JAPAN IN MANCHURIA

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1909, 21 May 1928, Page 8

JAPAN IN MANCHURIA

ASSERTS DETERMINATION TO ESTABLISH PROTECTORATE (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Shanghai. May 19. Japan's apparent dclerininaiion to intervene in the civil, war in China, is creating considerable agitation in foreign diplomatic circles at Peking. The Japanese statement was presented. simultaneously to throe antiXorthcru leaders, General Feng, Yubsiang and Chiang Kai Slide and ilm Shansi Governor. Yen Shi lisan. declaring determination lo preserve .Manchuria from the ravages of war. It virtually asserts determination to establish a protectorate in Manchuria, possibly immediately. Japan is evidently willing lo per. mit .Marshal Chang Tsoi in’s armies tq withdraw into Manchuria if disciplined, but will not. permit, the passage of the defeated undisciplined’ rabble. it is understood that Japan has advised Marshal Chang Tsoi in to return to Alanohurin immediately while his armies are intact. The dictator refused flatly. Desultory flighting is proceeding S miles south of Peking. The Northerners are offering strong resistance to the Southerners’ advance. Successes are claimed.