THE CHINA MAI
SOVIET OFFER OF AID Sensational Paris Report Of Bluecher Mission
MOSCOW INTEREST SHIFTS
FROM SPAIN TO HOPEI
FORECAST OF JAPAN'S NEW OFFER OF
PEACE
Paris, To-day.
JAPANESE CONSUL
VISITS
GEN. WU TE CHEN
Anti-Japanese Activity Protest
Active support for China by the Soviet is alleg- ed in a report published yesterday by the "Paris Mr. Midi."
Consul Fon M
Canton,
of stevedores to handle Japanese
The paper alleges that Marshal Bluecher, the yesterday Soviet commander-in-Chief in the Far East, has garding been entrusted with "an important task in China." goods in Kwangtung and the refusal
He arrived at Ulanbator, capital of independent cargoes-Our Own Correspondent Mongolia, on July 22, and negotiated there with emissaries of the Nanking Government, alleges the paper.
Marshal Bluecher, as a result, says the paper, has been-en- trusted not only with organising Chinese resistance against Japan but also with concluding an agreement of a military and economic nature with General! Chiang Kai-shek, which would secure adequate supply
of the Chinese: northern armies
with
MINOR CLASHES
Tension In Region Of
Nankow Pass
Pasting, To-day..
An official communique issued by the local authorities states that minor hostilities are continuing in arms and ammunition, tanks and the area to the south of Tientsin. A field-guns.
detachment of Japanese troops ap- In addition, says the paper, 730 students of Moscow Univer- Peared in the Chinghai District yes- sity have been commissars armies.
to eat as political terday and were immediately driven
SOVIET'S ATTITUDE
TSINGTAO STRIKE
Tsingtao, To-day
The local situation was
AMERICAN PILOT VOLUNTEERS FOR CHINA
that 182 fered their nd hostili- and Japan
Government has Embassy in Wash- Hy draw the atten- United States State the reports-Ren-
REPORTED PEACE OFFER
Totally Unacceptable To China
Nanking,
It is learned fr
jed to-day by the walk-out of thou-cles here that th
sands of Chinese workers of all tions which of the Jap
the Japanese-owned cotton mills.
Hua Nan.
CHINA MILITARY CLAIMS
Shansi Troops Advancing
Nanking, Fo
It has been confrmed that Chin- the Chinese off by Chinese troops.
The situation along the Pingsuilese troops have recaptured Liang- Railway is very tense as there is ahsiang. heavy concentration of Japanese
Lianghsiang is on the Peiping troops in the vicinity of the Rail Harkow Railway to the
outh Marshal Bluecher is said to en-way; they are
obviously preparing Changhsientien. It is also confirm joy the fullest confidence of the to attack Nankow Pass-Hua Naned that Chinese troops recaptured Kremlin and to be endeavouring to! organise as quickly as possible,
support for China.
Conversations to that effect have taken place within the last few days in Russian armament fac
*tories.
PEI CHUNG-HSI TO LEAD AT FRONT?
Chief Responsibility For
Country's Defence
Nanking, To-day.
The Chinese problem, says the journal, now completely oversha- dows Spain in the Russian view- point, since in case of a Japanese It is authoritively stated that Gen- victory, Soviet influence through-eral Pei Chung-hsi, the Kwangsi out East Asia would suffer a ser-warlord, will be appointed Field- ious blow. Trans-Ocean.
Marshal in command of the North China troops at the front.
SHANGHAI RUMOUR
Shanghai, To-day.
It is also stated that General Yu
Our
In connection with the alleged Han-mau, the Kwangtung military visit to Nanking of Borodin, form-chief, will be appointed Commander- er Soviet adviser to the Chinese in-chief in South China, covering Nationalist Government at Canton, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Fukien, Hu- it is rumoured that Sino-Soviet man and Kiangsi provinces.
Own Correspondent. negotiations for the conclusion of a Sino-Soviet Pact of Mutual Asssis- tance are in progress. However, no cial confirmation is available at
present-Hua Nan. ✨
KWANGSI TROOPS FOR ERONT
Nanking
Sear
field com
MORE TROOPS PASS
THROUGH TSINAN Kai-shek
Constant Movement
Yesterday
mand of the to General Pei General Pei has not kno
Yanghuching, on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway to the south-west of Tien- tsin. It is stated that Shansi troops under General Tang Yang pet, at cũng present in Kalgan, are adv southward to Peiping-Our Own Correspondent.
M Kawar
ling to king
fresh
tions with the Chinese
consist primarily of two
(1) Recognition of the status
(2) Withdrawal of
quo in North China,
-Ho-
Cha
Government
pei,
har and vert
to
strength
It-
that Chinese Government will directly refuse to consider these terms but will demand-
the
(1)
13 Restoration of Pre-Lukou
chiao-Incident conditions in North China,
(2) Withdrawal of all Japanese
forces from China not allow ed by the 1900 Treaty Da-Dao.
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