1937-07-26 — Page 9

Bombing Of Chinese Barracks In North China FIGHTING BREAKS OUT AGAIN

AT LANFANG

FOOD RATIONING MEASURES

FEARED PRELUDE TO Precautionary Move By

OPERATIONS ON

LARGE SCALE

Canton

Canton, To-day.

Full preparations for rationing

case emergence made in Canton.

when rice price

was formed by

BRITISH SHIP BOMBED BY MYSTERY PLANES

London, To-day.

Landon says that

samer "St

has been

Lloyd's of

British

report-

llapsed and the ship

orth present consignment is expected for to be taken to Hong Kong to be velatored there pending Flement of

Peace in North China, which has been trem bling in the balance for several days in spite of the ed to a record alleged signing of an agreement between General woocial Govern Sung Cheh- yuan and the Japanese, was shattered name of the "Food- this morning when the opposing forces again clash- Board"

crisis Sin ed.

China has made preparations For the first time in the present affair the Jap-now been placed in the hands rationing imperative and they

anese air force went into action in support of the this Bourd

It is reported that a third ship- infantry operations, a terse Reuter report from Interviewed Da-Dao, Mment of silver specie is to be made Tientsin, via Tokyo, stating that Japanese planes who is a with the Smo-American silver

Chang Pel-choan

secretary the shortly to

dance bombed the Chinese barracks at Lanfang, where member of the Board, declared mea agreement. It will be exchanged fighting between the opposing infantry forces is sures for food controlling will be for gold to add to the fund held still going on.

taken when emergency arises. Im-abroad to guarantee the Chinese portant factors under discussion by rency.

of the Sino-Japanese

the Board are (1) centralisation It is also revealed that the

Lanfang is a town situated midway between of foodstuffs, (2) Regulating Peiping and Tientsin, and is important concen-food prices (3) strict pr tration centre for the Chinese forces.

Resumption of the fighting, and the fact that Japanese planes are participating, tends to indicate that to-day's clash is merely the prelude to fighting on a large scale.

SHANGHAI TENSION DECREASES

Meanwhile tension in Hongkew, Shanghai, where, following the alleged kidnapping of Sadao Miyazaki, a bluejacket of the Japanese garrison, a state of near panic had arisen, has relaxed some what in spite of the failure of the Japanese to trace the victim of the reported abduction.

of smuggling-Da-Dao.

NANKING'S WAR PREPARATIONS Military Activity In North

ers Bank of China recently shipped $20,000,000 worth of silver abroad in the strictest secrecy as a precaution against the North Vima CASTS. Union New

MILITARY ATTACHES

NERVOUS

Families Sent To Tientsin

Peiping, To-day..

Hankow, To-day. War materials are being rushed China and corps of the Central taches are apparently nervous over to the theatre of trouble in North Some of the foreign military at- Army are steadily converging on the Sino-Japanese situation and strategic points in various parts of have already sent members of their Reliable reports reaching here Foreign residents have removed indicate that General La Man's their personal belongings into the 10th Division on Saturday passed Legation quarters-Da-Dao. Changchow, key t

town in North)

the country.

Peiping-Hankow Railway.

The Japanese garrison patrols, which took com-Honan, on the war to Shinchiach- plete possession of Hongkew on Saturday night, was, in West Hopei, along the have now withdrawn to barracks, and the only Jap- General Wan Yao-huang's 13th anese armed forces on the streets are the normal Division, normally stationed at Sian, has been massed at Tung-1 pickets at street corners.

kuan, on the eastern frontier of

Mr. Okamoto, the Japanese Consul- General at Shensi, in readiness to move to Shanghai, yesterday called on Mr. O. K. Yui, Mayor wards Shihchiachwang. of Greater Shanghai, and requested Chinese operation in the search for the missing bluejacket.

Our Own Correspondent.

NANKING NOT TO APPROVE

Troops To Remain In Present Positions

Peiping. To-day.

from Jehol are going concentrate in Shangtu with the tention of invading Suiyuan Our Own Correspondent.

JAPANESE MOVING SUPPLIES

Semi-official reports state that Shortage Of Flour At

after receiving the report of General Hsiung Ping, Deputy Chief of Gen- eral Staff in Nanking, the Nanking Government has determined not

pprove the North China local

ment as arranged by General Cheh-yuan and the

thorities there

Tunghsien

Japanese

familes to Tientsin.

TIME NOT YET RIPE Japanese Failure To Withdraw

Peiping, To-day-

Tre time is not yet ripe for

our withdrawal," declared Co- The Central Army's 14th Divi-lonel Kanai, official spokesman of sion has reached Wachang and is the Japanese Headquarters, in expected to move northward in the interview with a war correspon- immediate future. Various other dent yesterday morning. units stationed in southern and "The Chinese are to withdraw northern Hupeh are said to have first, the continued,

"and they received orders to concentrate near have to withdraw to om

|tion - Our-IEW General Yu Tai-shin's 58th Divi which arrive at the Chinese sion and General Hsia Chu-shong's represent only a portion of our been despatch- 97th Division are at present along forces that hay the Yangtze opposite here. They lare understood to

After fortifications in the

Union News.

Han

MORE SILVER FOR

TONGKONG

$13,000,000 On

4

so-ca

so and Nan- Japanese are ations. Their gand Hsiao-

General Sung

not

tra

the

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pecie

revealed that the

of Chma, has, 1000 in silver on

Closely

the