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SINO-JAPANESE
JAPANESE CUT
CABLES OUT
OF SHANGHAI
Shanghai, Aug. 28: All cable
SWATOW ON THE ALERT
Swatow, Aug. 28-The declara- tion of a blockade of the south China coast from a point south of lines out of Shanghai were cut by
here to Shanghai has prompted Japanese troops at 4 o'clock this
local authorities
take afternoon." The three major sya-cautionary measures
to
pre-
toms affected are: »
Coast defence units here are The Great Northern Telegraph keeping a close watch on the Company. Limited, of Denmark;
The Eastern Extension. Australa-
CRISIS
TO COVER ALL
CHINESE SHIPS
the
The Japanese Spokesman inter- vewed by Reuter emphasised that the Japanese blockade "covered all ships dying the Chinese flag." He said that junction of Japanese troops from Woosung and the Japanese blue Jackets in Shanghal area was very near. He movements of Japanese warships. also emphasised that military es- All is quiet in this area. Har-tablishments were the sole objec- tive of the Japanese air raids on Chinese shipping companies to Nanking, and concluded by saying suspend service for the time be that investigation into the "Hures- sen Incident" were still in 'pro- 108- Central News
gess.com
sia and China Telegraph Company.bour authorities have ordered all Limited, (British); and
The Commercial Pacific Cable Co. (American).
It is learned that the lines were severed by Japanese troops at Woosung..
Central New
CHINESE DENY RUMOURS
Shanghai. Aug. 28.
JAPANESE WARSHIPS ALONG WOQEUNG-LIUHO AEA Shanghai, Aug. 28.-Thirty-eight Japanese warships are anchored along the Shihtungkou-Lion Forest Fort area of Woosung, according to Chinese military information.
Reuter.
SCHOOLGIRLS WANT TO . | |__
FIGHT JAPANESE
Reports that a general with-pleting arrangements to land re- inforcements at Yanglinkow near Liuho.
Lanchow, Aug. 28: Dressed in masculine attire and with hair closely cropped in military fashion, It is also reported that a num-Chien Lo-hsiu and Sie Yu-lan, two ber of junks have been comman local schoolgirls with strong feel- dered and the Japanese are com-
Ings about the Japanese invasion of North China and Shanghai, were discovered here yesterday at- tempting to enlist in an army group. which is leaving for the front
an
drawal of the Chinese forces to a line 35 miles from Shanghai has been ordered, have evoked emphatic denial - from a Chinese Army spokesman, who says that the Chinese lines in the Shanghal area have been opened to inspec- tion by foreign journalists. He adds that if a withdrawal occurs.
Eight
hundred Japanese at Choupu on the Pootung side are now being surrounded by Chinese, troops. Another band of 50 Japanese plainclothes-men been besieged in the small village
has
shortly,
Eghteen year-old Miss Chien is the daughter of a judge of the
Miss Sze, aged 17, la a daughter Kansu Provincial Supreme Court.
it will at the most be for a couple of Wufulung which is also situated of Dr. Sze Sul-yu, a former pro- !
of miles,"
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SIR KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN
CONDITION IMPROVED
W. S. MESSAGE Shanghai, Aug. 28. In reply to telegrams of sym- The improvement in the con-pathy received from the United dition of the British Ambassador states Secretary of
State this
to China. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-morning, the Foreign Secretary has Hugessen, is being maintained telegraphed thanking Mr. Cordell according to a bulletin issued at Hull most sincerely for his mess- age and adding that the kind 3 a.m. to-day.
thought which prompted him to Dr. Gauntlett, who is attending send it has been much appre-
the
on the Pootung area.-
tessor of the Judges Training the Ambassador, informed'
clated. --Central News.
North China Daily School.
News last Other reports state that the
While newspaper comment on Chinese arc forming an im-
JAPANESE PLANES BOMB
The two girls are students in the night that Bir Hughe ought to be
Japanese aeroplane attack on the pregnable "Hindenburg llae." For-
LIULINO
local girls school, and are well-up and about" in six or seven elgn
car in which the British Ambas- 23. Japanese known for their scholastic abilities. weeks! observers confirms
Pasting, Aug. that
an air raid over| They are also known to be The merest fraction of an inchisador was travelling to Shanghai militiamen have replaced the re-planes staged gular Chinese troops in the front Lulho. 25 miles south-west of ambitious young women with de- meant the difference between a and the wounding of Sir Hughe lines in the foreign Settlement Peiping on the Peiping-Hankow finite feelings about the preserva-relatively miraculous escape and Knatchbull Hugessen la in a tone of restraint, which shows that line yesterday. number of tion of Chna's territorial integrity in exceedingly serious injury. Eir bombs were dropped. One Chinese When discovered, they protested Hughe's great strength stood him workman was killed-
vigorously, but were finally per- in very good, the doctor said... Central News
suaded to return home and devote The Ambassador had read all their energies to channels more his cables and replied to many of suitable for Individuals of their them. Dr. Gauntlett went on. sex.entral News.
Meanwhile, H.MS. Defender. with Lady Hughessen aboard, has arrived.
area ma Reuter
MORE U.S. MARINES FOR SHANGHAI
Sandelgo, Aug. 28.
MIGHT LIFE
Shanghai, Aug. 28. It is officially announced that
An abbreviated form of night life 1,200 United States marines will
is returnng in Shanghal be leaving for Shanghal on Sun-
Most of the cabarets have an- day on the transport Chaumontnounced that they are opening convoyed by the cruiser Marble-
either at 2 p.m. or 4.30 p.m. dally head on which there are ..108
and closing at 9.30 p.m. so as to marines.
enable everyone to reach home by the curfew hour, 10 p.m.
BOMBING PLANES FOR SHANGHAI
Two of the largest cabarets, the Washington, Aug. 28. Metropole and the Vienna Gardens, The steamer Wichita sailed with have become hospitals for Chinese 19 bombing planes in her hold for troops. Others are seeking the Shanghai, The decks of the patronage of the forign defence steamer were covered with sheets of heavy steel lashed down by steel cables as a protection.
The American Pioneer Line, which 13 operating the
Reuter ship. averted a strike by agreeing to confer with Union representatives
and seamen who were demanding
forces, claiming such attractions as a hundred expert hostesses and charming partners with "educated
ankles."
AMERICAN MISSION SCHOOL BOMBED Nanchang, Aug. 22: Incendiary
£50 stedling each for the voy-bombs dropped by Japanese planes
age.
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JAPANESE STORES
GUARDED
San Francisco, Aug. 23. The Police Chief has ordered that the Japanese stores of this city
be guarded owing to the tenseness of the anti-Japanese feeling in San Francisco's China Town.
CHINESE PLANES AGAIN
*)
over Nanchang, provincial capital of Klangsi, yesterday, strick and set fire to the American mission Pao Ling Girls' School, it was dis- closed to-day.
Most of the buildings on the campus have been destroyed. The principal of the school, an Ameri- can missionary, who was spending the summer at Kuling at the time of the bombing, received reports of the outrage by telephone from Nanchang.
MINHONG BOMED BY
JAPANESE PLANES Shanghai, Aug. 28.---Minhong and the surrounding vicinity was sub- Jected to heavy bombing by Japa- nese planes yesterday, it was an nounced by military authorities here.
SATISFACTORY NIGHT.
British opinion is itself able to observe sense of proportion in dealing with wrongs and affronts which, on more than one occasion"
British recently,
writers have found it desirable to recommend to others. It continues to reveal the deep indignation which the incident has aroused. Admiration is expressed for the fortitude with
At 8 am to-day Dr. Gauntlett which the wounded "Ambassador issued another bulletin. stating: bore his Journey to hospital and "His Excellency passed a satisfac- anxiety for his recovery is reflect- tory night and had a good perloded in the prominence given to the of sleep. His general condition this latest bulletins. Many, houses were demolished and a number of non-combatants morning is well maintained."
were killed and wounded.
The town is situated 20 miles south of Shanghai on the Shang- hal-Hangchow Highway and is r well-known week-end resert fo: foreigners in Shanghal- Central Newx.
الله
at-
JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN IN WOOSENG
Shanghai, Aug. 28: The tempted raid on the rear of the Chinese lines in the Wocsung area by a squadron of 12 Japanese bom- bera came to a trgic end, at 11 o'clock this morning when four of the heavy machines were brought down
guns.
by Chinese anti-aircraft
Two of the machines were shot
IF
Shanghai Returns To Normal
The latest message received in.. Dr. Gauntlett told Reuter it was London states that Sir Hughe still impossible to tell whether the | Knatchbull Hugessen is more com- Ambassador's injury would have fortable and suffering less pain. any permanent after effects.- Reuter
Mr. R. Howe, who has for the last three years been counsellor at his Majestys Embassy in China LADY HUGESSEN ARRIVES
but who had returned a "Uttle. Shanghai, Aug. 28.
while ago to the United Kingdom Lady Hugessen, accompanied by
on leave, is leaving at once for an official of the British Embassy. China and will take charge dur- arrived
at the hospital at 8.30 ing the Ambassador's incapacita- apparentis earlier than ex-tion Mr. Howe has been pected. Dr. Gauntlett was upstairs sellor of the Embassy in China for and Lady Hugesser stood for three years and is thoroughly ac- several minutes at the information quainted with the country and all desk reading the telegrams of matters connected with it. His "ympathy which had been sent to
coun-
restoration is to fly to Saigon and
there make his arrangements for the rest of the journey.
the Ambassador.
When Pr. Gauntlett came down she asked how her husband was Shanghai press telegrams report and he replied "excellent."
that Dr. Gauntlett, who is attend. "Oh! Good." replied Lady Huges-ing the British Ambassador, this sen with reliet,
evering said that Sir Hughe's con Lady Hugessen was wearing adition was satisfactory and ex- dress and a wide brimmed pressed the hope that he would be, hat She showed no sign emotion but was pale. She spent eight weeks.—
of able to resume his duties in about an hour with her husband who
British Wirden...... - fell asleep when she left the hos- pital. She is now spending a busy day, arranging living quarters and
half of her husband.-
replying to the telegrams on be French Journalist
down while two others burst into ATTACK WARSHIPS
flames in the air and crashed to Shanghai, Aug. 28-A fleet of
the ground. All the occupants are Chinese planes flew over Woosung early this morning and subjected the American Embassy at Nanking
He immediately sent a report to reported to have perished.
grey The remaining planes, on seeing the Japanese warships to heavy requesting that a vigorous protest be four of their machines shot down bombing. It is reported that lodged with the Japanese authori-flew away without dropping any serious damage was inflicted on ties. The principal demands full bombs-Central New the vessels.-
compensation for the damage' done, MADAME KUNG TO OPEN TWO to the institution.
BASE HOSPITALS
Central News Shanghai, Aug. 28.-Owing to
JAPANESE WARSHIPS the large number of wounded
OFF CHEKIANG Chinese soldiers being brought Shanghai, Aug. 28: According to back from the front and the a report reaching here to-day, one insufficient accommodations in the Japanese aircraft carrier, one crui- local hospitals, Madame H.H. ser and two destroyers have been Kung, wife of the Minister: of sighted of the Cheklang coast. Finance of Finance, announced Const defence units are keeping to-day that she will immediately a close watch on the movements of open two more base hospitals in the four Japanese warships.---- * Shanghai. She will finance the Central Newi two institutions herself. The exact site of the hospitals, how- ever, has not been disclosed
5,000 JAPANESE BUSHED
TO KALGAN AREA have rushed 5,000 reinforcements Paoting. Aug, 28-The Japanese and a number of heavy field pieces to the Kalgan area where serious fighting is in progress.
Shanghal, Aug. 29. Shanghai is gradually returning to normal. The offices of the Bri- tish Embassy have been re-estab- shed on the Bund while the Bri- tish Consulate is opening for bust- ness to-day in their old premises, also on the,, Bund, to which place any firms, which opened tempor- ary offices in the western district,
are returning.
'FIGHTING NEARING TIENTSIN
Paoting, Aug. 28: The sound of artillery fre which has been audible in Tientsin during the post It is authoritatively learned that week, is reported to be nearing the all volunteers connected with ac- city day by day.
tive business will be released from Heavy fighting is reported going their duties from Monday though on in the Tuiluchen-Chinghal area, they will be-still-under-stand-by about 30 miles soubt of Tientsin orders" but the others remain mo- along the Tientsin-Pukow, line. bilised Retter.
·Although Chinese reports yester- day announced that a brigade of Chinese had gone as far as enter-
Killed In Car Smash
ACTION BEFORE LONG
London, Aug. 28. The Japanese Ambassador was
Berlin, Aug. 28. received by the Foreign Secretary this afternoon when he called, on The well-known French journa- the instructions of his Govern-list, Michel Bossan, who for some ment, to expresa deep regret at the years has been the correspondent incident which had befallen the of "Le Matin" in Germany, was fatally injured in a motor-car ac- British Ambassador in China.
A communique issued from the cident yesterday on the new motor Foreign yesterday stated His Ma- road near Darmstadt. jestys Government were obtaining The semi-oficial German news certain further information on the agency, in an obituary notice, says. circumstances of the incident and that the late M. Bossan enjoyed thereafter would be in a position the sincere affection of all his col- to take appropriate action with leagues, and stresses the great ser- the Japanese Government. Buchvices rendered by him to the cause. action, which is not likely to be of Franco-German understanding. long delayed, will be taken through Transocean News Service. His Majesty's Embassy in Tokyo.
Many representatives of foreign Powers called at the Foreign Office
ing Tulluchen, Japanese troops in Yoshida Visits Eden to-day to express the sympathy of the area are bitterly contesting every yard of ground.
Although several attacks were launched by the Japanese on the Chinese yesterday, it is reported that the lines are still intact- NEWS EURASIA LINE OPENING DENIED IN NANKING Nanking, Aug. 28.-Press reports to
Zurasia the effect that the Aviation Corporation is opening a few days. Heavy artillery fire has lasted half an hour to-day. He new line between China and Mos- | been exchanged incessantly. - -. was with Mr." Authony "Eden ̧ the cow via central Asia, are denied Central New
whole of that time.
Mr. Yoshida obligingly posed for photographers before re-entering his car.
by responsible quarters here.
ex-
PRESENTATION BY
THE KING
their governments at the wound- ing of Bir Hughe Knatchbull At Chingbai, neither side has
London, Aug. 21.. Hugessen. The Chinese Ambas- gained any appreciable advantage The visit of the Japanese Am-sador, in conveying the sympathy
London. Aug. 28. the Foreign Office of the Chinese Government, over the other during the pastbassador to
pressed their hope for British Am- It to anounced that the King bussdor's early recovery. Mr. Eden han presented a four oared gls is instructing the British Embassy | belonging to the former Royal Rac- in Nanking to thank the Chinese Ing Yacht, Brittania, In place of Government' for their message. the warship now used as head-
SALVATION BOND The Ministry of Communications Shanghai, Aug: 28. According to has instructed the company to latest reports, the new $500,00,000 delay opening the line through ||Natonal Salvation Bond issue will- southern Einklang until conditi- bear interest at the rate of 4 per tions in the province improv€ ̧ cent per annum.— Ventral Newi.
Central Newi
The Soviet Ambassador, the quarters in connexion with scouts. Chinese French Minister and the German and by various young people or-
on Mr. Charge d'Affaires were among the 'ganisations for whom she provides → first in conveying messages from a floating holiday home— their governments.
British Wireles,
Mr. Quo Tai-chi, the Ambassador, also called Eden during the afternoon.-- Truter.