THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 6, 1937.
BRITAIN MAY LODGE NEW PROTEST WITH JAPAN
If Any Of Three Demands Are Rejected In Tokyo
SUNDAY EXPRESS
PREDICTION
London, To-day.
AMERICAN SCORES KILLED PACIFISTS ON WAR PATH
Washington, To-day.
Six American peace organisa... bons which despatched letters to President Roosevelt demanding
The "Sunday Express" foreshadows the des- patch of a new British Note of protest to Japan in the event of Japan rejecting any of the three de-application of the Neutrality Act mands contained in the protest sent in connection with the wounding of the Ambassador to China, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen.
Should Japan decline to pay due regard to the new British protest as well, then one can reckon, says the paper, with an interruption of diplomatic relations between London and Tokyo.
In this connection, the": paper in- timates that the full meeting of the Cabinet to-day will discuss mea- sures for the protection of British interests in China-Trans-Ocean.
RUSSIAN GOODS IN RUSSIAN SHIPS
FRENCH AIR
in the Sino-Japanese conflict, are now appealing in concert to the American people for support.
They declare the people must make their demands for neutral- ity known to the President. Reater
FOURTEEN DIE IN CATHOLIC
STUNTING CRASH PILGRIM TRAIN
Paris, To-day. "While landing at Vincennes air- Soviet shipping returns for the field, near Paris yesterday, a French first half of 1937 show that the for-air force plane which had been eign tonnage chartered by the giving a demonstration of stunting, Soviet declined by 13 per cent., in crashed into two other planes comparison with the first sixthe ground.
months of 1936.
DISASTER
Cologne, To-day. Fourteen were killed and 16 seri- ously injured when the locomotive and four carriages of a special train The pilot of the plane which conveying 800 Roman Catholic pil
on
IN KWANGTUNG ATTACKS
Canton, To-day." Scores of villagers were killed and wounded in the unexpected onslaught of Japanese naval and air craft on the Sanmei and Hai- fung districts.
A dozen villages along the coast and further inland were systema- tically bombed by the planes, while Japanese destroyers stood off San- mei and shelled for an hour.
Damage done was considerable. Cantor, on receiving warning of the raid, sent a squadron of fight- ers to the Haifung district, but they found the air raiders had dis- appeared.
Latest reports show that a Ja- panese aircraft carrier is lying off the coast near Amoy. Planes ap- peared over Swatow yesterday. afternoon, but dropped no bombs Our Own Correspondent
RECORD
Roughly one-half of the Soviet made the faulty landing was ser- grims left the rails while passing TOTALISATOR freight caried by foreign ships was iously injured, while all three ma-through, the station of Holzheim, timber. The remainder consisted chines are badly damaged. Trans- near Dusseldorf, yesterday. mainly of oil, ores and coal from Ocean. Black Sea ports.
Moreover, besides the
The train was made up of se- venteen carriages, three of which were smashed to smithereens.
driver.
RETURN
tomarter the foreign shipping Prague And II Duce Among the dead is the engine-figures at the Karlshorst dee cord
employed, the Soviet succeeded in increasing the number and tonnage
Prague, To-day
An enquiry into the cause of the
of their own ships chartered to The forthcoming visit to Ger-disaster has already been opened. carry cargoes from one foreign port many of Signor Mussolini is given Trans-Ocean. to another foreign port. For ex-great prominence in the Czecho ample, Soviet ships carried sugar Slovakian press, though editorial from Cuba. to Western Europe, comments are notable for their ab chrome ore' from Karachi to Nor-sence. Only foreign reaction to way, and other ore from Bombay the visit has been published- to Antwerp.
Trans-Ocean
A Tornado Goes to School
It is a Daily
Occurrence
Berlin, To-day. The totalisator returned record
ing here yesterday.
One of the steeplechase events won by a horse which returned odds of 31,940 to 16.Trans-Ocean.
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