BATTLE PENDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 9

BATTLE PENDING

SITUATION IN CHINA PROTEST AGAINST JAPAN’S ACTION. TROOPS IN MANCHURIA. PEKING, Dec. 21. Feng Tub Siang is strongly reinforcing the Knio Miu Chun (army at. Peitsang. It, is reported that Chang Taung Chang sent a column to assist. Li Chung Lin. Heavy fighting is expected short iy. A r ory cold weather is prevailing. Kuo Sung Ung is advancing and the Feng Tienites are falling back, Tientsin is completely isolated telegraphically. As Ilia result of a mass meeting in Hankow, the Chinese have telegraphed to Air. Yoshizawa, in Peking protesting against, tho despatch of Japanese troops to Manchuria. Chinese students in Japan have likewise protested to tho Japanese Foreign Office. The Japanese report, that a. Russian steamer landed 700 cases of rifles at Canton.

OCCUPATION OF MUKDEN

JAPANESE TROOPS' MOVEMENTS. TO CHECK FIGHTING AND PROTECT FORETGNERB. Received. December 22, 9.5 p.m. TOKIO, Dee. 21. Foreign Press comment on Japan ’ • despatch of troops tn Manchuria, while generally regarded as sympathetic, has somewhat astonished official circles by describing tho Japanese movements tn protect, non Chinese residents as the oc cupation of Mukden. M. Dnbnchi, Vice Minister of For oign Affairs, interviewed, said he considered this could hardly be said tn convey n, true meaning of the purpose of tho action of Japan, who, in bring ing up her garrison to its normal strength of right thousand men, aimed in tho event, of hostilities near the railway zone to check fighting within a. six miles area, (that zone as laid down in hep first, note of warning t.o the Chinese generals'), and tn protect tho lives and properly of foreign residents in that territory.