1937-11-29 — Page 1

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ARMS LOAN REPORTED £100,000,000 Guarantee Said Given To China

ALLEGATION OF JAPANESE

DIPLOMAT

DECISIVE ACTIONS NOW IN PROGRESS

Shanghai, 1.45 p.m. To-day. The whole immediate fate of the Chinese resistance on the Thing Kiangyin front is to-day staked on

AIR RAID

SYRENS FOR H.K. POLICE

In connection.

are

raids precautions, it is underst that warning syrens ing fitted to Police motor This morning, at the Central Po- fice station, traffic police wer specting the portable syrens will be carried by all com tions.

Behind the scenes at Brussels, assurances were given of substantial foreign support to the Nan- king Government, according to sensational re- ports published in Tokyo this morning, on the authority of a high Japanese diplomatic official at ling, Changchow (Wutsin) and ders are resisting further

Kiangyin according to reliable The Tashiro and

in Paris.

three sanguinary encounters, raging

reports.

with a reckless co

gades reached

Simultaneous attacks were Kiangyin at ten o'clock last

Munition loans to the value of £100,000,000 are al-

leged to have been guaranteed, providing for hunched at dawn this morning since when the action has the supply of huge quantities of arms and am-lent onslaughts, preceded by

munition.

Tokyo, To-day.

The "Nichi Nichi" to CONCERTED AIR

day splashes a sensa-

tional telephonic inter- RAID ALARM

view with Mr. Kido, Jap-

anese statesman in Paris. SYSTEM FOR H.K.

Mr. Kido declared that since

the Brussels Conference, Dr. It is notified for general informa- Wellington Koo has been secret-tion that tests of a concerted alarm an emergency ly carrying on negotiations with system for use in the British. American, French, will be carried out to-morrow Belgian and Soviet delegates to 10 am. and at 8 p.m. The practice the Conference requesting a alarm will be effected by the follow- munitions loan of £100,000,000.

ing means:-

Dr. Koo is alleged to have de-l clared that otherwise the Pow-

at

on all three towns. The first down to street fighting with

intense aerial bombardment, en fabled the Japanese to gain a foot hold in all three towns, but it is officially admitted by the Japan- ese that the issue remains decided and that desperate street fighting is taking place.

Chinese launching violent count

attacks as soon as Japanese try attacks have been halted

THING ENTERED.

A similar situation prevails at un-Thing, where Japanese troops fore- ed their way into the town at 9 am this morning, but have since been held up by machine gun nests in the city streets.

HOLD ON CHANGCHOW At Changchow, the Japanese seems to have secured a firm foot- hold on the south-east corner of the town, but casualties have been exceedingly heavy, and the defen-

ers' rights and interests in the in Harbour and His Majesty da

Orient would be wiped out.

Mr. Kido states that Dr. Koo secretly called on the British and American delegates on November 22 and tearfully implored British and American positive assistance, otherwise China would perish or yield to Japan.

The five-power delegates held secret meeting at which the British and Americans alleged to have tentatively premised support of Chinese

was given to tatives.

act that such a promise

repre

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Sirens of His Majesty's Ships

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Maroons fired from the Har- bour Office and Water Police Sta- tion (as for the final typhoon warning).

The Dairy Farm whistle at Pok

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pended on enormous supplies, which Mr. Kido gives in detail.

They would include, he says, a thousand aeroplanes, 150 field

aircraft guns. 5,000 guns: theavy mar

light ma

rounds of

and 15,000 and millions of

Japan must realise the oppor

Mr. Kido states that General tunity of ripening Joint assistance

Chiang

2100

behind the scenes,

In Anhwel, the Chinese have withdrawn to defence lines in front of Changteh and the forces (Continued on Page 21)

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