the. name of "It-Gen. Kanji Ashihara hag not figured. in the news the China situation thus far, " But while the world was watching Shanghai and Nanking and the Japanese rive "through North China, Gen, Ishihara went from Tokyo to Chang: chun on a mission of vital significance In. Russo-Japanese. relations.
the talk in Manchoukuo is that LitsGen. Ishihara, and Gen. 'Kenkieh\ Noda? commander of the Kwantung, Army ud (Japanese Ambassador' to Manchoukuo, " favour a "positive policy toward the Soviet, In the' Sometimes ambiguous Japanest Phraseology, "'positive policy" means 4 stern altitude with war as a definite possibility.
It-Gen. Ishihara, with @ brilliant record in Army circles, was among. the'"Big 'Three" of the' military adventure by which "Japan wrenched Manchuria away from China. The other tivo were It-Gen. Kenji Dothara, famed for his work In China and Ll.-Gen, Seishiro Itagale, who Ted the military" campaign" by" which Japan took over control of Chinese territory bordering the Soviet part of Mongolia, Hongkong, Feb. 12.
A wireless message was received today from Hongkong police launch No. 3,: which stated that at 1 o'clock' yesterday afternoon an "armed, trawler machine-gunned and set fire to four out of six Chinese junks in British waters between Tungicu Island) and Lungkutan."
'When the police launch arrived on the scene, the message said, four of the junks' were burning. The crew of the "launch extinguished the flames} and rescued: the Chinese crews.
The crews of the remaining two) junks, which were not on fire, had disappeared. Their whereabouts were not known and "it was presumed that they had been taken captive."
Among the rescued crews one Chinese was suffering from hullo wounds, the message declared, but the Femaining were not injured—Reuter,
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