Growing Anti-Japanese Activity In South China JAPANESE TROOP LANDING ANOTHER
AT TSINGTAO REPORTED
NANKING FORCES STILL MARK TIME
Tientsin, To-day.
The formal ceremony of taking over the for- mer German Concession by the Japanese passed off yesterday evening without incident, and the Jap- anese military are at present in full control, with guards at the Administrative buildings and along the waterfront.
According Agency Corresponde quarters were raided ese and that the about 12, have the military authori Correspondent
CHIANG FLIES
MEET PER
After morial Generaliss to Kalm
Japanese police at present are patrolling the streets in the area with truncheons but without eral Per firearms.
mand of has arrived despatch of
to discuss the troops to North
ANTI-JAPANESE
The Japanese have thus completed the occupa-china-Our Own Correspondent tion of all Chinese-administered districts in Tien- tsin, and all the Chinese police who had hitherto been on point duty in the former German area, have decamped. None of them are at present visible in the streets.
ST MINE
som oc-
OF QUIET?
apar May Consolidate
Gains
shai, Angust 2 According to competent observers, th success in dislodging the 29th Army from Peiping and Tientsin areas by the Japanese, the situation in North China may be compara- tively quiet for a short period, in which the Japanese will consolidate their position, while the Nanking
ACTIVITY IN SOUTH Government forces prepare the cam-
Canton, To-day.
that the
Rumours are current
The ex-German Concession constitutes the best Chinese staffs of Japanese firms in residential area in Tientsin, with broad streets and Canton have decided to resign their
positions, and that representativ boulevards and embracing hundreds of beautiful have been sent to the neighbouring foreign homes and gardens. Reuter
JAPANESE WAR PREPARATIONS
Shanghai, To-day.
ports to persuade the staffs of panese firms to join them. Own Correspondent.
TIENTSIN QUIET
Tientsin, To-day
paign expected to lead to a large scale Sino-Japanese war.
It is believed that the hope of
Japan is to avoid a full-dress war with China, and aud
pursue a policy of
like that of the silkworm on mul- berry leaf so that they can get what they want with, less sacrifice.
WANTS NAME ERASED
According to information received here the Korean Railways have announced that the goods Tientsin was quiet yesterday Ex-Soldier Now Among train service is suspended until further notice.
though the authorities in the for- eign settlements are still ing strict military
Air units, including pilots, anti-aircraft gun-shortage both in the
ents ners, etc., are being transported to China, and a tory and foreign
one of the most acute problems large number have already arrived at Tientsin. fronting the autho They number well over 2,000.
The Sixth Division and a brigade of cavalry are under instructions to be in readiness for trans- port to China.
STEADY PR
"Glorious Living
99.
the dead after 20 Horace Smith, ex-soldier, name erased from the Honour of Ashby War Memorial Feicestershire...
After all am among the glori- ous Erving not the glorious dead,"
The question of erasing his name
The Japanese troops are carrying will be considered at the next meet- out minor attacks against positions ing of the Ashby Urban District held by the 29th Army in the re- Council
40
A large quantity of war material left Japan for gions south of Peiping and Tientsin Mr. Smith, who returned from In- Formosa yesterday.-Da-Dao.
REPORTED LANDING News Agency and a number of Chinese reporters of various papers OF TROOPS
in Peiping were arrested by the police on the demand of the Japan- At Tsingtao And At
ese authorities.
Tientsin
Shanghai, To-day.
It is stated that the pro-Japanese general, Chang Tze-chung, is at pre- sent under the control of the Japan- More Japanese troops have arriv-lese and that his troops in Peiping ed in China from Japan. It is re-have been reorganised into a Peace ported that a division of Japanese Preservation Corps Our Own Cor- troops landed at Tsingtao and that respondent two more divisions arrived in Tien-|---
tsin yesterday.
The Japanese in Tientsin have put up a proclamation stating that they will bomb anywhere pe
dare to interfere with Japanese
Corres
CHINESE NEWS AGENCY RAIDED
Nanking Journalists Arrested
Peiping, To-day
on Saturday
night all the staff of the Central
TIENTSIN LOOTING
Homeless Cansing Disorder
22 Nanking Official reports her Chinese residents-in-
mpelled
vere
pri
ja
with the support of bombing 'planes dia, is staying with relatives More cases of Ping-Han Railway Leicester. He will visit Ashby, 17 trains being bombed by Japanese miles away, next month, for the planes were reported to day Hue wedding of his sister's stepson, Mr Nan
CHIANG'S SPEECH TO CADETS
Supreme Sacrifice
Demanded
College,
#must
being pushe
Nanking, To-da
the weekly Me the Central
was the only effective
of salvaging China from
anese invasion.
He expressed confidence that victory would be, with China It at
#determined enough to stake her available manpower and mi
In an anti-foreign Hus Non
William Ash.
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