JAPANESE ULTIMATUM
REJECTED BY CHINESE
CONFLICT IN MANCHURIA
FEARED INEVITABLE
United Tress Association—By .Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 17th November, 10 a.m.) PEKIN, 16th November. Hostilities on the biggest scale since the start of the Manchurian dispule are feared to be inevitable as the result of the rejection by Ma Chang-Shan, the Governor of Heilung Kiang, for the third time, of the Japanese ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of his troops north of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Tho ultimatum expired at noon. Hsuan Tung, whom the Japanese, it is believed, intended to declare Emperor of Manchuria, has mysteriously disappeared. A Japanese official statement explains, that he escaped from Tientsin owing to fear of assassination, but they deny knowledge of his whereabouts. The Chinese papers state that his crowning was postponed at the last moment, when the ex-ruler threatened suicide, if he was compelled to reascend the dragon throne.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1931, Page 9
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