MIDDLESEX REGT. MAY GO TO SHANGHAI
Singapore, To-day. Though nothing has at present been definitely fixed, there is a strong possibility that the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, originally ordered to Hong Kong, may be transported to Shanghai.
Reuter
MASSING JAPAN
FOR OFFENSIVE
IN N. CHINA
London, To-day.
Japanese reinforcements for the garrisons in North China are arriving on an increased scale, ac- cording to trustworthy reports received here from Tientsin..
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST
GENERAL AMERICAN
BOOST MET STOP PRESS
EVACUATION,
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morning as the Japanese planes failed to appear. Reuter.
ALL AMERICANS URGED TO LEAVE.
Washington, To-day.
United States diplomatic officials in China are now warning all Americans in Shanghai and other
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Shanghai
"The last chance for a trace was on August 13 but th
ing next day made
tion no longer a local issue, and
danger spots who have no urgent reason for re- settlement will have
maining to evacuate, according to the Secretary of
State, Mr. Cordell
Hull.
Previously the advice to evacuate was confined
to children. Now it has been extended to tourists.
teachers and missionaries.
The State Department consider that only engineers of the Shanghai water and electric distribution systems and diplomatic officials have a sufficiently important reason for staying.
Mr. Hull expects that some 1,700 will evacuate by the week-end, leaving about 2,000 in various ports.
Meanwhile, the reaction in Washington to the British plan for withdrawal of the Chinese and Japanese troops is somewhat cool, it being felt that no proposal from the outside could influence either China or Japan at this advanced stage. Mr. Hull himself, however,
Reuter. Fourteen Japanese troop trans-declined to comment on the plan. port vessels are now lying off Tang- ku, while the railway line from Shanhaikwan-Tientsin is at times blocked by transport of troops and war material
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SIX JAPANESE SHIPS SUNK
GERMAN SAILOR
KILLED
Navy Warns Of "Drastic Victim Of Nanking Road
Action"
Shanghai, To-day- The Japanese Naval Attache told
Bombing
Berlin, To-day.
the Japanese The strength of
in North forces concentrated China is estimated at more than 100,000 men One half of the
A report from Shanghai states. troops are going to Peiping, the other half remaining in the Tien- pressmen this morning that six Ja-that a German sailor named Koch tsin area. The Japanese are ap- panese steamers, one tug-boat and was among those killed in Satur Four other wounded German re- advance one launch were scuttled by the day's Nanking Road bomb disaster. parently planning
Chinese yesterday and used to insidents are reported to be making southwards towards Paotingfu
crease the blockade in the river s Trans-Ocean
The loss he estimated at 10.000. (good progress
20
TSINGTAO CRISIS
000 yen.
to
The Japanese Navy intended take very drastic action in con-
Japanese Withdrawal sequence of the incident. Our Own
Significant?
Tsingtao, To-day.
Mr. Hikada, the Japanese Consul- General in Nanking, who was the last of the Japanese residents and officials to leave the Yangtze Val- ley, sailed for Tokyo soon after his arrival here this morning...
Tension
Correspondent.
BRITISH OFFICERS VISIT LINES
Nanking, To-day.
TONS OF BOMBS IN ANOTHER RAID Heavy Damage Along Japanese Lines
Shanghai, To-day Another severe Chinese air raid lover Shanghai took place at 8 o'clock last night when a squadron
A party of British and American of heavy bombers flew over the military officers and press corres-Yangtsepoo and Hongkew districts pondents, accompanied by Col. Jand released tons of missiles on the
Japanese positions. following Saturday's 1. Huang, close aide shooting incident appears to be on Kai-shek, yesterday the wane in the absence of any Chinese lines outsid direct action by the Japanese Navy. This was the It is feared, however, that the de- foreigners to cision to withdraw Japanese rest
serious trouble.
dents presages Our Own Correspondent.
PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS
Chang Chih-Chung's
Assurances
Shanghai, To-day.
General Chang Chin-chung, Com
mander-in-Chief of the Shanghai- Nanking Garrison who is directing operations against the Japanese in Shanghai, declared that he will do everything within his power to give due protection to foreign lives. and property in and around the city
A party of Chinese repr
tives, headed by
sen, Wong H
and I. L
called on
to visit the Chinese lines. place, the visitors inspected Japanese planes which crashed Aug. 15. The noses of the chines were sunk several- the ground, indicating planes had fallen from Ititude......
Col. Huang presented. number of. to the troops behalf of Madame Chiang shek. Central News. ___
POOTUNG LANDES
ATTEMPT
Marines Swept By Machine Gun Fire
A number of fires broke out în several sections. It is claimed that the Chinese bombers succeeded in destroying the main defence works iconstructed the Japanese in the two two districts.
one
on
At 9:75 o'clock fast m ma-ber of Japanese machines flew
Chapei and dropped a number cendiary bombs
M.B.K. WHARF HIT
It is reported that one of the down Japanese bombers was shot and crashed to the west of Shanghai. Meanwhile, both the Chinese and Japanese artillery units took action. The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha wharf along the Yangtsepoo was hit by the Chinese bombardm
Three Japanese shells fell to Nantao, which is the old Chinese City south of the French--
and de
Comb
Japa Hanschow Ranwa
through
Nanking
spokesman of the la bassy to day, repl
tions.
come
said
The spokesman “admitte Chinese advance in nor Shanghai but declared thatë the other original Japanese posi tions are intact even dod
He estimated that fifteen divi- sions of Chinese troops are con- centrated at paints
Shanghai.
The spokesman said there were now 20,000 Japanese non-com- batants, in Shanghai, 7,000 Ja- panese women and children hav ing left Reuter.
Shangha, To-day.
The SMC. has agreed, on the mediation of Admiral Sir Charles Litle, to continue to carry out police patrols in districts east of the Hong-
kew Creek, from which the Police had been withdrawn.»
Bluejackets will be lent to assist the police after / p.m. Our Own Correspondent.
Shanghai, 2 p.m.
The Japanese Naval
armed the press this mon
ing that a Japanese warship came into harbour during the night and landed marines," greatly strengthening the de- fence force respondent
Our Own Cor-
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