EASTERN CRISIS
(Press. Assn.-
fearful slaughter CHARGE^ Qp ATR0CITIE3 AGAINST JAPS. IN r MANCIIURIA TROUBLES NQT YET ENRED
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ijRec May 16, 9.5 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. The Times' Geneva correspondent says the latest Sino-Japanese communicafions to the League dlspei the impress|on tRa|; the Shaiighai "afmisfice entfed' the trouhle lpthe TarEast. Gbnefh} IMachhsari hea(| of The Manchurian forces,' reports that Japanese troops entered Tungho, 105 miles east bf Harbin, fired the buildings, looted the market, disarmed the police, arrested the officials and Tnterned them on a gunboat, hayonetted women refugees, sealed the mouths of pits in which civilians had taken refuge, and burned them alive. The Japanese assert that 3500 acts of brigandage occurred between March l and April 10, in the' South Manchurian zone. These were instigated by Manchuria's former rulers.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 225, 17 May 1932, Page 5
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