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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1938 Price:
JAPANESE
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
CRUISER
LYING OFF PARACELS
Awaiting Instructions From Navy Office In Tokyo
MILLION U.S.
Landing Party BRITISH SKIPPER
DOLLARS RAISED
Not Yet Sent Ashore
IN DRIVE
London, To-day.
in the
Shanghai, To-day.
A sum of some million Ameri- Despite a denial by the naval spokesman, it is learn- can dollars was raised
ed from authoritative quarters that a Japan- ese cruiser was sent to the Paracels Islands yesterday and has now arrived in the area. cruiser is carrying a landing party of marines, but there is reason to believe that the Comman der of the vessel is not likely to order them ashore without specific instructions from the Navy Department in Tokyo.
United States during the nation- wide "bowl of rice" campaign of dinners and balls, staged by six- teen hundred. American cities The last month in the interest civilian relief in China, according to a telegram from Father Jac- quinot.
of
He is visiting the United States on behalf of refugees in China and explained that the fig- is unofficial. The exact
ure
ITO
amount is being tabulated and BUREAU TO
is not expected to be made pub-
lic until next week.
Father Jacquinot revealed that the American Red Cross drive had brought in contributions
STUDY HOW TO
NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH.
IN PIRACY
Shanghai, To-day.
Mr. Oliver Crompton Blown, a Briton from Deal, Dover, Captain of the s.s. Tseang Tah belonging to a British firm, t the Shanghai Import-Export Lumber Company, narrowly escaped death yesterday when 40 Chinese pirates from two junks boarded the vessel 60 According to the same source, miles from Shanghai, while the the cruiser is now
off the Paracels, chored just steamer was en route to Tung-
which a few
days ago the French authorities chow with a cargo of cigarettes. landed a number of Annamite The pirates, heavily armed, policemen, having first notified fired pointblank at Captain the British Government of their Blown but missed, whereafter intention to do so.
they fired again seriously wound- spokesman in ing one of the crew and
A
mounting to nearly 3,700,000. HUMANISE WAR Tokyo declared on Monday that the Chinese passengers, two of
-Reuter.
JAPANESE
FLOOD DISASTER
Tokyo, To-day.
LUXEMBOURG, TO-DAY.
a.m. this
if the French landed armed After stripping the vessel forces on the islands, they would clean of arms and cargo, the pir- AN INTERNATIONAL BU-be disarmed by Japanese forces. ates made off in their junks and REAU TO STUDY METHODS The French Ambassador has the steamer turned back, arriv- OF HUMANISING WARFARE since paid a visit to the Gaimu-ing at Shanghai at 6 WILL BE INSTITUTED, AS A shu. Our Own Correspondent. morning. Reuter. RESULT OF A DECISION OF THE PERMANENT INTER- NATIONAL · COMMITTEE FOR MILITARY MEDICINE.
The bureau will devote special attention to the problem of how It is officially stated that 136 to protect civilians against air persons lost their lives in the raids and will aim at promoting flood districts between Kobe and International agreements to pre- Osaka that were inundated by vent the bombing of open cities. the recent torrential rains.
י.
Nations represented on the Committee of the Conference in- Another 132 persons are still cluded Britain, France, Italy, missing, and it is feared that Germany, United States, Japan, they likewise perished in the Egypt, and the Netherlands. floods.
Some 56 persons have Reuter. been more or less seriously in- jured.
Altogether 648 houses have been carried off by the floods and 638 houses have been completely demolished.
:
ASSASSINATION OFFICERS SET FREE IN JAPAN
Traffic between Kobe and Osaka is completely interrupted
́Tokyo, To-day. since railway dams. bridges and
The Nationalist Japanese officers tracks on the lines connecting the two cities are destroyed. who participated in the assassins- Kobe, which is one of Japan's tion of the Premier, Mr. Inukai, on. most important industrial cen- May 15, 1988, have all been relased tres, with a population of nearly from prison it was announced yes- one million, is partially Inundat-terday.
ed and presents an extremely de- Those implicated in the plot in- Lieutenants solate picture in view of the excluded the former tensive damage caused by the Kiyoshi Koga, Taku Mikami, and floods
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