The Archive · 1932

Choosing Route by Lots

League Commission Leaves Peking for Manchuria

Peking, Apr. 19.

The League Commission left Po. ing for Manchuria at 10 o'clock thi evening. The patty, however, will only be. complete a far a5 Chin: Wwangtao where the. {Wo assessors [and thole. staffs will leave the train and go to Dairen by sea.

Dr, Wellington Koo and his stof will sail for Dairen in. the Chinese levuiser Halcht while the Japanese assessor and his star will go by a Sapanese destroyer.

'The five commissioners. drew, lots jes to which routes they should take fend' thas chance has decided. they' Shall go as follows:

Lord Lytton, the chairman, sail with Dr. ' Wellington Koo.

General Claudel will sail with the Dr. Schnee will sail in another Japanese destroyer for Dairen.

iseotti will go through to Mukden General Metay and Count Bar: by. train, The train party will not stop at IChinchow or elsewhere en route 10 Stukden which place they should reach to-morrow evening.

The journey by sea to Dairen is expected to take eight to ten hours ug. thus those going by. sea each Sfukden probably on bly on the morning of April Changchun, Apr, 18.

Pogranichoaya sector of the Chinese Eastern Heaway, a distance by- the railway of 240 miles, Damage reported to have beet leased by. Chinese irregulars and ther guerilla bands i ebimatéd Sapangse sources to total two hundred million Chinese dollars and it is stated. it will takeafour" years. (0 estore this area to normtal-

The principal sufferers are the chinese, then the Koreans and lat-the Japanese, Japanese residents at Suifenho, the Manchuria. side of the frontier

tige in Russian territory, the Japan:

Pograniehnaya, ate taking" 2 consul having Teesived permits sion for them to do so from the Soviet authorities, Similarly Japanese resident, at Iraheiho, across the Amur from Blagovenchenek, are' taking refuge in the Russian city, sceording 1 messages from Harbin—Reuter.

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