MANCHURIAN FIGHTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1931, Page 7

MANCHURIAN FIGHTING

JAPS. DEFEAT CHINESE RIVER CROSSING ACHIEVED [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. Nov. 6, 11.30 a.m..) 1 . SHANGHAI, November 5. Fighting in the Nonni River district is developing, according to an official communique. It started by fifty Japanese soldiers forcing a passage across the river, capturing three Chinese vanguards. Two hundred Japanese subsequently opened fire on the Chinese, who consequently decided to occupy Yipuchi, on the northern side of the river. It is reported. that the Chinese are five thousand strong, and possess twenty - field guns, and twelve trench- mortars. The fighting is described as severe. The Chinese casualties are unkriown, but are expected greatly to exceed the Japanese.

JAPS FIGHT BANDITS. (Received November 6, 9.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, November 5. Although jgreqtly out|numbered,‘ a. , single company of Japanese infantry crushingly defeated four hundred Chinese soldier-bandits,. .in a six hours’ engagement in the vicinity of Tungtaokuo, north from Mukden, yesterday. The Japanese were entirely, surrounded and extricated themselves with the greatest difficulty. Eighty Chinese are reported killed. One Japanese was slightly wounded. The Japanese claimed that the Chinese burned villages. The Tsitsihar situation is obscured by conflicting reports. The Chinese Commander telegraphed that a further Japanese advance will precipi- , tate conflict as the Chinese are determined to hold Tsitsihar. Meanwhile, the Japanese are carrying out repairs to the damaged of the railways.

RUSSIA WANTS PEACE Jtimds cables,] LONDON, November 5. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent says:—The Soviet newspapers - continue to assert that the actions of the Ja'panese in Northern Manchuria increase the danger of a conflict With the Soviet. “Izvestia,” the .Soviet Government’s official organ, declares that the Soviet does not desire war, as It is unwilling to shoot away money that is required for industrial development, but it reminds Japan that “who sows of the wind may reap of the whirlwind.” COMMUNIST CONFERENCE SHANGHAI, November 5. .The Chinese Minister (Dr. Szes) warning the League, yesterday, of the possibility that Soviet Russia would be drawn into the conflict in Manchuria, found an’ immediate response, by the issue by the Central Committee 1 of the Soviet Socialist Republic of China, of a manifesto declaring that the time had arrived for a Communist uprising throughout China. Communist leaders throughout the country have been summoned to a con-, ference called the “First Soviet Congress of the National Communist Party of China,” which is expected .to be the most important event ever occurred in China, insofar as the Chinese peasants and labourers are concerned. The manifesto states that the Soviet movement in China has progressed despite the Government efforts at suppression.

MISSIONARY MURDERED. SHANGHAI, November 5, The Associated Mission Treasurers, representing a branch of the American missionary interests at Shanghai, received a telegram, announcing the murder by bandits of the Rev. J. W. Vinson, attached to the Southern Presbyterian Mission, in the vicinity of Ha Ichow, Northern Kiangsu Province, llftr Vinson had spent 24 * years in China. He was a widower, with three children.