CHINA AND JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1931, Page 5

CHINA AND JAPAN

JAP PLANES ATTACK REFUGEES.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

PEKIN, September 27

It is understood that the British Legation will protest against the reported firing on trains carrying refugees from Mukden, also the- cutting of the branch railway with Yinkow, the Chinese port on the Laotung Gulf. Definite confirmation that ' Japanese aeroplanes have been machine-gunning the passenger trains which were evacuating the civilian refugees from Mukden has been furnished in the report of the British Consul-General at Tientsin by Mr Thomson, General Manager of the Pekin-Mukden railway.

JAPAN’S AIM. KOBE. September 28. Tt is alleged that a movement is on foot to secure Manchurian and Mongolian joint independence under the name of the Chunghe Republic. The Japanese press is permitted to publish this, but is warned against giving any hint that there is Japanese Government or Military backing for' it. JAPAN HOLDING ON. RUSSIA WATCHING HER. SHANGHAI, September 28. Japan’s recent assurances that she will restore the status quo in Man-, chum are, apparently, premature. The Japanese are evidently intending to hold the occupied positions, withdrawing only their reinforcements that were en route prior to the League ot Nations’ decision. The Soviet menace continues. Three troop trains are waiting at Manchuli for any immediate necessity. Six Soviet gunboats are manoeuvring at Sungari and are observing the Japanese military movements. The Soviet consul at Harben is in constant touch with the Chinese special representative. Japanese military airplanes are dropping handbills in Harbin, announcing the impending arrival of Japanese troops, LEAGUE OF NATIONS FAILURE. CHINESE PEOPLE DEMAND WAR. SHANGHAI, September 28. There is a widespread ‘ opinion that the League of Nations has failed at its first real crisis. The country’s officials are facing a desperate situation. The Chinese people are- everywhere, led by students of radical organisations, demanding war to rid Manchuria l <ff the Japanese, and propagandists are feeding the flames of the popular discontent by exaggerating accounts of massncroM of the Chine fie by the Japanese.

CHINESE STUDENTS. DEMAND WAR ON JAPAN

(Received this clay at 9.25 a.m) SHANGHAI, September 28

A student attack on Air Wang, Foreign Afmister, at Nanking was most serious. Five thousand specially journeyed to the capital to urge military resistance to Japan. They stormed the Alinistry of Foreign Affairs, wrecked windows and furniture , and violently assaulted Wang, who narrowly escaped being beaten to death. He escaped in a motor car amid a hail of sticks and stones.

The mob paraded Nanking streets shouting demands for a declaration of war against Japan and Wang’s dismissal.