MANCHURIA

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1931, Page 5

MANCHURIA

STUDENTS DEMONSTRATIONS

| EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigb+A

'SHANGHAI, December 19

The local students continue to hold iChangchum, Shanghai’s Chinese Mayor a prisoner, following an all night d lent ion of students for outbreaks of violence wherein administrative headquarters were invaded and wrecked, and twenty thousand dollars worth of property and furniture at the Kuomintang’s headquarters-elsewhere were destroyed, while riiany valuable official documents wdre destroyed. Suburban students, twenty miles from the township of Chengju, are reported to have, destroyed railway bridges and attacked a station as a demonstration of protest against the refusal of the railway to provide transport to Nanking for a monster demonstration that was planned at the capital to-day.

LEAGUE COUNCIL RESOLUTION

WHAT IS IT WORTH?

RUGBY,. December 9. The League Council met at Paris to-day in connection > with the SinoJapan dispute. M. Briand (President) read a resolution reaffirming the Council's resolution on September 13th last, by which the two parties have declared themselves solely bound, and calling on the Chinese-Japanese Governments to take all the steps necessary to ensure its execution, so that the withdrawal ,0f... Japanese troops within the railway zone may be effected as speedily .as possible. The resolution provides for a meeting of the council, on January 20, and empowers the President to summon an earlier meeting it. necessary. A vote will be taken on the resolution to-mor-row.

JAPANESE ANTICIPATION

SERIOUS BATTLE NEAR MUKDEN

TOKYO, December 10

Extensive eastward movements of Chinese troops from Cliingchow are reported. They already are within twenty-live miles 'of Mukden. It is feared a serious clash is inevitable.