Substantial reinforcements, amounting to a division, have arrived at Tientsin and have moved to the Tientsin-Pukow front, The Japanese garrison at Tientsin has renewed its precautions against raids by the Chinese from the interior and to the west of the city, as well as uprisings by men in mufti who are alleged to be secreted in the Chinese City.
The Japanese advance along the Peiping-Hankow Railway has been brought to a standstill at Lianghsiang, 35 miles south-west of Peiping.
Japanese military authorities prediet a decisive battle in the vicinity of Paotingfu, where the main Chi [nese forces are concentrated.
Major-General S. Kita, former Japanese Military Attache at Shanghai, has arrived in Peiping to assume the post of chief of the combined special military missions in North (China. He is believed to have been entrusted with the task of organizing North China's political future.
Another interesting visitor to Peiping is Mr. Hachiro Arita, formerly Foreign Minister at Tokyo—Reuter.
Washington, Sept. 10.
The precarious position of tde [Philippine Islands in the event the [Sino-Japanese hostilities spread, has been emphasized by the reported Japanese intentions of seizing China's Hainan Island, according to military and naval observers to-day.
Occupation of that strategic island position on Shree sides of the Philip-would place Japan in a commanding
Ipines, controlling al important Philippine trade routes, Strong Japanese forces were already concentrated in Formosa and the Japanese mandated South Sea islands, Although officials declined to speculate on the possibility of Japanese occupation of Hainan, they pointed to the strategic value of the island if other nations become em-Ibroiled in the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Control of Hainan would give Japan practically complete control of all shipping with Hongkong and Canton.—United Press.
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