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Two Further Decapitated Heads Found In Streets

SOVIET VISIT TO GAIMUSHO

Tokyo, To-day. The Soviet Ambassador in Tokyo yesterday had a two-hour conversation with the Deputy Foreign Minister.

Nothing has been revealed of the subject of the talks.—Trans- Ocean.

SOVIET BORDER INCIDENT: NEW FACTS

Tokyo, To-day.

Miss Yoshiko Okada, the popular actress, and Mr. Rjokichi Sugimoto, theatri- cal producer and actor, who "smuggled” themselves into Soviet territory by a specta- - cular dash across the Sagha- lien border early in January, are believed to be under de- tention.

According to new information on the case received in Tokyo yester- day afternoon, they are being held at Vladivostok.

The pair, whose disappearance caused a sensation in dramatic cir- cles in Tokyo, are believed to have been taken into custody by the So- viet authorities and subjected to strict examination.

Pro-Japanese Warning Notices

Shanghai, To-day.

BOMBS THROWN

INTO EVENING

POST BUILDING

Terrorism had a free hand in Shanghai last night

Shanghai, To-day. when in addition to the outrages already men- Another incident involving the tioned, the decapitated head of another Chin-Shanghai Evening Post and Mer- ese male was found in the French Concession cury occurred at 5 o'clock this shortly after 11.15 p.m.

morning when two men riding

The head was discovered by a group of Russian bicycles, each threw hand grenades girls near the Arcadia night club, whence they the United Press and Mr. H. G. W. into the building, which also houses were going home. Their attention was at- tracted by what appeared to be a man buried Oriental Affairs.

Woodhead, editor and publisher of in the pavement to the neck. Closer examina- tion revealed that it was the head of a young Chinese about 25.

head of

The girls screamed and a news- CHINA WAR

paper

correspondent who

was

driving by stopped to investi- gate. Examination of the head revealed that decapitation was comparatively recent. The head had been severed from the body: from below the ears and careful- ly placed on the pavement imme- diately under an electric light post, on which was pasted a no-

COMPARED WITH GREAT WAR

Shanghai, To-day.

After throwing the

grenades, which were of the potato masher type, the two men were caught by Settlement police at the corner of Canton and Szechuen Roads, a few hundred yards from the "Post" building.

The perpetrators of the outrage, looking little better than the coolie class,

were handed over to the French police, who refuse to divulge information at present.

The bombing injured nobody and did only very little damage, save for broken glass in the revolving. door at the entrance to the build- ing. Reuter. (See Page Six)

Japan

An interesting comparison be- tice in Chinese saying "This man tween the Sino-Japanese conflict lost his head due to his anti-and the first six months of the Japanese activities, and his fate Great War is made by a European should serve as a warning to military observer.

the field during the corresponding others."

He says that Sino-Japanese hos-, period of the Great War. UNKNOWN IDENTITY tilities are more brutal than world INTENSITY OF COMBAT French police took the head to war practice. The fact that the He also intimated that the Central Station, hoping to Chinese and Japanese do not take had put a larger number of men determine the man's identity, prisonera has contributed very ap into the field in China than Eng- which however is still not estabpreciably to the number of casual-land sent to the Continent in the

ties, while it is common for both first six months of the war. lished.

It ís believed the head was to ignore the enemy's wounded,Military operations in China had It is understood that the Foreign Office, which had previously taken brought to the spot in an automo, which was not the case in the early been, on the whole, rather less, in- cognizance of the case, has

bile and carefully placed where stages of the Great War. in-

|During the first six months of structed Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, it could easily be seen. the Japanese Ambassador in Mos- A third head, of an unidenti- the present conflict, Japan had pro- cow, to negotiate with the Soviet fied Chinese male, was found this bably used more artillery in China authorities for the release of the morning in the French Conces- than England was able to put into couple-Reuter.

slon in front of the residence of Major Hagen, assistant United States naval attache,

PEIPING-HANKOW Above the head, pasted on a

DRIVE HALTED BY CHINESE

telephone pole, was a notice similar to that found near the head outside the Arcadia Cabaret last night. Reuter

scale operations on this front, which for some time has enjoyed comparative quiet.

In consequence of stiff Chinese resistance, it is claimed here that the enemy advance has been stop ped,

Hankow, To-day. The offensive started by Japan- ese troops from Taming, east of the Peiping-Hankow Railway, in a southerly direction towards the Yellow River two days ago, is des- Several divisions are on the way cribed by Chinese military circles from Shansi to Tsingfeng as rein here as the resumption of large 'forcements.Trans-Ocean.

Restiveness

tensive than in France, although several drives—could be compared in Intensity with the great battle during the early part of the Great War-Reuter.

Of German Army Officers In

Pomerania

Berlin, To-day.

Nazi circles do not expect anything in the nature of a revolt or unrest, though it is admitted that there is some restiveness among old army officers, especially in such districts as Pomerania or East Prussia, where they are brought up in the tradition of the old army. The Nazis, however, deny there has been any trouble.

It is gathered, however, that a certain weeding out of officers will occur in the course of time. These are officers unsympathetic to the new regime.

It is pointed out that the army was built up very hurriedly and that many

officert wer brought back who were steeped in the old

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