THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1937.
Photo taken at the height of the timber-yard fire at Mongkok on Tuesday, when extensive damage was done in a two-hour blaze. For tunately no casualties occurred, though scores of timber-yard families were rendered homeless. (Yuen Chun).
PLIANCY OF S.M.C. ROUSES CRITICAL COMMENT
Hankow, To-day.
THE Japanese demand for transfer to them of im- portant branches of the administration in Shanghai, was characterised here yesterday by a Nanking Government spokesman as a new breach of treaties.
At the same time he expressed the Chinese Government's regret at the attitude of the foreign powers represented on the Shanghai Muni- cipal Council, whose pliancy, he
JAPANESE
said, was calculated to encourage Ja- CLAIMS IN
pan to violate deutrality of the In- ternational, Settlement.
The spokesman added that only ANTICIPATION
the
urgency of other business hitherto had prevented the Chinese Govern- ment from making official repre- sentations on the subject to powers in question, but that in any. case the Chinese Government “will not forget their attitude."-Trans- Ocean
FRANCO POLISH ALLIANCE FOR EQUILIBRIUM
Warsaw, To-day.
The Franco-Polish alliance no longer encountered anywhere in the world any suspicion concerning its aims or solidity, declared M. Yvon Delbos, the French Foreign Minis- ter, in London, according to an in- terview published in
Warsaw
newspaper.
Co-operation between Poland and France in the task of consolidating peace constituted one of the priu- cipal factors of Europan equilibriumi.
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The Franco-Polish alliance need- ed no other explanation than that. furnished by the real interests of both countries. Trans-Ocean.
FIRE ABOARD BATTLESHIP
Pondon, 10-day.
A fire which might have
but for its timely discovery, broke out on Queen Elizabeth in
ockyard yester
proved more serious
day.
It
iginated in an oil tank
Shanghai, To-day.
Drawn up in their new line. which virtually forms the last important stronghold east of Nanking, Chinese troops in Kiangsu, Chekiang and Antwei provinces are continuing the at- tempt to consolidate their posi- tions in the face of fierce Ja- panese aerial, artillery and in- fantry assaults:-
Meanwhile, meagre Chinese- reports available in Shanghai contradict starting Japanese claims of successes."
While admitting that Chang- chow and Thing have fallen, Chinese sources state that the rapid advance claimed by the Japanese from those two cities appears to be of an "anticipa tory" nature.
They deny capture of Kwang- teh, and declare that the high- way between Changhain and Kwangteh is well barricaded and all bridges blown
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