AS REPRISAL
Hankow, To-day
destruction of Japanese
JAPANESE NANKING
HEAVY
LOSSES
Peiping. To-day
CASUALTY
MONEY VS.
DEMOGRACI
FIGURES DENIED IN U.S.A
Hankow, To-day. The Cabinet's
tices of big-
An official admission that the Authoritative quarters dispute nunciation of Tsingtae was in the Japanese forces have suffered the figures of Chinese casualties in ed last night by the
sal for outrages com heavily in fighting north of the the defence of Nanking, contained the Interior, Mr. mitted by the Japanese on Chin-Yellow River, was made by a the official Japanese com ese soil, declared a Foreign Office Japanese army spokesman at a munique issued in Shanghai spokesman yesterday.... →
The action of the Chinese army and civilian population in blowing up and burning Japanese establish ments, he asserted, was the natural outcome of the wrath caused by the destraction and plundering which has marked the path of the
Fapanese invasion.
to
According
the Chinese Tsingtao has now been. evacuated by about 80 per cent of the civil population, and prac-
ically all shops are closed. The Japanese advance guards are still meeting with determined résistance near Wethsien, between Tsianfu and Tsingtao. Trans- Deeam
press conference this morning.
on
the
Mr. Ickes, in a radio broadcast, said that the irreconcilable conflict
between the power of money and the
000
led
Wednesday
power of the democratic instinct had reached such intensity that it must The spokesman admitted that
The commmique placed
be fought to a finish,
luto- the Japanese had been unable to Chinese losses at 80,000 Chinese cracy or democracy- 28 sixty check guerilla activity along the
to have been people win› Perping-Hankow Railway, and soldiers killed and an unknown familes or Ameri these elusive bands of Chinese number believed
Mr. Ickes accursed the irregulars have cut up isolated great, wounded. Japanese forces in several Military circles here state that Sixty famines who
only about 80,000 Chinese troops created by the The Japanese, added. the
all told were engaged in the defening the United States spokesman, are rushing re- inforcements to all points where
ce of Nanking, of which 50,000 general sat down have been accounted for as having if the American they are hard pressed.
Our
bluff, it would be withdrawn to places of safety. Own Correspondent.
places.
PEIPING 'GOVERNMENT
The Chinese estimate of the cas-tic America. If ualties is 20,000 killed and wound- future would be a big cast enslaved country ed-Reuter.
N.Y.K. Monopoly RESHUFFLE RUMANIA'S HIGH
Tokyo, To-day.
The NYK will shortly have an absolute menopoly on the Shang hai-Japan shipping route.
iping, To-day. Re-shuffle of the new "provincial government of the-republic of China” Within the next few days they will take place to-morrow, when administration committee" are placing a number of 4,500-ton the Imers on the direct service.Our is dissolved and new officials are ap- Own Correspondent
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Bacharest, To-day. The Rumanian Prime Minister M. Octavian Goga, in an exclusive interview with Reuter last night, declared: "I have at this moment in my pocket a telegram I shall send to Mr. Neville Chamberlam expressing high consideration of ham and his Government and nation
“We consider England a great pil- Har of peace and we desire to work for closer Anglo-Ramanian relations. increase Our foreign policy is to friendly relations and add to our cir cle of friends without losing the old
ones.
"We have no intention of quitting gue of Nations, and shall friendly collaboration with Entente and the Balkan
AND MOSCOW
Moscow, simultaneously, comes a report that the Rumanian Foreign Minister, M Istrate Micescu, and the Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, have exchanged cordial telegrams.
According to the semi-official news agency. M. Micescu expressed great satisfaction the possibility Collaborating with M. Litvinoff.
Eltvinoff replied: "T
kindly
declaration
to peace..
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London
Note:
Am the hands Japanese their own procédure
army ande
does no recognised methods.
governments. Ther irony, perhaps signi
incident when the Lan
ernment gives fan-rea
ances of the future.co rear of the fighting Ser tain, and before the wor
of their mouths, the Se guilty of grave discourtesy Ambassador and to the Government. This will not the atmosphere in which the Min isters are considering the the guarantees it of Pressive, and noon
if the British - GoverTEL seems likely, decides to accept them and to await events.— Reuter,
London, To-day.
The diplomatic correspondent the "Daily Telegraph, says first British reacti
panese Note are to note that Ja- pan's version differs from the well- authenticated version stated in the British Note of Dec. 16
The Japanese version is not se cepted Nevertheless it is obse ed that Tokyo sought to give the assurances demanded by Britain, both regarding disciplinary sures and guarantees against fo ture repetitions.
This is regarded as sa and much now depends on the ficacy of the steps ordered by Tol yo and the readiness ders on the spot to czzy
-Reuter
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