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Shanghai, To-day, 12.30 p.m.

Considerable anxiety is being expressed re-i garding the precise implications of the declaration of a blockade of the South China coast by the Jap- anese navy.

A Japanese naval spokesman, questioned re-

garding Vice Admiral Hasegawa's Pation,

CONFLICT

THREATENS TSINGTAO

Tsingtao, 130 p.m., To-day.

NORTH CHINA

HOSPITALS RELIEF FUMD

Mr. Aw Boon-haw has contri- buted $10,000 to the North Chin Hospitals Relief Fund orga by The St. John Ambulance. Ez gade.

Mr. Fung Kong-un and Kok-sin have each $1,000, Mr. Mak Fung and Messrs. Mok Cham Yik-wah and $50 each

THE TYPHOON

The sudden revival of tension following an alleged assault on a The following telegram was Japanese resident, was rendered ceived in Hong Kong from

more acute this morning on the Manila Observatory at 10.30 announcement that the Japanese morning con- Consul-General had instructed all

this

Typhoon in about longitude 116

said that Japan was not, at the present t templating action against foreign ships which remaining residents to prepare degrees East and latitude 14 de- might be carrying war material to China.

for evacuation immediately.

grees North moving west-north- The decision to issue the order West

He indicated that the blockade was against followed a conference between the Chinese ships. All Chinese ships found in the pro-Japanese naval and military chiefs hibited area will be detained. They would not be in the Tsingtao area sunk or seized unless they made an attempt to es-ese are still in Tsingtao. cape.

Ships bearing refugees, he declared, would be allowed to pass after inspection. Hitherto there has been no seizure but the blockade is effective with the Admiral's proclamation.

The area in which Chinese shipping is prohibit- ed extends from 32.4 N. Lat. 121.44 E. Long., which is just north of the mouth of Yangtsze, to 23.14 N. Lat, 116.48 E. Long which is south of Swatow, at approximately Breaker Point-Reuter FOREIGN SHIPS LIABLE TO SEARCH

Shanghai, Later.

That foreign shipping along the Chinese coast may be halted by Japanese warships patrolling the proscribed area in consequence of the Japanese blockade, was indicated by Professor Jumpei Shinobu, professor of international law and adviser to the Japanese fleet in Chinese waters.

He said that while foreign vessels cannot be seized, detained or compelled to change course, they are liable to be boarded by Japanese naval officers bent on ascertaining their true nationality in case of doubt.

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