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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 18, 1939.
ENCIRCLEMENT
BRITISH
BRITISH PROTESTS
IN SHANGHAI
London, To-day.
Mr. H. Day (Labour) asked the Prime Minister in the House of Commons yesterday for particu- lars of the protest lodged by the British au- thorities against the Japanese authorities for encircling three British-owned factories in Shanghai.
The factories, which are on the north bank of Soo- chow Creek, have been surrounded by wire barricades.
JAPS. ISSUING "NATIONAL" NOTES
Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under-Se- cretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that according to the Foreign Secre- tary's information two British, fac- tories were affected.
They are the Zoong Sing Mill Shanghai, To-day. and the China Car and Foundry According to reliable information Company's premises, together with received by local financial circles, a Chinese mill under Japanese $4,500,000 in bank-notes of the three management. Chinese National Banks has been falsely issued by a Japanese bank in Anking.
A notice has been issued by all Chinese banks here refusing to ac- cept bank-notes issued by "Reform ed Government" Banks in Tientsin, Peiping and Shantung.-Our Own Correspondent.
JAP. ARRESTS IN
WIRED OFF
time
Access to these for some had been by boat across. Soochow Creek to the mill jetty.
This had now been wired off by the Japanese authorities in such a way that it can no longer be used, and similar measures were adopted at the premises of the China Car and Foundry Company.
The British Consul-General in Shanghai had made written and oral representations to his Japanese JESSFIELD VILLAGE colleague, and had pressed for per-
Shanghai, To-day.
About twenty villagers have been taken into custody by the Japanese after a house-to-house search yes- terday at Jessfield Village, near the International Settlement.
The arrested. villagers were alleg- ed by the Japanese to have been connected with guerilla activities around Shanghai-Our Own Cor respondent.
mission to rebuild a wooden bridge which formerly existed, and which it was understood would not inter- fere with traffic on the Creek. Reuter.
STILL WAITING
London,To-day.
MILLS
RABBIS' APPEAL TO ENGLAND
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Jerusalem, To-day. Two of the Chief Rabbis in Palestine have appealed to the people of Britain to protest. against the ban on immigration of Jews to Palestine.
The ban, which is for six months, comes into force on Octo- ber 1-Reuter.
SPECIAL DIET
CHINESE
RECAPTURE CHAOAN
LIUHUANG, TO-DAY.
CHINESE
TROOPS COM- PLETELY RE-OCCUPIED CHAOAN
(CHAOCHOW), IM-
PORTANT CITY AT THE NOR- THERN END OF THE CHAO- CHOW-SWATOW RAILWAY, YES- TERDAY.
The Chinese started a fresh counter-drive on the city on Sunday night. Closing in from three.. directions, they engaged in heavy
SESSION WANTED fighting with some 2,000 Japanese,
Tokyo, To-day.
The executive committee of the People's Social Party has submitted a pétition to the Premier, Baron Hiranuma, asking that the Diet be summoned for a special session in connexion with the Anglo-Japanese talks in Tokyo.
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who offered stubborn resistance be- hind their strong defences.
Steadily pressing back the enemy, the Chinese broke into the city by the northern gate at 5 am. yester- day. Bloody street fighting ensued. Chinese plainclothes guerillas who had filtered into the city beforehand as well as armed Chinese volunteers assisted in cornering and decimat- an ing the enemy. Huge fires were to at started, razing rows of houses
the ground.
The petition
states that the Anglo-Japanese conference is extraordinary event and "aims
a new order in East Asia."
It was therefore necessary to explain Japan's policy clearly and unambiguously before the whole of national unity by all means. world and to increase the strength
Trans-Ocean.!
A, R. P.
The Air Raid Precautions Officer announces that a course for Air Replying to Mr. Philip Noel- Raid Wardens and Air Raid War- Baker (Labour) in the House of den Instructors will be held at he Commons yesterday, the Under-Club Lusitano for any members of Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. the general public who may care R. A. Butler, said no reply had to attend. The course will be held yet been received from the Japan-on Tuesdays and Fridays at 5.30 ese Government to the British pro- p.m. commencing on the August 1, test concerning the murder of Mr. R. M. Tinkler in Shanghai.
The question of further action was being considered, Colonel Harrington, chief of the added.-Reuter.
W.P.A. CHIEF TAKES ACTION
New York, To-day.
Works Progress Administration,
1939.
Members of the general public wishing to attend this course are
Unable to withstand the fierce Chinese onslaught, the Japanese fled by the south gate in great con- by They were attacked fusion. Chinese guerillas outside the city and sustained further losses,
Ampow, Lungwu, Linchow, Pow- pu, Puyeung and other points along the Chaochow-Swatow have also been recovered by the Chinese.
The situation at Chungshan is reported quiet. The Japanese war- ships anchored off Chukchow and Matun in the district of Sunwui
have departed. Central News.
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NEW COMMAND
London, To-day, Vice-Admiral Raikes has been appointed Vice-Admiral command- ing Reserve Fleet destroyer flotil-
**** Butler requested to forward their names las.
announced yesterday that relief GENERAL IRONSIDE
work projects will be stopped at all places where strikes occur
The Workers' Unions supporting the strikes are trying to get per- mission for new regular building projects in order to find employment for, those relief workers to be dis missed owing to the strike.
By September several hundred thousand relief workers are ex
IN WARSAW
London, To-day. General Sir Edmund Ironside In- spector-General of Overseas Forces, reached Warsaw yesterday after-
noon.
In the course of his visit he will pected to have been struck off the meet Marshal Smygly-Rydz and Co- roll. Trans-Ocean.
KIDNAPPING IN N.T.
Two persons, Li Hui-chi, a den- jåt, and Mak Fukden, a shop foki, both residing in Lofushan district, New Territories, were said to have been kidnapped by a gang of about forty robbers after an armed rob- bery on Sunday
The robbers who were have been armed with shot-guns, knives
tered a house in the village p.m. on Friday, decamping w sum of $60 and ten chickens.
lonel Beck, and he is expected to have talks with Polish military leaders and to visit a number of military factories and to inspect some units of the Polish Army British Wireless,"
WORRIED OVER SON'S FATE
Canto
Chulaing
to Mr. H. R. Sequeira, Club' Lusi- The appointment dates from July tano, Ice House Street, Hong Kong. 20-Reuter.
Holland's New Cabinet
AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY.
AFTER AN INTERVAL OF TWO WEEKS, THE NETHERLANDS CABINET CRISIS SEEMS SO FAR OVERCOME THAT AT LEAST IT NOW SEEMS CERTAIN THAT THE FIFTH COLIJN CABINET WILL, IN ALL PROBABILITY, NOT BE
· PARLIAMENTARY.
Collin has been in negotiation less deeply involved in party with five non-Catholic ministers, politics. with Van Lieth (Liberal) and the The parliamentary - basis of the Roman Catholic Deputy in the Cabinet would then remain about First Chamber (Professor Barge). the same as now.
ide to the belief in rcles that the
tholic State Party will
The leading newspal advocate a solution
"Purely par
the new govern- | near futur nly possibility then mentary
binet of berts single
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