Harbin, May 23.
Gunfire was heard clearly in Har-in to-day as the battle which began night inthe the anti-Manchukuo forces laun vigorous attacks against the troops Supporting the nev Manchurian "ide has 80) sandwiched in between two others, Japanese armoured train being just ahead and a goods train in the rear. When near Imienpo, at a place call-Yablonya, the goods trains suddenly. gathered speed and crashed [with terrific force into the far secured any des col ile et Fighting ix also, goi
fig into Harbin in large numbers.
from the battle aren are Dour,
section of the Chinese Eastern Railway was pulled up 15 miles west of Harbin to-day by anti-Manchukuo troops.
The Heilungkiang authorities have declared General Ma Chan-[shan an outlaw, according to a local Japanese-owned—Russian-language newspaper, which says that $100,000 has been offered for his capture alive and half that sum for his dead imprisoned in the wreckage have been appalling.
'Thirty people are reported to have been' killed outright and 45 seriously injured, many of them women and children. "The figures are not regarded as final, Although. the. disaster ° occurred near Imienpo little could be done for the injured there apart, fron first aid." Imienpo. hospital sale ready "full "to overflowing with wounded resulting from fighting In that aren and constant bandit raids fand none of those injured. in tha train disaster could be admitted.
So after getting what. first, aid was available they. were placed on The other two trains and are being brought back to Harbin—Reuter, ate and several feld guns.—-Reater, Foreigner Killed Peking, May 24.
Japanese Troops for Harbin as yet unwilling to confirm the re-'The foreign authorities here are Nanking, May 24. port from Harbin that on May 19 A. special dispatch from Tientsin fan Englishman and an American received here to-day states that the who, when they were out shooting Japanese troops at Suichung near Christky, along the Sungari, Shanhaikuan, have been sent to Were seized and murdered by antic Harbin to reinforce the Japanese Manchukuo troops. garrison there in view of the recent May 25. Serious developments in that This removal considerably Foreign oficial reports concerning. the tension at Shanhaikuan, the reported murder near an American and an Englishman has The Kirin Self Defence now reached Peking. reported to have captured huangehen, and it is said that the It has been definitely ascertained army is now approaching Fushun—that no American was killed or Reuter, wounded, but it is confirmed that Englishman, named James Smith, Problems Discussed Mukden, May 24. living at Stingpu, neat, Harbin, wat attacked a few days ago by Manchoukuo troops Lord Lytton and other members of He was beaten and later shot bub the League of Nations inquiry Com-rot fatally—Reuter, mission called on the acting Consul-General, Report Defeat of Gen. Ma shima, yesterday to inquire why.
Harbin, May 26, Japanese officials negotiated with Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang instead According to Japanese informa.
with the Central Government at tion. the forces' of General Nanking in connection with railway Chan-shan recently defeated rear and business problems in Manchuria, Hulan and oth st of Har Mr. Morishima explained that bin are retre there was no reliable Government. direction and Ge in China until the present Nanking
Jeven now the three eastern Fegime was established, and. that ces lay beyond the National jovernaeroplanes, while the Jay iment's control, at Tsitsihar is moving. north:
He discussed in detail the ques-wards to join in the pursuit. The tion of Sino-Japanese railway trea-situs the eastern section of jons between Nan-the Chinese astern railway has proved 89 far as the railway is concerned. What fighting is zoing on is taking place off the railway and Honjo at Harbin communication between Harbin and Harbin, May 24.
Suifenho was restored to-day at noon.—Reuter, Great interest was aroused here to-day by the arrival from Mukden May 27.
General' Honjo, commander-in-Japanese reports continue to de chief of Japanese forces in Man-glare that "Gen, Ma' Chan-shan'
His arrival coincides with forces are still retreating amd. the the arrive fal of news that the Japan-Japanese army pursuing. ese, columns advancing down. the stated that. the Japanese eastern section of the Chinese East-jem railway and the Sungari river garrison advancing, fom, Teltsibar fas reached Taianchen, 155, kilomejate rapidly approaching the Rustres north of Tsitaihar and onthe [sian frontiers. driving the Chinese Japanese operations are now troops before it. being conducted on a large scale Japanese reports also state that lover, wide areas and while General Gen. Ma, hearing of the defeats Honjo has far-flung fronts morth, suffered by his troops on the Sungari river and at Hulan and that. the east and east of Harbin he has been, compelled seriously' te Japanese troops are advancing om Hailun, has retreated from Tetu to"! Jengage the forees of General Ma Chan-shan only 25 kilometres. west Taheiho, "opposite. Blagoveshensk on the Amur river,
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