Evening star., 1935-12-26
Dark Shadow on Future of
Far East Relations,
Say MiIitaristS.
GATHERINGS FORBIDDEN
BY POLICE IN NANKING
Martial Law Declared in Capital
and Shanghai-Students
Seize Locomotive.
BACKGROUND

TtSeu Uy JupuHcSc LUOpoI mutNHu
kuo is independent" other North
China provinces are tollotuing same
course. While central Chinese gop-
ernment purSueS policy OF non
resistance. hotUeuer, student groups
are making rigorous protests, sup
plying occasional piolence.
Real obstacle to japanese plans
Is Soviet government and its con-
trolling influence in Mongolia. Re-
peated border incidents" during
past tew years haze maintained
tension bettoeen ttoo countries.
Copyright. 1885, by the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, December 26.-Maj.
Gen. Rensuke Isogai, military at
tache of the japanese embassy, pre-
dicted tonight that there would be
serious effects from the assassination
yesterday of Tang Yu-jen, the pro-
japanese vice minister of Chinese
railways.
The japanese general indicated that
the serious effects would concern
relations between China and Japan.
Other japanese military sources,
earlier in the day, had declared the
assassination throws a dark shadow
over the future of Sino-Japanese rela-
ticns."
Gatherings Forbidden.
The police at Nanking forbade all
public gatherings and parades in an
effort to stop student demonstrations
against Japan.
Chinese authorities Immediately de-
clared martial law throughout Shang-
hal and the central government capi-
tai at Marking.
Severe military restrictions also
we're imposed at Hankow against anti
japanese demonstrations.
The Marking government ordered a
section of its railway line torn up
in a drastic measure to check the at
tempt by Shanghai students, pro-
testing the movement for North China
separation, to reach the capital in
Communicated train.
Students Seize Locomotive.
The demonstrating students seized
a locomotive here when authorities
refused to grant them free trsnsporta-
ton to Nanking, and reached Chang
chow, about rs miles short of Marking.
The Nanking government sent an
armored train carrying 500 troops
eastward in an attempt to block the
students.
A bridge was torn up in the path Of
the train which the students had
seized.
The demonstrators numbers were
swollen to 1000. They held meetings
at railway points, urging the Chinese
peasants to resist Japanese aggression
and force suppression of the North
China autonomy movement.
Railway police intensified their pre-
cautions in the capital. The Japa-
uese Embassy at Marking took seri-
GUS attitude toward the assassination
of Tang, as did the Japanese military
in its statement at Shanghai.
An embassy spokesman character
lied the killing of the vice minister
by unidentified gunner in the French
concession here last night as "glaring
evidence of anti-Japanese sentiment,
leaving no doubt of the trend Of
Chinese sentiment toward Japan"
The spokesman asserted the Tang
assassination became doubly serious
because of the fact that it followed
closely similar attempt to assassi-
nate Wang Ching Wei, who resigned
as Chinese premier after being wound
ed at Marking.
Chinese Sources Shocked.
Chinese government sources ex-
pressed profound shock at Tang's
death. Recalling the charm and amia-
bility of their colleague, they said this
precluded any likelihood that personal
motives prompted the assassination.
French police, in whose district the
Staying occurred, insisted the motive
probably was political.
Japanese newspapers asserted edi-
torially that repeated assassinations Of
pro-Japanese statesmen of the Chinese
central government might force Man.
king to pursue an anti-Japanese pol
icy.
A detachment of bayonet-armed jap
anese marines swarmed into the Hong
kew district here after a bomb ex-
ploded in front of a Japanese hotel.
They were withdrawn, however,
when it was learned the blast was ac-
cidental.
japanese reports said bomb picked
up in the Chapel one-time war zone
by a Chinese ragpicker was dropped
accidentally when the man collided
with pedestrian.
Two Chinese were injured by the
explosion.
japanese Patrol Hongkew.
Armed patrols of Japanese sailors
marched the streets of the Hongkew
area, however, as a precaution against
any further incidents arising from the
death Of Tang.
The vice minister for railways fell
dead under blast of gunflre turned
upon him Just after he left his auto
mobile last night to enter q house in
the French concession.
His chauffeur, describing the shoot
ing to police, said Tang was killed by
two men in Chinese dress who fired
on him seven times at close range.
The killers escaped.
Tang formerly served as vice min
lister of foreign affairs under Wang
Ching-Wei, former premier, foreign
minister and president of the Execu-
tive Council, who was wounded Mo-
vember / during meeting Of the
Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist