Tokyo, Jan. 11.
Replying to the Chivese protest led by the Nanking Government with regard to the Shanhaikuan incident, the Tokyo Foreign Office today instructed Mr. Akiva Ariyoshi, Minister in China, to notify th Nanking Government that' the Japanese action was one of self-defence in conformity with the protocot of the Boxer Treaty. Mr. Ariyoshi was also instructed to inform the Chinese government that China is held responsible for the incident—United Press,
able, the note is understood by Though full details are unavail-Rengo to embody the following:
'That according to investigations, some bombs were thrown "at the Japanese gendarmerie substation and: the railway guards' depot in Shanhaikuan at 920 p.m. on Jan-vary 1.. The Japanese troops, acting' on the rights given them by the Pinal Protocol of 1901, at once et out to capture the culprit. the same time, an agreement was effected with "the Chinese commander to place the South Gate temporarily under Japanese control. However, no sooner-had the Japan-exe troops proceeded to. take up their positions, when they were fred upon by Chinese troops, resulting in the death of Lieutenant Kodama and two privates. The resultant actions of the Japanese are, therefore, purely those of self-preservation.
"The note concludes by saying that Japan res r the future all Fights for settling the affair, and enjoins the Chinese Government to reconsider their attitude in the Tight of the Japanese assertions.
Jable reward in the history of the Republic has been offered by the Government. Chang Kwo-tao and Hsiang Ing, who are playing important roles in the Soviet Government of China, are the other two interest has been Wiew of General Chiang Kai-shot's imminent dope ture for Kiangal, to" direst "anti-Communist operations there. Gen. Chiang, Chairman of the Military Gounell, has during the last severest
tunies' out of Hunan, Hupeh an months, "driven che. Commonist The manifesto begins with an attack against the Kuomintang. gen.
als' inaction. Te further charges eral Chiang Kai-shek with turn: ing the majority of China's troops against "own people instead "of the "Japanese armi ug further a tones," jo reads in part manifesto reads in part as "To the people of China: Japan-exe_imperialism, only assisted by! the"French and British imperialists and the League of Nations, has begun the. invasion of northern China as a further step towards the complete dismemberment and. subjugation of the whole of China, Wholesale slaughter of the tvilian Dopuation, destraction of cites and Villages, "increased" misery a Starvatfon, mark the further advance of the bandit imperialists of Japan. The horrors of Manchuria and Shanghai are repeated in. groving intensity. over am ever greater tore victory of China.
"Whole "regiments of Chinese soldiers are wiped out because the Kuomintang government refuses to
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