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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 6, 1988.

JAPANESE

NAVAL

LOSES IN YANGTSZE Wrecked Aircraft-Carrier Seen By Foreigners

·CHIANG'S BACK TO WALL MESSAGE

London, To-day.

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek em- phasised the importance of the forthcoming battle round Han- kow in yesterday's Orders of the Day when he told the Chinese troops that the decisive day for Hankow and perhaps of the en- tire Chinese war is approaching.

He emphasised the necessity for a Chinese victory and exhort- ed every soldier, to remain at his post under all circumstances. Trans-Ocean.

FRENCH ENVOY AT GAIMUSHO ON PARACELS OCCUPATION

Badly Damaged Ships Now In The

Lower Reaches

Shanghai, To-day.

ALLEGED EXPLOITATION

OF BRITISH FLAG

London, To-day. Questions regarding the regis

Striking confirmation of the achievements of the tration of British shipping were

Chinese Air Force, in their raids on the Japan- ese naval concentrations in the Yangtsze, has been provided by unimpeachable foreign

sources.

put in the Commons by Sir Frank Sanderson, M.P., who asked whe-

ther in view of the considerable uneasiness felt in some quarters that the British flag was being exploited by foreign opportun

Mr. Oliver Stanley, President

An aircraft-carrier badly damaged with thirty lists, the President of the Board of Trade would tighten up the wrecked planes on board, a transport in a sink-

regulations?. ing condition, three destroyers and a torpedo- boat are among the definitely confirmed ca-of the Board of Trade, replied sualties.

that special steps had been taken since last August to examine par- The officers also sighted a ticularly applicants for British large aircraft carrier in the registry, and to secure com« lower Yangtse estuary with 30 pliance with the law. — Reuter. planes aboard that were all smashed.

The news was brought by offi-{ cers of ships arriving in Shang- hai in the course of yesterday from the Lower Yangtsze.

They reported having sighted PARIS, TO-DAY. a small Japanese torpedo boat

The carrier had evidently been'

IT IS OFFICIALLY INTIM- apparently being towed to the hit by three or four bombs and ATED THAT THE FRENCH Kiangwan Naval Dockyard at the ship itself AMBASSADOR IN TOKYO YES- Shanghai.

THE

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TERDAY-PAID A VISIT TO The ship was evidently hit by a JAPANESE FOREIGN bomb or shell in the engine room OFFICE AND EXPLAINED and badly damaged. THE REASON FOR THE DES- 3. PATCH OF ANNAMITE PO- LICE ΤΟ THE PARACELS

ISLANDS.

He stated that the purpose was to afford protection for the lighthouses and wireless station,

EVACUATION

which was to be erected shortly. OF THOUSANDS

He assured General Ugaki, the Minister, that Japanese fisher- men now on the island would be permitted to remain.

It was also pointed out to Jap- an that the French right to send troops and police to the Paracel Islands was granted by China in 1885. Reuter.

IN LENINGRAD

Paris, To-day. Upwards three hundred thousand inhabitants of Lenin- grad have, according to a des patch from the former Tsarist capital to the paper "Paris Midi," received an order to leave the city and settle in the interior Paracel of the Soviet Union. Islands by the French native police

JAPAN LOOKING FOR

AN ARGUMENT :

Paris, To-day..

The occupation of the

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All foreigners residing in Lenin-, and strong resentment excited ingrad are stated to have also been Japan by the occupation of that ordered to leave. Archipelago, induces the French The papers correspondent con- morning papers to justify that nects this decision of the Soviet authorities with the 'great, new

measure.

The papers point out that the fortifications now in the course of islands were occupied by the Em- construction along the Frontier be- pire of Annam at the beginning of tween the Soviet Union and the 19th century and that the Ja- Finland. panese allegations that the French had occupied Chinese territory were, therefore entirely baseless,

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The same paper's Moscow cor- respondent deals again on Tuesday. with the case of Madame Litvinoy, English born, wife of the Foreign

The French press maintains that the official version that Annamite Commissar, reports of whose ar- police and troops were landed only rest continue to circulate in Mos- for the protection of the metero-cow despite all denials. — Trans- logical stations and beacons situat Ocean.

ed or these islands.

It is believed here that the Ja- panese protests were violent only because Japan was looking for ar- guments justifying the possible oc- cupation of the Island of Hainan

the Japanese, Trans-Ocean.

The new Indo-China 8. N. Com pany steamer Tai Sang, is to be launched at Kowloon Docks on Saturday of next week.

IMREDY

RUMOUR

Budapest, To-day

Official denial is issued here Tues- day of the oreign press reports that Premier Imredy intends to Trans- travel shortly to London. Ocean..

badly damaged.

was apparently

STERN SHATTERED

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A transport was also sighted with its stern shattered and it was thought that the ship was saved from sinking by the watertight bulkheads.

INFLATION IN JAPAN

Tokyo, To-day.': Or basis of Far Imperial Decree

Also in the convoy of the dis- the Japanese government has an- |abled warship, there were three nounced that emergency money in destroyers being towed, one coins and notes will be issued in evidently in a sinking condition July and will be valid until one year and the others seriously damag following the termination of Sino- ed. Reuter.

Trans-Ocean. Japanese hostilities.

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