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BRITAIN MONGOL
'WILL NOT
RECOGNISE TROOPS BLOCKADE ASSIST JAPAN
Not Yet Informed
Officially Of Japan's Plans
U.S. May Invoke Neutrality Act
London, Aug. 26.
The Foreign Office has hitherto not received official notification of the Japanese Intention of blockuding the south coast. of Chinn.
As no legal state of war exista there is no question of His Majesty's Government recognis. ing the blockade any more than of in the case the frequent blockades of the coast of Spain, declared by the Insurgent lender, General Francisco Franco,
Great Britain will not be affected unless Japan elaling the right to stop and search British ships, and this Japan has not hitherto intimated her intention of doing-Reuter,
American Intentions
Washington, Aug. 26. Following a meeting with Presi- dent F. D. Roosevelt to-day, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, told # press conference that the State Department was seeking to assemble speedily all official facts about the reported Japanese blockade of the coast of China.
Japan has not yet officially noted the American Government of any blockade orders.
If the blockade is implemented ob servire believe it will result almost Immediately in the invention of the American Neutrality Act by President Roosevelt, which forbids American shippinut tu carry munitions to bis.
wounding of Sir Hughe Knatchindi-ifugessen, the British Am- bassador to China, is looked upon as emphasising the danger confronting neutrals in the zone of hostilities and will probably result in rentwed pressure upon Ainerleans to leave Shanghai-Reus T.
Serious View
Washington, Aug. 20. The State Department officials are taking a serious view of the proposed
New State Of
Mongeukuo Planned
Stiff Fighting Near Peiping
Mukden, Aug. 27. An army of 20,000 Inner Mongolian troops contributed to the Japanese victory at Hankow Pass, according to a Kwantung Army spokesinan to-day. The Mongols, with the Japanese, cut off and inflicted heavy losses upon the retreating Chinese.
that
admit Japanese quarters Mongol - Japanese cooperation against the Chinese is the prelude to Japanese support of the Inner Mon- golla Defence Movement, and the establishment of a Mongol state. styled Mongeukun.
It is now announced that a sniper shot and killed Major-General Shigeo Full, commander of a division of Manchukao native troops, when the officer was reconnoitring the Chinese positions neur Charhar's boundary-
Router.
STRATEGIC FRONT
corres-
Peiping, Aug. 27. Japanese shrapnel bursting over the mountains west of the Pelping- Hankow greeted Router's pondent visiting the front yesterday. io the south-west of the old capital, now completely controlled by the Japanese.
The main road from Peiping is crowded with guns, munitions and food supplies.
The Japanese maintained a steady
AUGUST 27, 1937.
Santander Surrenders To Franco
Insurgents Ask 100 Hostages Troops March
Into
City
Salamanca, Aug. 26. General Francisco Franco's Insurgent troops have entered Santander.-Reuter.
FORMAL SURRENDER
Santander, Aug. 20. Two Government commanders standing on a hill-top on the out- skirts of the city this morning- formally surrendered Santander to the Insurgents, thus bringing another province within the control General Franco.
Nine
of
planes
Buhler Insurgent circled overhead as a group of In- surgent, generals received the Gov- satuted and handed over the city with the proviso only that women and children should not be shot.
The Insurgents demanded 100 Re- publican hostages as a token of the surrender and for surety promise of that the promise would be kept.
Tanks and infantry columns then entered the city from the south-west! while a column of Navarrese march-f ed. in from the north.
ernment representatives. The latter
The remnant of the Government's defending forces, which yesterday made a last stand in the hills, haj also surrendered.Reuter.
VISITOR ON SHANGHAI SCENES
MR. YINSON LEE'S
ADDRESS
Mr. William Yinson Lee of the Central Trust of China, Shanghai, and Regional, director for China of the International Y's Men's Move-
was
honour at of men!,
the guest raveling of the Hongkong
fire with their batteries throughout the dinner club at St. Francis Hole!
the day.
The Japanese commander in this sector, Lieut-General Kawagish, stated the line from Nankow to Changhaintien to Tientsin formed a
Japanese binckade of China, fearing continuous strategic front, guarding! Vinson Lee spoke of the continued
Japan will find difficulty in drawing the line between Chinese and foreign clips.
The New York Times observes that
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bearing munitions it would be difficult for President Roosevelt to avoid de- claring the existence of a slate of war, -Reuter.
American Caution
Washington, Aug. 26, Mr. Cordell Hull Secretary of State, announced to-day that Presi- deni Roosevelt had requested the American League Against War and Fascism to cancel plans to picket the Embassy 218 a protest Japanese agalust Japanese military activity in China
Mr.
that Hull pointed out
"}}
serious and delicate" situation exists
in the Far East and observed that the picketing of the Japanese
ing instead of relieving the already acute situation.-Reuter,
the Peipingt and Tientsin areas from attacks from north, west and south,
-Reuter.
MILLIONAIRE SUCCUMBS
Y'S Men's last night. Dr. F. I. Tseung, chair- man of the Club, presided and there good attendance of members Was and guests.
In the course of his talk, Mr.
Y's Men's progress of the Afteen Clubs in China and their work for the under-privileged. The Shanghai Y'a Men's Club last year raised $10,000 by 1 single entertainment and spent
pent $3,000 on Its free baby
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three months. ago and in addition to the $3,000 required to support the by clinic this year, $1,000 was set aside for playgrounds and education New York, Aug. 26.
The TO for under-privileged children. Mr. Andrew .Mellon, famous utilities magnate and one of the big-balance of $3,000 is now being spent on the war refugee camp maintained gest Agures on Wall Street, died to- day at the age of 82, from bronchial by the Club. pneumonia,
Fie was reputedly one of the richest men in the United States. Reuter.
Later.
SHANGHAI SCENES
A vivid description of the early scenes of the Shanghai war was given by the speaker. On the second Mr. Mellon died at 8.30 p.m. from day, he was spending the afternoon uremia and bronchial pneumonia, at Japanese forces, with some American within the area controlled by the the home of Mrs. David Bruce, his friends who occupied the sixteenth
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would offer possibilities of aggravat-daughter, where he moved in July in floor apartment of the Broadway
order to complete arrangements for Mansions which overlook the Jap a national art gallery at Washington! at a cost of £3,000,000. Members nese of the family were present when he passed away. The funeral will be at Pittsburgh.-Reuter,
NAVAL OFFICERS'
ADVENTURE
Consulate-General, alongside berthed. Two air batiles were seen which the flagship "Idzumo" was to advantage and it was the second of these which caused the accidental bambing of the Cathay and Palace Hotels.
Passing the scene of In- describable havoc fifteen minutes
Lieut.-Cmora, H. E. Turner and R. WEATHER DELAYS later, Yinson
Mr.
C. Hovenden were discovered early this morning by H.M.S. Thracian in n motorboat drifting helplessly in the harbour. They had been missing fallure since yesterday, an engine leaving them stranded.
CLIPPER
The Pan-American Airways flying boat, Hongkong Clipper, which was to have left Hongkong this morning,
Lee
Saw
the
unforgettable sight of over 100 dead and wounded lying on Nanking Road. From that 10th floor of the Broad- Mansions a panoramic view all way around Shanghai Describing the scene, said that looking
was
Mr.
obining. Yinson Lee
up
the
Coastal forts, the Lido, Mount Davis and other stations had been asked to keep a look-out and H.M.S.
bnd weather between here and Tamar's picket-boat joined in the
Manila. She is now scheduled. to orities search when no sign of the the miss- ing men was reported in the evening. take off to-morrow morning. Eventually the Thracian was sent out follows: Registered, 5 p.m. to-day:
Mail will
be accepted as to look for them and found them ordinary, 8 a.m. to-morrow.
has been delayed in consequence of 700 River could be seen the.
weary but otherswise none the worse for their adventure.
SIBERIAN MAILS
The Hongkong postal authorities notify that arrangements have now been made for mails by the Siberian route to be despatched via Japan.
RUSSIAN CONCERN
The Tass News Agency from Shanghai that
now
SEA SERPENT
CAUGHT
BY FISHERMEN IN NEWFOUNDLAND
of
south
erected by the Chinese auth- to prevent the access Japanese warcraft, It consisted firet mas of floating junks tied end to end of o line of sunken junks with their showing above water, then #
the
ine al and behind these were two old steamers tied in similar mariner. Blocked In the upper part of the river were five Japanese merchant vessels which the Chinese brought down
and scuttled to reinforce the "boom." The Japanese estimated their loss in the sinking of these
Along ships at $19,000,000, northern horizon in Ghapei, many huge fires could be observed indicat- the destruction of buildings, a Ing St. Johna, Aug, 20. repetition of what happened in 1932- the Soviet Consulate with bombard- A sea serpent is reported to have Gunfire from within the Inter- captured by fishermen in national Settlement was discerned ment it the light which has been been
Fortune Harbour, Newfoundland. shown there at nights and is alleged
from Broadway Mansions. It was The animal is understood to be 35 from the anti-aircraft guns mounted to be a signal to Chinese troops ap-feet long with a girth of 25 feet and on the roof of the Japanese Consulate pears again. Reuter.
n tall measuring nine feel-Reuter and from the warcraft moored along- Bulletin.
reports the Japanese Consulate-General ได threatened
"GRAVE INCIDENT”
London, Aug. 27. In a leading article' headed, "A Very Grave Incident," the Morning Port speaks of a deliberate and sus- tained attack by Japanese planes on Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen's car, and says the outrage was with- out excuse, for the car was flying the
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