THE CHINA MÂIL, JUNE 80, 1939
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LANDING PARTY AT FOOCHOW
TIENTSIN TALKS
British Sailors
Ministers Put Ashore To
Meet
In Tokyo
Tokyo, To-day. BARON Hiranuma, the
Japanese Prime Min- ister, had exhaustive conversations yesterday with the two Ministers for National Defence, General Itagaki, the Minister for War, and Admiral Yonai, the Min- ister for Naval Affairs.
Protect Property
A small force of British bluejackets has been land- ed at Foochow, according to messages from Reuter and the Shanghai correspondent of the “China Mail.”
SOUNDNESS OF HEART OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE
LONDON, TO-DAY. LORD HALIFAX WAS FOL··
LOWED IN HIS SPEECH AT CHATHAMHOUSE LAST NIGHT BY MR: A V, ALEX- ANDER, THE LABOUR M.P.
Mr. Alexander thought it a
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at
The landing party, which is believed to number 36,
was put ashore at the British Consulate at Foo-pity that the policy outlined by chow from the new river gunboat H.M.S. Grass- Lord Halifax was not firmly
pressed at Stresa, or even hopper to protect British life and property.
Berchtesgaden. H.M.S. Grasshopper was specially ordered to Foo- chow from the Yangtse Delta because of the gunboat's ability to sail up the shallow Min River, on which Foochow stands.
Meanwhile (says the "China
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The talks concerned the gen- Mail's" Shanghai correspondent) TIENTSIN PRELUDE
eral demands Japan will make eight more Japanese warships ar-
at the forthcoming negotiations rived off Foochow yesterday, bring TO HONG KONG,
with Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, as
ing the total Japanese concentra- condi- tions Japan would consider essen- tion off the Min River to 26. tial for a possible settlement of Bombs were dropped on Foo- the Tientsin "conflict."
chow yesterday when a squadron of six Japanese planes flew over the port.
Japan will be represented at the Anglo-Japanese negotiations by Mr. Kato, Japanese Embassy Councillor at Hsinking, and Mr. Tanaka, Japanese Tientsin.
Consul at
WENCHOW LANDING
ATTEMPTS
Japanese troops (says Central Mr. Kato was raised to the News) have made abortive attempts rank of Minister. at the Cabinet to land at points near Wenchow, deliberations yesterday; he has hitherto conducted negotiations with the British authorities, in Tientsin.
SAYS JACK CHEN
It was encouraging that the Ministers
of
the Democratic countries, who last September..
felt no moral responsibility for
defence of a European country against wanton aggression, now advocated a peace bloc, with the belief that justice, liberty and peace would only be maintained if we were prepared to defend in- ternational law and order.
"And on that they can be as- sured of the soundness of heart of the common people of this country," Mr. Alexander con- cluded. Reuter.
LONDON, TO-DAY, "MR. JACK CHEN, ̈ YOUNGER SON OF - MR. EUGENE : CHEN, FORMER⠀⠀ CHINESE FOREIGN lude to similar attacks on Hong MINISTER, AND A NOTED CAR-Kong. TOONIST AND PUBLICIST, AD-
If any substantial: concessions
DRESSED THE EMPIRE PRESS were made to the Japanese, then CONFERENCE. YESTERDAY? inevitably the next push would be Mr. Chen said that in Hong Kong against the rights of the press in
tsin or Shanghai was merely a pre- Hong Kong itself Reuter.
in south Cheklang, the other Trea- they felt that the question of Tien- such a typically British colony as y Port threatened with attack.
A platoon of Japanese blue- jackets is reported to have tried to Mr. Kato arrived in Tokyo from Wenchow, at the mouth of land at Kwantow, about eight miles
yesterday.
the Ou River, but retreated when Mr. Tanaka, the Japanese they were met by heavy machinegun Consul in Tientsin, is already in the Japanese capital.- Trans Ocean.
BRITISH CABLETM OFFICES HIT IN AIR RAID
THE FOOCHOW CABLE STA- TION OF CABLE AND WIRE- LESS LTD., WHICH IS BRITISH PROPERTY, WAS HIT BY BOMBS DURING A JAPANESE AIR RAID ON THE TREATY PORT-YESTER- DAY, THE “CHINA MAIL" LEARNED THIS MORNING,
fire.
Other Japanese landing attempts at Chungtang and Lingmen, on the north bank of the Ou River imme- diately north-east of Wenchow, were also repulsed.
Over 20 Japanese warships (adds Central News) are now concentrated off the coast near Wenchow.
NAVY'S AIR STATIONS
TO BE "SHIPS"
Another example of the Navy's fondness for naming its shore stations as though they were ships Damage done, was not extensive, is afforded by the names chosen for is understood, and repairs were the former aerodromes of the effected after some delay.
AR.A.F., which have been handed over to the Admiralty for the of the Fleet Air Arm.
The ordmary cable service be- tween Hong Kong and Foochow is still being carried on, though slow- ly.
Messages for Foochow are up, and cables to Chines
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