JAPANESE IN CHINA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21493, 17 May 1933, Page 11

JAPANESE IN CHINA

ADVANCE ON PEKING NERVOUSNESS GROWING OCCUPATION FEARED MISSION CENTRE MENACED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright PICKING. May 15 Nervousness about the intentions of the Japanese is rapidly increasing. Many well-to-do Chincso are leaving Peking, in the belief that the occupation of the city by the Japanese is imminent. As a precautionary measure the American Legation has advised American women and children to evacuate Tung-chow, a mission centre, 13 miles cast of Peking, in consequence of reports that the Japanese intend to occupy that town. In the Kupei-kow region the Japanese have reached a point eight miles north of Miyun, whence the entire civilian population has fled. There is a large concentration of Chi tiese at Tongsbaw, from which gunfire is distinctly audible. General Yuh Such-ehung, commandant of the Taku-Tientsin area, announces that ho will resist the Japanese to the uttermost. The Japanese have captured Shihhsia, an important Chinese position south of tlio Kupei-kow Pass.