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"AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
JAPS. ATTACK TWO TREATY PORTS
I New Landings Near Foochow
HANKOW PRESS
WANG REACHES
JOINS IN
And Wenchow❘ THE CHORUS
Foochow, one of the three remaining ports of any size in Chinese hands, is now being subjected to a major Japanese attack, the "China Mail" learns from authoritative sources in Hong Kongre
Shanghai, To-day.
Copies of Hankow newspapers received in Shanghai show that a bitter attack on Britain has been raging for several days past.
The newspapers, Chinese-owned but Japanese-financed, are more scurrilous in their contents than puppet journals in other parts of China-Our Own Correspondent.
WRECKED NEAR NEW GUINEA
A Japanese landing was effected near the famous
Pagoda Anchorage, at the mouth of the Min JAP. STEAMER River, before daybreak to-day following a heavy barrage from warships. Wenchow, the most southerly port in Chekiang Pro- vince, and an important supply route for the Chinese armies, is also reported to be the ob- jective of another landing which was carried out in its vicinity early this morning.
EVACUATION REQUEST The Japanese, requested that all foreign shipping and nationals removed from the two ports by that time." .
The attacks on Foochow and would be closed from noon on Wenchow, following the landing | Thursday." near Ningpo, means that routes of entry for war supplies into China are now confined to the Burma and Russian highways.
This morning's attacks were preceded,
as in the case of Swatow, by a Japanese notifica- tion to the British, American and other foreign authorities.
The notification informed the foreign Powers that Foochow and Wenchow were about to be attacked, and that both ports
MORE DANGER IN RETREAT THAN IN FIRMNESS
LONDON, TO-DAY.. "THE PRIME MINISTER IS AS SURED OF A UNITED COUNTRY BEHIND HIM, DETERMINED TO RESIST AGGRESSION AND DO MINATION,” SAYS THE "DAILY TELEGRAPH IN A LEADING
TICLE: THIS MORNING. The newspaper adds that there is rer in retreat than in standing druk and advocates an upg vielding polloy both in the, and Európa,
The Daily Her
Government that "h
backed up by action will nowhere
near
"This morning's landing. the Pagoda Anchorage was fore- seen when the presence of eight! Japanese warships and a number of transports off the Min River, was reported.
H.M.S. Duchess, a destroyer, is at Foochow, and it is believed that the authorities consider that she will be able to protect British interests in the port.
POORLY DEFENDED
"
Wenchow is poorly defended. The only Chinese troops in the portare provincial troops. and Peace Preservation Corps armed with light machine-guns.
The main channels are heavily mined and there are only a few pillboxes to prevent an attack from the land.
Wenchow has a large, uber drome; but no Chinese planes have been stationed therefor time) - The only..." artillery sista. of a few anti-aircraft
re not more than 50 Vone most of Customs
idoll Company::employees, who ve on the island in the harbour,
Singapore, To-day.
A Japanese steamer, the "China Maru", has run onto a reef in the
Southern Pacific.
AGREEMENT WITH TOKYO
CHUNGKING, TO-DAY.
AN AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED IN TOKYO BETWEEN WANG CHING-WEI AND THE JA- PANESE GOVERNMENT, IT WAS REPORTED WITHOUT COM- MENT IN CHUNGKING LAST EVENING.
The agreement, It is declared, consists of the following points:
1. A Federal Government is to be established in Nanking;
2. The present Kuomintang flag is to be retained as the Chinese Na- tional Flag:
3. The Nanking, Federal Gov- ernment will conclude an anti-Co-
mintern pact with Japan;
4. Japanese troops, will be ata- Position of the wreck is about tioned at all points of strategic im 185 miles from Rabaul, New portance in North and South China; Guinea, and the vessel, which was and
en route to Sydney from Yokohama, 5. The Nanking Federal Govern- ment will conclude an economic is reported to be leaking.
However her engines are intact pact with Japan which will give Ja- and the weather is calm, and there pan access to Chinese war mater- is hope of salvaging her.-Our Own ials required for Japanese indus-
try. Trans-Ocean. Correspondent;
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