Nanking, Oct. 16.
The Viee-Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters at Peking telegraphs that Japanese troops are construct~ ian acrodrome covering. 2,000 ww of land between Yungehi and Peihotuan.
'On Ociober 14, four Japanese aeroplanes dropped twenty bombs near' Haintangtion.
Yesterday at one o'clock Japanese From Tuoman and threw two bombs, planes flew to Talal, Heilungkiang,
The number. of casualties has not yet been "ascertained, Colonel Wang of the 40th R ment reported. to Viee-Commander-In-Chief Chang Houeh-liang. an fol 'At 6 am. on October 14, Mon golian bandits commanded by Pa Tan-lin entered through Hsienk After four hous' firca fighting the mongols were repelled. Our troops killed over 200 bandits and captured scores of rifles. "Captain Chao was Kaled daring the fight and numerous others were either wounded or kill-have ordered the Int and Companies to pursue the bandits and make thorough searches. acor Tungliao.
"Six Japanese aeroplanes helped
dropping many bombs. I fear more the Motigols during "the " action, Japanese assistance ju fature Mon linn attacks."—Kuo Min.
The Movement in Manchuria The following statement has been issued by the Chinese authorities "The Japanese news agencies have widely circulated the report that General Chang Hai-peng, Garrison. Commander of Taonan and Liao-yuan, led his troops into Heilungkiang to-day and immediately dejelared his independence. It is deficult to verify this news owing to the fact that telegraphic communications with that region ha been The cut by the Japanese. But telegram hic advices from Harbin yesterday state that this seventy-year-old general, under both threats and temtation' by one Huang Mu, who is a has assumed a Chi-has had bestowed upon him the title of Chiangehun (Military Governor) of Heilungkiang by Prince Kung. Then with a show fof rifles and in the company of Mu and other Japanese hed provincial capital, According to this information, the Japanese reports lave not entirely groundless.
"The above-mentioned Huang Mu has been naturalized as a Chinese] citizen and has been for many years an instructor of the Military
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.