CHINA AND JAPAN

Southland Times, Issue 21650, 11 March 1932, Page 7

CHINA AND JAPAN

OUTSTANDING DIFFERENCES.

PROSPECTS OF SETTLEMENT. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.30 a.m.) Shanghai, March 10. Hopeful signs of an early settlement of outstanding Sino-Japanese differences are seen in a communication addressed to the Chinese authorities by the Japanese Minister, Mr Shigemitsu, to day, indicating a definite desire to speedily enter final negotiations for the cessation of hostilities and withdrawal of forces. The Japanese make clear their readiness to negotiate along the lines of the League resolution. The Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that the Chinese would issue'a statement on similar lines to-night. The League Commission stays at Kobe (Japan' to-night and sails for Shanghai to-morrow. A message from Kobe states that public anxiety has increased by the fall in the exchange and an increase in unemployment, while the progress in China is disappointing. ATTEMPT TO HOLD-UP TRAIN. (Rec. 12.30 a.m.) Tokio, March 10. Three-hundred bandits attempted this morning to hold up a train on which Count Uchida, General Honjo and other officials were returning from the inaugural ceremony in Changchun. Japanese Guards arrived and drove off the bandits and rescued the train.