FAR EAST TENSION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 2 November 1933, Page 3

FAR EAST TENSION

MANCI 1 UKUO’S DEMANDS

Tension between Manciiukuo and the Soviet is growing. Manciiukuo calls lor immediate and complete fulfilment” of its demands—tbe release of White Russian guards captured by the steamer Timgsnng in Manebiikuo waters in .July, sovoro punishment of tho O.G.P.U. agents responsible, and a guarantee against repetition of the incident. Tbe Soviet Consul, General Slavutsky, refuses to accept tho demand, hut promises to forward tho substance of the information to the Soviet Government. Ho complains that White Russians arc allowed to enter Russian territory, and that action has not neon taken against General Kosmin, their leader, for alleged dispatch of men across tho frontier at Shihlinpcn. Tho Manehnkno Foreign Office caustically replies renuesting attention to the liasic facts, which, it says, arc sufficient to nullify hundreds of official explanations.

DEATHS IN THE “WAll.”

CHINESE AND JAPANESE.

No fewer than 222.000 Chinese officers, privates and civilians were killed and wounded in tho “undeclared Sino-Japnncso war, according to the War Office. In contrast to this, tho Japanese casualties amounted to only 11,380 during tbe so-called Manchurian emergency between tho dates of September 18, 1931, and Juno 1, 1933.