JEHOL BORDER DISPUTE

Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9

JEHOL BORDER DISPUTE

CHINESE WITHDRAW; TROOPS INCIDENT CONSIDERED SETTLED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PEKING, January 21. (Received January 22, at 10 a.ni.) As the result of the Chinese agreeing to withdraw their troops to a hue running between Kuyuan and 'I uhsikou, the Jchol border dispute is now considered settled. According to Japanese military authorities here, the question of final delimitation of the boundary will be left for diplomatic negotiation later. [A message received yesterday stated: hears of the Japanese invasion of Inner Mongolia were renewed by the action of the Japanese military at Jehol in sending an ultimatum to Chinese troops occupying a small area outside the northern loop of the Great Wall, oast of Kuyuan. The Japanese authorities at Peiping admit that Japanese and Manduikuo troops are concentrating in Western Jchol for the purpose of forcibly clearing out the Chinese unless the latter withdraw, but they deny any intention of invading inner Mongolia. Chinese officials declare that the Japanese action is unjustified, as the territory is definitely part, of Charbar province, and in any ease no Chinese regulars arc ;bhere, only local militia.