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INCIDENT

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Shanghai, To-day.

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Cache In Sun

Sun Hotel

Shanghai, To-day.

RETIRE ACROSS TUMEN RIVER

Tokyo, To-day. According to a statement by

have withdrawn from the fighting Ministry, all Japanese troops

An incident which occurred on The extraordinary situation of the Japanese Mili- the press department of the War

tary asking the Shanghai Municipal Police to assist in removing bombs belonging to the Spe-zone around Changkufeng. cial Service Section of the Japanese Army, OC curred during the forenoon of August 13th, it was revealed here to-day.

Garden Bridge, leading to the In- ternational Settlement on Saturday night, when the police and Scottish) guards held up an automobile in

ich a Japanese officer, Major ano, was sitting has incensed the The apanese population to an unusual extent..

are now in Korean territory west of the river of Tumen and that not a single Japanese soldier now remains east of the river.

It is added that these troops

bombs are understood to have been placed in a room of the Sun Sun Hotel, close to Louza Po-be entirely a voluntary act of lice Station.

According to the Japanese ver- It is also understood that they were intended to be used to bomb the station, when the missiles were simultaneously to be thrown, presumably by Japanese "terrorists" in the crowded streets. Police, on the night of August|

sion of the incident, the guards demanded to see the chauffeur's] | license of the driver of the car. British officers who arrived at the scene gave the driver permission to proceed.

12, visited the residence of Jap- FAIR GENERALLY

anese members

of the S.S.S.,

The withdrawal is declared to

the Japanese High Command.

Political circles here believe that the Japanese Government desires to put a definite end to incidents at Changkufeng, and to prevent, under all circumstances, further difficulties arising.

No information is available re-

the Soviet troops. Trans-Ocean.

arding the positions now held by

· the

The Chief of the Japanese Army press department, Colonel Hamada, situated in the Sun Sun Hotel, has sent a protest to the com-

who it may be recalled were The Royal Observatory reports and the neighbouring seas, mander of the British troops in Shanghai, in which he complained responsible for the only "terror- that the anticyclone remains over typhoon being situated about 150 ist" incident which occurred last the Pacific to the north-east of miles east of Shanghai moving against the discourteous conduct

week.

Japan, and has increased in inten-northwards. of the police and particularly of the members of the Seaforth High- landers.

This protest was preceded by another sent to the same address, the subject in this case being the arrest of a Japanese Major on Sunday while he was proceeding along the bank of the Soochow creek.-Trans-Ocean.

CHOLERA STILL UNDER CONTROL

The Japanese, when confront- ed by police, protested so vehe- mently that after lengthy nego- tiations on the spot, it was de- cided, for diplomatic reasons, to abandon the search.

CLEARED UP

The situation was somewhat. cleared up on the arrival of a for- mal request for the S.M.P. to assist the Japanese Military au- thorities in removing the gren- ades.

The bombs, the Japanese ex- plained, had been placed there for the protection of Japanese Army During last week, 41 new cases men occupying rooms in the

of cholera were notified to the hotel.

Medical Department, while 17 The police readily assisted in deaths from cholera were report removing the deadly missiles.

ed. Of the new cases, 16 were Reuter.

found in Victoria, 15 in Kowloon

and nine in Shaukiwan. Two were officially described as im- ported cases.

Also last week there were 25 fresh victims of typhoid and 12. of meningitis.

ANKING CHOLERA

Hankow, To-day. Malaria and cholera epidemics The return for the 24 hours have broken out in Anking, now un- ended at midnight shows seven der Japanese occupation. It is re- cholera cases, five from Victoria ported that many Japanese have and two from Shaukiwan, and fallen victim to the diseases, four typhoid cases from Kowloon. Central News.

sity. The area of low pressure Forecast: S.W. winds, mo- remains over South China, Formosa derate; fair generally.

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