The Archive · 1935

Fresh Incident in the North

Outer Mongolians Accused of Attacking Manchu Patrol in Lake Buir Region vitriolieal: y ridiculed Japanese diplomatic utterances and declared that Japanese militarists intend to reduce China to the state of a vassal of Japan.

The Tientsin "Ta Kung Pao," in similar editorial vein, declared tt apparently impossible for China to have peace, regardless of how much, territory she surrenders to Japan.

It 3 insisted by the "Hue Pei Jth Pao" that no Charhar troops operates on any territory except sovereign Chinese soil, charging the Japanese! with inventing pretexts for using their formidable instruments of wat for "pure ant aggrandizement Tokyo, Jan. 25.

Serious developments are expected In some. circles here to. follow fineident involving a body of Manchoukuo troops who. according to Japanese dispatches from Changchun, are alleged to have been attacked by troops from Outer Mongolia, who made an incursion into the new State.

The Manchoukuo troops concerned were on patrol duty in the neighbourhood of Haluhamiao, north of Lake yBuir, when the alleged onslaught occurred.

The incident took place yesterday, but the information so far available Tokyo is meagre.

The affair should not be connected

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