DISQUIET
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 24, 1937.
REMAINS
Nanking May Refuse To Acquiesce In Sung's Terms For Peace Settlement
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF REACHES PEIPING
Shanghai, To-day.
Official Chinese circles decline to comment on yesterday's Japanese War Office communique giv- ing the alleged terms of promises given by the Ho- pei-Chahar Political Council, pending receipt of the full text of the agreement from their own sources.
IN TSINGTAO
Tension And Japanese Precautions
Tsingtao, To-day.
QUAKES GIVE ALASKA SHAKE UP
Nome (Alaska), To-day.
A series of earthquakes have been reported along the coast of Alaska, resulting in damage to property but no casualties.-Ren- ter.
are
It is reported that Japanese re-ly guarded.
The Japanese have been very ac- It is clear, however, that the terms are irrecon-sidents have been instructed that
in case of emergency they should tive here in the last few days. At ciliable with General Chiang Kai-shek's four points repair to the First Primary School, night the Japanese residents
from practise street manoeuvres and consequently will be unacceptable to the Cen-the Women's Hospital, and the given volunteer uniforms, and they
Mills for shelter.
Plain-clothed Japanese have, of time to time, as if an emergency tral Government. Reuter.
late, been extremely active on the is ahead.-Da-Dao.
and chief roads at night time, tradesmen and residents have been advised to store up candles in anti- that lights may go off
NANKING ARMY CHIEF AT PEIPING
Peiping, To-day.
without notice.
The
General Hsiung Ping, deputy Chief of General cipation Staff at Nanking, arrived here unobtrusively from Paotingfu this morning in order to confer with local Chinese leaders.
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Reuter.
Tientsin, To-day.
as-
ALLEGED CLASH
Nanking, To-day. According to a semi-official or- gan, when the withdrawal of the this 37th. Division was under way, and Taishan Maru' left
11.30 with 300
on troops were passing Lukouchiao, They the Japanese started firing. morning at
The Japanese from replied with rifles. A group of 120 Japanese
imme- area superviser, Col. Sakurai, along the Lunghai Railway
board.
aircraft-carrier "Eagle" arrived.-Da-Dao.
has
just
and hostilities
General Chin Teh-chun, Mayor of Peiping, is have arrived here, waiting for ships diately telephoned to the Japanese
to go home. Another party is ex-officers-in-charge,
were stopped.—Da-Dao. reported to have resigned.
At present there are five Ja- The resignation cannot be confirmed but is be-pected to-night.
SWATOW STRIKE lieved more than possible in view of recent events. panese warships in port. The British
Canton, To-day. -Reuter.
Mr. T. Nakamura: Japanese Con- sul-General, called on Mr. Philip Tyau, the Foreign Commissioner, yesterday, and presented a verbal protest against the strike of the longshoremen in Swatow against Japanese ships. Mr. Nakamura said the longshoremen were back- ed up by the police.
JAPANESE AND SUNG China can last, because it is
CHEH-YUAN
Memorandum On Incident
Peiping, To-day.
Chin this
serted that in politically capitalis- Marco Polo ing the incident at Bridge, Japan aims at the re-estab- lishment of the Taching (Manchu) Empire at Peiping with Henry Pu Yi on the throne.
To Japan the replacement of the 37th Divi-
terms as these-
AIR MANOEUVRES OVER SHANGHAI Japanese Planning "Operations"
Shanghai, To-day.
Mr. Tyau promised to look into Two Japanese aircraft carriers Colonel Matsui, of the Japanese sion of the 29th Army by pro-have arrived at the vicinity of the matter, stating that if the Embassy, called on General-
Japanese units, the institution of Woosung. After coaling and taking strike took place on the initiative the strikers, the Government Teh-chun, Mayor of Peiping,
a demilitarised zone of wider area, water, they are to leave again for of morning. It is reported that they the recognition of Japan's special a destination about 60 miles east of could do nothing.—Our Own Cor-
will respondent. had a heated dispute on the ques-interests in North China,
where they Sino-Shanghai, from tion of withdrawal. General Chin Japanese economic co-operation, the hold. manoeuvres charged the Japanese with not with- drawing as arranged. The Japan-non-participation by northern pro- Shanghai as the "enemy."
vinces in the election of repre- The Japanese Naval Headquar- ese representative produced a memo sentatives of the National Assembly ters at Yangtzepoo which he said must be the basis to be held in the coming November-"operations" by wireless-Da-Dao.
for the settlement of the
Lukou-
are demanded, but it is certain the chiao Incident, and asked General Central Government at Nanking Chin to convey it it General Sung will not endorse them.-Da-Dao. Cheh-yuan for approval.--Da-Dav.
SECRET TERMS Nanking Will Refuse To Approve
Peiping, To-day. It is generally believed that no peace agreement arrived at in North
Lea & Perrins
GIVES SOUP THAT
EXCEPTIONA
flavour.
INDIGNATION IN
37TH DIVISION Feng Chi- an Explains Situation
to-morrow, with
will
CANTON WILL FIRE ON UNKNOWN PLANES
direct
Canton, To-day. Owing to a strange foreign plane scouting over Whampoa and East
Kwangtung on Monday, the Kwang- tung Government has announced that all foreign planes must notify Peiping, To-day.
the Government before they enter According to a military corres-the province or they will be fired is much indigna-on. Instructions have been sent to pondent, there
the the military authorities in differ- insubordination in tion and ranks of the 29th. Army, who are ent parts of the province.-Our Own infuriated by the order of General Correspondent.
Sung Cheh-yuan, Officer Command- ing the Army, to withdraw before instead of simultaneously with the Japanese forces.
a
JAPANESE FLY OVER PAOTINGFU:
Paoting, To-day. General Fang Chi-an called
Two squadrons of Japanese aero- meeting of his three brigadiera and six regimental commanders. planes flew over here in succession rea-yesterday, dropping leaflets of most General Feng explained the sons for the withdrawal, and as- provocative nature -Da-Dao.
sured them that it was only for strategic reasons that they had to
move to another point. General Feng
declared that as long as he was in
HANKOW JAPANESE
PRECAUTIONS
Hankow, To-day. The "Special Bureau' of the command of the 37th Division, it
here has would never try to shun responsi-Japanese Naval Forces bility at the foremost front of na- suddenly removed into the Japanese Consulate-General, which is strong- tional defence.-Da-Dao,
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