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PROFESSOR ON RIGHT OF SEARCH

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"THE TIMES" AGAIN WARNS JAPAN

London, To-day.

CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1937.

Professor Shinobu added that inasmuch as this is not a wartime blockade, "we are unable to stop. foreign vessels from carrying armaments to China.

In a leading article on the Sino- However we can take such effective measures as Japanese conflict, The Times" exercising the privilege of pre-emption (compel says that wider political aspects of sale to Japan) towards foreign bottoms found to be the war are dominated to some carrying cargo which in wartime would constitute contraband.” Reuter.

HONG KONG'S ANXIETY

was

Blockade of the coast by the Japanese Navy an anticipated development of the Sino-Japanese conflict, and has furnished one of Britain's principal preoccupations in view of the inability of Japan to declare effective blockade against Canton without including Hong Kong.

extent by a paradox.

In order to conquer, Japan must destroy. Yet if she destroys too much, the conquest will be fruit- less. The aim dictated by her own interests is the subjugation rather than the overthrow of the Nanking Government.

The collapse of the

central an-

thority in China would double the invader's difficulties and halve the victor's rewards, but the existence of a central authority depend upon its armed forces and to defeat these without disintegrating China and cutting Japan's own economic life-line would require a precision

The Japanese Navy, for the present, has con- or aim and a delicacy of timing tented itself with an extremely limited blockade.

FOREIGN MINISTER'S STATEMENT

Tokyo, 2 p.m., To-day.

which the hotheads of the Army are not best fitted to provide.

Referring to the campaign in North China, The Times" says that it foreshadows the control" by Japan of the Peiping-Paotou Rail-

Mr. Koki Hirota, the Foreign Minister, announcing the block-way, the seizure of which by Japan ade decision at 11.20 a.m. to-day, indicated that foreign ships would would be for strategic reasons a. be liable to search, though they would not be seized or their cargoes matter of immediate concern to

3 Moscow. confiscated as would happen with Chinese ships.

The blockade had been ordered to restrict Chinese fighting power in the Shanghai area and to prevent the importation of arma- ments. Our Own Correspondent.

FIGHTING SPREADS

IN N. CHINA

Night Attack In Hills

At Fangshan

Paoting, To-day.

and

LOSS OF JAPANESE DESTROYER

Among the many dangers which beset Japan on the warpath, the greatest is the threat of interven tion by Soviet Russia. This threat if it develops at all, is not likely to do so until Japan is even more deeply and more dispersedly com- mitted in China than she is at

Sinking Reported To Be present. Reuter.

Confirmed

Shanghai, To-day.

the

Fighting between Japanese

Foreign travellers who arrived Chinese in the Lianghsiang-Fang- here from Vancouver, aboard the shan area in the Peiping-Hankow Empress of Canada, confirm Railway zone southwest of Peiping, report of the sinking of a Japan- is spreading over many small sec-ese warship off Woosung. tors in Hopei province.

They told interviewers here that A division of Chinese reached

they saw one vessel submerged and the outskirts of Yanghuching yes another cruiser seriously damaged terday. Japanese forces launched

Central News.

a night attack on the Chinese out-by a shell lying off

delta. posts in the hills at Fangshan last night, precipitating an all-night battle which ended early this morn- ing with 100 Japanese killed The Chinese continue to hold their post- tions, but lost a number of

men

be

the Yangtse

ANOTHER AIR RAID ON NANKING

day The Chinese are reported to Another attempted air rai by

extensively, and Japanese deploying more

on Nanking last pen-

Japanese have ordered all kaoliang night twth since the

fields and bushes along the Tien-ing of hostilities on August 13 tsin-Pukow Railway from Tientsin was frustrated at 8.15 o'clock when ¡a fleet of Chinese pursuit planes to Yangliuching to be cut down.

FRENCH CABINET DISCUSSION ON FAR EAST

Paris, To-day..

The Council of Ministers met in the Elysee Palace yesterday under the chairmanship of Pre- sident Albert Lebrun

The Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, submitted a report dealing exhaustively with all phases of the international situation but particu larly with measures adopted for protection of French interests in the Mediterranean and the Far East.

The Minister for Public Works was authorised to continue negotia- That hostilities in North China intercepted the invaders over Yang-tions with the railway companies for their nationalisation in one com- will be even more extensive than at chow and drove them away present is shown by the report that

The Japanese bombers were sight-pany in which the State would hold Japanese forces are digging

ed before they rea hed: Yangchow the majority of shares. trenchments on a line from Tang-and an alarm was immediately shan to Kupeikou in a wide curve flashed to the capital. The invad through Yutien and Suhsien

ing machines flew off without drop- ping bombs-Central News

en-

In the Tientsin-Pukow Railway zone, fighting is also continuing “in the Tulinchen and Chinghai areas, about miles southwest of Tien-

and war receiver

sport-

fronts

NO ORDERS TO MIDDLESEX

"China" Mail

VICTORY FOR RADICALS.

In political circles this is garded as a victory for Radical mem- bers of the Cabinet over the lists who wanted to bring amalgamation of the decree and not throug Importance of ye

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Shanghai, To-day, 2.15 p.m.

Chinese air activity was a

feature of this morning's

operations. Japanese posi-

tions on all fronts were

-heavily bombed Our Own

Correspondent

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