Nanking, Dec, 27, The special diplomatic affairs commission met this morning and re-for some This afternoon there was meeting attended by offic ness leaders, students, army affeers and representatives of the labour organisations.
mass meeting adopted a resolution calling upon the Government to enable at once to the Ameri can Government asking for action in the Manchurian crisis under the Nine Power Treaty of the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921-1922, The resolution declares} that Chinese public opinion favours jeloser Sino-American relations. expresses belief that hope ' for avoiding a Japanese occupation of Chinchow lies in Washingtor To-day's meeting of the diplomatic affairs commission fed the necessity of keeping the Council of the League of Nations fully informed as to developments in Manchuria. The Chinese Government has telegraphed a new protest to the League of Nations, charting] Japan with violation of Article I the resolutions adopted by the League of Nations Council on December 10. The Chinese protest} requests effective League of Nations efforts to halt the Japanese advance fon. Chinehow.—United Press, inese Army, in jon camp ai rer and within striking distance of Chinchow, the provisional capital of Manchuria.
'A regiment of the Second Division clashed to-day with 2,000, Chinese troops at Hsintung, 25 miles from Tienchwangtai where Lieutenant-General Jiro Tamon, the conqueror Tsitsihar, has cstablis his headquarters, Severe fighting is in progress Hsintung, according to dispatches received at the Kwantung Garrison Headquarters,
several companies o! independ Yingkow dispatches, report that ent Japanese) Garrison this morning Tashinkiao aboard the steamer Fengtien Maru, They arrived. at Hopeh to participate in the military expedition along the Peking-Mukden rallway.—United Press,
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