The Archive · 1935

Fears Assuaged

Nanking, Dec. 12.

That the invasion of Kuyuan and JChangpao by "-Manchoukuo troops! most likely will not assume very serious proportions was the opinion Jexpressed by Gen. Hsiung Shih-hui, Governor of Kiangsi, who returned here last night from" Peiping. The general situation in North China, he said, has been practically exactly as {the papers have reported, in that, oth the exception of an insignificant handful of ignorant people who have been hired to create disturbances, Jeverything has been going on quite! [peacefully—Central News.

Tokyo Not Informed Tokyo, Dec. 16.

The Foreign Office has not been in-{formed officially concerning the details of yesterday's clash between {foress of the East Hopei Autonomous! Council and Gen. Shang Chen's} Thirty-Second Army, which was re-portad to have resulted in the seizure} the port of Tangku and the receipts Jot its railway office by the autonomous troops.—United Press.

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