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DUTCH TANKER DISASTER
KILLED IN CHINA FEARED
Tokyo, To-day.
Paris, To-day.
Paris, To-day.
References to his Abdication, his tour of Ger- many and his plans for the future, were made by the Duke of Windsor in a speech at a luncheon ten- dered in his honour by the Anglo-American Press Club in Paris yesterday.
Declaring that he wished to speak openly, the Duke accused the press of not always regarding events with an unprejudiced understanding, and referred to certain malicious comments about him- self and his wife which might have resulted in un- pleasant consequences.
CHINA'S GREAT FIGHT PRAISED IN LONDON
London, To-day.
"The Chinese resistance to the Japanese thrust at Shanghai is one of the most heroic chapters in the annals of nation, declares the "News Chronicle m an editorial
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communique issued by the Ja- Another sea tragedy is feared panese War Office last night gives to have occurred off the French "The gallant fight made by the details of the losses officially suffer- Atlantic coast, where the Dutch Chinese at Shanghai should in- ed by the Japanese land forces in tanker Megara (9,700 tons) is spire the delegates to the Nine- China up to October 24, and a list believed to have sunk with all Power Conference to make an of war material captured by Japan-hands after she was ravaged by equally firm stand on behalf of in ese on the North China and Shang-fire. hai fronts.
Wireless-S.-O. S. messages were According to the communique, picked up early yesterday from the 9,640 Japanese soldiers have been distressed tanker, saying she was killed in China, 4,467 of them in on fire and requesting immediate North China and 5,173 at Shanghai. assistance. --Trans-Ocean:
SERIOUS RABAT DISTURBANCES
Rabat (Morocco), To-day. The unrest which followed arrest f several Moroccan Nationalist
aders is increasing.
Six policemen were seriously in jured and two natives killed in
Several steamers put out and searched the area for the whole day without success, and it is thought the tanker has sunk Trans-Ocean.
clashes yesterday afternoon, and many natives injured when police broke up a demonstration.
Fire was exchanged between the police and the natives, and police patrols are now to be seen on the streets. Trans-Ocean
Hong Kong's new Governor, sented to leading members of the Civil
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ternational law and order.
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Turning to his German visit, the Dake declared it had been inter- esting as well as instructive, and that he and his wife were looking forward to their journey to the United States and other comm- tries in order to investigate indus- tries of the large nations of the world, and especially housing con- ditions of workers.
He assured his listeners that he was undertaking the tour as an in- dependent observer on his own ini tiative.
Referring to his general plans for the future, the Duke declared: "You all are acquainted with the circumstances which led to the ac- tion of last December, and the forces which influenced my decim sion.
"I am now a very happily mar tried man, but my wife and I would
find no satisfaction in leading- life of leisure and pleasure. "They have a more powerfulWe hope and believe that at the weapon than the Chinese.
proper moment, the experience and "They can initiate an inter-information, which we are gaining national boycott of Japan which from our travels, will enable us to would soon bring her to her knees make our private contribution to a and compel her to desist from this solution of vital problems.” wanton act of aggression.
Trans-Ocean
"Civilised nations cannot do less than the common soldier in China
in withstanding aggression and a leader on the latest phase of the defending an ideal" Reuter
fighting at Shanghai. DAILY MAIL'S ESTIMATE
"Territorial gains are of little moment to them, save insofar as London, To-day. they further their prime and only. The "Daily Mail," m a leading objective destruction of the Chinese article on the Japanese advance at armies as an effective fighting force. Shanghai, says that Japan, with "Thus far they have made little the prestige of this victory, and headway towards this objective China, after her magnificently sus "They have killed thousands of tained resistance, could both ac- Chinese soldiers, among them cept an armistice without disgrace of the best under Nanking's
"Unhappily, it does not appear mand, but their ten bloody weeks likely that either side will be will- at Shanghai (even if the struggle ing to break off the struggle yet there is not further prolonged
The paper adds: "Everybody seems an unlikely contingency) will hope that before winter sets one day prove to have - in mediation by outside Powers foundations of a military may bring the two sides to an such as China has never accommodation.
"While the conflict cont there is always the risk of Russia taking more than a covert share in hostilities, and calamitously widen ing the war.
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