The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-03

ing the last IS months which has resulted in steady increase in size of the nese-controlled state of Manchukuo at the expense of the Soviets.
 Meantime events moved rapidly towards @ general Chinese-Japanese war in which more than 500,000 men soon may be engaged with the fate of o,000,000 Chinese in the nations five northern provinces at stake.
 Chinese were taking the offen- sive on all fronts.
 Strong divisions of the Central government, which moved into Chahar province from Shansi yes- terday and seized the important trading city of Kalgan, were report ed to have withstood violent bomb- ing attacks by Japanese airplanes and to have built strong defensive positions. Their scouting parties were advancing towards Dolonor, on the border of the Japanese con- trolled state of Manchukuo, possibly to create a diversion which would force Gen. Kiyoshi Katsuki, the Japanese commander, to withdraw men from the Yellow river front.
 It was apparent that the general Chinese strategy Is to attac k at widely separated points forcing the Japanese to scatter their limited forces which can be dealt with in night guerilla raids which will off, set the Japanese superiority in munitions and mechanical equip ment
 Japanese, for their part, were passing their hope on their superior ity In the air.
 Huge three-engined Japanese bombers roared south, west and north, from the air fields which the Japanese have constructed at Tient- sin, Fengtai, Nanyuan and other points in the Peiping-Tientsin area.
 They rained bombs on the Chinese concentrations at Paoting, south of Tientsin, at points in Shantung province to the northwest of Tsing- tao, at the strategic Nankou pass northwest of Peiping, and on the Chinese divisions which have seized Kalgan and other points in Chahar
 Chinese said the bomb raids largely were ineffective as their troops are well scattered.
 Indicative of the increasing ten- sion, Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe, who has been In Tientsir attempting to arrange a local" set. clement of the North China fight ing was hurrying back to his post in Nanking to be near the Chinese Central government before genera fighting starts.
 He arrived in Dairen, in the Jap anese leased territory at the tip oi South Manchuria, this morning and planned to take steamer fol Shanghai tomorrow.
 The Japanese were worried at de- velopments in Shantung province where the powerful independent military governor, Gen. Han Flu Gnu, appeared to have cast his lot definitely with the Central govern ment. Han visited Ranking last weekend and, after conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kali Shek, flew back to his capital ir Tsinan-Fu and mobilized his huge personal army, estimated to number l50,000 men. His troops started north Monday and were bombed re- peatedly by the Japanese at Teh- chow, where there are a number oi American residents.
 Chinese were fleeing Shantung ir thousands, believing that the Jap- anese will invade the province ir force before the end of the week Rumors circulated that a Japanese division, supported by warships will be landed at Tsingtao to march up the railway towards the Shan- tung capital at Tsinan.
 Military attaches here and in Nanking, taking a broad view of the situation, doubted that Soviet Rus sia will go so far as to threaten military action to avenge the raids on the Soviet consulate in TientSin which Moscow alleges was executed under direction of the Japanese army.
 Plans to evacuate Americans and Europeans from danger zones were haStened to completion,