MANCHURIA

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1931, Page 5

MANCHURIA

DR. KOO’S APPOINTMENT.

CHINA’S FOREMOST DIPLOMAT

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

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

SHANGHAI, November 23

Nanking officially anonunees the appointment of Dr. Wellington Koo, as Foreign Minister, in succession to C. T. Wang, who resigned in September, following upon the brutal attack by students for his alleged mishandling of China’s foreign affairs.

Dr. Koo is regarded as the country’s foremost diplomat. Questioned regarding the proposal that a neutral commission shordd proceed to Manchuria to investigate the present dispute, Dr. Koo sated that any suggestion without definite provisions for the early withdrawal of Japanese troops from Manchuria, would not lie accepted by China. \ JAPANESE PERTURBATION, CHINESE COMMUNISTS OUTRAGE. SHANGHIA, November 23. General Hon jo, Japanese Field Commander in Manchuria, informed the Press to-day that he was perturbed regarding the Harbin situation. He vouchsafed the opinion that possibly it would be necessary to occupy Harbin in cruder to safeguard the lives and property of the Japanese, The authorities on the International Settlement took the first decisive step to-day. Japanese Governmnet arrests constituted a bombshell, hurled at antiJapanese ranks, and presage a movement to suppress boycott activities. The French Concession police during the week-end, uncovered the bodies of nine Chinese in the basement of a house in the French Concession. They are believed to have been murdered by members of the Chinese Communistparty, in revenge for divulging information of Communist activities. The victims were strangled. The Nanking, Government is taking great interest in the discoveries,