THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 28, 1938.
FRANCE RAISES
QUESTIONS
HAINAN
IN TOKYO
Japan Denies Intention Of Attempting Occupation
-AMERICAN-
PROTEST TO JAPAN
Washington, To-day.
The United States Government has handed a protest to the Ja- panese Government through Mr. Joseph Grew,
Ambassador at Tokyo, against treatment of Unit- ed States nationals in Japanese occupied areas of China.-Reuter.
SHARP TONE
Prepared To Abide
By Limitations
Of Treaties
Tokyo, To- day.
Japanese action in respect of Hainan Island, is stated by an official spokesman of the Navy Ministry to be naturally limited by treaties affecting the area.
JAPAN'S ENORMOUS WAR BILL
Tokyo, To-day.
The supplementary budget of the Japanese navy for the China Incident for the coming year, has
The spokesman said that a Japanese naval party not yet been fixed, according to
had visited Yulin on January 19 to inspect spokesman of the Navy Ministry Chinese junks suspected of smuggling war yesterday. supplies.
IN AMERICAN The Japanese Navy had no intention of landing
NOTE
Washington, To-day. The American Note to Japan, presented on January 17 and published for the first time yester- day, was the most vigorous since the American representations re- garding the Panay outrage.
forces at Yulin or elsewhere on Hainan Island, nor had they attempted this.
He added that aerial naissance showed the island to be strongly fortified.
are re-
The spokesman declined to confirm the forecast of the "Hochi Shimbun" that the Budget would total 1,500,-
·000,000 yen, and that the army's budget, reported to be fixed at 3,500,000,000 yen, made an extraordinary bud- get total for the China Inci- dent, of 5,000,000,000yen. Since hostilities started last July, Japan had appropriated approxim ately 2,500,000,000 yen for military operations.
recon- JAPANESE
SUBMARINES The spokesman said that the Japanese visit to Yulin had form-
IN THE DELTA ed the subject of conversations
Canton, To-day. lately between the French Am- Japanese submarinės bassador and the Vice-Minister | ported to be haunting the vicini- for Foreign Affairs.
ty of Lin Tin Islands, according The amount would be exhausted He understood that the French to a local report crediting the by the end of the financial year on Ambassador expressed apprehen- statement to passengers on board March 31, according to the sion regarding the security of vessels plying between Canton miuri Shimbun.” Hainan.
and Hong Kong.
New appropriations apparently It is said that during the past cover the whole military and naval three days several submarines operations for the coming financial were seen between Lin Tin Is-year, and will be based on excep Tigris.Our tional warfare over a long period.
Reuter.
BLOCKADE AIM
The Note declared that steps taken hitherto by the Japanese Government to protect Ameri- can rights and interests seem- ed to be inadequate to. ensure that hereafter American nation- In giving an explanation, the lands and Bocca als, interests and property in Vice-Minister said that the Jap-Own Correspondent. China should not be the subject anese naval party's visit was for of attack by Japanese armed the purpose of ensuring effective forces..
interruption of Chinese maritime
It adds that the United States traffic and was for no other pur- Government finds it impossible to pose.
to
reconcile the continued disregard The Ambassador is said for American rights with the assur- have expressed satisfaction with ances contained in the Japanese the explanation.
Note of Dec. 24 stating that rigid orders had been issued to Japanese forces operating in China to res- pect American rights and interests. The Note requests that the Ja- panese Government reinforce in- structions already issued "in' such a way as will serve effectively to prevent repetition of such out- rages."
INVESTIGATION ORDER
According to the report made by Mr. Grew to the State Department after consideration of the Note by
Reuter.
FOUR BOMB OUTRAGES IN SHANGHAI
Shanghai, To-day Following five armed robberies
the Japanese Cabinet, a high rank in the daytime, in one of which a ing officer of the Japanese army
was ordered by the War Office to Chinese gunman was shot dead but Nanking to investigate and adopt all the other miscreants escaped, necessary measures to prevent re-there were four bomb outrages in currence of such acts.-Reuter.
DISASTER IN BRITISH ARMS FACTORY
London, To-day.
Six men were killed and about
a dozen injured-none seriously
Shanghai last night. No serious casualties resulted.
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The bombed places included Chinese confectionary shop, which was alleged to have been selling Ja- panese sugar in vast quantities, sugar which is flooding the Shang- hai market as it is duty free.
Other bombs were hurled at the houses of a Chinese lawyer and a Chinese banker. Reuter.
yesterday afternoon.
in an explosion in the mixing The cause is unknown and as house in the blasting department all the occupants of the mixing of the largest explosives factory house perished may not be ascer- in Britain at Ardeer in Ayrshire tainable-British-Wireless.
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