The Archive · 1941

Japanese Statement

Shanghai, Apr. 6.

Explaining the purpose of the Three Different Armies The North China Pacifteation Army consists of three different armies:

The North China Police Fighting Corps, which was originally composed.

the first Chinese troops to be re-emited by the Japanese at the very beginning of the invasion of north China, It is part of the reorganized Peace Preservation Corps of East Hopei, which mutinied and massacred many' Japanese at Tungenow in 1937. Iti now under, the command of Liewt.-Gen, Wang Tieh-hsiang, who in turn takes his orders from Gen. Chi Hsieh-yuan. This corps numbers several thousand and provides gar sons at Changping, Miyun, and' several other hsien towns in northeastern Hopes, Second is the so-called Anti-Communist Army, which is recruited from the bandits and irregulars, who originally surrendered to the Japanese army in the course of its southward advance along the railways in 1937 and 1938, These forces, divided into numerous groups, each with its own Japanese advis Me dependent and ants of the districts in which they were stationed.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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