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SHANGHAI PREPARES FOR SQUALLS ON COMING ANNIVERSARY
Shanghai, To-day.
With August 13, the anniversary of the Shanghai hostilities, coming closer, the Shanghai police, as well as the other defence forces, are doubling their activities in order to check expected ter- rorist acts around this date.
The Shanghai Municipal Police have been put on precautionary mobilization starting at mid- night last night, while the Shanghai Volunteer- Corps is to be semi-mobilized from to-day.
Meanwhile, the police areal-
ready extremely active, a large JA
search
of heavily parties continuously patrolling the streets and searching most persons for arms.
The city block where most of
JAPAN NEARING THE FIRST
Shanghai's leading, newspapers and MILLION
new agencies is situated resembles an armed camp. This block was re- cently, the scene of a large scale shooting when terrorists attacked pro-National Government Chinese newspapers, resulting in a shoot- ling with the police in which five
were killed and a score wounded.
ARMOURED CARS
Tokyo, To-day. Seventy-four Soviet planes were: shot down by the Japanese be tween August 5th and 7th on fron- tier of Outer-Mongolia and Man- chukuo, according to Domei, which states that the Soviet machines. The block is now controlled by made repeated attempts to fly over three armoured cars with machine the Manchukuo frontier but were guns and a large number of arm-invariably prevented by Japanese- ed police who, with pistols in their planes from doing so. hands, stop cars and search the oc- cupants, as well as pedestrians.
Two concrete pillboxes have been bullt, while a third, movable, steel pill-box has also been brought up Although Avenue Edward VII forms the boundary between the International Settlement and the French Concession, control of it is. in the hands of the French Police, [by a special arrangement.
STEEL HELMETS Another sign of the approaching anniversary is the fact that. ser- tries outside the British Consulate- General, as well as on the Garden Bridge (separating the Internation
In fighting over the Chalcha. river on August 5, thirteen Soviet. machines were brought down,- while fourteen others are "said" to have suffered a similar fate in the same afternoon The Japanese are stated to have lost only two ma-- chines on that day,
On August. 7, a strong. Soviet air force again attacked and Ja-- panese chasing planes are report- ed to have shot down no fewer than forty-seven enemy machines I The Japanese losses on this occa- sion are not given-Trans-Ocean..
al Settlement from the Japanese JAPANESE ADMIT
controlled section of it) are now wearing steel helmets again..
For some time past, they have been wearing ordinary sun helmets and caps.-Trans-Ocean.
YOUNG WOMEN IN
FRAUD CASE
Two young married women were accused in the Central Po- lice Court this morning of hav ing conspired and obtained," by false pretences, a sum of $196.
Accused were 24-year-old Cheng Yiu-fan and 25-year-old Ho Shuet- ying, and they were alleged to have obtained, the money by pre tending that they could secure, för complainant, the first floor of
Queen's Road. Central
of $36 per month.
request of accused urs, ball of
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SHELLING OF TRANSPORTS
Shanghal, To-day. Asked regarding Chinese,reports: of the shelling of Japanese trans- port vessels on the Yangtze river, the Japanese navát épokemani ad- mitted that, since the beginning of August, several transports have been fired at between Anking and Klukiang in the Anliu area by Chinese field artillery.
The spokeman claimed, however, that no damage was done, The area in question is well within the so-called Japanese occupied
Ocean,
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