SINO-JAPANESE AFFAIRS

Grey River Argus, 17 June 1933, Page 5

SINO-JAPANESE AFFAIRS

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) PEKIN. June 15. With Tokio’s announcement of tho withdrawal of Japanese troops to the Great Wall being completed within a week, the chief obstacle to the fulfilment of the Tangku armistice ap' pears to be the presence along the Pekin-Mukden railway of live thou* sand pro-Manchukuo irregulars, under General Lichichun. Negotiations over this problem ar e now proceeding with the object of early restoration of traffic between Pekin and Chenwang* SHANGHAI. June 15. An unusual form of banditry has occurred at Mukden, where a Frenchman. Andrew Boxio. received a threat that himself, his wife and three child ren would be wiped out. unless twenty-live thousand were handed over. The Embassy authorities are taking all precautions. DISASTROUS CYCLONE. TOKIO, June 15. Fourteen are known to bo dead and hundreds of houses were demolished y a severe cyclone sweeping the ' umma and Hiogo prefectures. Enormous damage was done to crops and ailways communications.