THE MANCHURIAN SITUATION.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20413, 7 December 1931, Page 9

THE MANCHURIAN SITUATION.

JAPANESE IN DANGER. CONCENTRATION OF CHINESE FORCES. (VXITKD Ilif.SS ASSOCIATION'—BT ELECTRIC ■J r.LEOBAM—-COPyiUGUT.) (Received December 6th, 5.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, December 5. The Japanese military headquarters at Mukden state that nearly 40,000 Chinese troops are occupying tho region of Chinchow and Mukden. Genoral Honjo, tho Japanese commander, is non-committal on the question of whether ho contemplates an advance on Chinchow. It is reported that nearly 20,000 bandits and irregulars are over-running the South Manchurian railways zone. These with tho Chinese concentration endanger the small Japanese forces. LEADING CHINESE RESIGN. DR. SZE AND DR. KOO.

(Received December Gtli, 11.-15 p."' ) SHANGHAI, December C. The Nanking Government announces tho resignations of Dr. Alfred - Sze, China's delegate at the Paris meeting of the League of Nations Council, and Dr. Wellington Koo, who was recently appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs. Dr. Sze's cable complains that the Chinese overseas delegates in Europe have been exerting pressure on him not to attend further sessions of the League, and to commence negotiations for China's withdrawal from the League. President Chiang Kai-shek lias asked Dr. Sze to continue, assuring him that the Government is firmly behind him. Dr. Wellington Koo pleads ovcn.ork. According to local opinion the resignations are tho result of local sentiment, which opposes the Government's policy, especially in regard to Chinchow and the neutral zone. STUDENTS PROTEST. GIRLS CAMP ON RAILWAY TRACKS. (Received December Gth, 5.5 p.m.) . PEKING, December 5, Denied freo transportation to Nanking to put the views of Manchuria before the Central Government, 2000 university students held up all the road traffic here for 24 hours, and are still preventing trains from entering and leaving the city. The demonstrators included 'girls camped on the tracks throughout the night despite tho cold. The police licsitato interfere, fearing reprisals. Trains from Tientsin were compelled to halt at a junction some miles from Peking.—"Tho Times" Cable.