MANCHURIA
further hostilities feared. JAPANESE ULTIMATUM REJECTED. (United Press Association—By EJeetrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) PEKING, November 16. Hostilities, on the biggest scale since the start of the Manchurian dispute, are feared to be inevitable as the result of the rejection, by Ma Chang Shau, Governor of the Heilung Kiang, for the third time, of the Japanese ultimatum, demanding the withdrawal of his troops,. north of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The ultimatum expired at noon.
Hsua|n Lung, whomi the Japanese, it is believed intended to declare Em perior of Manchuria has mysteriously disappeared. A Japanese official statement explains that he escaped from Tientsin owing to fear of assassination, but denies * knowledge of his whereabouts.
Chinese papers state that th e crown_ ing was postponed at the last moment when the ex-ruler threatened to commit suicide if compelled to re-ascend thd dragon throne.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1931, Page 6
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145MANCHURIA Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1931, Page 6
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