THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 13, 1938.
JAPAN HESITATES TO
AGGRAVATE
BRITAIN
War Declaration Delayed Because Of Hong Kong EXPEDITIONARY FORCE U.S. SENATE INSTEAD OF BLOCKADE
Attempt Expected Before End Of January
Tokyo, To-day.
Well-informed quarters close to the Cabinet indi- cate that Anglo-Japanese relations, with spe- cial reference to the position of Hong Kong in the event of measures interfering with the Bri- tish Colony's trade, formed the principal point of discussion at the War Council on Tuesday afternoon.
WORLD
BOYCOTT OF JAPAN
London, To-day. The International Peace Cam-
··paign announces that a conference to organise a world boycott of Ja- -pan and aid to China is being held
in London on Feb. 11.
Viscount Cecil will be one of the presidents, while M., Edouard Herriot, president of the French Chamber of Deputies, will be one of the many foreign leaders who will attend.-Reuter.
Japan's reluctance to increase the strain in rela-JAPANESE
tions is believed to have been the determining
factor in the decision to delay a declaration of IGNORE BRITISH
war with the imposition of a full-scale blockade.
DR. KOO AT THE
It is, nevertheless, indicated that the decision will probably hasten the commencement of hos- tilities in South China and it is freely predicted in military cir- cles that, unless unforeseen de-
HAGUE TO MEET velopments
MR. SUN FO
The Hague, To-day.
TUG PROTESTS
Shanghai, To-day.
velopments occur in North Repeated approaches to the
STORM OVER LYNCHING BILL
Washington, To-day.
There was a storm in the Senate yesterday during the debate on the Anti-Lynching Bill, passed by the House of Representatives last April.
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The Bill makes lynching
·Federal offence and imposes heavy fines and prison sentences on sheriffs and constables per- mitting prisoners to be taken from custody and killed.
Yesterday,
Senatorstates
Northern - and Southernt strongly criticised the Bill.
The Southern Senators Harrison and Byrnes-accused Northern De- - mocrats of pandering to the Negro vote by promising that the Federal Government will invade the South and put down lynching forcibly in defiance of the rights of local government.
LYNCH LAW AND GANG RULE
They added that if the North-
China, large-scale landings will Japanese authorities since Decem-erners persisted in their campaign, be made in the Bias Bay region ber 15 for return of twelve Bri-the Democratic Party would be and Chungshan before the end tish-owned lighters and five tugs, badly split of January.
The objective of the Bias
K.C.R. near Sheklung.
Bay
from which the British flag was run that lynching was virtually extinct The Southern Senators declared
Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese column will be the cutting of the down and the Japanese flag sub- and alleged that no efforts were stituted, have produced very being made to end the much more serious menace of gang rule in the scanty results.
North Reuter.
Ambassador to Paris, arrived. here last night and was received by the Chinese Minister to The Hague. Dr.-Koo is remaining some days to receive Dr. Sun Fo, the forthcoming Chinese Minister to Moscow, to discuss plans regard- ing Russian support in the Far East. -Reuter.
INTERFERENCE WITH SHIPPING ON YANGTSZE
London, To-day.
Foreign merchant shipping is experiencing difficulties in the
· MAIN-ATTACK
The main attack upon. Canton will
landed at Chungshan.
The twelve lighters and three be undertaken by the force to be of the tugs have disappeared, BOMB ON
but the remaining two tugs have been located. They are still fly- FUNERAL
PROCESSION
----Preparations have already been partially made, providing for an expeditionary force of between 50,- 000 and 80,000 men.
Occupation of Hainan Island will also be a primary objective, but it
is believed that this will be entrusted to the Imperial Navy, with a force of marines.--Our Own Correspon- dent.
LANDING AT TAIFU
Canton, To-day.
the
A further Japanese landing in navigation of the Yangtse and, ac-South China occurred at 6 o'clock cording to some reports, the yesterday evening when 100 Ja-
panese landed at Taifu, off Japanese naval authorities have Chungshan district, fifteen kilome- sought to limit the movements of tres west of Macao. non-Japanese vessels.
Canton is completely unconcern- ed at this latest effort, which is be- The question is understood to believed to be merely for watering the subject of numerous local ex- and exercising purposes, although changes between the various na some Chinese sources suggest that tional authorities and the position the Japanese are anxious to take is still obscure but the British re-over stocks of wolfram which are presentatives have been instructed | known to be there.
to make clear, in such exchanges, Meanwhile, the Canton "Gazette" that the British Government can- states that two Japanese warships not admit any right of interfer- yesterday dropped anchor north- ence with British shipping on the west of Hoihow, on Hainan Island Yangtse British Wireless.
Reuter
ing the Japanese flag.
The British naval authorities to-day made very strong repre- sentations to Vice-Admiral Hase- gawa, who has promised to re- turn them, Reuter.
The R.M.S. "Empress of Japan" is due to sail for Manila at 11.00 p.m. to-day.
Canton, To-day. According to Chinese sources, three Japanese planes dropped bombs on a funeral procession on the outskirts of Tungkun, near Sheklung, during yester- „day morning's air raid.
Several are believed to have heen killed. Reuter.
Those who know....
Insist on
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