Roosevelt, He and Shaxghat Banktig Corporation welcomed by General Chiang Ko Napoleon's Tactics Used in Honan Shanghai, Feb, 15.
Napoleon's tactics are being used fey" the Japanese forces in Honan, according to the army spokesman at yesterday's press conference here. In Janswer to a question on the latest situation, he said that the Japanese forces in Honan have returned to their original positions. Chinese propaganda' agencies, he said, had been trying to construe the inoveiment as a Japanese retreat but the [Japanese objective was not to occupy Jeertain positions, It was rather, he said, (o deal a severe blow to' the Jenemy, This mobile kind of campaign, the spokesman stated, could be raced to. Napoleon who once declar fed that if the enemy is dealt a serious low, victory must be secured, Te had been ascertained that Cer tral troops were planning to move Jeastward, the army spokesmen said, Jand the Japanese campaign in Honan had been carried out to block the [Chinese plan, There were strong forces of Chin-Jose troops in the mountains north Jot Ichang, the spokesmen stated, and these were suffering from lack of food. They were trying to move Jdown to the Yangtze valley where food was ample, The rift between Central and JCommunist troops in the Chinese army was partly politelal and partly lowing to trouble over territory, said the spokesman, 'The reports of imminent Japanese move southward Jwere just Chinese propaganda, the spokesman, indicating the [Chungking position was so weakened that such a move was necessary for Lits salvation, the assumption being that such a' Japanese move would bring to a halt the attack on Central troops, Japan will continue to fight, said the spokesman, until the Chung: king government ceases to resist, Bristle Merchants in Tientsin Form Guild Tientsin, Feb. 14 'A Bristle Merchants' Gulla has! been inaugurated in Tientsin, ace cording to 9 Chinese press report. 'This new body has been organized on the lines of similar merchants' [guilds affiliated with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Forty-seven persons representing the member firms, as well as officials of the local Government organs, were present at the inaugural meeting.
The object of the new Guild, according to the "Yung Pao," is to promote the welfare of the bristle
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