1937-08-19 — Page 11

CHINA MAT AUGUST 19, 1937.

FRANCE AND UNITED STATES ENDORSE NEUTRALITY PLAN To Support British Demarche In Tokyo & Nanking

HOPEFUL OF JAPANESE ACCEPTANCE

London, To-day.

ing and

BRITISH STEPS

In the meantime, British authori ties in Shanghai are carrying out the arrangements already announc

VICTORIA TO

ed for enabling those of their na- BRING ITALIANS

tionals, mostly women and children, whom it is unnecessary should be

exposed to considerable danger to TO HONG KONG

life and limb which the military activities of the Chinese and Ja- panese at present involve, to leave

The British Ambassadors in Tokyo have been instructed to approach the Chin- the city until normal conditions are Italian nationals ese and Japanese Governments with a view to neu- tralising the Shanghai area.

Rome To-day.

Shanghai restored. The majority of British have taken on the Lloyd Triestino residents are engaged in business liner Victoria, which has left Woo- concerns which they cannot abandon sung for Hong Kong, where she is and at a meeting of Ministers in expected It is learned that the Ambassadors proposed London yesterday, it was agreed della Sera

says Corriere that China and Japan withdraw their forces from that efficient measures should be Refugees of several other coun- the area, and Britain would undertake responsibi-well as protection for the large bark on the Victoria, and it is be- lity for protection of Japanese residents, provided British interests centred in Shang-lieved that 50 Swiss and 50 Span- that France and the United States would assist her, hai-British Wireless.

Delimitation of the area to be neutralised

would be a matter for local discussion.

It is felt that these proposals should test the gen ness of the Japanese contention that their forces are operating in Shanghai only in order to protect Japanese lives and property. Reuter.

London, To-day. visaged

France has agreed to submit joint. It is added that the Britis proposals to Tokyo and Nankang ernment is determined to with Great Britain and USA for mesures which may be protecting the neutrality of the rotection of British- International Settlement at Shang-Trans-Ocean.

hai

GoT- ke all ed for

BRITISH STATEMENT.

are

UNITED FRONT Prospects of Japan accepting the proposal were regarded as more favourable last night than earlier in the day in British Government circles.

The proposal is that both Chin- ese and Japanese withdraw all

London, To-day. their forces, including aircraft

There is no change in the British and warships, from the Shanghai Government's view that the conflict zone, while Britain, the United in which Japan and China States and France would under becoming ever more deeply involv take to protect the lives and pro-led is capable of a peaceful settle perty of both Chinese and Japanese.

ment, given the goodwill which had, been repeatedly professed both at

cular, that the tension which has Tokyo and Nanking and, in parti- recently arisen at Shanghai could

The fact that the three Powers have established a united front in the matter is regarded in London 28 a cause for gratification. Trans-Ocean

LONDON PAPERS

SCEPTICAL

and should be relieved at once so as to avert the threat to the safety of the International Settlement b

have been for so “

for the an agreement bet ben the partie

forces which have clashed.

disposition of the local

Means for bringing to an end the dangerous situation Shanghai days under discussion, both between the Bri- tish and other diplomatic, consular and military and naval authorities on the spot, and by their home Considerable doubt is expressed governments, and definite pro- by the London newspapers of the posals have now been addressed by success of the British proposals re-diplomatic channels to the Chinese the British Government through garding Shanghai.

and Japanese Governments.

ESSENTIALS OF PLAN Details of

the

London, To-day.

The United States attitude is now uncertain, says one journal, while Tokyo is practically sure

to refuse to withdraw her forces are not available but from Shanghai,

proposals.

understood that in the British view,

It is also pointed out that a large the essentials of any sche number of troops would be neces-isolation of the Internation sary for protection of the Settlement from the th ment.

MOBILISATION ORDER

Japanese hostilities

ettle-

first,

mutually agreed exclusion of Japan- The reports of a general mobili-ese and Chinese military and naval sation in China have destroyed the forces from a zone including and last hopes here that peace will be surrounding Shanghai and, second- preserved, and the situation is con-ly, to give confidence to the Ja- sidered extremely grave.

panese

e for Official quarters in Whitehall tionals on the one hand and

the safety of their na- to deny there is any intention to the Chinese against the use of withdraw all British nationals International Settlement as a from Shanghai, or to close down tary base on the other has all British business houses there, the protection of Japanese since British business inte

re far too impo

an eventuality

hai should be entrusted to foreign contingents in the ment acting in concert

taken to ensure their safety as tries have been permitted to em-

iards are on board Trans-Ocean.

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