LLOYDS WAR RISK RATES FOR SHANGHAI
London, To-day.
Substantial increase in insur- ance rates for cargoes to the Far East were announced by Lloyds Underwriters this morning. *For example, the rate for voyages to and from Shanghai and the Yangise ports is three per cent., ex- cluding war risk, or 10 per cent, including risk ashore before loading or fifteen days after discharge.
Cargoes for ports north of Shang- hai, Dairen and Manchurian ports is one per cent. afloat and three per cent including war risk. «
Ports south of Shanghai are 2 half per cents or one per cent. with shore risk
All the foregoing are supplemen- tary to rates charged under the gen- eral schedule. Reuter.
VON CRAMM, HENKEL AND MISS HORN SAIL FOR EAST
Berlin, To-day. Three of Germany's leading ten- nis players, Baron Gottfried von Cramm Heinrich Henkel and Marie-Louise Hom, left here yes- terday on their world tour, which them among other
take
will places, to Hong Kong.
Under the leadership of Dr. H Kleinschroth (a pre-War German Davis Cup player), they will em- bark at Cherbourg for the United States, and will later visit Aus- tralia and the Far East. Ocean.
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Rain Expected To-Day
AMERICANS LEAVING
NANKING
(Continued From
WAR RISK RATES SOAR
age
Singapore, To-day.
War risk insurance rates from warehouse to warehouse from Singapore to Shanghai have in- creased by 40,000 per cent, from 211⁄2 cents per cent. to 10 per cent.
For other China ports the risk shows varying increases from 500 per cent. upward-Reuter.
AMERICANS TO LEAVE NANKING
Ordered To Places
Up River
JAPANESE CONSULS
LEAVE NANKING.
Nanking, To-day!
The entire staff of the Japanese Consulate here and several Ja panese newspaper correspondents left here last night by the Tientsin- Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Com-Pukow Railway express for Tsinan route to Tsingtao-Central
Shanghai, To-day.
mander in Chief of the US. Fleet en
Shanghai, To-day.
Asiatic Waters, and Mr. News. Clarence Gauss, American Consul- General here, have instructed all American women and children în Thirty-six Japanese warships are Shanghai to evacuate immediately, now anchored in the Whangpoo it was
learned here to-day.
River.
Seven of the vessels moved out One group has left the city for towards Woosung to-day-Central Woosung where they boarded the News-
s.s. President Taft, while another party will wait for the s.s. Presi dent McKinley.
The
of order for evacuation
women and children American from Shanghai follows a similar order for all American women and children to leave Nanking for places further up the river.
Central News.
MARTIAL LAW AT CHINKIANG
Continual Air Raids
By Japan
SHANGHAI BANKS
To Form Joint Reserve Board
Shanghai, To-day. In order to stabilise the local financial situation and to continue normal business transactions dur- ing the present crisis, the Minis try of Finance to-day instructed the Chinese Bankers Association and the Natives Banks' Association to organise a joint reserve board and exchange...
WOMEN LEADERS
APPEAL
Wedding Rings For Defence Fund
The ministry instructed the Bank Chinkiang, To-day. As a result of China, Central Bank of China. of the continued air raids by Japan-and the Bank of Communications ese bombers along the Nanking-to supervise the working of the new Shanghai Railway line during the board and exchange-Central News. past few days, martial law was en- The weather was much cooler forced in this city beginning last Chih-chang, this morning, and after yesterday's night. General Han maximum temperature of 89 de-commander of the martial law ad- grees, the thermometer this mor- ministration, announced that the ning had dropped tp 84 degrees, emergency regulations will apply to Minimum last night was 82 degrees., the six districts around Chinkiang.
The Royal Observatory reported-Central News. this morning that pressure remains highest over Japan and the Pacific to the eastward, and is relatively low in a trough extending from Tongking to the Western Carolines. The typhoon off the Loochoos appears to be situated about 100 miles north-east of Formosa. It is probably filling up.
Local forecast: South winds, moderate; cloudy, probably some
rain.
Japanese Naval Visit To Naples
Rome, To-day.
MISSING PILOT RETURNS
Forced Landing Near. Chihshan
Nanking, To-day. Madame Feng Yu-hsiang, wife of General Feng Yu-hsiang, Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, and Madame 12 Chao-chun, wife of the Mayor of Nanking, have turned over their wedding rings to the local women's organisation for supporting the Nanking, To-day--Captain Chen
soldiers at the front. The two Yu-wei, the Chinese pilot who was women leaders issued at the game reported missing following the at time an appeal for all Chinese tack on the Japanese flagship, women to donate their jewellery Idzumo on Sunday, returned safely and other precious articles to aid
made a forced landing owing
last night from Chihshan where he in financing the defence of the engine trouble.
to country against Japanese aggres-
sion.-Central News
ma-
in
He reported that his plane was A body of 700 sailors from the damaged when he landed, the Japanese training ships at present chine turning turtle. at Naples paid a visit to Rome yes- Captain Chen also terday and deposited a wreath at juries, but
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier serious
Admiral Pini, Deputy Under- It admitted
plane Secretary of State for Marine, gave
luncheon in the homur of
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Shanghai, To-day.
The evacuation of British women and children this morning was carried out in the middle of an intense air raid by three Chinese planes and a fierce exchange of gun- fire Planes flew into view at height embarkation re- fugees on HMS Duncan, Falmouth Bursts of A.A. fire heralded planes appear- ance, which surprise attack.
Beuter
London, To-day. Britain's deep concern over war-stricken Shanghai and its implications are mirror- ed in the immense space de- voted to it in the news and literary pages of the press, in broadcast talks and cinema news-reel features.s
There is a tendency in poli- tical circles and editorials to regret that Japan has not made sufficient efforts to prevent the situation from deteriorating and discount Japanese alusions to defensive action, seeing that Japanese troops are operation on Chinese soil
A British offer to mediate is at present considered imprac- ticable as it is unlikely to meet with acceptance in Tokyo.
The "News Chronicle," on the bombing of the Settlement, says that if the Japanese had not made a descent on Chinese territory there would have been no need for China to send up bombers in defence.
The Daily Express" asserts that Japan is invading China exactly as Mussolini invaded Abyssinia, and pays a tribute to Chiang Kai-shek as the mo- dern Cromwell, expressing the opinion that if the two great currents ‘of nationalism and-re- volution unite, a mighty merg- ed force which swept the in- vaders from France in 1793 and from Russia in 1920, will one day sweep through China.
The Daily Telegraph”, sayɛ- that as things stand neither side is disposed to agree to a truce-Reuter.
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