Next Move in- Orient:
Chungking, June 19, Japanese military authorities. holding conferences: in Tokyo at. present fare. probably. debating the question whether Japan should push. southward into the Southern, Pacific, make a drive into the interior China, declared the Chinese, military conference, spokesman at this afternoon's press
'Japan would face' serious dimeulties: int either move, he adele After recalling that the Japanese employed" eight divisions "in. the -recent Chungtiaoshan battle. In. South Shansi," the spokesman said that 6 Japan's difMeulties in.a drive'into the Interior: of China. could be" readily. foreseen as there were' scores of other such mountain ranges" in' the interior of China, 'The spokesman also drew. atten-" tion' to the concentration of over 100 Japanese warships off the: feast, the purpose of which yet_ been ascertained:
'The, spokesman said that. only minor' operations -were \xeported In the past week on various' Sino-Japanese fronts. In Southern Hupeh. the panese launched attacks. south. wards against Chinese positions near the' Hupeh-Hunan border, but by yesterday all Japanese "attacks /were said to have been repulsed, the. Chinese still holding, their. original: ositions—Reuler, Americans Honoured,
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