Exchange of Notes Over the Swatow Incident Tokyo, June 10.
The early solution of the Sino-'Japanese incident in Swatow me volving the alleged manhandling of Japanese Consular policeman by the Chinese police and his subsequent HMlegal detention, was forecast in a cabled report received yesterday by the Foreign Omice from Mr. Toyoichi Nakamura, Consul-General in Canton, 'The om cial indicated that the altair would be brought to a close in a few days with an exchange of notes with General Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung provincial government. 'The latter, the report said, will' express his regrets over the incident and agree to take measures against the recurrence of such affairs.
The widely-divergent Chinese and Japanese versions of the case, 'Mr, "Nakamura reported, were Drought closer together asia result 6f investigations carried out on the spot by Chinese and Japanese offi dals sent from Canton, 'This, coupled With the instructions from' Nanking to the Kwangtung authorities to achieve a local settlement of the affair, had facilitated the negotiations, the despatch adped.—Domel. countenanced but abetted by the Chinese authorities in Suiyuan and amed Gen. Chang Cheng-teh and Gen. Li Ting-fang, the latter a henchman of Gen, Feng Vu-hsiang, vieechairman of the Nanking Government's Military Affairs Commission, og the leaders of the irregulars.
"These persons were charged. with' having participated in the attack last month on the Manchoukuo police station at Tachwangtu, on the Manchoukuo-Chathar border and to have started an uprising at Taolalmiao, Investigations. were reported " to have shown that these irregulars, in collusion with bandits, were planning not only to disturb peace and order Scores Killed in North China Uprisings Peiping, June 11.
'More than a hundred persons have been' killed and Several hundred others arrested popular uprisings against Manchoukuo control of North Charhar. this month, according estimates contained in Chinese reports received here to-day. The uprisings are. being vigorously suppressed. There have also been mutinies among. the irregular Tevies, the latest of which occurred in Changpei on June 8 when a company of guards attached to the command of the Irregular leader, Pao Tze-chen, deserted. The mutineers were pursued by an armoured-car and mowed down with machine-gun fire—Reuter. in Jeho! and Charhar but were also contemplating the assassination of high Manchoukuo officials.
Japanese claim that Chinese troops! are barred from a large strip of northern Charhar adjoining Manchoukuo under the terms of the Tangiku truce.
Ho-Umeteu Pact Broken, Gaimusho officials also expressed their concern over the air defence manceuvres staged recently by the Suiyuan authorities.
Moreover, they asserted, Kuomintang members in Tientsin and other districts of north China are resuming vigorous anti-Japanese campaign.
Such actions, the officials pointed out, Yormed an infringement of the Ho-Umetsu. Agreement—Domei.
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