JAPANESE ATTACK EARLY EXPECTED IN NORTH-EASTERN CHINA.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1936, Page 5

JAPANESE ATTACK

EARLY EXPECTED IN NORTH-EASTERN CHINA.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this day at 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON, November 10,

The “Times’ ” Pekin correspondent says :, While Sino-Japanese negotiations are proceeding at Nanking, about thirty thousand troops from Japanesecontrolled Chaliar, equipped with Japanese planes and tanks, surrounded the north-eastern borders of Suivan, on which an attack is expected at any moment.

Isolated skirmishes have been going on for several days all along the border, which, it is believed, have been made as tests of the strength of the defenders.

All were beaten off with losses to iJie attackers.

Many well-informed Chinese consider that the threat of a big attack w Japanese bluff, hoping that the threat of further loss of-Chinese territory vviil make Nanking more amenable to the Japanese proposals regarding North China and a joint anti-Red pact at Shanghai. RUGBY, November 10. The Prime Minister (Air Stanley Baldwin) concluded a review of home and foreign affairs in a speech at the Mansion House banquet with a warning and an appeal to the nations. “A war to-day,” he said, “would mean untold misery, beside which the misery of the last war ‘could be classed as. happiness. The rearmament of Europe is inconceivable folly for those of us who have the responsibilities of governing the great countries of Europe. If the nations devote for too long their care of arms and forget the conditions of their people, ther e will be discontent and despair. “If the expansion of armaments is continued, I do not say that it will mean war, but it will make war more likely,” added Mr Baldwin “Everyone in Europe knows that war in the long run means the degradation of the life of the people, and in the end anarchy and world revolution. Knowing it, what cun our duty he but to come together and save Europe? “In this island home of ours we are looking now to our defences, and quite right, too. T am prepared to devote' all our efforts, whatever it .may cost in men and money, to do what is necessary, but I am conscious all the time of the folly of it to all! of us. The Government is ready and anxious to embrace any opportunity to stop the growth of arms.”

ARMS AND INDUSTRIES

RUGBY, November 10.

Suggestions that the steady , improvement in home industries was attributable, to Britain’s accelerated defence measures were repudiated by the Minister for Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) in the House of Commons.

Rearmament, he said, had hardly yet contributed to this state of affairs, which was mainly due to private enterprise. The special areas, except in South Vales, 'were growing smaller. Even in Jarrou unemployment had fallen from 7600 to 2897.

The surviving depression was mainly because of difficulties in the coal export trade. Efforts were being made to overcome them.

WARNED TO LEAVE DISTRICT.

FOREIGNERS in MONGOLIA

LONDON, November 11

The Nanking Government’s Foreign Office has advised the representatives of foreign powers to evacuate their nationals from the whole of Inner Mongolia . and from the adjoining provinces, in consequence of the disturbed conditions there.