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YELLOW
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
RIVER MAY
END HOSTILITIES
Great Water Belt Moving Towards Yangtse
JAPAN HEADED
ONLY FOR SELF DESTRUCTION
LONDON, TO-DAY.
A SPECIAL CORRESPON-
Chinese Compelled REFUGEES
To Retire From
Chowkiakow
Shanghai, To-day.
SLAUGHTERED
ROUND FUYANG
Shanghai, To-day.
1
The Chinese press splashes a re- DENT OF "THE TIMES" WHO Only one tenth of the water of the Yellow River is
still flowing in its old bed, according to the port that more than ten thousand latest Japanese estimates. The balance of the refugees have died as a result of water has forced its way along an entirely new starvation, or have been killed be- track.
tween Hangchow and Fuyang dur-
HAS JUST ARRIVED IN TOKYO AFTER A JOURNEY FROM BURMA THROUGH CHINA, SUMS UP HIS IMPRES- SIONS IN A SPECIAL DES- PATCH PUBLISHED THIS MORNING.
He says that Japan has hither- to felt the pinch of war only psy- chologically, but the fruits of years of adventuring have been small and sometimes bitter.
Japan occupies only a very lit- tle territory in China.
ex-
and Chinese
Dozens of new rivers, up to four metres in depth, ing the continuous fighting between
are streaming from Kaifeng in a southerly Japanese troops direction, approximately parallel to the Han-guerillas in that area. kow-Chengchow railway. Floods have reach- ed the town of Chowkiakow, previously occu- pied by the 143rd Chinese Division and situat- ed in the first Chinese defence line. Floods forced the Chinese to
The tragedy is said to have been so appalling that the Red Swatiska Society of Shanghai has decided to send their burying corps to Fuyang and the vicinity. As a consequence of the fight- houses in Fuyang are said to have been almost com- pletely destroyed by fire, render- ng more than ten thousand people homeless.
evacuate the town, but likewise, rains, the Yangtse likewise con-ing, all prevented occupation by the Jap-tinues to rise daily.
anese...
In the wide gaps between the Japanese garrisons the. will to resist is being kept alive, and the terrible cesses of the Japanese sol- diers has done much-to-
Foreign__shipping companies undermine the chronic Further extension of the decline any responsibility for the apathy of the peasants.
floods might, within a few days, transportation of goods stored in
The area between Hangchow In the fighting zones, the cor-result in the separation of the their warehouses. Danger exists, respondent thinks that Japan two warring parties by a broad according to experts, that the and Fuyang is reported to be may go on winning and China inundated belt in the region be-floods will prevent all shipping on covered by corpses of refugees. losing almost indefinitely, but he tween the Yellow River and the the river. is doubtful whether Japan can Yangtse. assimilate the fruits of victory without endangering her national well-being. Reuter,
GRAND MUFTI TO BE EXPELLED
It is believed likely that the floods will force their through existing lakes in vicinity to the Yangtse.
way, the
WITHOUT PRECEDENT It is, however, entirely impos sible to make exact predictions of the immense extent of the pre- sent catastrophe, since it is en tirely without precedent. All Cairo, To-day. efforts to direct the water back The French authorities have de-into the old river-bed have so far failed. Only on the Yangtse. does cided to expel the Grand Mufti of military activity still prevail. Jerusalem from Syria, according to Under the most difficult con- report reaching here from ditions, the Japanese Navy is making slow headway toward Damascus.
Hankow. Owing to the incessant
a
The Grand Mufti, disguised as a Bedouin; escaped from the Mosque of Omar on October 16. After pro-
ceeding to Damascus, he escaped to SHOWERY WEATHER
Syria by boat.
He has now asked King Ghazi of Irak and King Ibn Saud to inter- The Royal Observatory, reporth vene on his behalf. According to that pressure is highest over the one account an order for his ex- Pacific to the bast and south of Ja- pulsion was issued at the instigation pan; it is relatively low over China of the British authorities who generally," and "depressions are si- alleged that the Grand Mufti has tuated over Tongking and in the been continuing to control and vicinity of Tokyo. Forecast:-S. and finance Arabian activities in Pales- S. E. winds, moderate; fair to tine. Trans-Ocean.
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