OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES
CHINESE ATTACK JAPANESE GARRISON. FORCE OF 30,000 ENGAGED. COUNTER-ATTACK LAUNCHED BY JAPAN. DEFIANCE OF LEAGUE’S MEDIATION. After a -short space of the utmost tenseness on either side, 'hostilities between China and Japan broke out yesterday, when a Chinese force g of 30,000 men attacked a Japanese garrison at Chac-yang In Jehol. The Japanese ane now r launching a counter-attack, and are proceeding to a strategic point at Peipiao, north-east of Chaoyang, where they will control the branch railway from the Peking-Mukden line. Popular approval has been given by the Tokio crowds to the withdrawal of Japan from the League of Nations, and on the other hand there is a general feeling of quiet determination throughout the whole of North China,
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 7
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