Evening star., 1935-11-27
5000 With War Equipment
Reach Tientsin by Rail.
Peiping Garrison More
Than Doubled in Move.
RAIL STOCK REMOVAL
HALT DECLARED AIM
Gen. Shang Chen Quits as Gov
ernor of Hopeh Province, Ag-
gravating Northern Crisis-1n-
vaders Moving by Truck To-
ward Paotingfu Headquarters.
BACKGROUND

domination of Mdnchurin in 1882,
checked effectively only in area OF
Russian influence, north and toeSt
of "indeperdent" ManchuEuo. CtdSh
betpeen two nations ouer influence
in MONGOLIA, pro-Souiet propince,
and in Pacific Coast area, long tn
background.
Southwdrd, Japanese penetration
became imminent 1Uith procldmd-
tion of independence" on part OF
fire provinces adjoining Mdnchukuo.
Jnpanese troops mdSSed near Great
Wall, restrained By terms OF Tankhu
Truce of May 81, 1888. Chinese
central government tneGecttpely
protests japanese action.
(copyright, 1885, by the Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, November 27.-Japa-
nese troops moved into North China
bv trainloads today while Northern
Chinese leaders wavered on the issue
of succession from the central Ma
tionalist government.
Troop trains bearing 5000 Japa-
nese soldiers and war equipment ar
rived at Tientsin from Chinwangtao,
treaty port of Hopeh Province.
At Peiping, where the Japanese
garrison has more than doubled in the
last "a hours, Col. Tan Takahashi.
military attache, announced that the
Fengtai railway junction, few miles
east of Peiping, had been seized.
Rolling Stok Reported Removed.
Takahashi asserted the Fengtai oc-
cupation became necessary because
Of rumors that rolling stock on the
Peiping- -Mukden Railway was being
moved south, jeopardizing North
China communications and threaten
ing to isolate the japanese forces at
Peiping.
Public nervousness over the sharp
ly increased japanese military activity
was intensified by news that the
heavily-laden troop trains were arriv-
ing at Tientsin.
Trafic south over the Tfentsin-Pu
kow Railway was temporarily sus.
pended at the demand of Japanese
troop detachment which visited the
Tientsin Offices of the railroad.
The japanese protested that empty
trains were being dispatched for
transportation of Chinese troops to
the north, to move against the jap
anese. Traffic was resumed only when
the Chinese agreed to move trains no
farther south than Tsinan and Shan
tung.
Fengtai Depot Seized.
Railway traffic between TfentSln
and Peiping had been disrupted when
q small detachment of Japanese
troops from Tientsin swooped down
on Fengtai and seized the depot.
The Japanese, taking over a guam
tity of rolling stock and control Of
the Chinese military telephone, first
explained that the troops were only
'holding exercises" and that the cap
ture of Fengtai was part of mimic
battle.
Takahashi, however, gave the sec
ond, more realistic and official jap
anese version of the taking Of the i'm
portant junction point.
Gen. Shang Chen wired Marking
his resignation as Governor of Hopeh
Province. accepting responsibility for
the failure to check the North China
autonomy movement.
His resignation aggravated further
the northern crisis, which arose origi-
nally from demands for self-govern-
ment in the five northern provinces of
Hopeh, Chahar, Shansi, Shantung and
Suiyuan, followed by establishment of
an autonomous regime in the demil-
itarized zone, including part of Eastern
Hopeh.
The unobstructed japanese military
movement into North China was de-
scribed by some Japanese spokesmen
as merely one phase of widespread
maneuvers.
Chinese sources, however, conjec-
tured that the troop influx might be
aimed at intimidating North China
(See JAPAN, Page A-5)