CHINA AND JAPAN

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2544, 9 October 1931, Page 5

CHINA AND JAPAN

Yet Another Outbreak BOMBS ON CHINCHOW BY JAPANESE AVIATOR CAREI-U'LI.Y iM.ANNKH) RAID MANTHriIIANS AROESED \Y AXT ROM 1' A(TION' DON K TOKIO WHITER TO NANKING GETS AVAR TALK REPLY By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received ! October 0. 9 a.m.) Shanghai, October 8. Jnst when prospects were appearing blighter for the settling of the ManelnrVan questjlMl the Japanese military precipitated a further crisis this af.ernoon when 12 military bombing planes launched an air raid over Chinehow, dropping high explosives. declare that , ito attack was carefully planned and executed with the full sanction of the Japanese military officials '.I Mukden, who declare that such’ disciplinary action was necessary. WARLIKE MOVEMENT Driven to desperation by tile demands of tbe Chinese- publ v for a ii-etaliatio-n. Alaivdfal Chang Hsiirh •Liang is believed to lie preparing to forcibly oppose the Japanese and has ordered Ahe Manchurian forces to -concentrate at Chinehow. JAPAN PROTESTS Tn the meantime. Tokio sen) a second protest to Nanking demanding that the Chine=e Government shou’U ■Sake active steps to halt: the sweeping tide of anti-Japanism which is -threatening to precipitate a serious • outbreak along the A a-ngtse ports. CHINESE REPLY Nanking announces that i is prepared to aoept full responsibility for the lives and propeiCy of the Japanese, hot refuses to- interfere with the patriotic Ming of the people >e- ' suit ant on Japanese aggression. SENSATION IN SHANGHAI Anti-Japanese feeling in Shanghai is reaching boiling point and the whole atmosphere here and in Naniking is charged with tihe greatest jtension. _____