23 JAPANESE KILLED

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 9

23 JAPANESE KILLED

CLASH WITH BANDITS IN MANCHURIA (Received March 22, 1.30 a.m.) TOKYO, March 21. Reports from Harbin state that a Japanese officer, Captain Kitagawa, and 22 others e killed, and more than 60 wounded, in fighting bandits at the town of Ilan on Monday. TAXES ON IMPORTS A JAPANESE RETALIATORY MEASURE TOKYO. March 20. The Lower House passed the Trade Protection Bill, giving the Government flexible power to impose retaliatory taxes on imports, and also to restrict or to prohibit imports. The Government is reported to he exercised over anti-Japanese agitation at the Rio de Janeiro Constitutional Convention, and lias in- ■ structed the Japanese consul to en- j deayour to secure the rejection ot ; anti-Japanese clauses in the new j convention, in view of the bad | rffect they may have on future j Japanese-Brazilian relations. j i ARMED SOVIET GUARDS j IN MANCHUKUO j INVESTIGATION by officials TOKYO, March 20. Harbin reports state that Manchukuo officials are vigilantly _ investigating the incursion of eight j armed Soviet Guards, who recon- ; i"ioitreti near Ilunehun about March j U. J