1938-07-13 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 13, 1938.

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VEILED THREAT TO REUTER'S PEIPING CORRESPONDENT Japanese Staff Officer And "Incident" Report

"Personal Safety

May Be Endangered"

Peiping, To-day.

With the arrival of reinforcements the Japanese army in Shansi began its third large scale Shansi campaign since November, launching a general offensive along the Fen River in South Pingyang.

LONDON REPORT CAUSED HIGH INDIGNATION

Berlin, To-day.

-KANSAS

MAN SENT TO ASYLUM

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Wichita, To-day,

The Kansas man who tried to Jump on President Roosevelt's car recently, with the avowed inten- tion of desiring to "shine his shoes," has been adjudged insane and committed to an asylum.— Reuter:

Indignation in the German circles was aroused yesterday by a story appearing in the London "News- Chronicle" to the effect that the Reich is endeavouring to separate Portugal from England and that enau-being mentioned on this oc- casion although the "News-Chroni- cle" refrains from publishing it.

Political circles here attach con- siderable significance to this com-

Official reports reveal that several Japanese garri-German intervention in the Spanish sons in that area have been beleaguered and conflict was for the purpose of that the Japanese planes are dropping food as preparing for the next war against the Chinese have cut off all other sources of communication.

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The Japanese declare that there are Chinese divisions in the southern corner of Shansi which they again propose to "annihi- läte."

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The British Embassy made representations to the panese Embassy concerning veiled threats by Japanese Staff Major Shigeyasu against the per- sonal safety of Reuter's Peking cor- respondent when he refused to en- dorse the Japanese investigations which are claimed to arrive at an opposite conclusion to the. eye-wit- ness report the correspondent used locally when the wife of the Gov- ernor of Hopei province, Mrs. Kao Ling-wei was twice slapped by Japanese sentry at the railroad station for smoking cigarettes.

VEILED THREAT

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The correspondent offered to pub- the lish the Japanese version of affair, but the officer said that this wag insufficient as the correspon dent 'must also endorse the Japanese investigation findings, of which the correspondent had means of confirmation.

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The officer added that the matter "had aroused some feeling and your personal safety may be endangered." -Reuter.

WOMAN KNOCKED OUT OF RICKSHA AND KILLED

A fatal accident occurred out- side the Po Hing Theatre shortly after 8.15 this morning when Bus No. 689, which was travelling along Nathan Road to the Star Ferry fail- ed to pull up in time and crashed into a ricksha in which a Chinese woman, Fung Hung-nui, aged 24, was travelling.

The impact threw the occupant of the vehicle to the ground and the ricksha was badly damaged.

The young woman sustained se- vere injuries to the head and body and died on her way to Kov Hospital.

The puller was also treated at Kowloon Hospital, but was not tained.

HEAVY BATTLE

ALONG YANGTSE SOUTH BANK

Hankow, To-day."

Heavy fighting is in "pro- gress on the south bank of the Yangtaze between Kiukiang and Hsiangshan, according to Chinese reports.

An official communique. states that, the Japanese pene- trated the Chinese lines in the vicinity of Hsiangshan⠀⠀on Monday, the Chinese counter- attacking yesterday inflicting four hundred casualties and capturing a number of ma- chineguns and rifles.

--Fighting-is-also continuing- between Hukou and Pengtseh.

Chinese sources assert that. eight Japanese warships attempt- ing to steam up river from Hukou and two Japanese motor launches which attempted to enter Poyang Lake steamed the away when engaged by Chinese shore batteries.

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Japanese aircraft bombed Lion Hill, west of Hukou.

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With the arrival: of rein- forcements Kiukiang, com- prising the crack Cantonese division under the command of General Li Han-wen, Chin- ese circles in Hankow are con- fident that the Japanese at- tempt to advance westward along the south bank of the Yangtse will meet stiff opposi- tion-Reuter.

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

France and England.

bination of incidents declaring that the source and purpose of the Bri- The newspaper bases its-report tish newspaper story is thus re- on an address allegedly delivered vealed. to the Fuehrer and other. National

PRESS FREEDOM Socialist Party leaders by a high A comparison is made between military official in which he is sup- the present accusations and the re- posed to have pointed out that Ger- ports concerning Germany's alleg- man guns placed near Algeciras, ed intentions in Morocco which opposite Gibraltar, will play an im- were circulated at the beginning of portant part in the next war by January. cutting off passage through the At that time the Under Secretary Straits.

in the French Foreign Ministry, M. Viennot, and then the Soviet Am- bassador to Paris, M. Potemkin, were alleged to have originated the rumours,

He is, moreover, alleged to have declared: that plans for a German, Italian and Spanish front in the Pyrenees have been drawn up.

"BRAZEN FALSEHOOD"

In the course of time, the British The story which has occasioned press admitted the falsity of these a high degree of indignation here reports and the French Government is characterised in semi-official cir-issued an official statement. Politi- cles as a new attempt to poison cal circles here fail to understand international relations" and a semi- the attitude of the British Govern- · official German news agency ment_in_the___ present Case brands it as “an insolent and bra- and - inquire whether the Gov- zen falsehood concocted purely for ernment: intends to continue inde- purpose of -instigat-finitely to regard with indifference agitation against Ger- repeated · endeavours by various

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the tention is called to the British news organs to destroy..

London, To-day. The Under Secretary for Foreigh airs, Mr. R. A. Butler, announ- ced in the Commons on the subject of General Franco's proposals to the British Government, contained in the recent reply to the British Note that the Prime Minister would make a statement on the hole.question as soon as he was British ina position to do so.- Wireless.

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an identical report was through agitation articles, the pro- broadcast several days ago from gress that is being made towards Moscow, the name of the high mill-pacification tary personage-General von Reich- Ocean.

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