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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
SHANGHAI TO-DAY
STATE OF SIEGE
IN
City Has Every Appearance Of An Armed Camp
-QUEEN MARY'S-
BID FOR BLUE
RIBAND
New York, To-day. The "Queen Mary," which broke a record on her westbound run, to-day made a record day's run in the course of her eastward jour- ney, covering 730 miles at the average speed of 31.74 knots, as compared to the Normandie's 728 miles at 31.65 knots.-Reuter,
ALL SHANGHAI AWAKES TENSE AT DAWN
Shanghai, To-day. Shanghai residents awoke with a feeling of ominous anxiety this morning.
...
Touring throughout the Con- cession at 5.00 a.m., a Reuter's representative found an indescrib- able feeling of tensity every- where.
Already at that early hour perhaps mindful that on July 7, between 5 and 6 a.m., most of the bombs were thrown--the ma- jority of the inhabitants were awake.
is
On every street corner there posted either police, volunteers or the military, carrying out a rigor- ous search of all passers, Chinese, and foreign alike.
Surreptitious Distribution Of Handbills
Shanghai, To-day.
A virtual state of siege has been declared in the In- ternational Settlement and the French Conces- sion here for to-day, the first anniversary of the outbreak of the hostilities in Shanghai, as a precautionary measure against possible acts of terrorism.
The bombs thrown yesterday morning against Jap- anese property in Shanghai proved the prelude to a thoroughly restless day.
On the eve of the first anņiver- Bary of the outbreak of the hos- tilities in Shanghai, the city looks like an armed camp as an unpre- cedented number of British, Amer-
DRIVE WEST OF
ican, French and Italian soldiers KIUKIANG
of the
are patrolling the streets International Settlement as well as
Hankow, To-day.
CHIANG'S MESSAGE TO PEOPLE IN OCCUPIED AREAS
Hankow, To-day.
On the eve of the anniversary
of the Shanghai hostilities, Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek ad- dressed a statement to the Chin- ese population in the area under Japanese occupation, informing them:-
"The Chinese Government. never for one minute forgets
their sufferings.”
The Generalissimo also assures them that the Chinese Govern- hent is confident of final victory in which the Chinese population in the area under the control of the Japanese must play an im- portant part." Reuter.
que states that Japanese troops many members of the Volunteer
Heavy fighting is reported to landed in Singkiang on Wednes- Corps who halt and search Chinese pedestrians, buses and rickshas. have broken out on the south bank day and bitter fighting ensued for the possession of the two Most streets between the French of the Yangtse above Kiukiang strategic hills, Wanfushan and which changed
Concession and the International where the Japanese are apparently Pingtingshan,
hands several times during alter-
Settlement as well as all bridges
a
drive on
nafe attacks. and counter-attacks. Fighting is said to be still pro- blocked to A Chinese military communi-'ceeding in this area. Reuter.
between the International Settle trying to launch ment and the districts occupied by Juichang. the Japanese traffic in the evening.
were
Roof gardens and pleasure re- sorts in the centre of the town are to remain closed for two days be- cause it is feared that bombs might be thrown.
MANY PAMPHLETS In the meantime, many anti- Reuter's man was stopped and Japanese handbills have been dis- turned out of his car no less than covered in the Settlement while handbills against Chiang Kai-shek 10 times within half an hour.
All suspicious parcels, carried by have beon distributed by the Ja- persons on the street, are felt and panese in the occupied districts. sometimes opened by the police who are even prodding inside baskets containing vegetables of the ven- dors.
Automobiles, the origin of which has not yet been ascertained, drive through the streets and diatribute anti-Japanese literature and other cars scatter handbills denouncing the Hankow Government.
In foreign circles grave uneasi- (Continued on Page 24)
be seen armed police equipped with small radios,
EXPECTANCY ABROAD Behind every barricade, and al- most all of the main thoroughfares are to-day barricaded in both the Settlement and the French Conces- slon, stood hundreds of expectant Chinese:
Higher :
from almost
Each entrance of the Bund was house flew the Kuomintang flag
out be- barricaded with stout barbedwire. while eager heads popped o tween the far from the windows, with a small gap manned by troops for what all with fixed bayonets, " and through hoped would the gap every passór was halted 30 and subjected to ga... thorough the roof-tops could search.---Reuter.
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