Show V V V JAPAN OPENS PENS NEW DRIVE IN MANCHURIA Bombing Planes Spread Terror Terror Terror Ter Ter- Among Populace I Says Dispatch AIM OF MOVE UNCERTAIN May Be Attempt to Free Kid Kid- Japanese m Br Er Associated rr s SHANGHAI Aug 22 22 ChInese Chinese dis- dis dis dispatches dispatches patches from rom and other north China ina points tod the Japanese forces in Manchuria had launched a strong military thrust into the province that borders on China proper The dispatches said fighting was going on along a broad portion of the he eastern border with the Chinese falling talling back bet before Japanese artillery airplanes and machine guns Japanese bombing planes were r re reported reported re- re ported as spreading terror among the border order populace which was was streaming streaming stream- stream ing ng into the open country seeking safety Foreign dispatches dispatches' from north China were more conservative and told old of sporadic fighting along the eastern border It was not clear whether the Japanese V were were launching a campaign to occupy or er r they were merely trying to free Gon hiro a former J Jap Japanese p nes nese a V CRISIS NEARS END Meanwhile Chinas China's political crisis was believed nearing a solution with the decision of Wang wei Cheing-wei to resume his office as president of the executive council It was Wangs Wang's resignation resignation resignation res res- ignation that brought on on retirement of the cabinet August 9 Wang said he had consented to heed the pleas of at numerous leaders to carry carryon on temporarily as president of th the council in view of the crisis through which the nation was passing The seemingly revived Japa anti nese nose boycott assumed larger dimensions dimensions dimen dimen- in the public mind with agitators agitators agitators tors threatening violence against those who handled Japanese goods The merchants unwilling to handle such products were slowly increasing Japanese troops entered province province province ince a month ago after Ishimoto a Japanese representative was was was' kid kid- allegedly by bandits They described d the entry as purely purel to obtain his release and not a mill mill- YV nn JAPAN LAYS BLAME The Japanese charged however that allies ames of Marshal Chang Hsiao- Hsiao I Hsiao-I Liang hang deposed Manchurian war lord lore now in had been responsible for Ishimoto's capture province has not been officially officially daily allocated in the new order of ot things in Formerly it was wasa a part of Chihli province China dominated dominated dom dom- mated by Later maps show it neither as a part of ot China nor Man Man- churia churla The new Japanese maps of the recently recently re re- recently created the Independent independent inde Inde- pendent nation sponsored by Japan show as a part o of None of the territory territory- has been recognized recognized by foreign governments as independent in In- dependent hence it officially remains a part of China V TOKIO Aug 22 IP A R-A A statement attributed to official quarters today Continued on Pace Page Two JAPAN OPENS i NEW DRIVE IN MANCHURIA Continued from Scorn Pare Page One said it was only a question of time before strong action would be taken to make province unquestionably ably a part of the newly created independent independent independent in in- dependent state of This assertion came a few hours behind dispatches from Japanese correspondents correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents at Manchuria stating that a Japanese detachment stationed near had hac routed several hundred Chinese regulars regu regu- lars after a sharp battle The war office however denied deniec that the Japanese army had assumed the offensive in or contemplate ed at at present a large scale invasion of that province that heretofore had divided China proper from Man Man- churla The clash described in the Chin chow dispatches was branded as as as ri a minor local affair but a spokesman for the foreign office int intimated mated that tha that favorable autumn weather probably will see a a determined Japanese mill mil 1 tary action in I |