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CANTON ANXIOUS
HUNAN AND KWEICHOW AS TRAINING CENTRES
Shanghai, To-day.
Chinese leaders have now ar- rived at definite decisions regard- ing military and economic. re- sources of the nation in order to continue resistance.
It has been decided to convert
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· Hunan and Kweichow Provinces
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
SPENDS MORNING
MILITARY CONFIRM JOHN STRACHEY CONCENTRATION UP AGAINST OF TRANSPORTS
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
Canton, To-day.
In spite of official denials by Government spokes- men, military quarters confirm earlier reports
› of a strong concentration of Japanese trans-
ports off Bias Bay yesterday.
virtually into military training It is also stated that transports were sighted in the camps and to promulgate
con-
scription measures instead of the central recruiting system now in force.
General Pai Tsun-chi, Deputy Chief of Staff, and a noted Kwangsi leader, is to be appoint- ed president of the Hunan Pro- vincial Government it is reported, while General Chang Tze-chung will assume the presidency of the Kweichow Government, both_tak- ing full charge of military forces in these provinces.
vicinity of Swatow last night, and the opinion is widely held here that several simultaneous attacks are about to be launched on South China.
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Kwangtung Government denials of any unusual Japanese activity in South China are ascribed by some sources to unwillingness to create panic among the population, which has long been dreading extension of military activities to Kwangtung.
Former Minister of Industry
Canton spent a morning full of and present head of the Kwei-
anxiety, which has not been al- chów Government Wu Ting- chang, will be appointed director layed by the official denial. of the recently organized com- mission for the development of
It is reported, though not con-
economic conditions in south-firmed, that Chinese reinforce- western provinces, under the di-ments have been sent to the rect supervision of Marshal
Chiang Kai-shek Trans-Ocean, coastal areas.
VOLUNTEERS
pondent,
Our Own Corres-
OFFICIAL-DENIAL
Canton, To-day.
DEMOBILISE Concerning Chinese reports from Hong Kong, that a number Madrid, To-day, of Japanese transports have been] Foreign volunteers in the central seen off Bias Bay, the Canton zone of Republican Spain, that is,authorities this morning issued throughout Republican territory outside Catalonià, have been or-jan official statement to Reuter dered to demobilise this afternoon. that there is no truth in the re-
It is calculated that they number
ports of Japanese concentrations. 2,500.–Reuter. .......
It is reliably reported in Gibraltar
that the first batch of Italian legion- gf Chinese police authorities|
that... “one Japanese
was lying of Bias Bay this morning, but at 10:80 the vessal
een steaming out to sea.
from being withdrawn aries are Spain to Naples from Cadiz „änd). a further batch, numbering – 600,
de expected" "to" leave during i week-end.—-Reuter.
the:
ELLIS ISLAND
New York, To-day.
John Strachey, the British left- wing publicist, was barred from entering the United States when the “Normandie" docked here yester
day.
He was ordered to appear.to-day before an Ellis Island special board of inquiry.
The Commissioner for Immigra tion, i
in a statement, said that Mr.
revoked and cancelled by the Con-
Strachey's, passport visa had been sul-General in London by order of the State Department, after Mr.
Strachey's departure from England.
The board of inquiry will decide whether to permit Mr. Strachey, who has come for a lecture tour, to enter under a temporary permit.
Mr. Strachey, interviewed on where he
board the "Normandie,”
is being, detained for the night, re- sul in London contacted him shortly
vealed that the United States con-
before sailing and explained that
the issue of the visa was a mistake.
Reuter.
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