The Japanese Legation announcs that Mr. M. Shigemitsu, Japanese] Minister to China, has been com pelled to address another Note, dated November 22, to the Acting! Foreign Minister of the Nanking Government as follows:—"The entry of Japanese troops into Tsitsihar was necessitated by. the treacherous attack of Gen, Ma Ghanshan's army who, cheated and attempted to entrap the Japanese: detachment. The Japanese Com. mander hed required Gen. Ma $0 order his army to recede and informed him that should he carry Out this requirement the Japanese would also withdraw. But the Heilungkiang Comménder rescrted{ed to be in much disorder.
Ina number. of smaller towns the locat governments. have. caused to exist fang business is. ata standstill, [Bands of soldiers and of bandits are, preying on merchants and shops Keepers and even in' the places where conditions are better many of the shops are closed.
Hailun, however, where General
quarters, Ma Changshen has now his "haad~ said to be quiet and. dorly and Manchuli is also poacefut. vocative action taken by Gen, Mb's army in utter contravention of those resolutions of the League Council, "Therefore, as has more than once boon declared, the Japanese Government hold tine the whole responsibility for the fighting in question es with Gen. Ma Chan-shen and ind with the National
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