JAPAN AND CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1851, 10 September 1913, Page 7

JAPAN AND CHINA.

THE NANKING INCIDENT, REGRET EXPRE3SED AND AN INQUIRY ORDERED. By Telegraph—Press Assoc)tvtlon—OopyTitfM (Rco. September 9, 11.40 p.m.) Peking, September 0, _ China has instructed her representative at Tokio to express regret regarding the fato of the threo Japanese officials who were murdered durum; tiio looting at Nanking, and to state that a full investigation has been ordered. General Shiba, whom the Japanese Government sent to inquire into tho recent trouble at Nanking, admits that tho Japaneso officers and soldiers, adding without Japan's consent, assisted tho rebels in defending Nanking. Hence, although tho Chinese' Government are adopting' a conciliatory attitude, tho foreign opinion in Peking is inclined to considor Japan's outcry as unreasonable, especially' in view of Japan's action in harbouring Dr. Sun Yet Sen, tho rebel, and other rebel leaders. The report of the inquiry suggests that the three Japaneso were mistaken for looters. ' Tolilo, September 9. It is announced that the Government does not intend to mobilise troopß, but to deal firmly with tho Cliineso problems. The press lias been strictly censored.