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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1937

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REFUGEES

AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST

BUTTER

LEAVE

TO ROAR OF GUNS

1,400 Coming To Colony In Empress Of Asia HUGE EXPLOSION OCCURS PORTUGAL

IN JAPANESE LINES

NANKING HAS FALSE FLOATING

AIR RAID ALARM

Shanghai, To-day.

Japanese planes were bombing and there was

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intermittent firing from Japanese warships at the HARBOUR

Chinese positions in Pootung as 1,400 British women and children boarded the British destroyers Dun- can, Duchess and Delight off the Shanghai Club from tugs which embarked them on the French Bund.

Report Stated To

Be Premature

PROVIDES

SHOCK

Lisbon, To-day. Portugal has....... seve diplomatic relations Czecho-Slovakia, Reuter.

such a proposal. From other learned that no taxing accommodati yet arisem. If there

A rumour was in circulation siderable inffix of this morning suggesting that the dition to the 3,000 THE EMBARKATION WAS CARRIED OUT WITHOUT A harbour would soon become the from Shanghai, the floating hotel HITCH, BRITISH SAILORS AGAIN GUARDING THE EN- centre of a series of floating idea might furnish à satisfact TRANCES TO THE PONTOONS.

hotels, accommodating refugees solution, though difficulty might As the last of the three destroyers, packed from Shanghai.

found in secun-ing suitable smps. The vessels of Messrs. Jardine, with refugees, started down river, Japanese planes Matheson and Company were men- over Pootung dropped occasional bombs and Japan- tioned in connection with the re- ese warships lept up into shell fire.

port.s

The shipping

At the same time the Chinese guns in Kiang-Company manager of the

informed the "China

wan shelled the Japanese positions in northern Mail" that he had heard nothing of Shanghai, drawing a reply from the Japanese field pieces.

Those Japanese warships docked on the Shanghai side of the river moved into mid-stream in order to leave a clear channel for the three British destroyers.

The refugees are on their way down river to the Empress of Asia, lying outside Woosung, which will convey them to Hong Kong.

Reuter.

AMMUNITION DUMP EXPLOSION

Shanghai, To-day, 1.30 p.m. During heavy shelling of the Hongkew district near the Naval Landing Party Headquarters just before noon, a terrific explosion occurred, followed by a heavy pall of smoke which is believed to be the result of a shell striking a small ammunition dump.

Our Own Correspondent.

NANKING AIR RAID ALARM

Nanking, To-day.

an entire day of peace, air raid warning sirens agam sounded in the capital at midnigh

the entire city was immediately plunged mate

planes went up and circled

city but the all clear" was sounded at 1.30

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Fifty-five cholera cases,

în Victoria, 13 in Kowloon, three elsewhere, were reported

in the 24 hours ended at mid- night. The total since mid day Saturday is now 245.

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