Changchun, June 17.
Two alleged attacks by unidentified groups on Manchoukuo officials and border defence forces in western Jehol to-day threatened to shift the focal point of the present Sino-'Japanese tension from north China to the rugged countryside that skirts the Great, wall for a thorough investiga tion of reports that the alleged attacks had been carried out by forces under Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan, chair~ man of the Charhar Provincial Government, stationed near the Manchoukuo' border, were issued this morning by the Kwantung Army headquarters here.
According to belated dispatches re~ ceived here, a party of Manchoukuo oMeials from Fengning-hsien in west-fern Jehol were ambushed on. their way to Tengehassu by a group of 15 to 16 mon who fired 20 to 30 shots. The attackers, the reports said, were entrenched a hill about 60 metres high near Tanchassu.
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