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FALNCY GENTEESIÓN
(To The Editor, The "Hong Kong' Daily Press").
Sir.--World opinion rightly con- demns the aggression of the Japanese military party who, sɛem- ingly, have complete ascendency in Japan at the present time. World sympathy is with China I share those views. But let us be quite clear-minded about the injury to the British Ambassador. In. the leader to-day in one of your contemporales, the leader writer put, his finger right on the spot when he wrote: "It seems that the Japanese were not informed or Sir Hughe's journey and his motor car was insufficiently labelled, hav- ing only small flag on the bonnet- air attack, presumably, not being envisaged."
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Chinese Successes
(Continued from Pare 1)
confident of being able to hold any fresh Japanese advances.
Shanghal, August 29, Shanghại, Anh 29,
Japancae Headquarters declare A party of Chinese soldiers re- The British steamer Hsinkiang
that Japanese planes reconnoitring ported to 'Headquarters that they was stopped and searched by a
in the area between Shanghai and found the dead bodies of a large Japanese warship off Woosung. Nanking found Chinese army number of Korean soldiers in Nan- The British Commander-in-Chief, transports and motor lorries using kow. These soldiers, so the report Admiral Sir Charles Little, has the road thus demonstrating that stated, wore Japanese, helmets and forwarded a protest to the Japan- the area in which the British Am- carried Japanese flags, rifica, field- ese authorities in this connection.bassador was wounded has become glasses ets., all of which were taken The steamer is owned by the China
a fighting zone.
by the Chinese.
Navigation Steamship Company and is registered in London.--Rea- ter,
Washington
The Japanese blame the Chinese ΤΟΥ the "Hugessen Incident" as they guaranteed his safety and then falled to protect him—'
Reuter.
Receives
Confirmation Of Blockade
Washington, August 29.
The Government has received official confirmation of the tion have to guard against all pos-Japanese announcement that the blockade of Chinese ports would sible contingencies. It is elemen-Interfere with the "peace commerce" carried on by third Powers. 'tary practice. If I overlock some- Mr. Cordell Hall told the Press Conference, however, that the Gov- thing and it, because of that, a erament had received no informal clarification of the extent of the heavy loss is suffered, I am right-blockade as it would relate to any privilege of pre-emption Japan ly deserving of reprimand by my might decide to exercise-Reuter, Directors in London.
I see no reason why people in
other walks of life should be ex- CONDITIONS NORMAL|
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TO HELP
The Colonial Secretary presents
Editor, and 18
cused for lapses. Whoever were responsible for the arrangements
Conditions at the Jockey Club for Sir Hughe's journey seem to
camp for refugees from Shanghai have slipped up somewhat. In
continue to remain quite normal existing circumstances (quite apart
and the inmates are having as his compliments to the from the rights and wrongs of all good a time as could be expected directed to state for general in-
Hong Kong Dally Press, that has gone before) the hood of in the circumstances, a. "Dally the car might have displayed-a-Press representative was inform large Union Jack and the Japanese ed this morning when he called at "Authorities, as well as the Chinese, the club.
should have been notified. The contingency might have been ob- vious and a small flag on the bon- net was useless in such a predica ment.
There have been no unusual or untoward events.
formation that Government ser- vants have been notified by clrcu- lar that the General Order rcs- tricting the occupation of govern meat quarters to persons in Gov- ernment service has been temporar- fly relaxed, so as to allow the ac- commodation of bona fide refugees from Shanghai. In no case has a request to accommodate such re- Yours etc.,
fugees. in. Government' Quarters British Observer. been refused;
exercise foresight. The Japanese It is intolerable that Interna-plot was quite likely merely fol- tional incidents should be con-lowing out 'hla routine 'ordera, tributed to by lack of foresight of those whose fob, it should be to
DELEGATION TO
THE LEAGUE
French Party Approved
Paris, August 29.
The composition of the French delegation that' will attend the Following sharp fighting in forthcoming session of the League Fengshan, one regiment of Chinese of Nations was determined by the troops were reported to have been Council of Ministers held here to- lost while there were also a large day, when the proposal made by number of Japanese casualties. M. Delbos met with unanimous The Japanese were assisted by a approval. squadron of aeroplanes but the. Chinese claim that, following very severe hand-to-hand fighting, they maintained their positions in ad- dition to which they claim to have taken eight machine-guns and about 100 rifles.
and
The
delegation will comprise M. Herriot and M. Paul Boncour as Ministers Chautemps and Delbos,
well as several Under Secretaries of State, members of the Chamber" and their legal advisers. The Trade Union leader, M. Jouhaud, has accepted the invitation to ac- company the delegation in the ca- pacity of consulting expert.
The Council of Ministers also passed the budget proposals för 1938, submitted by the Minister of Finance, M. Bonnet, showing that revenue and expenditure are ba- lanced. Transocean News Servica
JAPANESE HANDICAPPED Japanese military operations in Tinifu were handicapped by very heavy rain on Thursday Friday as the result of which much damage was done to the Japanese lines. General Sugiyama and the Japanes War Minister, Koki Hirota, are re- ported to have petitioned the Japanese Government for the im- mediate grant of two billion yen to carry on the Japanese operations in North China. The Japanese Finance Minister, it is stated, has promised to devise ways and means to float the, required amount.
A new problem has been present- ed to the Japanese Treasury in
-Tsingtao, August 29,- the shape of a claim for compensa- Half of the 4,000 Japanese re- tion from the American Missionary "sidents in Tsingtao left for Japan' School in North China, through the to-day in three boats. The rest will American Embassy. The school, it te leaving to-morrow. Only the was stated, was bombed by Japan- Consulate oficials and journalists ese planes but the extent of the will be left in the city- damage has not, yet been assessed. Reiter.
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