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JAPANESE CARRY TERROR INTO

SHANGHAI VILLAGES

Shanghai, To-day.

A LONG CORDON of burnt-down villages within a

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few miles of Shanghai, still smoking, and lifeless STOP PRESS apart from howling dogs, affords grim evidence of the Japanese punitive action in reprisal for guerilla raids, writes Reuter's ́representative, the first foreigner to effect an entry into the strictly guarded zone lying west of the city, off the Tsingpu Road.

The villagers told Reuter's man how I get through the

Japanese-manned

Japanese soldiers had set fire to their barriers on the road to Shanghai. homesteads and had bayoneted

fleeing people.

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Several aged men were among the number killed.

Many women and children were wounded,

Many of the bodies are still lying where struck down, unburied.

Piles of charred grain and other foodstuffs and the roasted carcases of

livestock stand as mute witness of the Japanese severity.

"I passed twelve such desolated vil- lages and was informed that there are many others.

PITIABLE PLIGHT

"The wounded are in

"The villages were burnt during daytime raids, the people declared, adding: The Japanese are afraid to coine out at night-time owing to the guerillas."

that the

London, To-day. Evidence is accumulating

in many quarters of the Although а Japanese military spokesman denied when questioned by early intensification of the Reuter last week that there has any war on all fronts not only "major operations," saying trouble caused by guerillas was negli- in areas already turned into gible, it is obvious that the Japanese theatres of war but in others have been compelled considerably to which have been hitherto im- tighten up their precautions.

mune, writes the diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."

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A number of apparently new mill- tary posts have been established in

the area and a barracks built on Hungjao Aerodrome.

It is believed that the guerillas are making the fullest use of growing

a pitiable crops in harassing small Japanese gar- plight, unable to get medical assis-risons on the outskirts of Shanghai. tance as they cannot get

to Reuter.

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These deductions proceed from the firm conviction in the most responsible Allied circles that the Nazis have decided to risk all in an en- deavour to force the war to a decision before next winter.

German political leaders are confident that Germany will be able to score a sweep- ing success over the Allies by the end of the present sum- mer. There is some reason to believe that Hitler, when he laid his plan of operations before Mussolini during the Brenner Pass meeting, managed to carry a large measure of conviction.

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Stockholm, To-day. According to the military respondent of "Svenska Dagbla- det," the German troops advan- cing from the Oslo region along the Oslo-Bergen Railway are held in check by Norwegian troops at Naes, to the north-west of Oslo.

This German force is now' 85 miles from the other force advan- cing along the same railway, from Bergen, which has captured Voss. If the troops from Oslo break through the present Norwegian resistance, they are faced with a long climb through snow-covered mountains.

All roads from Norway to Swe- den except two are now report- ed to be under German control. Reuter.

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An American, whose name understood to be L. W. Hunter, residing at the Metropole Hotel, was found outside the lift on the third floor of Exchange Building at about 11.30 a.m. to-day, badly injured.

It is believed that he had sus- tained a severe fall. He was taken to the Queen Mary Hospital.

He was a tourist who arrived in Hong Kong from Saigon Friday. He was waiting for a shipping connection.

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At the hospital it was discover- ed that Mr. Hunter had a severe, head wound, and an X-ray ex- amination for fracture is being made.

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