SOUTH OF GREAT WALL

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 7

SOUTH OF GREAT WALL

Japanese Troops in North China. STRINGENT' DEMANDS. PEKING, June 13. Following upon stringent demands by the Japanese the chairman of the Peking Military Council, General Ho Ying-chin, left Peking hurriedly for Nanking today to consult the Central Government. It is reported that 12 Japanese troop trains and •- one armoured train have corao to the southward of the Great Wall through Shang-hai-kwan. Japanese troops also have appeared at Minyun, 40 miles north of Peking. It is feared that events may take a serious turn at any moment.

A London dispatch states that the "News-Chronicle" Tokyo correspondent says the Japanese newspapers now refer to' North China as a buffer area between Manchukuo and China, in which only a pro-Japanese Government can be tolerated.

CLIPPER'S FLIGHT.

CALIFORNIA TO HONOLULU.

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

ALAMEDA (Calif.), June 13

The Pan-American Airways clipper 'plane arrived at .Honolulu from here after an 18-hour flight.

CRASH INTO SEA.

R.A.F. PILOT KILLED

SINGAPORE, June 13.

Ronald Talbot Smith, of the Royal Air Force, was killed today when his machine crashed into the sea off Singapore during diving and bombing practice. His body was recovered.