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STRONG AMERICAN PROTEST TO JAPAN
INEXCUSABLE New Threat in Japanese Anhwei Offensive
ON
ATTACK C.N.A.C. PLANE
Machine-Gunning Of Helpless Civilians
Washington, Aug, 26.
Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, emphatical- ly protested to Japan to-day at the destruction and 'machine-gunning of the China National Aviation Cor- poration Douglas DC-2 "Kweilin."
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The protest was made through the U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, Mr. Joseph C. Grew.
"The United States Government desires to express its em- phatic objection to the unwarranted attack on the commercial aeroplane belonging to the China National Aviation Corporation, the consequential deaths of non-combatants, the jeopardising of the life of the American pilot and the destruction of
in which an American concern owns very substantial interests.'
Pan American Airways, operators of the trans-Pacific
INSPIRED PRESS Clipper service, possess 45 per
ON C.N.A.C. DISASTER
Peiping, Aug. 27. Reports of the G.N.A.C. air linor disaster which appear in the local Chinese preas to-day state that the plane was forced down through engine trouble.
Some of the papers add Japanese news agency story the affect that foreign assert that Јаравске planes machine-gunned the plane, but they give no details,
.
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All the Chinese papers insist that the death of the two Chinese bankers involved will have great moral effect upon Hankow Government, United Proit.
AIRLINER GAVE NO SIGNAL
A
the
-JAPANESE CLAIM
Tokyo, Aug. 26.
The Foreign Office spokesman
cent, of the total shares. ́ ́in C.N.A.C.
Mr. Hull's Note particularly em- phasised that the official report by the American pilot of the "Kwellin," Mr. H. L. Woods, disclosed that the
The muscle of modern warfare is the artillery and here the'
overwhelmingly
Germany Warns Powers
Powers Japanese are
stronger than the Chinese. But on the Yangtse the Chinese are being helped by some of their
TROOPS DRAW NEAR TO, LIUAN: BITTER
CHINESE RESISTANCE
Thousands Dead As Forces Clash in Vital Sectors
Shanghai, Aug. 27.
Japanese units, advancing from the Hofei sector in a westerly direction on the Peiping-Hankow railway, are reported to have made appreciable progress,
According to Japanese reports the Japanese troops have now reached the town of Kingkao, 15 miles east of Liuan, and the Japanese expect that Liuan itself will be occupied within a few days.
In the Hangwei sector, north of the Yangtse River, and in B sector on the southern bank of the river, south of Kiuklang, the situation remains virtually unchanged. The Japanese again landed troops on the west bank of Lake Poyang in the region of Taiunkufeng.
The Chinese are said to have
Against Procrastination best field pieces. They enmou lost 1,700 dead in unsuccessful.
Prague, Aug. 26.
to
The newspaper Prager Abend Zeitung states that the "German Government has made representations several Powers, expressing the desire for a peaceful settlement of the Sudeten question."
According to the newspaper, Germany has qualified its re-
flage them with thatched roofs attempts to frustrate the land- SAMPAN
to make them look, to the ever-ing of Japanese troops.' present Japanese bombers, like so many harmless houses.
IMPORTS
gunning continued as the helpless presentations by warning the Powers that a solution of the OF MILK
en-
Japanese attackers continued to machine-gun the plane and fis oc- cupants after it had been forced down and, secondly, that machine- to leave the survivors attempted machine.
"These non-combatants were travelling in a civilian plane gaged on a clearly recognised and established commercial service over a regularly scheduled air route.
AROUSED PUBLIC OPINION "This attack has aroused public opinion in the United States.
the life of "Not only was American national directly im- perilled, but loss was also occasioned
on
question must not be delayed any longer, otherwise "Germany will use all the means in her power to support the claims of the Sudetcns."
The report adds that this threatened support of the Sudetens must not be regarded as an attack upon Czecho... Slovakia.
ALARMING
to American property and interests, SUDETEN
In
as Pan American Airways has a very substantial interest
the China National Aviation Corporation.
"My Government desires to ex- press an emphatic objection to the jeopardising In This Way of American Eves, as well as those of other non-combatant occupants of ад unarmed civilian plane."
United Press.
said to-day that the Douglas Street
airliner of the China National
Aviation Corporation which was Collectors
attacked by Japanese naval planes in South China Wednesday, boro neither the
on
Arrested
MANIFESTO
Government Takes Serious View
ILLEGAL
Japanese air units have been ex- tremely active. On Friday they bombed Changsha, which is located
RAID BY
on the Hankow-Canton railway, about GUERILLAS
225 miles south of Hankow,
The Japanese claim that 34 am- munition depots, which were built by the Chinese recently, were destroyed in an aerial bombardment of Nan- chang-Trans-Ocean.
20 MILES OFF
D
Japanese Evacuate Shantung Area
Peiping, Aug. 27.. Very reliable American sour-.
Hankow, Aug. 27..... GOVERNMENT ACTS
The vanguard of the Japanese ces-report-that- 1,500 Chinese TO END MENACE
guerilla troops attacked Taku, forces advancing westward from It is further alleged that re-
Hotel in the direction of Liuan and east of Tientsin, on August 20, have forcing the residents to cross Hoshan, is now reported to presentations were not made to Emergency regulations are France, but Moscow was in-published in today's Govern-eached a point about 20 miles east the river and take refuge in of Liuan, according to Chinese Tangku, where a French military cluded. The German representa-ment Gazette which makes it military communique,
post is stationed. tions to the U.S.S.R. added that illegal for anybody to import A Japanese detachment. alter It is definitely established that an as a proof of her peaceful milk into Hongkong. intentions Germany had mained neutral in the quarrel between Russia and Japan.-Router..
re-
recent
LONDON MYSTIFIED,
London, Aug. 20.
reaching Taohsicheng village, south-eight-hour delay in the Mukden train west of Hofel, advanced along the on August 24 was due first to the These regulations are the outcome highway to the north-west in the ralls having been removed near of a recent meeting of the Urban direction of Liuan, and were ambush-Lutal, north of Tientsin, and that Counell at which It was officially con-ed by a Chinese mobile column. The Oghting also occurred at Changli in firmed that milk had been imported
(Continued on Page 4.)
East Hopel, between the sea and the railway. Into the Colony recently. This fact was first brought to light by the Telegraph.
The emergency regulations not only S. AFRICAN
SUPPORT FOR BRITAIN
prohibit milk being imported, but also make it illegal for anybody to possess (Continued on Page D.)
DALADIER
It is learned that no representations regarding the Sudeten question have to Great been made by Germany Prague, Aug. 26. The Sudeten headquarters to-Britain.-Reuter,
BERLIN DENIAL day issued a manifesto to the
Berlin, Aug. 20. party declaring that the orders
Well Informed circles deny that' not to respond to the attacks of an omeint demarche has been scat "Marxist terrorism" had been to foreign Powers to the effect that rescinded, and that in future, Germany will support the Sudeten- Sudetens who were attacked German deraands with "ail her re-
sources",
within the law.
event of a conflict with Czecho- Omcial circles take a serious view Slovakia is believed in well-informed Following the warning issued by the Commissioner of Police of the manifesto which is regarded foreign circles to be limit of the
Admiral as an encouragement to the Sudetens promises
Horthy, the Furthermore, it made no.signal and earlier this week, Police yester to provoke incidentts with the object Hungarian Regent, was able to make gave no indication that it was a com- day arrested 12 Chinese who of increasing the pressure upon the to. Herr Hitler. mercial plane and had no hostile in-will be charged at Central Magis- Czech Government.
Admiral Horthy's visit to Germany The Ministry for the Interior de- is drawing to a close. He left Berlin In my case, the
collecting spokesman de-tracy to-day with clared, the aeroplane in question was money for charitable institu- clares that there is not the slightest to-day for General Goering's country
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scat at Karin Hall-Reuter. the property of the China National tions without the permission of Aviation Corporation, and there was the Police Department. no room for any dispute between
were free to defend themselves A benevolent neutrality in the QUELLS ALL
Red Cross mark nor any indica- tion that it belonged to a third)
Power.
tent.
Japan and a third Power,
Another man, it is understood, will
The spokesman hoped that third be charged with organising a street Powers would co-operate with the procession without the permission of
the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
"A warning was issued earlier this week that unauthorised street collec
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"PITIFUL CRIES
FOR HELP" Japanese airmen machine-gunned the downed Kwollin for more than ten minutes until it completely sunk, stated Mr. C. M. Lou, the only passenger survivor of the CNA.C iragody, in an interview with a Macao representative of the local Ta Kung Pao. Mr. Lou, who was wounded
by,
a shot
through the neck, hospital Shortly after the afflther took off
from Kal Tak I noticed that the pinne
to
0 low level but
tons would not be permilited," sald
OPPOSITION
Premier Declares For Empire Unity
Capetown, Aug. 26,
Some fighting was also reported south of Tientsin on August 22. In all cases the guerillas were repulsed following the arrival of Japanese reinforcements. The zallway is now repaired.
One group of 800 guerillas used small boats for thelf approach to the (Continued on Page 4.)
STOP PRESS
The South African Premier, Rt. Hon. J. B. M. Hertzog, re- Defence Requirements
ferring to General Smuts' state- Must Be Met
ment in the Assembly yesterday regarding the Union's part in the next war in which Britain Paris, Aug. 26,
that At a meeting of the Radical becomes involved, said
General Smuts had stated, and AIR RAID SIRENS Party to-day the had stated quite rightly, that if Premier, M. Daladier, explained England was involved in a war
WARN CANTON the Government policy and re-in which she was the party viewed working hours in other attacked, there would be no
doubt what South Africa's atti countries.
tude would be.
PRESS COMMENTS ON Socialist
CZECH
SITUATION
London, Aug. 26
M. Doladler reiterated that firms
the Commissioner of Police, Hón. Mr. T. H. King, this morning.
That the Prague Government has decided to treat the
General Smuts had the right to "The people in question were Nationalities issue on a new basis in order to meet the demands working on National Defence should
at arrested in the ordinary course
hours without prohibitivo increases the Leader of the Opposition has the police duty, on instructions from the of the Sudeten German Party was proclaimed in large head be allowed to work supplementary express his oplnilon just as much as
} lines by to-day's morning papera. Government through me,"
While this morning's editions write of an increasing tension in pay. He mentioned the cases of right to express an opinion and various industries where important make propaganda from the Oppoal- in the Czech Capital, the tone of the latest reports is noticeably orders from abroad had to be refused on point of view,
Japan Rewards optimistic and particularly in the Times, Daily Mail and Daily owing to the rigidity of the present
Her Dead
Express.
The Premier added that the possi- bility of war had become a reality to the Opposition and they were urging the Government to act imme- diately or say what they were going to do about it.
ruling. The meeting unanimously approved The Times declared that although, and three to four of these regions
put under the control of M. Daladier's policy and renewed the political atmosphere became more will bở and more oppressive yesterday, it of the Germany, The Nationalities complete confidence in him. Tokyo, Aug, 26.
along the line. At meeting to-day'
"I have no intention, nor do I feel suddenly dsecended
A total of 1,207 Japanese soldiers Improved perceptibly late in the would be made responsible for, the The Premier is now winning all
evening after a special Cabinet ad iinistration of these districts.
the Communiste merely decided to 1 did not know it was the beginning who were idlied in the operations Committee had held two meetings.
DEMANDS GRANTED wak the Government for precise it incumbent, to reply to the Opposi of such a tragedy. However, I in China were awarded, posthumou
t was learnt
details of its policy, the Socialists tion question. wondered what was the matter and honours, this arternoon in Japan' On Thursday night it
The Daily Express points out that
"When the time comes the people app1 war taking Mr Hu Pih-kang third bonour 1st since: the outbreak that the Coscho-Slovak Cabinet was whether we Lad arrived at Wuctiow, of horlilies, els ready to negotiate with the Budenten four of the elgst demands made by beard M. Blum declare that they could not spike the guns my Boat The Order of the Golden Kite was Girmans ou a dinerent basiske Herr Konrad Hileln at Karlsbad legislation, if guard ever acting will decide and the country, can pol NZ Cheap(inderslood four machine was confered on 1343 spilders while the paper adds that the plan pro-would be granted to full and adds of the Clovernment and the Socialist stared that the Government will do First Class Vides the establiment of larger that Prague Government circles are Union decided that any Ministerial a duty and take responsibility for
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any action." (Cheers)--Reuter. kömous –administrativo „districts,
(Continued on Pago 4.).
itsmukt strunc the bánc of
"
Canton, Aug. 175 The air raid alarmı was sounded at Canton at 8 o'clock this morning, when 19 Japaneso plasies were re- ported to be heading for the Canten.. Hankow railway,United Press.