CHINA AND JAPAN

Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 March 1932, Page 5

CHINA AND JAPAN

KILLED AND WOUNDED A CHINESE ESTIMATE. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, Friday. Japanese authorities announce that should complete agreement with the Chinese be reached, the Japanese troops will commence their withdrawal from the Shanghai area, leaving a small contingent sufficient to ensure the safety of Japanese residents. Chinese officials estimate the number of killed and wounded soldiers at 9000. The Japanese killed and wounded in the Navy and Army number roughly 2500. NO AGREEMENT YET. LONDON, Friday. Answering a question in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Captain R. A. Eden, said that the terms drawn up on the British flagship, H.AI.S. Kent, for cessation, of hostilities at Shanghai, had been superseded, as far as Japan was concerned, bv others which would be published shortly.

So far the Chinese had not accepted the terms, but both Governments were parties to the League of Nations Assembly’s resolution, passed on 3rd Alarch, calling upon the Government of China and Japan to take immediate steps for the permanent cessation of hostilities. Though such an agreement on the spot had not been reached, the Government was doing its utmost to overcome the hitch. It neither intended nor desired to introduce extraneous matter. THE LEAGUE COMMISSION. (Received Saturday, 9.0 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Friday. A Kobe message, dated 11th Alarch, states that the League of Nations Commission, sailed for Shanghai this afternoon with an entourage of ten Japanese attached. Lord Lytton stated that lie received wonderful hospitality in Tokio, but was looking forward to the Chinese version, besides viewing tilings actually happening. TENSION RELAXED. (Received Saturday, 9.0 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Friday. Though the tension in the Settlement is relaxing, and the curfew period has been reduced to volunteer status, tbe Japanese are still responsible for the maintenance of order in the occupied areas of Chapci, the authorities refusing any assistance while the Japanese remain. The Japanese, since the cessation of hostilities, have been occupied in burying the Chinese dead, some merely tipping the bodies into abandoned Bench es and covering them with a thin layer of earth.