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and accepted the chairmanship of the bogus Hopei- Chahar Peace Maintenance Council, resigned his post this morning.

Japanese quarters attribute his defection to Central Government pressure.

Our Own Cor-res- pondent.

TROOPS FACE EACH OTHER AT HANKOW

Acute State Of Tension

Shanghai, To-day.

surrounding the Concession may launch an attack on the Japanese settlement Reater.

SHANGHAI EXODUS Severe View Taken By Government

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THE CHINA

others atm.

CAL BRICADE

ai, To-day

Several Scandinavians have volun- al-Brigade against the Japanese

teered to organise an Internation-

They produced evidence that they

saw service during the Great War-

Da-Dao

TOKYO DIET DISCUSSION

Anti-Japan Movement Becoming A Grave Issue

any

was

Tokyo, To-day. The War Minister announced in the Diet this morning that the Shanghai, To-day.

Army is well prepared for Japanese reports from Han-

It is reported here that the Gov-eventuality in North China. kow state that Japanese marines have landed in the Japanese Con-ernment authorities will take mea-

Mr. Hirota, the Foreign Minis- cession, where a state of emer sures to stop Chinese who are

the Government service from sendter, commented gravely on the anti-Japanese movement through- gency has been declared.

Japanese marines are busily ing their families and treasures to

out China, stating that it was be engaged in strengthening sandbag the foreign concessions.

It is reported that Mr. O. K. Yui, coming a very grave issue, and that without Chinese and Japanese and barbed wire barricades, and

cooperation the movement members of the Japanese Ex- Mayor of Greater Shanghai, Gener- Servicemen's Association have also tal Yang Hu, Garrison Commander

unlikely to be abolished mobilised to serve as auxiliaries to of Shanghai and Woosung, and Ma- jor-General Tsai Ching-chun, Chief the naval forces

With the Chinese and Japanese of Police of Greater Shanghai, troops facing each other across are under instructions to report the road fringing the Concession, to the General authorities an acute state of tension is re- Chinese public servants and their ported to be prevailing.

families who are in residence. in The Japanese naval authorities foreign concessions have declared that the marines The Central authorities take were landed in view of "increasing stern view of the matter, the indications that the Chinese forces port adds, "cowardice" in the

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That the Chinese Government have no power to suppress the movement, he said, had been shown by their failure to exercise such power.

"We can only conclude that the Chinese Government, by failing to suppress the movement, admit their inability to do so, he stated.

JAPAN'S AIMS

Continuing he said that the at- titude of General Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. Wang Ching-wei is that Japan wants to occupy North China

"That is untrue and it must be corrected. I will endeavour to show China that Japan does -- not want to occupy Chinese territory, and therefore military negotiations in North China will be accompan- ied by diplomatic negotiations in Nanking"

It is indicated here that the new Soviet Ambassador to Japan left Moscow by rail yesterday and is ex- pected here at the end of the Imonth Our Own Correspondent.

MYSTERY PLANE

Canton Alarm Caused By Own Machine

Canton, To-day.

revealed that the mystery

ton yest

plane seen over

the

belonged to the Canton It was detected by one special posts on the outskirts of the city but mistakenly identified.

The facts have now been verified. by the Canton air force, which state that one of their machines flew to Swatow and was detected on the return journey-Our Own Cor- respondent

YANGLIUCHING

Japanese Story Of Capture

STOP PRESS

TEL: 20022 or 33993

Tokyo, To-day.

The Premier declared the Diet this morning, ac- cording to the Nichi-Nichi, that China must be induced to participate in the Ger- man-Japanese anti-Com-

miast pact. Communism.. be driven out of the Orient and the peace of East Asia firmly established

The Foreign Minister stated that it was hard discover a ray of hope for a satisfactory settlement. "I our army is pro- believe ceeding with a view to effecting a fundamental so- lution of Sino-Japanese rela tions in North China." Reuter.

Only one case of cholera, an

imported case, was reported to

the Health Department in the

24 hours ended at noon to-day

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