The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-12

50 900 men there Tor poSSlDle &C., tion against Japanese.
 Japanese endorsements were reported moving northward from Supingkai to the Nonni bridge.
 The war office announced that a mixed brigade from he eighth regiment at Hirosake will leave
 Saturday for Manchuria, but that it will merely be replacement and that the number of Japanese troops in Manchuria will not be increased. Telegrams filed from Tsitsihar at
 midnight said all remained quiet. Japanese officials scoffed at reports, attributed to Chinese, of new out
 break along the Nonni river yester- day. ~P Government leaders said they would welcome the presence of Gen. Charles G. Dawes, United States ambassador to London, at the League of nations council meet ing Monday in Paris, because he the realities" of the Manchurian
 situation. They made it plain, how ever, that it was hoped Dawes
 would not definitely participate in
 the council meeting as an, official
 observer. It was believed that the
 American embassy shared that view.
 Another Note Sent
 Geneva, Nov. 12.-(UP).-Aris-
 tide Briand, president of the
 League of Nations council sent a
 note to China and Japan to-day
 insisting that 1t was necessary for
 neutral observers to investigate conditions in the Nonni river
 bridge and Anganchi districts. Japanese are entrenched north
 of the Nonni river bridge, facing
 massed Chinese forces south of
 Anganchi near where a battle has
 been threatened for several days.
 The Nonni area also was the scene
 of the most serious clash of the
 Manchurian crisis when Japenese
 soldiers defeated Manchurian troops last week.
 Briand's note said 1t was neces-
 sary to collect information on con-
 ditions in connection with the councils resolution of September IS, asking for withdrawal of Jap anese troops into the south Man. churian railroad zone.
 After studying the replies (of China and Japan) to my last note and the latest communications re- ceived, I must insist again that both governments make an effort to avoid aggravation of the situa-
 tion," Briand's not said in reiterat- ing his demands for cessation of hostilities.
 q urge that the strictest orders
 be given commanders in Manchu-
 ria to refrain from fresh action" Japanese Dig In Tokio, Nov. 12.-(UP).-Jap- anese troops in Manchuria renew
 ed warfare against Chinese irreg- ulars over a wide area north of
 Mukden to-day and dug in along the Nonni river against long
 threatened attack by troops In
 Heilingkiang province. The important city of Chang chun, lying some 185 miles north
 of Mukden at the South Man. churia railroad terminus, as re- ported in imminent danger of an
 attack by 5000 bandits which de- fled an onslaught by Japanese sol
 diers and bombing planes. The bandits reported starving continued their attack despite heavy casualties.
 Another large force of disbanded
 Chinese soldiers was attacked and
 dispersed by Japanese 72 miles
 northeast of Mukden. Forty-one
 Chinese were killed, increasing the
 dead in to-day's clashes to more
 than 120. / Four Japanese were
 wounded.
 Chinese Short. of Food London. Nov. 12.-(UP).-The Daily Mails correspondent at Har-
 bin reported to-day that the Man churian troops of General Ma Chan-Shan in the Tsitsihar area were short of food and ammuni- ton.
 The correspondent quoted Gen.
 eral Ma as saying in an interview that the Japanese soldiers were re-
 ported advancing 40 miles north of
 Tsitsihar possibly intending to prevent 'the interference of the | interference of the Soviet" After the recent fighting we
 withdrew 12 miles from the Nonni river" General Ma was quoted as saving. "There we are maintaining | a line of 10, 900 troops, but they are
 weakening because the Tsitsihar arsenals produce only 10000 car- trldges and 100 shells a day. There also is a food shortage"
 Capital Optimistic Washington. Nov. 12.--(UP.-
 Under Secretary of State Castle
 sald to-day the state department
 remains optimistic over the pros
 pect Of n peaceful settlement of the ,Japanese- Chinese quarrel In Man.
 churia. His attention was directed Ito press forecasts of imminent bat
 tie., but he said he had no infor-