No noticeable success has been 1 istered in the mopping-up campaign against the guerillas, which has now been going on for over a year. In the hills round and close to Peiping and along the Peiping-Tientsin. me these' guerillas are as rampant ever. Owing to the floods the Japanese have had to withdraw sons from most of the towns they had occupied in Central Hopel. 'The Japanese military boasted that' the Hoods would anyhow drive' out. the guerillas, but as they themselves have been driver' out, foo, it has not help: ed them at all The campaign which has been go on for months in south Shansi not been.a success, and has merely produced a very heavy bill. In north Suiyuan the Japanese. garrisons are being hard pressed, despite the recent Inauguration of a "new Mongolian government. The fact is that the Japanese do not appear. to. have notigh troops in these parts to pacify North China properly; yet even 50, reported that they have been moving troops away from here" to Manchuria in recent weeks, The recent German-Russian Non-'Aggression Pact has-been a partiularly severe blow to Japanese military circles in North China, where things are in the-state of- confusion and stagnation indicated above. There has been much grumbling among Japanese civilians about the way Japanese foreign policy has been mismanaged by the army. who: only. few weeks ago. were, assuring the country that the solution, of all their troubles lay ina military - alliance with the then still flourishing. antly Comintern axis.
After the sudden reversals of policy, in recent weeks, the ordinary person will be very chary of attempting to speculate on what the policy of the Russian government in the Far East is likely to be. But Japanese military circles here sre convinced that the Pact protends. increased. military pressure on the Manchoukuo border. And even the wildest -militarists Jamong them no longer believe that, after two years exhaustion of her resources in the Chinese swamp, Japan can still take on Russia and China at the same time. - The heavy diversion of troops and material to the" Manchoukuo front, that now appears to be going on, is certainly not going to be helpful, either to the pacification reconstruction of North China, in consequence of. these reports, strange rumours have been clrculat-Ing among the Chinese public of an early withdrawal of the Japanese from China, These rumours are, of course, merely wishful thinking, but taken in conjunction: with the pessimsin and depression among the civilian Japanese population here, they are at least symptomatic of the Japahese dimeulties in north China. Some'observers predict that, if the Russian China Wi ill Continue Fighting Chungking,' Sept. 18, "mhie""Buropean war will" mace China ght " Japan with "greater vigour, since 'China is confident of the ultimate victory and of Chint rightful place' in.the reshaping. of new world: order," declared General Chiang Kai-shek last evening: in address before the, People's Nations Political Congress, which i9 at pr sent meeting at Chungking, The Chinese, Generalissimo." deseribed, Japan's declared policy ° of ntérvention in the European war as prompted by the fact that "she does not want. the. {nterferonce Amerien he
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