12 MAY 1928, page 1

This Encounter Led To A General Outbreak Of Fighting Between

the Nationalists and Japanese all over the town. Up to the night of May 3rd there were apparently about 2,500 Japanese soldiers at Tsinanfu. As they were immensely outnumbered......

Japan Has Decided To Send At Least 25,000 Troops To

Shantung. Two cruisers are also going to join the twenty or so destroyers at Tsingtao. Public opinion in Japan is expressing itself quietly ; there are no furious demands for......

News Of The Week

F VENTS at Tsinanfu, the capital of Shantung, have caused the Japanese to take a step which all the Powers concerned in China have so far been able to avoid. They have occupied......

It Was On Thursday, May 3rd, That Fighting Began Between

the Nationalists and the Japanese troops which had been sent to protect the considerable number of Japan- ese at Tsinanfu. The Japanese forces had expected trouble, as there is......

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