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JAP. SAID Sequel To Rejection Of Ultimatum?

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

Shanghai, To-day.

DYNAMITE NEXT TO BRITISH C. G.

Hankow, To-day. Dynamite fuses are at present being placed under all Japanese buildings in Hankow.

JAPANESE HOLD UP AMERICAN LINER

Shanghai, To-day.

The departure of the liner "President Coolidge" for America, scheduled for this morning, was

Most of these are alongside foreign property, and one build-delayed by the refusal of the ing mined to-day is within ten Japanese-controlled Customs to yards of the British Consulate-issue a permit for a shipment of

Intense indignation is felt in British circles here General.

following the Japanese attack on H.M.S. Sand-promised to give foreigners the liner. piper near Changsha early this morning. Although no official comment is available, little doubt exists but that the bombing was deliber- ate, and it is pointed out that the incident fol- WEATHER FORECAST

The Chinese authorities have 100 cases of silver loaded aboard

twenty-four hours warning to evacuate before lighting thef fuses. Reuter.

lowed the refusal of the British and American authorities to comply with the Japanese "ulti- matum" delivered on Saturday.

the

Mr. Clarence E. Gauss, American Consul-General, and the Japanese are now negotiating, and it is presumed that the Japanese will contend that the silver is own- ed by the Chinese National Gov- ernment. :

The "President Coolidge,” which The Royal Observatory reports was recently taken over by the that the anticyclone has moved in-American Maritime. Commission to the Pacific but a weak anti-and is therefore semi-owned by the cyclonic area persists over China American Government, has now and the neighbouring seas.

announced postponement of de- Local forecast: N.E. winds, parture until to-morrow morning.—

The "ultimatum," it will be recalled, demanded the moderate; fine.

immediate withdrawal of foreign warships and merchantmen to a point above. Hankow, and requested details of the movements of all for- eign vessels on waterways in Central China.

It is emphasised here that a British gunboat is, on regular patrol on the Slang River, on which Changsha, the Hunan capi- tal, is situated, a fact well known to the Japanese.

CHINESE REVENGE patrol on

AT CANTON

London, To-lay.

;

In addition, H.M.S. Sandpiper Canton to-day is the parallel of was prominently marked with Moscow in 1812, according to the two Union Jacks, while there "Daily Express," whose Hong Kong were no Chinese vessels in the

vicinity. correspondent cables that Canton

It is

is unofficially stated in is in flames, its pagodas and age Shanghai that there is no inten- old temples crashing in ruins and tion of concentrating British war- its skyscrapers in heaps of rubble. ships and river steamers at a

The

newspaper, in an accom-point above Hankow, as request-

ed by the Japanese. panying "box,” says that the Chin-

Correspondent.

ege revenged themselves on the Invader as the Russians revenged

themselves in 1812, and ‚rê- historic disastrous retreat. capitulates details of Napoleon's Iter.

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Reuter.

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