The Shenyang Evening News says over one hundred cities in China will sound an alarm simultaneously to mark the "9.18 incident".

Sunday will mark the 74th anniversary of the "9.18 incident", commemorating the 1931 invasion of Shenyang by the Japanese army in the capital of northeast China's Liaoning province.

The Japanese army occupied the Shenyang area and later went on to capture the entire northeast of China.

The newspaper said on Tuesday that in addition to sounding the alarm for three minutes, there will be large choruses singing at Shenyang and there will be a ceremonial striking of the bell near the "9.18" Historical Museum.

People from all walks of life will toll the bell 14 times at 9:18 PM on Sunday, indicating the passage of the 14 years during which the people of northeast China had to suffer Japanese aggression.

Some 1000 people, including veterans, soldiers, governmental officials, college students and businessmen from Taiwan, are expected to participate in the event in the city.

This is the second time that Chinese cities have remembered the event by sounding alarms – some alarms were sounded on the anniversary last year.

(CRI September 14, 2005)