Chinese Troops in Good Heart

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1932, Page 7

Chinese Troops in Good Heart

WELL-EQUIPPED AND BRAVE

New York Times Broadcast. SHANGHAI, Feb. 4

Lieut. R. A. Boone, U.S.M.C., reported on Wednesday after a tour of the Chinese military lines about Shanghai that the men were well equipped and in high spirits, -apparently not at all nervous under fire from the Japanese, which was still going on while he made his inspections. t League Commission Sails For China. New York Times Broadcast. LE HAVRE, Feb. 4. The original Commission appointed by the League of Nations under an agreement to investigate conditions in Manchuria, sailed on Wednesday aboard the liner Paris f v New York.

ANXIETY INCREASES IN AMERICA.

OVER CRITICAL SITUATION IN SHANGHAI.

ALL-DAY SITTING- OP CABINET.

Received Thursday, 9.25 p.m WASHINGTON, Peb. 3.

The critical situation in the International Settlement at Shanghai with the safety of foreigners menaced by the continued fighting between the Japanese and Chinese occupied the exclusive attention of the United States Government today. The news that M. Matsudeira Sato had informed Sir Eric Drummond, League of Nations Secretary at Geneva, that Japan rejects two points in the Anglo - American proposals, namely, second and fifth, caused a further feeling of anxiety here. It is understood that President Hoover believes it is necessary that the prospective negotiations to settle the SinoJapanese difficulties “should be conducted in the spirit of the Pact of Paris.”

The State Department was in frequent consultation with the British Government to-day by telephone. The Navy Department directed Admiral Taylor to assure the other neutral naval and mili-

tary authorities in Shanghai of “a hundred per cent, naval and

military co-operation, by the United States Navy in maintaining the neutrality and safety of the International Settlement. These orders went forward following the receipt of important messages from Admiral Taylor, the contents of which have not been divulged. Reports from American representatives in Shanghai told ot the Japanese bombardment of Woosung forts, the falling of Chinese shells in the International Settlement, the evacuation of Americans from Nanking and a feeling of uncertainty in the Yangtse and South China ports. The day in Congress brought . a demand by Representative McFadden for . the Vinson Naval Construction Bill. He said: ‘‘The dark shadows of war clouds rise upon the western horizon of the Pacific and? a determined military empire sweeps aside treaties as they were swept aside in 1914.” Pacifists Blamed. Hew York Times Broadcast. WASHINGTON, Feb. A. Representative McFadden, of Pennsylvania, in the House on Wednesday took the position «that postponing action on the 616,250,000 dollar naval construction bill was most foolhardy. Moves against army and navy expenditures, he said, were being carried Ott by pacifists financed by those whoso only aim was to destroy national defence.