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A resume of the North China; Hopel area and not interfere in situation was given by 'Mr. H. V. what they termed a purely local Hodson in h's weekly broadcast on affar. "World Affairs." relayed from Daventry through Z.BW. last night Mr. Hodson said that when he talked about the Far Eastern crisis three weeks ago it was reasonable to hope that there would be no wholesale war. That hope, said Mr. Hodson, was now gone.
News of the situation in China,
NEW CHINESE ARMY
Two Million Men Under Arms
(From A Special Correspondent)
Marked strides have been made in both the physical and moral training of the Chinese soldiers. which Japan kept always before them as the "potential" enemy.
The Chinese Foreign Minister then made certain peace proposals including the withdrawal of troops by both sides but these suggestions were rejected. Then it
The Chinese are aghting well at was announced that Gen. Bung
and Cheh yuan undertook to suppress Shanghal and in Nankow. communism and anti-Japanese the strength is said to have been activities. Nanking. however, doubled or tripled since 1932. denied' ali knowledge of this Irregularities in equipment have been corrected with the progress he said, came in scrappy frag- | undertaking. ments. as war hews always does, Meanwhile the fighting in Lu-of centralization. Particularly the but in reviewing the situation, the | kuochiao continued and the second artillery has been brought up to speaker said that the story was in | Incident—the Langfang - affair... | date. Inferior equipment has been three phases, each one of which occurred on July 25. Details are weeded out, and arma smuggling
First rather blurred but the result was, has been reduced. began with an "Incident."
as with the case of Lukuochiao, in accordance with the relative mill tary strength.
there was the Lukuochino Incident, then there was Langfang and last. Hungjae as recently as August 9. The characteristic feature of each one of these incidents was that the facts were very, obscure.
ONE VERSION
AFFAIR TAKES' TURN The character of the affair, said Mr. Hodson, then took a turn, and the on midnight on July 27, Japanese notifed the Chinese that the army was taking independent action and two days later aero- planes flew over and occupied Peiping. The next day the Japanese occupied Taku and Japan was now frankly demanding the demilitarising of the whole of
One version of the Lukucchiao affair, said Mr. Hodson, was that a Japanese soldier was reported missing and his mates went to look for him in the Chinese barracks. They were refused admittance and somehow or other shots were fired. The next morning there was more fighting when two hundred Chinese | the Hopel section. and about ten per cent Japanese were killed. The Aghting then died down, but the voice of the politician made itself heard-above the roar of the guns.
Reports
circulated were then that a local settlement had been effected although sporadic fighting still went on and on July 9, off- cers of the Japanese garrison. in Korea issued a statement to the effect that they were prepared for all emergencies.
Two days later, the speaker said: the Japanese Government decided to, take measures to send troops to China, who, it was alleged, refused
to accept an amicable settlement of the affair.
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This was followed by the Japan- ese demand that Nanking should withdraw all troops to outside the
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London, August 17. The third and final match be- tween England and New Zealand was resumed at the Oval to-day in unsettled weather before a crowd of 1,500 spectators.
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In conclusion Mr. Hodson sald that on August 5, Mr. "Hirota the Japanese Foreign Minister, sald that the Government, wished to settle the incident on the spot and on that day, and on the following day as well. Japanese marines landed at Hankow and foreigners were warned to leave. Mobilisation was notified for Japan and more Chinese troops began to reach Petping.
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The most efficient Central Army division, according to War Office information, is equipped with 13.- 500 rides, 270 light machine-guns, 90 heavy machine-guns, 30 infan-
cannons, 30 trench try and 400 revolvers.
Recently a new basic system of organization
adopted. One division now consista "at two in- fantry "brigades of four regiments each, one artillery regiment, a battalion each of engineers, com- munications company each of cavalry and special service: troops, and a me dical corps. The strength of one division has been fixed at about
14,000 men.
and transport 2
So far, about 50 divisions of the Central Army and affilated forces have been reorganized under this scheme,
TWO MILLION STRONG China at present has approxi- mately 2.000.000 men under arms. These include not only the Central Army and its semi-dependent for-
On August 9. at the Hungjao ces but the provincial troops ns Aerodrome, a Japanese officer and well. Their disposition is given us a rating were shot. The Chinese" follows:- say that they tried to force their. way into the aerodrome while the Japanese say that the shooting
was without provocation.
August 11 say the arrival of 20 Japanese warships in Woosung and on August 13 (Friday) the fighting
began.
"Is this the big explosion or Is there a bigger one yet to come?," asked Mr. Hodson;
"I Was Never
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As the ships approached the Woosung Fort it was found that several Japanese destroyers lost the passage.
At that time the Japanese were shelling the Woo- sung Fort. Although the merchant ships approach must have been noticed by the Japanese destroyers yet they did not cease firing and they fired across the Cumberland's bows and as she approached one shell passed about six feet above the bridge of the flagship.
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crowding the bridges. She actual- ly heard of instances which Chi- nese were offering to sell their chil- dren at $2 each.
People had to bribe taxi drivers to take them to the wharves and launches simply refused to run. Any launch that did go out was very well paid for the risk that it took because the bombardment seemed to be incessant.
13 Shanghal as seen from the ship, Mrs. Bishop said that it looked normal although she received a
CREW COMMENT one of the startling shock when
Although none of the crew hadj Japanese planes apparently inad-. vertently dropped a bomb on the ever experienced the trials of war APC. Godown. The explosion' was they all remained splendidly calm terrific and shook the ship. There in very trylag. circumstances, de- Everything was a dense cloud of smoke but clared Mrs. Bishop.
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Total (for 7 wkts. dec.). 251 | fortunately the wind was blowing went according to schedule and in the other direction, "otherwise," there was no confusion whatso- sald Mrs. Bishop, "I feel sure we ever, would have been suffocated."
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Mr. Eden and Lord Halifax re- turned to London for a special meeting of Ministers to consider the Shanghai situation which they are holding in the Foreign Office this afternoon.- quter."
Mrs. Bishop observed ships, that Mrs. Bishop said that from what were leaving with refugees were so she could gather things were very packed that there was standing chaotic in Shanghai. The Chinese room only. Even their luggage were thronging the streets and had to be tied over the side.
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