Peiping, Oct. 15.
North China's Japanese Army also is ready to make its influence felt in Shensi, Kansu or Hupeh Provinces if the need arises, according to a spokesman at the headquarters of the North China Army here commenting on the Japanese Expeditionary Force landing in South China.
The new expedition, he said, disproved Chinese assertions that Japan had exhausted her military strength. He branded Chinese guerilla tactics powerless when sopposed by the Japanese Army as eastern Hupeh has already been cleared of guerillas while the Wutai district in northern Shansi, where China's Eighth Route (Communist) Army established headquarters, has been occupied by the Japanese. Southern Shansi also has been cleared of remnants of Chinese troops, he concluded.—Domei.
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