Japan Sends Ultimatum

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6764, 23 January 1932, Page 7

Japan Sends Ultimatum

Warships Gather In Force at Shanghai

RECENT FRACAS NOT PALATABLE TO NIPPON

United Press Association. —By Electric Telograph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 7.5 p.in. SHANGHAI, Jan. 22.

.Rear-Admiral Shiosawa, comriiander of the first Japanese licet in Chinese ■waters, sent an ultimatum to the Chinese demanding a satisfactory reply to the Consul-General’s protest agaitast the recent fracas in the international settlement and also the dissolution of anti-Japanese associations. With the arrival of the Japanese fleet from Kuro to-morrow tho largest aggregation of war vessels of any one Power will be assembled at Shanghai. The Japanese force will then consist of Ihree cruisers, ono aircraft-carrier, a flotilla of destroyers and two gunboats. There are at present 000 Japanese marines ashore and 000 more aro arriving. Tho theory is advanced that the Japanese may eventually decide to take over the whole city when the British and American portions and tho Shanghai defence foreo may be in an unequivocal position.

BROADCAST BY JAPAN’S COMMANDER. San aFrneisco Press Broadcast. MUKDEN, Jan. 20. The capital of Manchuria, hub of Japan's operations north of the Chinese Great Wall, was clothed in a mantle of snow this morning as General Honjo, Japanese commander, spoke over the radio to Japan and America, with Floyd Gibbons, universal service and international nows service correspondent, and Edward Hunter, universal service correspondent, who wore members of General Honjo’s intelligence corps. It was the first broadcast from the headquarters of an army in the field.