Evening star., 1933-01-20
BIGGER ARMY ORDERED.
1881 COnscripts to Be Held in Service
As 1888 Glass Is Called to Duty.

TOXIC, January 20 CP).-The army
has decided to dispatch a majority of
that portion of the 1888 conscripts, plus
| auxiliaries, composing Gen. Nobuyoshi
Muto'S command, to Manchuria imme-
dlately. Throughout Japan rockies be-
gan reporting to army stations today.
At the same time, 1881 conscripts and
veterans in the Manchurian forces will
remain in service, war office spokes-
| man said, despite the expiration Of the
tWo-year conScript terms.
Competent military opinion was that
this means, although the number of
Japanese units in Manchuria will be
unchanged, the manpower in the next
few months will be enlarged so per
cent. A third of these, it was said, will
be- raw recruits.
Navy Maneuvers Advanced.
1t was suggested, however, that the
rockies shortly would be available for
garriSonS in quiet sectors, releasing the
veterans for real fighting.
The present command of Gen. Muto,
Japan's supreme military chief in Man
churia, was estimated at 10000 soldiers.
A navy Office spokesman said today
the 1888 japanese naval maneuvers
were planned for August. earlier than
usual, for reasons connected with the
training schedule
He declared the general staff was still
considering the question Of where the
maneuvers will be held.
Another naval authority said the de-
fensive problem of the maneuvers prob
ably would be worked out eastward of
the Bonin Islands, in the North Pacific,
but not extending to the inundated is
lands to the southwark. (The former
German possessions placed under jap
anese mandate in the South Pacific are
eastward from the Philippines)
Dispensing of Chinese bands on the
Southeastern border of Jehol was also
reported completed today as three Jap
anese forces joined together for the big
push into that Chinese province.
A war office spokesman said the
japanese Army intends to occupy Jehol.
the northern gateway to the ancient
capital of Peiping, before Summer
Similar preliminary movements, how
ever, may be expected to continue for
some weeks, it was said.
Earlier announced military plans
called for Inauguration of the move
ment before the Spring thaws set in.
making the roads boggy, but there were
no previous indications that the Japa-
nese expected to complete the occupa-
ton so quickly
Gen. Kuniaki Koiso, chief of staff of
the Japanese Manchurian Army, fore
saw long campaign and predicted it
would take .Wo or three years and
10000 japanese soldiers to suppress
'banditry" in Jehol.
Airplanes flew ahead of the three
japanese forces which converged today
at Chinhsi. the newly disclosed con-
centration point. The land forces,
mostly cavalry, were from Shanhaik-
wan, the Chinese city which was occu-
pied January 3, and Lienshan and Chin
chow, Manchurian railroad certers
about rs and 100 miles northeast Of
Shanhaikwan, respectively.
A cavalry regiment from Chinchow
and infantry detachments from Lien
shan moved westward to the border
to join cavalry brigade which "mopped
up" the border in northward advance
from Shanhaikwan
It met with opposition at Chiumen-
kow, where it left the Great Wall of
China, and at Yunganpo, both of which
were occupied last week. japanese
bombing planes attacked those towns
to clear the way for the cavalry. Ma
tive Manchurian troops, stationed at
both points as garrisons, were holding
those towns today.
Chile is $500 miles from north to
south, but is nowhere more than 200
miles wide.