Tokyo, Oct. 5.
Beports received here to-day from Mukden state military authorities in Manchu: have decided to break off per. manently all relations with Marshal Meanwhile, Japanese official circles are watching closely the de-Selopment' of anti Japanese sentiment in the Yangtze Valley. 'The 24th and 26th destroyer flotillas and. the Nojima, 'a special service vessel, are standing by at the Sasebo Naval Base, ready for immediate despatch to' Chinese waters the event that emergency protection is demanded. All of the ships are carrying full complements of marines, cee posts. Accordingly, one of the A ome so Aa a 'The First Fleet, consisting' of nearly 50 vessels with the battleship Mutsy as the flagship, is also off the Sasebo Naval Base, The Feason for the coheentration of the First Fleet at Sasebo has not been Dispatches from Afukden report at Lieutenant General Honjo, the "commander of the Kubstung Garrison, has decided to Taunch a punitive campaign against Chincee Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. Such was the dpihion expressed to Reuters Sena ana tare The decision to break with Marshal Chahg was taken by General Honjo, Commander of the Japanese ference with other military leaders. "His action," it is explained, "was
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