Govan Advertiser's" Reply to the Recent Statements of Putnam Weale: Reasons Advanced for Japan's Innocence was playing and troops escorted the
fand Civil Officials, among. them General Wa Kuang-hue and Premier Pan Fa" preceded the cenotaph and portrait of the Marshal while a battalion of his bodyguard Tokyo, Aug. 18.
'To the startling story, published cly Mr, Putnam Weale, that Marshal Chang' Tso-lin was killed by the japanese, vernacular papers attach-lig very' tittle importance, because of the settled opinion regarding the 'Words and actions of the writer. However, the "Sipan Advertiser" to-day, published a lengthy dealing with the views of the'
According to this arti hose authorities at first' wisha lake public the Fesults of the Sino Fapanese Joint investigation but refrained from doing so owing to the fact that the Chinese who par-in the joint, investigation fall text of the findings.
-Mr, Putnam Weale alleges that the Japanese had installed 12 bombs, weighing 80 pounds each, at the exessing of the Peking-Mukden and South-Manchuria Railway lines. If he is aware of such a detail as that, it. naturally follows that can easily clear up other points of the case, The Causes for Suspleion Japan, without a doubt, has nothing to do with the case, but the yeason why she has incurred: Chinese suspicion in this matter may bbe, attributed firstly to the fact that in, view of the anti-Japanese feeling prevailing at present all over China, the Chinese people are inclined to Delieve anything unfavourable Japan and, secondly, that the infor the assassination of the 4 Marshal Chang, Tye-lin, was SeHohd the bounds of possibility dered xo ingenious that it was
for the Chinese to have done it. However, the following references may most clearly testify to Japan's GQ) It the ese really plotted to assassinate Marshal Chung Tso-lin, there was no reason "why they'should- have a selected a spot #0 likely to involve the (2). Accord'ng to statements:
by those who witnessed the inident, the special train by which thr. Marshal was travelling, appreciably slackened its speed when approach ing the spot where the- explosion took place. This testimony is borne out by the fact that the cars in the rear of the train did not telescope those in the front, Is it not likely that locomotive engineers on the train foresaw the occurrence of the (8) Tt ig very dificult to see why some of the cars involved were wrapped in roaring flanie almost an tant after they had caught fire. Was it not because the plotters i tended to destroy favourable to them?
Where was Chang Ri (4) Why did the train stop at! Wangkutan, a small station, within a short distance of Mukden (5) Was it possible for outsiders be certain in which car Mar-whol Chang was riding, when the train carried 20 passenger cars guarded by two special cars at euch end of the train?
(6) The report that at the time the fatal explosion took place, there were no Chinese soldiers tha' from August 4 to 7 at his Ofice thin the walled ety of Mukden. The invitation cards for the ceremony; had been issued, not a8 usual according to old Chinese custom by the eldest son only, but, SPST mz descendants both of the frat and. second. generations, com-Pring eight sons, six: daughters,
and. two. grandaughters.
amin three erandses invitation was also cneloaed his last wil, which has already been publish-tain the press attend the ceremony large numbers of Chinese. notables had sembled not only from the Three Eastern Provinces, but from China Proper as well in addition to many Japanese high ofts, The place, had. been evitably decorated for she occasion. In front of te building a large entrance ball matting ed been erected, where Six"enormous effigies of the gale fads slood, oppoate fre'main bale Thi oes decorated with rows of innumerble wreaths. of aruficlal. flowers, hile "suspended. from above. hung Hundreds of white banners with me Seriptions in" black, Over the. en-{ane to the main allan fapressive fate tower had. been erected under hich al the visitors passed in and Gite Here ushers' received "the visitors and conducted them to the altar in front ofthe coffin, gorgeous.
decorated with brocade and lowers, in the midst of which wat teen's coloured. portrait of the Mentrloos dead: "Floral. tributes from Chinese and Supanete igh eclats covered the. altar, among them "those, rom the National Commander-in-Chief, Chiang Kaishek, and the Japanese Premi Baron Tanaka: Busdhig and Lama priests were in constant attendance, Feclting "dirges" and incantations, Aternated with mise performed by military bands,
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