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SWATOW ATTACK MARKING TIME
Chinese Main Body Falling Back On Prepared Positions
CONTRARY TO EARLIER REPORTS THAT A MAJOR JAPANESE LANDING HAD BEEN EFFECTED NEAR SWATOW, THE “CHINA MAIL" LEARNS FROM A RELIABLE COMPARATIVELY THAT A SOURCE SMALL FORCE IS AS YET ENGAGED IN THE ATTACK ON THE CITY. Scheduled for last night, the attack was not launch-
ed till shortly before dawn broke this morning,
owing to bad weather.
The landing was heralded by a severe bombard-
WARNING TO BRITISH SHIPS
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The "China Mail” learns that a warning has been issued to ship- ping companies in Hong Kong against ships proceeding to Swa- tow.
It is also understood that a Bri tish ship at Swatow is ready to evacuate Britons should this prove necessary,
POLES BOYCOTT ITALIAN GOODS
Warsaw, To-day.
ment from warships, which is believed to have blasted the few Chinese machine-gun positions
A boycott of Italian goods in off the map. The actual landings were carried out by two small bodies, north and south of Poland, prevention of journeys to Italy and an economic boycott of Swatow, and were effected without casualties.
Italians, have been proclaimed by It was not until the small mechanised forces had pushed Polish organisations, according to a some way inland that effective press report... resistance was encountered, and It is reported that the boycott the attack is now marking time action has been introduced in dif- till the main body of Japanese ferent towns and villages, troops has arrived.
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LONDON, TO-DAY.
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15,000 MEN
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Though there is no official an- nouncement of the strength of the main body of the expedition- ary force, this is believed to com- THE SITUATION AT TIEN-prise at least 30,000 men. TSIN IS STILL CONFUSED BY THE ATTEMPT OF THE JAP- The strength of the Chinese forces ANESE MILITARY AUTHORI- defending the city is not known, TIES IN NORTH CHINA TO but it is thought that they are not
prolonged MAKE A LOCAL INCIDENT such as to make a -INTO AN ISSUE OF GENERAL sistance possible.
"THE POLICY, DECLARES
Some reports mention that TIMES IN AN EDITORIAL] division (about 15,000 men) THIS MORNING.
scattered in the vicinity of Swatow. The journal adds that so long It is known that strong defence as there is uncertainty about the lines were prepared by the Chinese direction and objectives of Jap-some months ago north-west of the anese policy in China, future de-city, and reports received this velopments in the dispute must afternoon state that Chinese troops remain a matter of conjecture. are already falling back on these
Mr. Cordell Hull's (the Ameri- | positions. can Secretary of State) state- ment to the press indicates that while his. Government are not directly concerned in the dispute at Tientsin they would be far from indifferent to its extension over a wider field.
While the original Tientsin in- cident is obviously one which directly concerns only this coun- try and Japan, its extension into a general campaign against the foreign Concessions and treaty rights in China would extend op position to Japanese policy more widely than the Japanese army
Reuter. perhaps realizes.
ISLANDS CAPTURED The Chinese are known to have evacuated the two islands outside Swatow-Sugar Loaf Island and the Tat How Island-over which Japanese flag is now flying.
Unconfirmed reports state that gunfire is now audible in Swatow, and it is probable that a Japanese flying column has penetrated the Chinese lines in the same way as a tank column entered Canton last October, far in advance of the main body
REACH AIRFIELD The landing on Tat How Island
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the
This step, according to paper, is the answer of the Polish public to the insulting tone of the Italian press. Trans-Ocean.
OBITUARY
BRITISH SHIP-OWNER DEAD
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE DEATH OCCURRED SUDDENLY EARLY THIS MORNING OF LORD INCH- CAPE, AT THE AGE OF 52.
Kenneth Mackay, second Earl of Inchcape, was educated at Eton and Trinity, Cambridge, and started life as a barrister.
He served during the Great War, at the end of which he took to a business career.
He was a partner in Mackin- non, Mackenzie and Co., Cal- cutta; Macdonald,. Hamilton, in Sydney; Gray, Dawes and Co., London; a director of the P. and O. Steamship Co., William Cory and Som and Chairman of the Marine Insurance Company.
Lord Inchcape is succeeded by his son, Viscount Glenapp.
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