JAPS IN MANCHURIA
Nearly 23,000 Troops e 85,000 CHINESE ALSO BEING DRILLED. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, May 8. The first report of the League pom* mission regarding the Manchurian problem "‘as received at Geneva from fiord Lytton, Chairman, and will be submitted to the- Council of League < of Nations on May 9. Probably a special plenary session of the Assembly will bo called about May 18 to consider the question. The report states that the Jkuueso troops inside the South railway zone number 6,600 and that « those outside it number 15,8000. In * addition the army of Manchuku, the new one formerly consisting of Chinese regulars, has been reorganised under Japanese supervision, nianv Japanese officers being appointed. •TJis army now numbers eighty-five thousand operating against forces refWH® to recognise Manchuku’s Government J Bandit raids are frequent, T’tc ban® dits are estimated at fifty thousand® and a general sense of insecurity prevails. Tho Japanese therefore tuin that it is impossible to withdi'iiiF'their troops.
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Grey River Argus, 4 May 1932, Page 4
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