CHINESE AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1932, Page 6

CHINESE AFFAIRS

A SCATHING DENUNCIATION. AGAINST GENERAL CHANG. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, August 6. Wang Chung Hui, whose resignation is announced yesterday issued.a scathing denunciation of General Chang Hsiie Liang, alleging that Chang’s abandonment- of Mukden last i yOar lost for China thirty million of people and hundreds of thousands of square mites of territory. Though nearly a year had passed, he had' done nothing to vindicate himself with the result that Jehol, was now being threatened, despite the fact that Chang commands the largest and’ best equipped forces in China. Te the best of his knowledge, he says, Chang had not . sent a single soldier or lost a single arrow in the defence of the nation. Nevertheless, he was using this as a pretext for resistance to the Japanese which was for the purpose of extorting from China’s bankrupt treasury. He hoped that Chang would also resign, so that Jehol., Pekin and Tientsin will not follow the fate, of Manchuria.

CHANG TO RESIGN. 1 ; 1 •'-• -; ; •• ■ Vi' TOKIO, August 8. * A Shanghai message states that General Chang Hsouh Liang has telegraphed. to the Nanking Government announcing his determination to resign 'and asking for the appointment of a Military Reorganisation Committee, which, with the Peking Political Council would take control of the military ad political affairs in the north. JAPAN AND MANCHURIA. ' TOKIO’ August 8. . ; The Emperor of Japan to-day invested General Muto as Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Mahchurian State. He is proceeding, to the Bsinkmg capital on August 20; ; ' . .. • ■