Stressing that the Japanese forces had undergone grave risk and hardships to remove mines and booms laid by the Chinese to open the river for military use, the "Yomiuri" approved the Japanese Government's reported intention to decline the request of the three Powers. Such action, the paper asserted, was justifiable as long as hostilities were going on.
Japan "need not mind too much" such "unreasonable demands," the journal said. Significance, was seen by the "Yomiui in the adoption of a joint front by Britain, France and the United States over the question of river navigation. This was held by the daily to be indicative of the line to be followed by these Powers in their Far Eastern policies.
The United States, the "Yomiuri" recalled, on October 6, had made three-point representations to Japan drawing ihe Tokyo Government's attention to the principle of the! "Open Door" and equal opportunity and intimating America's concern over the maintenance of the Nine-Power Treaty, . The Nine-Power Treaty —by junks, sampans or on foot—while Chinese troops are retreating westward and. southward, Local government officials have already lett.—Reuter. 4
Japanese Advance Continued 1
Hankow, Nov. 14.
Relentlessly continuing their progress towards Changsha, the Hunan 1 provincial capital described in foreign naval advies received here as being panic stricken, Japanese forces operating out of Yochow were rapidly gaining ground on Sunday, field reports reaching here today claimed.
By nightfall yesterday, one column was at Huwanchen, ten kilometres south of Yochow, while another unit was progressing along a line extending from Hsinkaitang to Tang-chia pu, near Taolin, fifteen kilometres south of Yochow, according to the dispatches.
Meantime, reliable intelligence reports reaching here indicated that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had removed his headquarters from Changsha: into western Hunan. Yuanling, a town on the Yuankiang River, 235 kilometres south-west of Changteh, a city on the west bank of Tungting Lake, was believed to be a likely choice for the Chinese commander's headquarters.
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