PEIPING, China, Oct. 13, 1931 (UP) -- Fighting between Japanese and Chinese soldiers in Manchuria was resumed sporadically today in defiance of the League of Nations' urgent efforts toward peace.
Foreign military attaches were informed at the same time that wholesale Chinese troop movements had been started northward from the Yangtze region of central China, apparently anticipating possible warfare as a result of the unbroken deadlock between Chinese and Japanese representatives at Geneva. Japan has an army of 15,000 men in Manchuria. Presumably most of Chang Hsueh-Liang's Manchurian army of 200,000 has been withdrawn northward toward or into China proper.
The Chinese nationalist army, commanded by Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek and numbering hundreds of thousands, had been concentrated far to the south in recent months when Chiang Hsueh-Liang controlled the Peiping and Manchurian areas as an ally of China.
A Manchurian communiqu
