'The spokesman charged the people' of the" Chungshan district with breaking faith with the Japanese forces.
"Tu the middle of October last year," the spokesman recalled, "our Torees carried out operations in the Chungshan district (0 allow the Chie nose guerillas and the regulars under Gen, Chiang Kai-shek to reflect over holt past misdeeds and to resewe the masses of Chungshan from a reign of terror, "hey succeeded in. routing these Chinese forees in a fow days.
"inasmuch as Chungshan is the birthplace of "the late Dr, Sun Yat-son, the Japanese forces, showed their respect to him by withdrawing fas soon as their objective was fehioved. Placing confidence in the civilian population, they' warned at the time. of their" evacuation that should Chunyshan be allowed again to become the scene of antiaJapanese military" and. political operations, oF Should' it become the base of supplies for the Chiang regime, drastic measures would-be taken," the spokesman said Gueritla Leader as Magistrate Since that time, however, acts Inimleal to the Japanese had' taken place, with Wu Fei, commander of the Chinese ueriliis in the area, assuming te concurrent post of dis-rie magistrate, the spokesman pointed out, "Wu Fel, it was understood here, had under his command, 15,000 men comprising both uniformed and pinin-clothes effectives resorting principally to guerilla tactics, UnoMelal Japanese observers here so" saw in the new Chungshan campaign a selection of the dis satisfaction of the Japanese military authorities with the lack of repressive measures against anti-japanese movements adopted by the Por= tyuese authorities in Macao.
While curb was placed on anti Japanese agitation and activities in Mivewo last summer, this repression hag been gradually: relaxed to a point where the Portuguese colony Koday yanks with Hongkong as base for Chinese antinJapanese cle ments and an important port of Nutty for Chinese supplies, accord Ing to Japanese circles here!
ferry service operates between Macao one the Chungshan district. the Japanese may try to launch a drive along the West River, towards Wuchow, on the Kwangtung-Kwangsi order. for the purpose of Isolating Kiwangtung from Kwangs!.
'At the same time, it is possible that Japanese operations may' be confined fo. an attempt to disperse Chinese mobile units, operating south-west 'A. foreign traveller, who recently visited Canton, states that Chinese guerillas "were active immediately outside the city. while Chinese troops: forth of Canton were in possession of
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