MOVE BY TROOPS REPORTED

Southland Times, Issue 23336, 21 October 1937, Page 5

MOVE BY TROOPS REPORTED

Defence Of Suiyuan Province JAPAN EMBARKS ON RIGID ECONOMY ATTITUDE TO CONFERENCE NOT YET DECIDED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 20, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 20. The Soviet has decided to despatch a regiment of Mongolian motorized infantry to help China to prevent Japan from occupying the Suiyuan province which is serving as a Russian base for military supplies to China, says the Warsaw correspondent of The Daily Mail. According to the Tokyo correspondent of The Daily Telegraph the Japanese Cabinet has decided that it is possible to save £6,000,000 in this financial year’s Budget by rigid economy. The Minister of Finance (M. Kaya) warned his colleagues that every penny must be saved because of the strain of the hostilities in China. The executive of the Social Left Party has issued a manifesto to foreign labour organizations which are advocating a boycott, affirming that Japan is conducting a holy war to prevent China being communized and colonized. The manifesto says that labour abroad is misled by capitalists and Chinese propaganda. At a meeting of all parliamentary parties in Tokyo no decision was reached about Japan’s attendance at the nine-Power conference at Brussels. The newspaper Asahi Shimbun suggests that Japan will participate only if the sole purpose is a study of the true cause of the unrest in the East and to devise a remedy. UNITED STATES NOT COMMITTED CONTRACT WITH BRITAIN DENIED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 20, 7.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 20. At his home at Hyde Park (New Jersey) the President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) made a formal statement in reply to charges by Senator H. W. Johnson (California) that the President’s address at Chicago on October 5 was leading the United States towards a dangerous foreign policy through an advance agreement with Britain. Mr Roosevelt reiterated that the nine-Power conference on the Far East would seek a peaceable means of a solution. He emphasized that tile United States entered the conference without any commitments to other governments. Dr Frank B. Kellogg, a former Secretary of State, said that the Japanese policy in China was irreconcilable with the letter and the spirit of the Pact of Paris. He issued a warning against international anarchy. BOMBERS OF BOTH SIDES ACTIVE (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 20. The- following' cable message from Nanking has been received by the Chinese' Consul: The severest fighting took place north of Went Sao-pang, which changed hands three times. The Chinese air force made four raids on the Japanese at Yangtze-poo, Chapei and Kiangwan. One Japanese warship was bombed and Japanese air field stores suffered seve.e damage. Japanese bombs destroyed over 30 farm houses in Hungjao village. Wang-tien, Yehzah and Changan stations, on the Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo railway, were bombed and 32 people were killed and wounded.