JAPAN’S PLAN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19860, 25 July 1934, Page 10

JAPAN’S PLAN

DIFFICULTIES IN MANCHUKUO United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, July 22. Difficulties have arisen between the British and Japanese military commanders in North China regarding the movements of British troops in the Shanbaikwan area. According to despatches from Peiping, the Japanese Kwan-tung army commander is annoyed because the British commander of the Tientsin garrison failed officially to inform the Japanese of British troop manoeuvres in the Peiping end Mukden railway area. Every year the British troops, in common with French and others, have proceeded outside the Great Wall at Shanhaikwan for training purposes on ground which Is specially allotted for this purpose under the Boxer protocol. The Japanese now claim that Manchukuo Is no longer part of China and that the British Government must approach the Changshun Foreign Office for permission to continue to use the training ground.