CHINESE FORCES MOVING

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 7 December 1931, Page 7

CHINESE FORCES MOVING

CONCENTRATION NEAR. MUKDEN CHINESE MINISTERS RESIGN. -.United Press Association —By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Dec. 5. Japanese military 'headquarters at Mukden state that nearly 40,000 Chinese troops ate occupying the re gion between Chinchow and Mukden, General Honjo, the Japanese commander, is non-committal on the question of whether he contemplates an advance on Chinchow. It is reported that nearly 20,000 bandits and irregulars are overrunning the South Manchurian railways zone. These, with the Chinese concentration, endanger the small Japanese forces. Nanking announces the resignations of Dr. Alfred Sze, delegate to Paris, and Dr. Wellington Koo, recentlyappointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Sze, in a cablegram, complains that Chines-e overseas delegates in Europe are applying pressure to him not to attend further sessions and to commence negotiations for China’s withdrawal from the League. President Chiang Kai-shek has asked Dr. Sze to continue at his post, assuring him that the Government is firmly behind him. Dr. Koo pleads overwork. Local opinion is that the resignations are the result of local sentiment, which opposes the Government policy, especially in respect to the situation in the Chinchow neutral zone. STUDENTS’ DEMONSTRATIONS. 2000 CAMP ON RAILWAY LINES. PEKING, Dec. 5. Denied free transportation to Nanking to put the views of Manchuria before the Central Goyernment, 2000 university students held up all road traffic here for twenty-four hours, and are still preventing trains entering or leaving the city. The demonstrators, who included girls, camped on the tracks throughout the night, despite the cold. The police hesitate to interfere, fearing reprisals. . Trains from Tientsin are compelled to halt at a junction some miles from Peking.

RESIGNATIONS RECONSIDERED

CHINESE DELEGATES TO LEAGUE

Received 11.35 a.m. to-day. PARIS, Dec. 6. As a result of an appeal by the Chinese Cabinet, Mr Sze and Dr. Koo have withdrawn their resignations from the League.