CHAOS IN CHINA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19311, 24 October 1924, Page 7

CHAOS IN CHINA

JAPANESE RESTIVENESS. SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT OF TROOPS. Pvmm Association—By Tdogiaph—Copyright, PEKING, October 22. (Received Oct. 2d, at 6.5 p.m.) Further Feng-tien attacks at bhan-Hai-kwaa yesterday were repulsed. It is reported that the Feng-tien troops retreated from the town, but tnis seems to be doubtful. However the big guns have apparently been drawn back and the pressure on the Chili-li forces lias been overcome as the headquarters of the first Gbib-li army have returned to Shan-Hai-kwan, Tnero are indications that the relations between the Chih-li and Japanese authorities in the northern war area are somewhat strained, but the cause is obscure. Upon hearing a report that Japan was sending reintorcements to Chin-wang-tao General Wu-Poi-fu is said to have asked the Japanese commander to telegraph to Tokio to postpone action. The commander replied that General Wu-Pei-fu should caution his officers not to show ill-feeling to the Japanese. A message from Mukden says that significance it attached to a general review of the Japanese Manchurian garrison yesterday at Liao-ying, 50 miles south of Mukden. Eye-witnesses report the arrival at Tashika, 90 miles south of Mukden, of two Japanese regiments from Port Arthur with artillery.—Reuter. PEKING TELEGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED. SHANGHAI, October 23. (Received Oct. 23, at 11.35 p.m.) Peking has been suddenly and completely cut off telegraphically from everywhere.—Reuter. THE CANTON DISTURBANCE. CHARGE OF 1 BARBARITY DENIED. PEKING, October 22. Dr Sun-Yat-sen emphatically denies the allegation that there was a massacre of non-combatants of both sexes and all ages during the Canton trouble ,also that ho advised the bayoneting of women and children, and instructed that the cash which was looted should be handed to his Commissary-General.—Sydney Sun Cable.