THE LEEDS MERCURY

Leeds, Yorkshire, England

11 March 1933

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Chinese Fear an Extension of War Area.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Generalissimo of the Chinese National Army, has assumed command of the forces in North China and is throwing his own divisions into the fighting. Peking anticipates that this means operations on a large scale in North China.

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Mr. Gerald Yorke, one of the British Press correspondents in the Jehol war zone, has been arrested by the Chinese military authorities at Miyunhsien, fifty miles from Peking, while returning from the Jehol front.