Mukden, May 19.
Mr, Sich Tung-sen, Governor of the Shenyang District of Fengtien Province, and many other Manchukuo officials were arrested yesterday, afternoon, it was revealed to-day, charged with complicity in a plot hatched by Gen. Chang 'Hsueh-liang against the new state, also alleged that the Nanking Government was behind. the plot, as well as th former ruler' of the Three Eastern Provinces. The arrest of the officials hi ed strain-fed relations between the Japanese and. Manchukuo "police forces, which is giving rise to considerable public apprehension—United Press, from a Japanese aeroplane and that} hi chief-of-staff, Ti Tsu-chang, together with eight others, were. buried under the debris.
'The station-master at Kazantzev' Ah, Asunchik, who was made a pri soner by a gang of bandits on Apri 20, has been released on a ofa ransom of $700, which w: collected by his relatives after con: siderable difficulty.
Ten Russian and 13 Chinese ployees of the Chinese Eastern Railway were kidnapped yesterday. Morning when bandits raided Hengtohotze, on the eastern section of occupied', Lidahotze, about eight} miles east of Shihtowhotze, wound ing the wite of the assistant station ing on the Sungpu-Meitaizi front continues, but the attacking /arti-Manchukuo forces are gradus withdrawing. The sound of gun-fre can occasionally be heard here, Yesterday four bridges east of Hengtachotze were destroyed.
Yesterday while a train from Teitsinar was in the station at izi, ten kilometres from Hai large body of anti-Manchukuo cops raided the station, They searched the train and among the Passengers found two Japanese whom they carried off.
Later in the day the station and sown were occupied by considerable numbers of Chinese troops who had ried. of all food supplies and Strther supplies cannot be obtained and railway employees are practi-ally starving.
CHE ial ported today that Brena ite north of Sannin avy fighting is going on in the Further reverses have been auffer-ed. by the vant eho, aster hee treating in the direction of Hula ungpa. and. Ha Sapanese troops are following algo "retreating, Tt is estimated that, in the cent fighting. near Harbin the Japanese sustained over 300 casu ties.
There now seems to be no possibility of the Commission interview-General Ma Chan-shan—Reuter.
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