CHINESE LEAVING JAPAN
LEE WAI TONG FRACTURES
SHIN-BONE
In business circles of high standing, the opin- STOP PRESS ion is expressed that Nanking will be compelled to declare a moratorium Our Own Correspondent. JAPANESE FLIGHT FROM HANKOW
Hankow, To-day.
In contrast to the acute tension of last week, a Lee Wai-tong, the idol of feeling of great relief has followed the completion China's soccer fans, was involved of the Japanese evacuation of the Japanese Con-
in a serious accident in a recent match in Batavia in which he
sustained a fractured shin bone resulting from a collision It is very doubtful whether he will play soccer again while on tour or after his return with the South China tourists on September 12.
cession.
SIX CHINESE POLICE OFFICERS ENTERED THE JAPAN- ESE AREA YESTERDAY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RE- QUEST OF THE JAPANESE CONSULAR OFFICIALS TO SAFE- QUARD JAPANESE INTERESTS AND PROPERTY DURING THEIR ABSENCE.
THE JAPANESE CONCESSION PRESENTS A DESOLATE AND SOMEWHAT PATHETIC PICTURE.
There are signs everywhere of an astonishing- ly hurried departure, such as half-finished meals and open cupboards. Floors are covered with re-
Cloudy And fuse and many on leaving did not bother to lock
Squally
The cool spell continues and the temperature at 10 o'clock this morning was only 80 degrees, with humidity 87 per cent. The maximum yesterday was 85 de- grees, and the minimum last night 78 degrees..
the doors of their houses.
EXODUS FROM THE YANGTSZE
Consular Officials Also Leaving
Reuter.
EARLIER REPORTS
ON THE SINO JAPANESE
ACLASH WILL BE
FOUND IN PAGE NINE
is
as
CONSUL LEAVES FORMOSA
Hankow, Today. Rainfall for the 24 hours end-
The Japanese consular staff ed this morning was 0.87 inches and the total this year was 57.42 planning to leave here as soon inches. The Royal Observatory other Consular officials reach Han-
kow from up-river districts.
Reports from Wuhu, Kinkiang,
FISERE
Taihokisu, Formosa, To-day. reported this morning that pres-
The Chinese Consul and his sure continues highest over the Pacific to the Fast of the Bonins, Chinkiang, Nanking, indicate that family left for China to-day accom while a depression of considerable all Japanese civilian residents have panied by many of the Chinese intensity covers South-West now left the Yangtze Our Own colony. Our Own Correspondent. China and Tongking, with an ex-Correspondent. tension, in the form of a trough,
between Luzon and the Western JAPANESE TROOPS
Carolines.
"Local Forecast: South Winds, fresh, squally, cloudy and showery.
GRAND CANAL IN
FLOOD
Break In Dyke At Pehsien
dyke
ecting the area on the left bank of the canal Pehsien, northern Kiangen, has collapsed for about 1,000 feet inundating two thirds of the district. The canal still threa- tens to rise further. Hua Nan
N.T. FLOOD VICTIM
The body widow, aged 47,
the
day.
fooded
Chan Sze
IN PEIPING
Civilians To Leave Legation Quarter
Peiping, To-day.
CHINESE ARMY MOVING
Five Divisions Along
Suiyuan Railway.
Tientsin, To-day.
It is believed that the first blow At 8 am this morning, Japanese in the large-scale war pending in residents who have been sheltering North China will be struck to the in the Legation Quarter since July North-West of Peiping, where the 27 were informed by the Japanese Chinese forces along the Peiping- Embassy officials that they might Suiyuan Railway have now been return to their homes and shops. largely reinforced and consist of
The city is now quiet and it is nticipated that there will erious developm
Japanese
not
Own
tered in Peiping. Correspondenta
CHINESE LEAVE JAPAN
Consular Officials Making Ready
Morel
Kobe, To-day.
than 60,000 men
he 4th Division is gradually down the line wards Pei 8th, 86th and Our
divisions
Own Correspondent.
SWATOW FEARS
Planes Up Watching Japanese Warships
Swatow, To-day. Chinese aeroplanes are going up The Mikko Maru left for Shang-ev hour or so watching the move-
145 Chinese ments of Japanese Ships an arrying hai
chored off the port, on reports that -own country.
Chimese they are likely to be reinforced by Our tother ships from Formosa.
Own Correspondent.
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WHY SUFFERZ
DUCE
To-day