The Archive · 1940

Guerillas Active Near Nanking

In addition to guerilla activities which were recently increased in the outskirts of Nanking, large detachments of Chinese troops have now reached Lungducheng and Tongshan, ich are not far away from the new me's capital, according to the "Sin Wan Pao."

Tension has increased in these districts where the newly arrived troops are said to be in control of strategic points, Many Chinese troops are also said to have been concentrated between Nanking and Wuhu. The main purpose of the Chinese troops movement, it is stated, appears to be Russians wanted for offences committed in the Settlement to the outside court for trial. A third barrier would be the difficulty which must arise in civil cases to execute judgments against Russians.

The decision to form an arbitration court with Russian arbitrators still leaves the question of actual jurisdiction over white Ru: unsettled, disrupting communications between

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