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CATHOLICS TRY TO BLAME BARCELONA

Vatican City, To-day,

JAPANESE RETICENT ABOUT TRUCE

Tokyo, To-day. Political circles are rather reti-

"The reservations to Barcelona's cent about the situation created acceptance of the British Govern-by the truce. The newspapers ment's plan for withdrawal of agree, however, that for the time volunteers from Spain will render being the incident cannot be re- garded as settled. It is pointed cut that only the patience and discipline of the Japanese troops prevented the development of a serious situation.

the acceptance null," declares the "Osservatore Romana” and adds,

"Rendering the London plan effective must be considered almost

Reports from Hsinking state impossible.

that responsible quarters are "The line policy followed, es-carefully watching how the So- pecially by Mr. Chamberlain, in viet troops fulfil the agreement. favour of the withdrawal of volun-It would be a premature, it is de- teers is seriously compromised clared, to believe that the incident with grave consequences to peace is actually settled by Moscow in the Mediterranean, and especial- since In view of the domestic! ly for the Anglo-Italian Agree-eituation in Soviet Russia it re- ment."-Reuter.

mains to be seen whether the troops execute the agreement.- Trans-Ocean.

SHANGHAI TO-DAY IN

STATE OF SIEGE

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It is announced by the Director of the Royal (Continued from Page 1)

Observatory in the ness arose when aeroplanes circl- "Gazette" that the meteorological ing overhead poured down clouds now available is frequently insuffi- of handbills sharply attacking both cient to justify an inference as to Chiang Kai-shek and all foreigners. pressure distribution in the Far It was pointed out that no nero-East, and on such occasions the planes except Japanese are per- Daily Weather Report will be limit- observations mitted to fly over Shanghai so thated to the synoptic the obvious conclusion was that available and the "Local Forecast." these must have been Japanese and

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emanated from Japanese sources.

Competent Japanese authorities, nothing about however, declared that they knew Trans-Ocean..

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Shanghai, To-day. Following the dropping of anti-Chiang Kai-shek pamph- lets yesterday, it is now re- vealed that anti-British pam- phlets were also distributed. It has been established that the distributors were Japanese officers dressed in Chinese clo- thing and using a special de- fence service motor car.

It has been additionally ́ learned that the Japanese have re-inforced the Japanese gen- try posts opposite the British Army units and Japanese ma- chineguns

were yesterday trained directly towards the British posts.

British military authorities lodged a violent protest and declared that if the Japanese machineguns were not remov- ed by 5 a.m. this morning, British machineguns would be trained towards the Japanese.

Early this morning, General Telfer Smollett was satisfy- ing himself that this demand At had been complied with. any rate, there were no Japan- ese machine-guns trained on the British sectors when Reu- ters man toured the area this morning. Reuter.

Mexico City, To-day. There were 11 killed and 15 wounded, including women and children, in a clash yesterday between the Trade Union ele- ments and the Agrarian ele- ments at Teheran in Michoacan State.

The fighting is a result of the dispute regarding the. possession of land which has been officially parcelled out under the government's agra- rian programme.Reuter.

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Shanghai, To-day.

The Japanese authorities had previously intimated that if to- day passed quietly consideration was likely to be given shortly to the withdrawal of Japanese sen- tries from the bridges along Soo- chow Creek as the first step to- wards restoration to the Council of that section of the Settlement held by the Japanese.

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It is suggested, therefore,- that the activities of Chinese-clothed, Japanese agents in the Settle- ment

fos- deliberately Was tered by the extremist sec- tions of the Japanese Army who are endeavouring to stir up trou- ble and delay the possibility of withdrawal of the Japanese`sen- tries.

Meanwhile, the Japanese them- selves are rigorously searching all entrants to the Settlement from Hongkew, whether Chinese, Japanese or foreigners in uniform or civilian clothes.-Reuter.

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finally halted by Municipal Police and all occupants arrested and march- ed the police headquarters where they are present being intorro- gated. Police suspect the Ja- panese who were wearing clothes are actually Japanese soldiers but the suspicions have not yet been proved.

One Japanese hit over the head by an American was seriously wounded and sent to hospital. Another two Japanese in the American sector wore confronted by Japanese Consular Police and admitted they were Japanese of- ficers in disguise.

The Consular Police said they had no jurisdiction over them and the Americans therefore marched them to the American Barracks. --Reuter.

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with machineguns mounted on driver's boxes and the freight space filled with voulnteers with rifles at the ready and bayonets fixed.

The Seaforths and the re- gular French troops patrolled the boundaries of the Inter- national Settlement and the French Concession, while here and there ambulances, could be seen by the roadside, grim reminders of the possibilities of the occasion.

Touring along the edges of the British defence sector, a Reuter's representative en- countered at the Garden Bri- dge, Brigadier-General Telfer Smollett, who was making a dawn tour of the sentry posts in order to satisfy himself that all was in order.

The vast crowds of Chin- ese gathered near the sentry posts were waiting expectant- ly and the atmosphere at these points was particularly electric in view of the series of events in the past 24-hours. -Reuter.

London, To-day. London was again visited: yesterday afternoon by a vió- lent thunderstorm which caus- ed damage to houses and the flooding of streets.

Leeds and other places also suffered damage from lightning and floods, and three persons were killed by lightning in various parts of the country.

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