JAPAN ACTIVE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 October 1924, Page 5

JAPAN ACTIVE.

IN CHINESE WAR AREA. BY CABLE—PRESS , ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT S/ PEKING, Oct. 22. Further Feng-Tien attacks at Slian-Hai-Kwan yesterday were repulsed. It is reported that the Feng-Tieners retreated from the tqjvn,’ blit this seems doubtful. However, big guns were apparently drawn back and the pressure on the Ohih-Li forces overcome, as the headquarters of the first Chih-Li army have returned to Shan-Hai-Kwan. /- : There are indications that relations between the Japanese and the Chih-Li authorities in the northern war are.a are somewhat strained, but the cause is obscure. _ Upon hearing the report that Japan is sending reinforcements to- Chin-Wan c-Tao. Wu-Pei-Fu is said to have asked the Japanese commander to telegraph to Tokio to postpone aotion. The commander replied: <f Wu-Pei-Fu should caution his officers not to ehow ill-feeling to the Japanese.” • * A Mukden message isays significance is attached to the general review of the Japanese Manchurian -garrison •yesterday at Liao-Yang, fifty miles south of Mukden. Etve-witnesses report the arrival at Tashika, ninety miles south of Mukden, of two Japanese regiments from Port Arthur with artillery.