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October 22, 1931

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Headlines from October 22, 1931

LEAGUE FACES DELAY IN DECISION ON CHINA; SEES US WEAKENING; 'Big Five' Drafts Resolution Leaving Manchurian Issue to Tokyo and Nanking. CHINESE PROTEST MOVE Geneva Speculates on China Quitting League and Entering Bond With Soviet. WASHINGTON DENIES SHIFT Shidehara Replies to Kellogg Pact Powers That Boycott and Violence Handicap Settlement.Developments in Manchuria. League Leaders Plan Delay. Council Exhausted by Efforts. Chinese Will Not Agree. Provisions of the Resolution. Chinese Present Proposals.

By Lansing Warren. Special Cable To the New York Times

Com of 5 powers drafts resolution for Council adjournment; recommends direct negotiations; China opposes move, outlines proposals for settlement; Nanking Govt refuses to yield to Japan; Japan willing to modify demands; boycotts continue; Shidehara replies to Kellogg pact notes; fight at Tiehling reptd; map; J Inouye, Japanese Min of Finance, outlines situation; U S denies weakening on intervention; Japanese shipping suffers from boycotts

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Ann Rule

1931Ann Rule, American police officer and author (died 2015)[โ€ ]

Ann Rae Rule was an American author of true crime books and articles. She is best known for The Stranger Beside Me (1980), about the serial killer Ted Bundy, her co-worker and one-time friend, who was later revealed to be a murderer. Rule wrote over 30 true crime books, including Small Sacrifices, about Oregon child murderer Diane Downs. Many of Rule's books center on murder cases that occurred in the Pacific Northwest and her adopted home state of Washington.