Turbulent East

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6835, 16 April 1932, Page 7

Turbulent East

North Manchuria Infested by Bandits LONG TASK CONFRONTING JAPANESE FORCES United Tress Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. PEKING, April 14. It will take two to three years to clear North Manchuria of bandits, and the task Avill require 100,000 troops. This is the opinion expressed by General Tamon, commander of the Japanese 2nd Division. In a Press intervicAV, General Tamon accused the Soviet authorities of hampering Japanese attempts to restore order.

FOREIGNERS LEAVING THE MAINLAND. PEKING, April 14. Renewed Communist activity is reported from Fukien province, where the Red armies are threatening Changchow, on the mainland opposite Amoy. Foreigners residing on the mainland, avJio are mostly missionaries, are preparing to take refuge in Amoy, Avliere the British Consul has requested the despatch of a gunboat. Provincial troops are preparing to take the field against the Red invaders. WAR SCARES IN SHANGHAI San Francisco Press Broadcast. SHANGHAI, April 14. Shanghai was full of war scares again to-day following reports that tho Japanese military will shortly issue another ultimatum to tho Chinese Army because of Chinese troop movements in tho vicinity of Lunghua and Pootung. Mayor Wu To Chen ordered double police patrols in Nantao, the nativo section south of tho French Concession, when he received information that 2000 plain-clothes gunmen planned to seize control of the district.

During the last two days 3000 Chinese soldiers have reoccupied the Lunghua arsenal. Chinese troops aro encamped in Pootung, near the anchorage of the Japanese flagship Idzumo. WAR CLOUDS DARKEN San Francisco Press Broadcast. SHANGHAI, April 14. War and preparations for war in tAVO spots far removed from Shanghai stirred China to-day. Tho two spots Avere Harbin, in Manchuria, and Amoy, in Cantonese China, almost equidistant from Shanghai, Amoy being about SSO miles south-west and Harbin about DOO miles north-west. Dispatches from Harbin told of increasing opposition to the new State of Manchoukou, and stressed that General Mah Chan Shan had Avithdrawn his support from the Japanese-sponsored Henry Pu Yi and had established headquarters on Soviet Russian territory. Ho intended to attack Manchoukou from tho north, it Avas said, and at present was at Blagovischik, Siberia, just across the river 'from his capital, Hcilung Kiang, in the State of Hcilung Kiang, Manchuria.