JAP RECOGNITION

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1932, Page 5

JAP RECOGNITION

OF NEW STATE •* . •-:<V * v V r i\ i . .V • VjM 'i . THE SIGNING OF THE PROTOCOL. % : ■ " ’• —: ' (United Press Association— By Electric .. Telegraph—Copyright.) ■■ ’' KOBE, Sep. 15. y The recognition of’ the State cf Mhnohukuo (Manchuria) by Japan is now complete.. 'i AtoqL'-v At ten o’clock 'this meeting, the Japanese;* plenipotentiary, General Mutoy and the Manchukuo Premier, | . Gheng -Hsiaohsu, signed a protocol of f,, mutual' respect for sovereignty, terri* !•*; torial integrity, good neighbourliness, .* and peace of the Far Hast. \ , Both parties are to regard the internal menace# towards Manchukuo as being matters of their common interest.' ; -V ■// ' ( Manchukuo is consenting to the maintenance of necessary Japanese troop® in (Manchuria. Under thie (protocol the two signatories pledge themselves tcTa common defence against to all appropriate 1 if the sovereignty of the territory -J' should he infringed, - , ■ ,

TENSE FEELING PREVAILS/ DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW. "'/OTANOHAI, Sep. lfi. Although the day opened without the promised "demonstration against the Japanese recognition of. the new Manchuria State of, Manchukuo, the situation later became somewhat more tense 'owing . to ‘an inexplicable strengthening of the Japanese forces along the river 'Yangtze. Martial law has been declared at Nanuking, where the, Japanese have landed machine guns and extra patrols of soldiers arjd police in the streets, ©specially in' the 'northern area, which is the location of the foreign consulates and foreign All demonstrations have been forbidden in Shanghai.

NANKING’S APPEAL TO POWERS. pr 1 ‘VIOLATION OF SOVEREIGNTY. ’ ’ ; . ' (Received this day at 9.25 amV ■ .NANKING, Sep. IS. . Nanking is despatching diplomatic r _ notes to London, r Paris, ‘ J Rome audGeneva.,,, charging Japan J with .the violation., of. China’s territorial administrative' sqyejtfe-ignty., -and requesting international action as the result of Japan’s signing the protocol giving recognition to- thie new iState of Manchukuo... tar