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HIGH TENSION Demand Growing: On
IN BLOOD ALLEY BATTLE
Shanghai, To-day.
One of the most serious clashes
ever
been in Shanghai's “Blood Alley," the row of cabarets in-Rue
Now Or
Or Never Basis
London, To-day.
The attitude of the Western Powers to peace terms POPE'S HEALTH
to close the Sino-Japanese War, in the light of
recent Japanese declarations regarding the fu-AGAIN CAUSING
ture of the Open Door in China, are discussed
by a special contributor to the "Daily Tele-CONCERN
graph" this morning.
Chu Pao San, took place shortly The writer, J. B. Firth, comes to this conclusion:
"If the Western Powers do not make a firm stand for a real Open Door peace treaty between China and Japan, they may within a few years wipe off their trade assets in China as a certain total loss.
after midnight following which a group of French police halted at the point of the pistol a truck full of Italian marines.
two
Rome, To-day. Those in the immediate neigh- bourhood of Pone Pins were again seriously concerned yesterday even- ing by his state of health.
New signs of exhaustion made
treatment by the Pope's medical at- tendants necessary.
It is stated that disturbances in
The latter were attempting to
"If they do mean to make a real non-belligerents to interfere when leave, it is reported, after having badly beaten up two foreign offi- stand, let them make it altogether terms of peace are being arranged, cers of the French police and with all the powers who signed, and but reinforces his argument for a the blood circulation have again oc- smashed windows in
have kept, the Nine-Power Agree real stand by pointing to the incurred. No official communication ment of 1931.
dustrial development of China has, however, yet been issued. cabarets.
which will follow peace, of which Trans-Ocean. Japan must acquire the direction in order to make certain of effective control of the vast Chinese market
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"Japan has broken it continuous- The fight is believed to have started when an Italian sailor ly and deliberately, both in the called out to a French sailor: spirit and letter." "Tunis! Corsica !"
7-POINT PROGRAMME
a
ly understood in the West, where China is "still' regarded as an agricultural country whose ́un- - numbered millions are little This latter aspect of the pro- more than potential buyers of blem, he considers, is Imperfect-catton goods."-Reuter,
The Italian sailors are also re- The writer. examines details of which has been the lure behind her ported to have called out insult- Mr. Shiratori's interview with mainland venture:
he ing remarks to British sailors German newspaper (in which and soldiers, and the fight even-forecast expulsion of Western in- tually involved British, French,fluence in the Far East), Premier American ard Italian servicemen. Prince Konoye's utterance on Nov. Military police officers were 3 and the seven-point forecast of unable to cope with the fight, the "official" Japanese programme which assumed serious propor- concerning China which appeared tions.
TWENTY SHOTS FIRED
About twenty shots were fired into the ceiling of the cabaret by the French police in an effort to halt the brawl.
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་ from the cabaret where it started PROMISED NOTHING into the street, which became a He adds: "Tokyo admitted noth- mass of swinging and striking men, ing and promised nothing. Only with the French police wading in conclusion to be drawn from the vigorously to quell the outbreak.reply is that Japan considers that Reinforcements of French police the principle of the Open Door is ware brought up to deal with the worn out and inapplicable." situation.
MARINES IN TRUCK
But the writer sees in the way the Japanese official press contrast- ed the "hardness" of Washington and the conciliatory tone of Mr. When the fighting was in full Chamberlain when he spoke of the swing a detachment of Italian readiness of British capitalists to marines arrived in a truck, and participate in reconstruction of they are alleged to have joined in the new China after the war, as an and to have badly beaten up two attempt to drive a wedge between foreign members of the French the two governments In defence of police
the Open Door.
It is alleged that iron bars were used at this stage of the fighting.
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