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Uneasy Fears Of An Incident In Settlement
JAPANESE FLAGS ON CARS
IN CITY STREETS
CHINESE RETIRING CHINA'S HEAVY
TO NEW POSITIONS
Shanghai, To-day.
With the Japanese occupation of Nantao, all
LOSSES IN 92
non-Japanese are now confined within the foreign DAYS' BATTLE
administered areas, encircled by Japanese troops.
Shanghai, To-day.
Shanghai passed its first night
Japanese civilians, including women dressed in bright kimonos, are now freely entering the Settle-without gunfire in ninety-two days. ment south of Soochow Creek, and are travelling in hot for the first time, all non- Jananese have been confined to motor cars flying the Japanese flag.
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It is generally recognised that this might at any moment occasion an incident which might be the signal for strong action by the Japanese army.
Reuter.
JAPAN'S DEMANDS
are encircled by the lanan
Meanwhile, the Japanese forces Fare relentlessly pushing on west-
BRITAIN HAS NEW TYPE AA GUN
London, To-day.
· · Britzin has obtained a new type. of anti-aircraft gun, announced the Secretary for War, Mr. Lestie Hore Belisha, in the House of Commons yesterday
He hoped he would not be press- ed by members to give further in- formation about the gun, as it was not advisable to give figures and- details of production-of-arma- ments at the present time Reti
ter
RICE CONTROL BY S.M.C.
Shanghai, To-day. Rice supplied by the Municipal Council will be retailed by fifty rice shops in the Settlement as
sures undertaken by the S.MC t curb__rising price of cereals in. Shanghai.
Japanese authorities “will demand wards from Sungkiang. their object from to day, as one of the mea- the authorities of the International being to turn the south flank of the Settlement and French Concession new Chinese Tine. rigidly to control anti-Japanese They are continuing to infict agitators now taking refuge there. heavy losses on the Chinese, whic
"Failing this, the Japanese an-International Red Cross officials thorities will possibly take action estimate hitherto at 150,000 killer 28 indicated in General Matsui's and the same number wounded: statement.” -Renter.
Japanese tugs yesterday towed. away one of the vessels, forming ing the Whangpoo boom thus reopen-
Tokyo, To-day. The Shanghai correspondent of the Yomiuri Shimbun" reports that the CHINESE RETIRING ON QUINSAN
Shanghai, To-day. According to reports received in Shanghai late last night, the Chinese troops are retiring in good order on a new defence line at Quinsan, which had been prepared many weeks ago in anticipation of such a retreat.
The Chinese are retiring quickly, with the Jap anese following up with caution.
The relatively weak resistance of the Chinese troops in the past day or two is due, according to foreign military observers, to the fact that the ex- cellently trained and equipped divisions of the Nan- king Model Corps, who had withstood the onslaught of the Japanese for such a long time, have been temporarily relieved by other troops, lacking their experience and training. Trans-Ocean, NORTHERN SECTOR RETIRING
Shanghai, To-day. Reports
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