MANCHURIA

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1931, Page 5

MANCHURIA

LEAGUE’S SCHEME

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

PARIS, November 26. M. Briand has telegraphed to the ' Chinese and Japanese Governments requesting a cessation' of hostilities. 4 The Council of the League have prepared a draft scheme, reaffirming its ,resolution of September 30tfi, which after a long telephone conversation, General Dawes and Mr Stinson in America, advised China and Japan to accopt. ♦ The belligerents are invited to sup- . ' pie men t the resolution by which they declare themselves bound, by ordering their commanders to refrain from provocative initiatives, and to avoid 1 further aggravation of the situation. If China or Japan rejects the resolution., further action will be considered. Observers will be sent to the disturbed areas by different States, but not as representatives of' the League Council. , A British military attache and other observers! will proceed to Chin chow, Tsitsihar, and Anganchi. French and / Italian observers are going to Chinchow. The League Council is to meet again .on November 26th ; CHINA CONCILIATORY,

LONDON, November 26. Regarding the League’s proposals, Ifc , is announced that China accepts the Commission of Inquiry' conditionally upon the'immediate cessation of the hostilities, and the completion by the Japanese of an evacuation within a definite time. It is understood that Japan demurs - at an immediate cessation of hostilities. China asks the Council to establish . a neutral zone between the Chinese and the Japanese, such zone to be occupied by British, French. Italian and other neutrals, - which would enable China,: to withdraw her forces within the Great -f Wall. LEAGUE BEING WRECKED. LONDON, November 26. The smaller Powers declare that Britain and France are wrecking the League of Nations’ Covenant by passing such weak resolution as that in reference to the Manchurian situation. ; • ' A DARK OUTLOOK. STUDENTS’ HUGE INVASION. •SHANGHAI, November 26. War clouds continue to gather over . Southern Manchuria. The Japanese oe- ' cupied Hsininfu after several days’ skirV mishing, and the Chinese forces at Chin Ohow are kuiibllmg a general attack ©it the Japanese shortly: Another student invasion was made on Nanking, demanding a decisive issue with Japan with regard to Manchuria, lit attained sueh dimensions to-day that • the formal Inauguration of Dr Wellington Koo, the newly-appointed Foreign Minister, had to be postponed. More than 10,000 boy and girl students' from Shanghai, and neighbouring cities, wearing khak'i and nurses’ uniforms, invaded the Government offices, demanding war. They smashed train windows and station furniture, bestraddling the rail tracks and preventing the running of passage trains. The railway officials finally succeeded in their in- , timidation, and provided them with travelling facilities which hitherto had been denied.

ACTION UPHELD

CHINESE ATTACK REPULSED

TOKYO, November 26. ■Military attaches from , Tokyo are now in Manchuria. At the end of the tfh’st day's inspection, it reported its unanimous conclusion that there was nothing more proper than the Japanese action on the night of September 18th when a force of .railway guards from { / three companies repulsed the Chinese attack. They were particularly impressed when informed that there was an army of seven thousand Chinese ?n barracks nearby. ; :.■} p They inspected the Mukden arsenal s which stored ammunition sufficient to equip Chang’s army of 300,000 to sustain a week’s fighting. The party is / going on to Tsitsihar to-day. “WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP.” AUSTRALIA V. S. AFRICA TEST. LONDON, November 26. I. A. R. Peebles,' the Middlesex amateur, and English test cricketer, j who played against Australia iu the ]?,st series of tests at Home, writing about the South African cricketers iu the "Evening standard” says that the ißrisbane test match beginning to-mor-row, may almost be regarded as an unofficial world’s championship. The sympathies of Britain will be equally divided between the two most popuiar elevens they have ever seen.