WAR IN CHINA: Japan Steps South

Last October Japan took advantage of the demoralization after Munich to step quietly south and seize Canton, at the back door of British Hong Kong. Stepping just as quietly, last week she took advantage of the confusion of the Spanish war's climax, went still farther south and occupied the island of Hainan, at the front door of French Indo-China.

Overnight a Japanese expeditionary force which had sailed down the China sea landed on and occupied, in spite of a 32-year-old treaty with France and in the teeth of warnings received last year from France...

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