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MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1937
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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
S.V.C. IN ACTION TO STOP FOOD RIOTS
Serious Outbreaks All Over Settlement
JAPANESE LAND 50,000 MEN
IN SHANGHAI AREA
JAPANESE
80 CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR REFUGEES CAPTURE
Shanghai, To-day.
ARMOURED CARS
Shanghai, To-day. Japanese military headquarters official communique this
in an
Fears that the food shortage in Shanghai would lead to rioting by the hundreds of thousands of des- titute Chinese who have taken refuge in the Settle- ment, have been realised, and the police and Volun- morning stated that the front teers are being kept sy in coping with the outlines remain unchanged to any
important extent. breaks, which are reeing more and more as the food problem becomes more acute daily.
HANKOW
BOMBED TO-DAY
Hankow, To-day. Hankow was bombed this morn- ing by Japanese planes but they did not stay over the city long and Our little damage was done. Own Correspondent.
Huge Fires Still Spreading
The Chinese attacked at dawn
Shanghai, To-day. this morning and in a clash in the
The two huge fires which broke Yangtsepoo sector the Japanese out in the Yangtsepoo and Hongkew
lost 3 killed, 16 gravely wounded districts three days ago, are
and 31 wounded.
They claim.
to
have captured
raging this morning.
Unparalleled scenes of misery and destitution are being witnessed in the foreign areas. Hun- dreds of thousands of vagrant refugees are roam-three armoured cars of the Vickers to Broadway, Kung Ping Road, ing the streets of the Settlement and the French Concession. Sleeping in the open and begging for food, they are being battered by the elements.
Armstrong type.
The flames are spreading through
cording to the Japanese, asserted
One Chinese prisoner taken, ac-Tongshan Road
Chaofoong Road, Dent Road, and
that he had been in the front lines The other fire is sweeping rapidly four days without food.
through Shenchiawan, Sanchuehti Although eighty concentration camps have. It is estimated that over 20,000 and Hsiaopochang towards North been established in the foreign areas, they are ac-shells and the devastating fires ed at Haining Road and is expected buildings have been destroyed by Szechuen Road. Another fire start- commodating only a mere handful of the total which are still sweeping through to spread rapidly southward during figure.
the Yangtsepoo and Honkew areas. the next few hours, according
Our Own Correspondent.
reports Central News.
THE REFUGEES AT PRESENT ARE RECEIVING RATIONS WHICH WILL DO NO MORE THAN KEEP THEM FROM ABJECT STARVATION-
GROWING FEARS OF EPIDEMICS
ANOTHER PROBLEM FACING THE AUTHORITIES IS THE TERRIBLE INSANITARY CONDITIONS CAUSED BY THE RE- FUGEES.
THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES ARE EXTREMELY ANXIOUS. OVER THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS AND ARE TAKING ALL PRE- CAUTIONS AGAINST EPIDEMICS.
The newly-organised International Relief Committee is rounding up refugees and is offering them shelter, with t paramoun-t idea of trans- porting them back to their native villages.
With safe conduct from both the Chinese and Japanese authorities, some 5,000 are being evacuat- ed every day to Ningpo and elsewhere by steamers, and the Committee hopes to raise this figure short- ly. Reuter.
50,000 JAPANESE TROOPS LANDED
Shanghai, To-day.
A Japanese Army spokesman, interviewed by Reuter this morning, asserted that the Japanese
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