JAPAN AND CHINA.

Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 27

JAPAN AND CHINA.

CHINCHOW BOMBED. WORK OF JAPANESE PLANES. PEIPING, October 8. A reliable foreign report states that 12 Japanese aeroplanes bombed Chinchow, the temporary headquarters of the Mukden Provincial Government, 150 miles southwards of Mukden. Considerable damage was done to buildings, but the casualties are not yet known. Chinese messages report that many civilians were killed in the crowded railway station. HIGH EXPLOSIVES DROPPED. SHANGHAI, October 8. Just when prospects were appearing brighter of settling the Manchurian question, Japanese military forces precipitated a further crisis this afternoon, when 12 military bombing planes launched an air raid on Chinchow, dropping high explosives. Reports declare that the attack was carefully planned, and executed with the full section of the Japanese military officials at Mukden, who declare that disciplinary action was necessary. Driven to desperation by the demands of the Chinese public for retalia tion, Marshal Shang Hsueh-Liang is believed to be preparing forcibly to oppose the Japanese, and has ordered the Manchurian forces to concentrate at Chinchow. ANTI-JAPANESE FEELING A PROTEST FROM TOKIO. SHANGHAI, October 8. Tokio is sending a second protest to Nanking demanding that the Government should take active steps to halt the sweeping tide of anti-Japanese feeling which is threatening to precipitate a serious outbreak along the Yangtse ports. Nanking announces that it is prepared to accept full responsibility for the lives and property of Japanese, but refuses to interfere with the patriotic feeling of the people resultant on Japanese aggression. Anti-Japanese feeling in Shanghai is reaching boiling point. The whole atmosphere here and at Nanking is charged with the greatest tension.

UNITED STATES TO INTERVENE WORLD OPINION TO BE SOUGHT. WASHINGTON, October 9. The United States Government is preparing to make a definite move in the Manchurian situation. Indications are that it will seek to mobilise world i opinion against further Chinese-Japanese t hostilities. t ] LEAGUE COUNCIL’S ACTION J PROTEST TO OPPOSING PARTIES. ‘ RUGBY, October 9. s At the League Council meeting on : October 1 the president read a state- i ment emphasising the importance of the s withdrawal of Japanese troops in Man- i churia to the railway zone, while at i the same time recognising that certain i time must be allowed for such with- < drawal. He therefore submitted a resolution taking note of the declarations hitherto made by both parties, exhorting them to do all in their power to restore normal relations and to furnish the council at frequent intervals with full information, and proposing that the council should meet again next week unless the situation rendered a meeting unnecessary. The resolution was accepted by the Japanese and Chinese delegates and was unanimously adopted. A Geneva message states that Senor Lerroux, chairman of the Council, sent a telegram to the Chinese and Japanese Governments saying that he understood that measures were being undertaken in Manchuria and elsewhere which could not but embitter feelings and would render a settlement more difficult. He therefore had taken it upon himself before the Council met to express the hope that both sides would execute fully the terms set out in the League Council’s resolution. In the House of Commons on Monday it was stated that the attitude of the British Government was in complete accord with the League Council. LONDON, October 9. The League authorities at Geneva view with gravity the news from Manchuria, and the Chinese representative has asked that the League Council be summoned forthwith. M. Lerroux has , accordingly convoked it for mid-day on , October 13 instead of October 14. DISTURBANCES IN SHANGHAL i SHANGHAI, October 10. , The city generally is quiet. 3 This morning eight arrests were made f in anti-Japanese disorders in the eastern - district, a settlement where 200 workers r and students, who were shouting anti- - Japanese slogans, were dispersed by the e police, whom the crowd stoned. The i demonstrators re-formed, and with others listened to speeches by bob-haired girl i, students till the police squad was called r out and dispersed the mob, which again a gathered and attacked two shops and lite tercd the streets with alleged Japanese goods.