SU DEFIES PU

Southland Times, Issue 21853, 2 November 1932, Page 11

SU DEFIES PU

REBELLION IN MANCHURIA. JAPANESE INVESTIGATION. Kobe, October 19. The continued revolt against the new Manchukuo State of General Su Pingwu, who with two army brigades defiantly occupied Manchuli and Hailar on September 28, is to be investigated by the Japanese military attache at Moscow. He has been instructed to go to Manchuli. General Su not only controls the two towns named, in defiance of the Government at Mukden, of which “Mr” Pu Yi is the head, but also the surrounding country, and the Japanese are not able to approach either centre. Bombing 'planes sent from Tsitsihar have, however, destroyed an aeroplane which had been captured and kept at Hailar by General Su. The bombers dropped a letter offering terms to the rebel general, conditional on his return to allegiance to Manchukuo. The military are anxious that the world should, in view of the forthcoming meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva, understand that no civilians were injured by the bombing at Hailar. There is, for the same reason, military reluctance to undertake extensive warlike operations. Meanwhile, the situation with regard to bandits in the new State is not improving. The harvests are being destroyed, under cover of guerilla warfare, and in face of the increasing cold this is a serious situation.