*Central Daily News"
Discusses Possibility Of Yunnan Invasion Chungking, Oct. 3.
The Chinese-Japanese military position on the Indo-China-Yunnan border is the subject of leading article in this morning's oficial "Central News." After declaring that there was a deadlock in the Chinese and Japanese military positions in the Yangtze valley, in north China, northern Kwangtung and southern Kwangsi and also an apparent abanonment of the much talked about Japanese plan to advance into Szechuen via western Hopeh, the Chinese daily proceeds to discuss the possibility of a Japanese invasion of Yunnan via French Indo-China.
The paper states that high mountain ranges run from Tibet southward into the west of Yunnan province towards the French Indo-China border. Wuliangshan in the west, pingshan in the centre and Luchaoing out a practice attack on a shan in the East, while Luchaoshan are shown making their way up a communications trench. turns eastwards forming a natural boundary between Yunnan and Indo-China. These mountains reach a height of 3,000 to 4000 metres. Tor-*Mr. Chamberlain rentia rivers rush through deep gorges between these mountains—the Teng-Tiao-Ho running between
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