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SERIOUS INCIDENT Rush At British Post: TOKYO'S SAFETY Reporter Watches Heavy Shrapnel Fire

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

THE WHOLE OF THE CHINESE BORDER ZONE BETWEEN SHUM- CHUN AND THE CHINESE VILLAGE AT SHATAUKOK, ACROSS THE BRITISH FRONTIER, IS THIS MORNING VIRTUALLY IN THE HANDS OF THE JAPANESE.

ZONE REPLY NOT RECEIVED

The Japanese Consulate- General stated this morning that no reply has yet been received from Tokyo concerning the Bri- of three safety zones tish request for the recognition on the Chinese side of the border.

The request was made on

Wednesday.

The Japanese are now, in occu- pation of Shumchun.--

Chinese resistance to the east of the railway is gradually collapsing under the British border is crammed so

steady pounding by Japanese artillery..

full with refugees as to be almost unbelievable.

I have just been under fire myself, near the British observation post at the

bridge which takes the Kowloon-Canton motor road over the Shum-driven by a European officer, chun River.

out at about ten o'clock this morn-

I also saw a British police van

carrying five wounded Chinese soldiers who had managed to get across some distance along the

They were bandaged, looked 'dis-

SHATAUKOK INCIDENT War almost came to Hong Kong's (Continued on Page 24)

piritedly and generally miserable.

The Japanese battery can very clearly be seen, Regiment.

manned by men in blue uniform, apparently The firing, they told me, broke river. naval men or marines. They are shelling a line ing, and, said the officer, "one held by the Chinese running parallel to the Bri-landed right on our doorstep." tish border at a point just across the bridge. A small village just this side One piece of shrapnel a few minutes ago (10.30 a.m.) struck the bank of the river only twenty yards from where we were standing, doing no more harm, however, than throwing up a cloud of dust.

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OVER PUPPET FEDERATION

Peiping, To-day.

The plans to establish a federal government of China, with headquarters at Peiping.. have reached a deadlock, ac- cording to reliable sources.

The difficulty is stated to be due to a difference of opinion between various sec tions of the Japanese, army" regarding the form the new government should take. Reuter.

Things are becoming so uncom- fortable that a British military lorry which was parked at the observation post was driven back to a safer position.

ON THE RUN

The objective of the battery is only 200 yards away on the Chinese side, and Chinese troops, Customs officials and civilian refugees are on the run.

Shells can be heard as they whis- tle past where we are standing to burst with a crack 200 yards away. Panic seems to be spreading through the defence position and hundreds have run helter skelfer across the British territory, though under fire throughout.

al-

I saw some running near a shell burst and did not see them again. - A moment ago, one of the shells landed in a field hundred yards away and burst.–

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