Tokyo, Dec. 12 Japanese commanders in south China today continued to fail to see conerete evidence of the much-publicized Chinese counter-attack on Canton, a survey of field dispatches relayed here from the Canton front indicated, Decision to hurl eleven fresh d sions, along three routes converging upon the City of Rams, was reported to have been reached by the Chinese high command at a military conference to Lienhsien in northern Kwang tung province recently.
The strategy, asserted to have been adopted at this meeting, provided for the dispatch of five divisions towards Canton on the Canton-Hankow railway, while two wings, each comprising three divisions, were to launch an encircling movement, one from the West River area, the other from the Waichow sector to the east of Canton.—Domei. he emphasized the necessity of Japan being ready to fight Russia while still engaged in her campaign in China.
This particular pronouncement was followed a few days.later by another in which the Foreign Office, in a strongly-worded declaration, said that settlement of the fishery question was "essential for the preservation of normal Soviet-Japanese relations and of the peace of East instance s of the Soviet' a Japanes writer puts aid to have occurred, the list alleged to include:
1. Refusal of the Soviet authorities to vise the passports of Japanese official and private persons, notably Capto! Minoru Maeda, who was consequently unable to go to Moscow to take up his appointment as Naval Attache to the Japanese Embassy.
2. Various "outrages" against Japanese residents in Soviet Russia, particularly the refusal of the Soviet authorities to allow the unloading of a consignment of rice intended for the Japanese Consulate-General at Vladivostock.
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