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CHEFOO

FEARS

MISSIONARIES DECIDE

TO STAY IN CITY |

MILITARY BUSY FORTIFYING PORT

Shanghai, To-day.

The position at Chefoo, the Shantung port, where it is feared the Japanese may attempt to land troops, is attracting attention.

The Chinese military authorities are busily fortifying the city, and have placed guns on the waterfront and have erected machine-gun nests and barbed wire barricades.

There are about 250 Britons in Chefoo, of whom some 150 are missionaries, as well as 150 Americans, mostly missionaries.

200 BOMBERS REPORTED ARRIVED

ATTACK

Nanking, To-day..

In official quarters here it is reported that 200 modern bam- bers were delivered to China a few. days ago, having been landed at a certain place in South China Our Own Corresponder

THE RAPE OF CHINA

Sir, Before the fight started in Shanghai, I thought the Japanese would completely subdue Chinx in the course of a few weeks, taking their into consideration her strong navy

They assert that while unwilling to embarrass their governments by remaining, they feel duty compels them to stay with their flocks.

JAPANESE BIG ATTACK BELIEVED BEGINNING

Shanghai, To-day.

Dawn broke this morning to the

and

months

U.S. AND NINE POWER TREATY CONFERENCE

London, To-day. Well-informed American circles. here declared last night that Presi- den Roosevelt will probably senc Mr. Norman Davis, United States

Ambassador at Large as special Ambassador and head of the United States delegation to the Nine-Power Conference.

In Washington, it is stated that Brussels would be welcomed as the venue of the Conferents

There is some discussion

American circles of the dorsabil ity of inviting Russia jo stené, interested in the Kar

Russia is one of the Powers most

and it

over 300 ships, not including mer

could not well be igno cantile craft, large quantity o аето- planes and 'short legged artillery might be desirable to restrict the HMS. Defender and five. Ameri-

number of Powers participating to men, a population - of 70,000,000, can warships at present are

in half of them trained soldiers

actual signatories of the harbour there.

er Treaty. Ireserves. I find that after attack- As Special attention is focussed on ing China for nearly two

regards participation of the plight of 200 Russian cabaret they have captured not one inch of in view of her sympathy with Ja- Italy, American circles think that girls who went to Chefoo from ground except by the bombing of pan and her cool attitude towards Shanghai for the summer season non-combatants, hospitals, women, the League of Nations, Rome will. and are now stranded there.

children, and the dead, and the boycott the Conference. It is believed that, steps may be wholesale rape of Shanghai, Nan Ocean. taken by foreign warships to evacu-king and Canton, and nearby towns ate them in case Chefoo is endan-which are unprotected by soldiers. gered-Reuter.

SOVIET SUPREME

thunder of a concerted bombard COUNCIL ELECTION

ment of the Chinese positions by Japanese land and naval guns, and it will not be surprising if the grand Japanese offensive has at last started.

Chinese artillery is replying to the Japanese fire, which awakened the whole city an hour earlier than usual

The weather is still unfavour- able for military operations, and a steady drizzle is falling.

GEN. MATSUI ASHORE

Trans-

Ho Fook-kam, a six-year-old girl This attack is a wholesale armed has been admitted to the Kowloor robbery of a weaker nation. Quot Hospital suffering from injuries ing from a local paper: "The Chin-received when she was knocked jese Government are not stopping the down by a car in Castle Peak Road

merchants from being anti-Japan-yesterday.

ese." What has the boycott to do

with our Government? Is it because trade. This is the time to act. we did not tamely subdue to rape? What will they think should we Our citizens in China refuse to ever carry out wholesale murder on Moscow, To-day buy or sell Japanese goods, but this Japanese soil? Tokyo, Korea, and The Russian Supreme Council elec-is very poor excuse to attack US Formosa tions will be held on December 12, Japan wishes to wash out all foreign says an official announcement, and the election campaign itself begins to-day.

The order for holding of elections is signed by the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, M. Kalinin.

:

The Central Executive Committee. under laws passed recently, will be replaced by a Supreme Council.

All lower sub-divisions of the Communist Party have been per-

It is learned that General Matsui, the Japanese commander-mitted to nominate candidates for in-chief, who has had his head the elections Trans-Ocean.

quarters on a Japanese warship since his arrival in Shanghai, has rrow taken the field.

A Japanese spokesman informed pressmen this morning that an im- portant announcement is being made this afternoon. It is expect-- ed this may announce the begin ning of the much-heralded Japan- ese drive. Reuter.

BIG ATTACK NOW PENDING

Shanghai, To-day.

Mr. V. H. Hammond, of Holland House, has reported the loss of a watch, valued at $150, between Holland House and Repulse Bay on Sunday.

the Shanghai front, where we are confronted by the well-trained and equipped Nanking divisions ”

The North China front, they say, is nevertheless--more importanti strategically than Shanghai.

UNDER THE SKIN

Statements, made chiefly by respondents, that Chinese soldier

Japanese officers this morning stated that the big Japanese of American war fensive will be launched either to man for day or to-morrow.

is a better fighter, seem to have got The Japanese regard successes under the skin of the Japanese, as on the Shanghai front as a matter several of their spokesmen have re- of prestige, since victories won ferred to the matter. against the Chinese provincial The Japanese admit, troops in North China, they say, what is virtually a breakdown of “do not count as much in the eyes all their past offensives on the of the world as successes scored on Shanghai front.-Trans-Ocean.

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