To Use Force If Two Demands Are Not Accepted
SHANGHAI HARBOUR LIKE JAPANESE NAVAL BASE
AIRCRAFT CARRIER OFF WOOSUNG READY FOR
AIR RAIDS
Shanghai, To-day.
Shanghai's harbour now looks like a Japanese naval base, with four Japanese cruisers and eight destroyers in harbour and twelve Japanese war- ships outside.
CRITICAL STAGE
REACHED
Consul General's Talk With Shanghai Mayor-
Shanghai, To-day.
The situation in Shanghai
reached a critical st though morning
were no clashes up to early
כי
The total number of warships in the area
All the Japanese troo
ed after the arrival of
First
O BRITISH TROOPS ON WAY
of the
War Council with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as the Chairman, Marshals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen- Shin-shan as Vice Chairmen, Gener- al: Per Chung-hsi as Chief of Staff,
well as all the Pacification Commis- sioners in the different provinces as members of the Council
The Generalissimo and Marshals On the other hand, it is reported Feng and Yen will direct the fight- that the Chinese troops near the
avoided.
Huge quantities of munitions and supplies were from the Yangtze Valley have as and all the ministers in Nanking as landed by the Japanese warships of the First Fleet sembled in Shanghai which entered harbour yesterday afternoon, and 2,000 more Japanese ma there are now at least four thousand marines in the Fleet warships. Shanghai headquarters: -
The Japanese allege that there are 100,000 Municipality have received instructing themselves if war cannot be Chinese troops within a 50 miles radius of Shang-tions to be ready to advance hai, in addition to the 10,000 militiamen of the Peace Preservation Corps in the city.
The Japanese Naval Landing Party are apparing a settlement of the Hungiao - ently determined to use force if the Chinese au-come "firm.” thorities do not agree to withdraw the Peace Pre- The Japanese Consul-general in servation Corps and to demolish the defence works Shanghai called on Mr. 0. K. Yui, the Mayor, at 4.30 pm yesterday to that have been erected.
exchange views It is said that be
STILL HOPE":
There is still hope that last minute negotiations will succeed in produc
cident, though the Japanese have be
requested the Mayor to order sus-
pension of defensive activities
Own
If a clash occurs, the Japanese are expected to rely mainly upon air attacks from the aircraft-car-the Peace Preservation Corps rier which is now lying within thirty miles of Woo- the request sung, the presence of which the Japanese appar- ently wanted to be kept a secret. Reuter. CHINESE SHANGHAI PREPARATIONS
espon
FRENCH REL FORCIN
After re
ces at French Shanghai
Chinese military mobilisation around Shang- hai is following closely on the concentration of the the Governor Japanese naval First Fleet at Shanghai
It is reported that one division of crack Chinese troops is being despatched to Shanghai from Che- kiang Province and that they will take up a de- fence position at Lunghua.
Chinese fighting planes have been massed at the Hungjao Aerodrome. Hua Nan
CONSULS SEND REPRESENTATIONS
for the despatch of a
of Infantry to Shanghai as rein-
forcement-Da-Dao.
WAR ATMOSPHERE.
IN NANKING - Moderates Said Now Convinced
Nanking, Amid the thick wan atmosphere shrouding the Chinese capital,
At the last conferences, the
Marshal Yen flew to Taiyuan yes- terday to despatch more troops to reinforce the 13th. Army at Kalgan
the
The former“.
under Cha Teh are con- at Kalgan. They are at of Marshal Yen Hsi-shan.
Correspondent.
AIR PASS
a
of check- ents. But
air raid proved unsuccessful-
TRAIN WRECKING IN NORTH
Chinese Participants Summarily Shot
mghai, To-day.
Tientsin messag states that about 200 employees of the Peiping- Mukden Railway attempted to de- stroy the line at Hsinho and Tang- kus simultaneously, last night with a view to wrecking the line for mi- litary use They were successful
the result that one sergeant of Ja-
Forty of thinese participants were arrested and summarily shot
Despite the threat of hostilities in consequence Chinese Government officials went in removing a section of the rails of the Hungjae Incident, both sides appear to be in-into conference during the past at Lulipu, derailing a tram, with
-four hours for the purpose twenty-f clined toward a diplomatic settlement if possible. of formulating plans to deal with panese artillery, was killed and five
injured. Mr. Okayama, Japanese Consul General in the situation at all the dange spots, Shanghai, called on Mr. O. K. Yui, Mayor of Great including Shanghai, er Shanghai, last evening and held a three-hour sue of war or peace seemed conversation, during which Mr. Okayama verbally er in dispute as it was almos presented two demands, namely, the withdrawal of animously agreed that China
tience had been exhausted a the Chinese Peace Preservation Corps from the the existence of China as
could not be Shanghai area and the demolition of all the defence works in the same area.
Mr. Yui, m reply, said he was no
to accept these demands, but.
that the incident would be amic
diplomatic channels after a thoroug
tion
The Consular Body in Shanghai comm identical memoranda to both the Chinese and
anese
at Shanghai
their attenti to the need for
antee the safety of foreign life and Shanghai in the event of hostilities.
Hua Nan
FIGHTING IN NORTH
IMMINE
Yen Hsi Shan More Troops
PIPPERMINT
hed ice
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