INVASION OF CHINA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 145, 4 June 1936, Page 8

INVASION OF CHINA

Southern Authorities Urge

Resistance WAR NOT DEMANDED CANTON, Juno 3. The south and south-western Chinese authorities have telegraphed the Central Government at Nanking, also civil and military leaders throughout the country, urging armed resistance against Japan as the only means of saving China, because feeding the enemy with territory is national suicide, In Kwangsi, troops have been mobilised and General Chi Chen-tang, commander-iu-chief of the Kwangtung army, has ordered tho supply of munitions. Groups of Peking students visited the army barracks and urged resistance to Japan. Shanghai says that the Japanese news-agency, Domei, interprets the Chinese manifesto as a proclamation of war, but Chinese officials regard this as an unwarranted reading. They scout the suggestion that Canton demands war on Japan. CAUTION NEEDED PARIS, June 3. The Chinese Embassy cannot confirm the Domei report and emphasises that news from Japanese sources should be received with reserve. The Quai d’Orsay (Foreign Office) also has not been informed, CUSTOMS IMPOTENT SHANGHAI, June 3. Sir Frederick Maze, Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs, has received an official report that the Japanese have reduced the North Chinese customs to impotence by keeping preventive ships outside the three-mile limit, declaring that they will be declared pirates if they stop Japanese vessels.