CONFUSION IN CHINA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 August 1945, Page 5

CONFUSION IN CHINA

COMPLAINT BY JAPANESE. APPEAL TO GEN. MACARTHUR. (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright.) fßec. 11.45 a.ni.) MANILA, Aug. 20. Tokio lias sent a radio message to General MacArthur reporting that Chungking and Communist forces are rushing in an unwarranted manner and without discipline into Japanese-held areas in China with separate surrender demands. The Japanese efforts to maintain order in the confused situation were thus complicated. The Japanese were doing their utmost to protect the Chinese as well as their own nationals. Tokio asked General MacArthur to send officials to investigate the actual situation in China. The Japanese had already completely ceased hostilities and intended to carry out tli® demands of the Potsdam Declaration, hut they deemed it necessary to keep their troops under arms in Japan and on the Asiatic continent to maintain order. The Associated Press correspondent in Chungking says it is credibly reported that regular Chinese forces clashed with Communists near Taiyuan, the Japanese-occupied capital of Shansi. The Communists arc reported to have seized an airfield near Taivuan from which they were ejected 'by the Chungking troops-. Lieutenant-General Chu Shili-nnng, a member of the Chinese surrender delegation in Manila, said China should dominate Far Eastern _ waters from now on and should be given the remnants of the Japanese navy to do this.