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Twenty Warships Assembled Off Shantung Port MAY DIVERT INTEREST U.S. NAVAL PRISON FOOD CANTON PREPARES CRAFT UNDER FOR EMERGENCIES

CONTRACT QUESTIONS

At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock will ask the following questions:

ernment state-

With reference to the report of the Prisons Committee, will the Go

(1) On what date was that re - port sent in by that Com mittee to the Government?

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

More than twenty Japanese warships are re- ported to have assembled in the immediate vicinity of Tsingtao within the past 24 hours, and it is fear- ed that the bombardment of the port is imminent.

Japanese sources, however, indicate that any attack will probably be delayed until the Japanese forces now bidding to attack Shantung from the south reach Hsuchow, the Japanese programme envisaging the complete encirclement of the pro-

vince:

It is thought unlikely that the best man-power- troops now on the north bank of

SUDDEN ORDERS

San Diego (Cali-

fornia), To-day. Nine United States des- troyers suddenly sailed last night for San Pedro under orders on which naval officials said they were unable to comment.

(2) Is the Government, in re

REFUGEES KEEP UP PACE gard to the supply of food the Yellow River will move until Chinese refugees are still crowd-

The warships were due to pro- to prisoners during the year orders are given for a simultaneing Hong Kong steamers, fearing day, were summoned from thea- 1938, following the recom-ous attack, troops from north that opportunities for evacuation tres and places of amusement and mendations of that Com and south co-operating with may not be available later.

ordered to return to their ships. mittee? If net will the Gov naval action. at Tsingtao. Our Student bodies who have been very The warships were due to pro- erent state in what re-Own Correspondent.

quiet for this part of China are now ceed on cruises to foreign ports spects it is not following the

coming to the forefront and the early in the New Year. vernacular papers report that anti-High officers of the destroyer Japanese demonstrations and mass flotilla said they did not know meetings are to be expected in the why the ships were suddenly

ordered out.—Reuter- near future-Beuter

(3)

recommendations of that Committee and for what rea-

sons?

CANTON FEARS

FORGAN'S CLUBS

KwangtungMPROVE

Canton, To-day. What Officer of the Gaol is Although Canton has resigned responsible for recommend-itself to the prospects of hostili- ing to the Tender Board the ties in South China, and feverish acceptance of a particular military activities are reported tender for the supply of to be taking place, including the

arrival food to prisoners? »

thousand of several Who is the proprietor of or Kwangsi troops in Kwangtung, who are the partners in the usually well-informed Chinese Hop Kee which is referred and foreign sources hesitate to to in that part of the said give full credence to recent Committee's report which rumours that a Japanese invasion relates to food? Are not the is likely, at least for the pre- Hop Kee also the present sent. contractors for the supply of) food to the Queen Mary Hospital?

CINEMA FIRE DISASTER IN JAPAN

Tokyo, 2 pm. To-day.

A terrible cinema theatre fire disaster occurred in Honda village, Wakiyama Prefecture, near Osaka yesterday evening, n which 48

their lives.

persons

TIME RIPE

It is admitted that the time is ripe for Canton to share the fate of other big cities throughout China, but the likelihood of trouble in Tsingtao, where the outlook has become sud- denly ominous, may temporarily direct attention from the south. where, all sources agree, a Japanese campaign would be most likely to prove extremely expensive, neces- sitating the employment of their

Japanese war.

Panic spread in the crowded auditorium and there was a stampede for the exits in which scores were knocked down and trampled upon

The death roll is officially stated to be 48 and there are the theatre more than 50 others seriously in- during the filming of a news reel jured: Our Own Correspon-

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