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SATISFIED
Japanese Formal Apology
London, Sept. 23. British circles regard the tone
of the Japanese reply is satis- factory, thus ending an unfor- tunate occurrence.
the
NORTH CHINA WAR
JAPANESE LAUNCHES IN WHANGPO0
Shanghai, Sept. 23. Japanese launches fully loaded with marines are continuing to cruise up and down the Whangpoo River in an attempt land on the Pootung side...
Machine-guns from the warships opened Are on the Chunklang Wharf but failed to dislodge the Chinese
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Meanwhile, the Chinese machine- gunners carefully hidden behind bamboo groves. are continuing to harass the Japanese warships by raking the vessels at Intervals. Central News,
It is believed in London that Japanese Government had gone to a great deal of trouble to enquire fully into all facts and It is realised that there might possibly be a discrepancy in re- gard to the point where Sir Hughe DAMAGED JAPANESE PLANES Knatchbull-Hugessen was wounded.
Nanking, Sept. 23. The ch'ef aim of the British Gov-
The Chinese Air Force Head- ernment in the original note was quarters announced to-day that to obtain assurances that every-two of the four Japanese planes thing possible would be done to shot down yesterday have been. protect non-combatants during the located. hostilities In China and the state- ment that the Japanese Govern- ment has repeated the instructions
to
the Japanese forces in this connection is welcomed and may be regarded as an assurance that steps will be taken to ensure that there shall be no repetition of such incident.
The apology for which the Bri- tish Government has asked is now given and the Note. explains why the airmen responsible cannot be punished. It is felt, anyhow, that this regrettable occurrence will have the effect of ensuring greater care by the combatants in the Japanese hostilities in future.- Renter
OUTSPOKEN BRITISH PRESS COMMENT
London, Sept. 23. The terms of the Japanese reply to the British Note justify the Gov- ernment's attitude in regarding the Incident closed. In the opinion of the Conservative press which. -how- ever, expresses deep concern at the coincident air raids over Nanking and Canton and remarking that with these atateks it is hard to re- concile the Japanese assurances of her concern for the safety of non- combatants and foreign rights and property.
One crashed in dames about 10 miles north of Puków across the river from Nanking.
The second plane was located just outside of Chinklang, provin- cial capital of Klangsu.- Central News.
40 CASUALTIES IN NANKING RAIDS
Nanking, Sept. 23.
It is officially announced tu-day that 40 Chinese civilians were kill ed and wounded during the Japan- ese air raid over the capital yes- terday. ·
More than 50 houses were des- troyed.
Five missiles landed near the Central Kuomintang Headquarters, burning a number of houses near- by. Scores of bombs also fell into the ponds and fields while seven or eight exploded on the streets.-- Central News.
MR. JOHNSON'S RETURN TO EMBASSY
Washington, Sept. 23, Though offcial comment is with- held, officials state that the De- partment has manifested pleasure In Mr. Johnson's reported return to the Embassy in Nanking. It is pointed out that Mr. Johnson had the State Department's full sup port and sympathy in refuging temporarily aboard the gunboat Liberal opinion is voiced by the
but officials have been deeply con- "News Chronicle" which referring scious of the resentment the step to the raids, says that, they are
aroused in certain quarters in "the worst examples of Indiser-China and the United States.- minate cruelty on a mass scale in modern history" and asks its read- ers to turn to a half-page photo- graph of a wounded Chinese baby, lying on a stretcher and being bandaged by a boy scout. The red from à Japanese plane yester- paper urges the readers to write day struck and damaged a pontoon, to their representatives in the belonging to a British shipping. House of Commons demanding Bri- company, along the Hatakwan tish action, in conjunction with the
waterfront. other Powers, to put an end to this
At the time of the explosion indiscriminate bombing.
there were & number of wharf Labour opinion is volted by the Cholles on the pontoon. One was "Daily Herald" which refers to the killed and four others injured.--- attacks on. Nanking and Canton as Central News. acts of savagery, and barbarism and i «
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BRITISH PONTOON STRUCK
BY JAPANESE BOMB Nanking, Sept. 23: It is now dis- closed that one of the bombs drop-
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adds that unless the nations of tons, the fate of Nanking now may the world band together in salt-one day be the fate of their own defence through the League of N-capitals Reuter
TWO MORE JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN Chinklang, Sept. 23: Reports made. public here to-day revealed that the which ralded Nanking yesterday Japanese air armado
lost a number of planes as they fled from the capital to the alr- base on the China coast.
In addition to a heavy bomber which was brought down by a lone Chinese airman near here yester- day, it is now disclosed that two more
machines were also" shot down by Chinese tiers.
Three Chinese machines, appear- ing suddenly out of the
clouds above Chinklang, 40 miles east of Nanking, intercepted the fleeing Japanese planes. The attack came caught unprepared. so fast that the Japanese were
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