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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937.
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No. 15234
CHINESE FORTIFYING
Japanese Reiterate Demand for Complete Evacuation of Area
TENSION RAPIDLY INCREASES
IN SHANGHAI WITH
SECOND
DEMARCHE IN 24 HOURS
Shanghai, Aug. 12 (12.21 p.m.).
Hundreds of men of the Peace Preservation Corps are swarming in the vicinity of the North Station, which has been thoroughly sand- bagged, reminiscent of the hostilities of 1932, when the Chinese held this position for days against guns and bombs.
Tension is growing almost hourly.
The second demarche in 24 hours has been presented by the Japanese Consulate-General, in strong representations to Mayor O. K. Yui, alleging that the Peace Preservation Corps is interfering with the operations of Japanese industrial plants, surrounding the. buildings and intimidating the workers. The Consulate-General has reiterated the demand for the withdrawal of the Peace Preservation Corps from the vicinity of Shanghai.-United Press.
KIANGWAN BEING FORTIFIED
Shanghai, Aug. 12 (10.47 a.m.).
The situation is most tense here since the Chinese have commenced to dig trenches in the vicinity of the great, new Civic Centre, near Kiangwan Race Course, suburban district of Shanghai, north-west from Hong- kew and the Japanese marine concentrations.
The Chinese authorities in Chapei have taken extra precautions, equivalent to martial law, though there has been no proclamation of a state of emergency.
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The bus service between the International Settle- ment and the Civic Centre has been discontinued. United Press.
CIVIC CENTRE EVACUATED
Shanghai, Aug 12 (1.42 p.m.). The Shanghai Municipal Government has evacuat. ed the new Civic Centre in the Klangwan area, beyond Hongkew, and has moved to the French Concession.
Communications with Chapei have been disrupted and all buses have been commandeered for troop movements.
The passenger train service between Shanghai and Nanking is disorganised, since Chinese troop trains must have the right of way.--United Press.
Chinese newspapers have splashed
In big headlines the Chinese military intelligence report that the Japanese
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are opening an offensive on August;
on three fronts along the Telntsin Pukow
Pelping Hankow,
and Felping-Suiyuan railway lines.
-United Press,
DENY ULTIMATUM
SENT
New Centre For Inoculation
In Business Area Of City
Shanghal, Aug. 12. (11.25 a.m.) A special extra centre for free
Although the Japanese have asked anti-cholera inoculation has
been
of the Fire
More Wages For
Railway Employees
London, Aug. 13. Nearly 500,000 British railway workers will receive higher wages asj from Monday If the findings of thei Railway Staff National Tribunal are
accepted by the companies.
1931 cconomy cuts would disappear.
Under the award, the last of thei
The concessions would cost the companies about £3,000,000 annually.į -Reuter.
STOP PRESS
NANKOW IS CAPTURED
Tokyo, Aug. 12 (1.45 p.m.). According to despatches from the Japanese Army in North China, Nan- kow has been captured. The Japan-) nese troops entered the city, which important rallway
centre about 30 miles north of Peiping, al 9.30a.m. to-day-Reuter,
In
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WANT THEIR TROOPs
Tientsin, Aug. 12. The American. community has
for the withdrawal of the Pacantul, opened by the Medical Department or Peace Reservation Corps, and the on the Kround floor dismantling of military defence Brigade Building, opposite Central passed a resolution, which it is seeking works in and around Shanghai, It Market near the Queen Victoria to forward to Washington, strongly is stated no formal demands or uli-Street entrance.
opposing the suggestion that Ameri- matum have been presented.
Medical officers will be in atten- can troops in China, be withdrawn. The arrival of the Japanese war-dance from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. dally-Router. shipa las increased tension and the except on Sundays, and the public is exodus from Chapel and Hongkew requested to make use of this addi La continuing. It is officially es-tional facility as corly" as possible. Rimated that about 70 për cent, of the The response on the part of the residents of the Chinese territory pubile, particularly the close to the Settlement boundary in classes, to the Government's offer of ulie northern areas, have already free inoculation has been fairly good [to date, according to the Medienl
Department. There are
evacuated.-Reuter.
LIKE 'JAPANESE
NAVAL BASE
·Shanghal, Aug.'12 (0.30 n.m.) This great seaport looks like Japanese naval base to-day.
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There are four Japanese cruisers and eight destroyers in the Whang- poo, whose guns frown behind Hong kew, the Japanese area of Shanghal (Continued on Page 7.)
poorer
now over
40 centres at which persons may be inoculated, and members of the De- partment are working 14 or 15 hours a day to cope with the extra work catalled,
Many large firms have requested the Department to send medical officers to their offices to inoculate ali employees, but in most cases this hos proved impossible owing to amount of work alrondy required to (Continued on Page 7)
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CHAPEI
JAPANESE GUNS BLAST
NANKOW
PASS DEFENCES
Battle Among Tombs As Chinese Attempt Stand Against
Drive
CHINESE GUNS MAKE NO.
REPLY TO INVADERS
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
By Francis Fisher
With the Japanese Army, Changping, Aug. 11 (8.30 p.m.). The Central Government troops who had been holding positions south-east and south of Nankow, have withdrawn to Nankow City and Nankow Pass, and immediately they left small squads of Japanese infantry and cavalry advanced slowly and occupied the evacuated positions without firing a shot.
At the front line, three miles south-east of Nankow, I watched this afternoon nine five-inch howitzers and
In the area represented by this map Chinese and Japanese armies
four three-inch field guns open the bombardment of are ut grips to-day. Yesterday the Japanese attacked in the vicinity Nankow at 2 p.m. The siege guns were lined up in a of Kalgan, attempting to cut off the Chinese troops at that point (see) upper left corner of man) from the strong body at Nankow Pass in the pea-nut field and they pounded Nankow Pass, the maize Great Wall. Coming south to Tientsin (lower right hand of map) we fields, two large villages, besides the city of Nankow, find the city where British und French troops are "standing to" in readiness for any emergency for there has been a sound of firing to the 4.20 p.m., when two large fires were discernible in yesterday, but were repulsed. They also attacked Touliuchen (not on Nankow, apparently in the railway sheds and workshops. map) only a few miles from Chinghai, and were again repulsed.
south. In fact the Japanese attacked Chinghal, on the Grand Canal
German Bid For Ocean
Air Trade
World's Largest Flying Boat On First Voyage
Berllu, Aug. 11.
this
RUSSIANS CALL 1915 DRAFT TO COLOURS
Improved Standard Of Conscripts
fast
A step towards the establishment
Moscow, Aug. 11. of a German North Atlantic, postal air service, potential rival to the Bri- of Defence to-day calls to the colours A decree issued by the Commissar tish-American line, was taken to-day in September all Soviet men born in when the world's largest seaplane, 1015 who were not called up Nordancer, left Travemuende morning and arrived at Lisbon car, and also the entire draft of the
1010 eloss. in the afternoon,
At the same time the decree dis- She is four-engined craft, burn-charges on long term leave the rank ing crude oil, with a cruising speed and fle, junior commanders and the of 182 miles per hour and a crew of commanding staffs which have served four. Her commander is Captain for a fixed term In the Red Army Blankenburg, who has crossed the on the frontier, or with the Internal South Atlantic 43 times..
defence forces of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
She will fly the Atlantic by way of the Azores, where the floating nlr-
The Soviet Press declares the
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The bombardment was chiefly concentrated on the southern end of the pass and only about half a dozen shells fell in Nankow itself. The foothills to the east were heavily shelled, for it was there the Japanese officers believed the Chinese troops to have retired to new positions when they evacuated the front line south- cast of Nankow, prior to the Japanese advance.
WAR IN NORTH SPREADS
Chinese Repulse Japanese Attacks
Precautions
In Tientsin
port, Firesland, Is awaiting her mental and educational standards of Nanking, Aug. 12 (12.44 a.m.). Router.
Later I went closer to Nankow, penetrated the front lines, walked to within a mile and a half of the Chinese city, but could not see any. Chinese troops there. But a large village and the railway in the south- ern section of Nankow Pass had been damaged by the shell-fire,
Returning
to the Japanese lines watched engineers and gangs
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Chinese coulles repairing the blown- up stone bridges and filling in tank traps across the road, apparently preparing for a tank and truck pa- rade to Nankow to-day.
Fire In Self Defence
When I arrived at a Japanese auf- post three miles due cast of Nankow i saw a battalion of Japanese in- Inntry sound asleep. I chatted with an ofilcer who and they had advanc ed three miles that morning without 6ghting. The Chinese always fire Chinese military reports state Arst and we are forced to return that the Japanese forces from their fire in self-defence," he said. northern Charhar and
Ten minutes later I walked past Jehol
Jawning clashed with the Chinese in "the of five-inch howitzers, watched the
throats of
of two batteries
big high explo ported that they are attempting alam shut the block, and pull the sive shells. Dop them into the breach, to cut off the Chinese troops in lanyard, shattering the drowsy qullet position at Nankow, where a of the
afternoon. Thirty sudden and powerful attack was seconds later came the sound of the explosion of the shells in Nankow,
GULLS CRASH PLANE, STRIKERS WANT CUT- WORLD GOING CRAZY? delivered yesterday.
London, Aug. 11.
Three amusing incidents occurred in different parts of the world to-day.
One was a shortage of petrol in a producing country, the second the bringing down of an aeroplane by seagulls, and the third a stay-in strike for lower wages.
sta la person acento the
summer
Nankow, it is reported, is in exactly like the rolling of thunder. flames, having been heavily bombed. with the echoes from the hills.
The Central News Agency states that more than 700 Japanese cavalry-
No Return Shots men and infantrymen from Tauliu-
When the battery was firing re- chen, 10 miles south-west at Tientala, gularly I retired to a hill-top asser crossed the Grand Canal and attack-vation post, from which the fring. the Chinese positions. The battle was being directed. Nankow Pass
for raged
12 hours last night and and the city wero throughout yesterday until
¤ magnificent Although
a backdrop of they
saw-toothed, forest-clad mountains. - The shells bursts were orange and black blossoms, raising hundred-foot debris from the villages, in the foot- columns of dust and smoke and
hlils.
carly
In Mexico City, there is a shortage jtant town slating that he was forced
use Panoramo, against of petrol owing to a strike of two to land when he flew into thousands troops, the Japanese were repulsed.
about fleld to support their thousand employees of the ollfelds at of engulis, in order to ace if his mu
Simultaneously the Japanese at- chine required repairs, Porto Rico, with which Mexico City The stay-in strike is taking place tacked Chinghal, which is only five is connected by the longest pipe-line at Cracow, in Poland, the workers me south of Toulluchen and one of in the world. The strike has been being brick-makers. A few months the larger cities on the Grand Canal going on for twenty-one days, and ago, the men had a forty per cent, in- the supply of oil to Mexico City is crease in wages, which caused the expected to be exhausted very soon. price
of bricks to The incident in which an aeroplane quence of which business drop conse
An infantry engagement developed was involved occurred when a ma- the factory closed down. Now
during the afternoon at the sito pf. The new Vice-Chancellor of the the King Tombs, probably about it. chine carrying nine passengers from the brick-makers are staging a strike) Hongkong University, Mr. Duncan Beattle to Alaska was more than for a roduction of forty per cent in James Sloss, M.A., COX., is expected
pm. Ut is impossible to determine. day overdue, but anxiety was allayed their wages, in when the pilot telephoned from a dis- tory-may re-openca Beuter's Bulletin. 30 by the P-&-0. Fuar HATED
order that the facto arrive in Hongkong on October)nowia
the outcome. But the Lipa
dropped un
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NEW VICE-CHANCELLOR
In two hours and a half I did not hear a single shot fired in reply from the Chinesa positions,
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