CHINESE TROOPS

Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 7

CHINESE TROOPS

MOVEMENTS AT SHANGHAI JAPANESE COMMAND PERTURBED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, April 16. The Japanese Command is evincing some anxiety regarding the recent movements of Chinese troops south of Soochovv Creek. The Japanese have issued a statement pointing out that tho refusal of the Chinese to continue peace negotiations, while at the same time they are making troop movements, evidences a lack of sincerity, which may turn tho present suspension of pourparlers into a definite breach, the responsibility for which will lie with the Chinese. EVENTS IN MANCHURIA SOVIET UNEASY. LONDON, April 17. (Received April 18, at 10 a.m.) , The Riga correspondent of ‘The Times ’ says that tho Soviet Press professes great uneasiness at events in Manchuria, especially over the reports from Khabarovsk in connection with the discovery of an attempt to blow up the railway bridge over the Sungari River, which the •* Izyestia ’ interprets as the part of a deliberate Japanese plan to make more acute tho relations already strained as a preliminary to exploding the Far Eastern powder magazine, involving the 'Soviet in a military conflict. Tho paper alleges that Japan has already' begun to send more troops to Manchuria, and adds: “Tho Soviet will not begin tho war, but will leave the enemy to take the initiative and entire responsibility.”