Peiping, Aug. 14.
Rumours of fighting along the border of East Suiyuan were ox-aggerated, said Major Imai, assistant Japanese' Military Attache. The whole thing, he said, was merely an altair of local banditry, Major Imai denied that the pro-Manchoukuo General, Li Shou-hsin, who seized six districts in North Charhar lost year, was assisting the bandits, and he contradicted Chinese reports' that two Japanese regiments had arrived at Changpei. "There fare no Japanese troops in Charhar," he said.
The so-called Western Banner dispute, which threatened to disrupt relations between the Suiyuan authorities and the Mongo! Political Council last year, again has flared up. According to Chinese reports from Kweibua, Prince Shih, chairman of the Western Banner, who
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