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London. To-day.

The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph", declares that Italy's policy at the Nme-Power Conference will be tantamount to adherence to the German-Japanese anti-Bolshevik Pact.

Understanding thereon. was

ARMIES IN COMBAT ON

TWELVE-MILE

FRONT

KIANGWAN SECTOR VON CRAMM

FLARES UP

Shanghai, 2.30 p.m., To-day.

IN TOKYO:

Operations on the Shanghai front have sud- COMING HERE

denly developed into a war of movement, with the Japanese attacking all along the line from Kiang-

okyo,

wan to beyond Liuhang, making progress and be- Baron Gottfried reached at a meeting in Rome being repeatedly hurled back by violent counter-famous German tennis player, tween Signor Mussolini, Count attacks. Ciano, the Italian -Foreign Minis- ter, Mr. Sugimura, the Japanese

Ambassador in Rome, and Her von Ribbentrop, the German An-

bassador in London-Reuter,

CURIOUS DIPLOMATIC PROCEDURE

Shanghai, To-day.

rived in Yokohama yesterday after- noon, accompanied by Henkel and

amigiani and Nakano.

The severest infantry engagement of the cam-another Serman colleague, and the paign is now raging, following an intense artillery two Japanese Davis Cup players, duel this morning, in which heavy Chinese guns it is von Cramm's intention to pounded points of Japanese concentration, while play a series of exhibition games Japanese artillery and planes concentrated on Chin-in Japan, but he will be leaving for ese lines of communication.

Hong Kong, early in November and The intimated his willingness to play A frontal attack on the Kiangwan front is re-exhibition games in the British Co- ported to have carried the Japanese forces to the long edge of the Kiangwan Racecourse, after Futan He anticipates that he will arrive University had fallen to the marines.

The clock-tower, from which Chin- ese observers had been directing their gunfire, was demolished in a

Much speculation has been combined air and land aroused here by the activities of ment Mr.

bombard-

Nobubumi Ito, special Japanese claim to be attacking envoy-at-large appointed by the the racecourse from south and east, Gaimusho to Shanghai, who was but after seven hours of severe formerly Japanese Minister in fighting since five o'clock this morn- Warsaw, and now takes over a ing, they had to admit that the com- duty, which seems to be over-plicated Chinese trench system and lapping the task of Mr. Kawagoe, machine-gun redoubts had not been the Japanese Ambassador in pierced at any point.

China.

~~MIAOHANGCHEN BATTLE

Another severe battle is raging It was officially intimated that round Miaohangchen, against which the purpose of Mr. Ito's arrival was the Japanese have thrown three to keep in close contact with mem divisions of troops. They claim bers of the foreign diplomatic corps that the front line has been pene in order to present Japan's side intrated and that the Chinese are the dispute with China.”

drawing slowly to their second The appointment is alleged to line of defence, half a kilometre în have been requested by the Japan the rear. It is believed that the ese military leaders in Shanghai as Chinese have concentrated nearly conic desmonte 200,000 men in this sector.

of viewpoint, be- Further attempts to capture tween the militarists and M, Kawa Tazane broke early this morn-

whose duties are virtually ing, but the Japanese claim to have

Mr. Ito, though the For

has not ventured to re-

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the Ambassador,

Our Own Correspondent.

in Hong Kong not later than Novem ber 15. Our Own Correspondent.

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