairs, disturbing the smooth flow of commodities into the country and at the same time interfering with the progress of the year industrial development plan, Which is now in its second year.
The South Manchuria "Railway wharf office, some time ago urged the owners of these goods to remove them from the warehouses through advertisements.in the newspapers, but practically nothing resulted from this. The Government is therefore prepared td take drastic action unless these commodities are removed from the godowns within a reasonable period of time.
Peiping, Sept, 9.
More territory in Hopei has been lost by the Japanese army to the Chinese guerillas as the result of operations during the last two or three weeks. A body of the 8th Route Army, quartered recently west of Paotingfu on the Kinhan Railway, began to march northward and passed between the near hills and Peiping on their way to East Hopei without any apparent effort on the part of the Japanese to stop them.
Now they have set themselves up in East Hopei and are organizing a local government similar to that in central Hopei. At present they hold twelve hsien and seem likely to extend the area of their influence unless the Japanese authorities bring in large reinforcements and under-fake an extensive campaign to oust them.
These guerillas, it is learned rebably, are to be reinforced from central Hopei shortly and their numbers: are already estimated to be in the neighbourhood of 30,000, which means that they considerably outnumber the Japanese forces in east Hopei.
During the week 30 Japanese transports have landed fresh reinforcements from Japan which number anything up to 20,000 men. Some of these fresh troops from Japan undoubtedly are intended for this area but it expected that most is will go into Shansi, as the Japanese forces-in that province are believed to be insufficient to hold the province and at the same time attempt a crossing of the Yellow River to threaten either Sianfu or the Red capital, Yenan, in north Shensi So much of Shansi has been conquered and lost again that on this occasion the Japanese wish to hold on to it for good.
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