THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1937
CHINESE
EVACUATION
OF NANTAO COMPLETE
Few Snipers Remain To Harass Japanese Troops
WITHDRAWAL UNDER
ORDERS OF HIGH COMMAND
Shanghai, To-day.
BELGIAN QUEEN MARIE'S
CABINET PROBLEM
Brussels, To-day.
King Leopold has decided to postpone all further attempts to form a new Government until No- vember 19, when he returns from
Apart from a few snipers, the Chinese forces in Nantao completed evacuation of the area in the early hours of this morning, when the remaining his visit to London. beleaguered troops surrendered their arms and en- tered the French Concession.
All Shanghai is now in Japanese hands except the French Concession, and the Settlement area south of Soochow Creek.
Meanwhile, His Majesty has asked that enquiries be made in regard to the factors necessary for successful formation of a new Cabinet-Reuter
Chinese withdrawal from Nantao is reported REMEMBRANCE
to have been effected after receipt of orders from the high command, and it is also stated that the withdrawal was partly due to exhaustion of water and food supplies.
IN BELGIUM
Brussels, To-day.
ed with the usual solemn ceremon
The final battle for Nantao was fought in the Remembrance Day was celebrat- glare of flames from gigantic fires which are conies in Brussels yesterday. suming buildings set on fire by Japanese shells and bombs.
1.
The arms surrendered by the Chinese troops to the French authorities were many and varied.
In the forenoon, Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, and M Yvon Delbos, French Foreign Minister, in Brussels for
CONDITION IMPROVING
Bucharest, To-day. The improvement in the state of health of the Rumanian Dowa- ger Queen Marie continued yes terday.
Her daughter, the Dowager Queen Marie of Tago-Slavia, will therefore return to Belgrade at the end of the week.
As soon as her convalescence has progressed sufficiently, Rumanian Queen will go sanatorium in Vienna for treatment by the well-known specialist, Pro- fessor Eppinger. Trans Ocean
ROME-TOKYO BROADCAST
Rome, To-day.
An Italian-Japanese exchange of
MODEST EXAMPLE the Nine Power Conference, at-radio broadcasts took place yester
27.
tended divine service in the Angli-day in celebration of conclusion can Church and laid wreaths on the triple Anti-Comintern Pact Shanghai, To-day. various war memorials. į
The broadcasts began with at Some of the Chinese soldiers even With the fall of Nantao, the Ja- Only after these simple ceremon-address by the Japanese Ambassa entered the Concession with machine-panese now occupy an area of 8,000 ies were over did Mr. Eden and M. dar in Rome, who spoke in Italian
followed by guns, although the majority only square kilometres in the Shanghai Delbos meet Mr. Norman Davis, the This
playing region, reaching from the mouth of American delegate, for discussions of Japanese musical items by carried rifles, while the officers hand-the Yangtse to Chekiang Province on the Far East. Trans-Ocean- Rome station's ed over their service pistols. There were also many hand grenades and
a. El...ese spokesman told foreign
thousands of rounds of ammunition.journalists yesterday that the
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heroic fight of the last~ Chinese soldiers at Shanghai was a modest example of the new Chinese spirit.
The quantity of small arius was so large that it took several trucks The Chinese would not let even in which to cart them to French the smallest slice of territory fall police headquarters.
into the hands of the enemy: with- out resistance, and would fight to
Meanwhile, the Japanese claim the last that Pooting is also completely cleared of all Chinese armed forces.
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LINE RESHAPED
Shanghai, To-day.
In view of the charged situation
in Nantao, the whole Chinese
ABNORMAL FROST IN ARGENTINE
Buenos Aires, To-day, An abnormal frost is reported throughout the Argentina cereal belt, involving a loss, according to so estimates, of 2,000,000 tons of wheat. It is stated that the cropss, which promised to be a record, are ΠΟΥ Yesterday's fighting, in Nantao only worth a fraction of last week's showed the technical superiority of estimated value-Reuter the Japanese, with their perfectly-
TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY
lequipped forces.
Seen from the roof of a sk scraper in Shanghai yesterday, the
fence line to the west of Shanghai entire surrounding rive day the POLITICAL ISSUE
has been reshaped
countryside appeared to be a wall
IN BUCHAREST
The Chinese troops have aban- of fire. doned Tsipao and have retired to Fire even raged on the river, ward Huangtu and Chingpu, while where the Japanese had set fire to
Bucharest, To-day. those in Kiangchiaochen have moved junks, forming the boom across
Indicating that the Rumanian westward in order to form a straighthe Whangpoo, through which political crisis is not yet over, King tened line connecting Seekingchen several Japanese launches broke Carol yesterday continued to receive and Sung lang
yesterday and joined in peppering various party leaders. the Chinese defenders of Nantao. To-day (Friday) the presidents of
Trans-Ocean.
both Chambers will be received in andience Trans-Ocean.
The Chinese troops in Pooting were ordered to withdraw in view of -the fact that the Chinese position in Nantad was szowing signs col-
are
BIGGER SCALE HOSTILITIES
Sino-Japanese hostilities on scale even larger than those KOW ended by the fall of Nantao predicted outside the Shanghai area ss heavy Japanese reinforcement are eing rushed from Japan. The first atch of these reinforcements, num- bering about 5,000 men, were dis embarked Hua Xan.
NANZIANG CAPTURE
CLAIMED
Shanghai, To-day.
The Japanese claim to have occupied Nanziang at 5:30 this morning
Meanwhile, a Japanese war- ship near the boom across the Whangpoo and newly-placed Ja- panese field-guns in Pootung, are shelling the Nantao wate
Chinese front, where scatter machine g out Beuter.
FINE
WEATHER
The Royal Observatory reported this morning that the anti-cyclone has merged into another which has- developed over N. China where pressure is now highest.
The depression or typhoon cros8- ed Luzon and is now situated about 200 miles NW, of Manila, moving WNW..
Local forecast: LE. winds fresh; fine generally.
Second part of the programme was broadcast from Fokyo, the Italian Ambassador spoke. This was followed by operatic selections played by the Italian symphony er- chestra in Tokyo
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