THE FAR EAST

Evening Star, Issue 20993, 6 January 1932, Page 7

THE FAR EAST

OUTRAGES AT FOOGHOW JAPAN SENDS WARSHIPS grew Awociation—By Telegraph—Copyright, TOKIO, January 5. In consequence of the anti-Japanese outrages at Foochow three destroyers have left Sasebo for China for the protection of Japanese residents. SHANGHAI, January 5. The Foochow situation is unchanged. Three Japanese destroyers carrying additional marines have arrived. The Japanese community at a mass meeting demanded an official apology. ASSAULT ON CONSUL AMERICA’S PROTEST, January 4. The State Department has protested Jo Japan against the attack by Japanese soldiers on the American Consul (Mr Chamberlain) at Mukden. RIOTING IN MANCHURIA RUSSO-CHINESE BRAWL’, SHANGHAI, January 5. A, Chinese policeman, and six Russian civilians were killed in riots at Harbin arising from the manhandling of a Russian by Chinese. Reports of the incident brought a huge crowd of angry Russians outside a Chinese shoe store, iwhere the beating was supposed to have Occurred. Chinese policec, hoping to prevent further mobilising of the Russian community, barricaded the main street, but the rioting increased and the police fired, twenty Russians being injured, some of them seriously. The Japanese are accused of instigating the trouble and bribing White Russians.