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JAPANESE PREPARING

TO STORM CAPITAL Foreign Residents Leave

Nanking

Shanghai, Dec. 7. Japanese troops are preparing to storm Nan- king according to an official Japan- ese communique. Press messages report that vanguards are attempt- ing to scale the walls of the city while main bodies of the attacking army have reached points 11 miles north-east, five miles south and nine miles south-east of Nanking.

No bombardment preceded the Japanese, capture of the Purple, Mountain where the remains of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen are interred.

which more than 90 planes parti- cipated lasted from 9.30 to 11.30 a.m. Hitherto there are no details of the effects of the visit. Owing to the lack of speedy press facilities the situation in Nanking to-day is obscure but a reliable report re- ceived from foreign Naval sources In Shanghal stated that all was quiet in Nanking at 9 a.m.- Reuter:

CABINET MEETING

Tokyo, Dec. 7: Following the fall of Nanking the Japanese Government is likely to issue a statement withdrawing recognition from Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek's administration according to circles. well-informed

The Garrison Commander at Nanking, General Tang Sheng-chi, reportedly ordered all the gates of the city to be closed yesterday and advised

Japanese all foreign residents to leave. All except the remaining A decision will be made by the Embassy oficials and foreign cor-Cabines which will meet immedi- ately niews is received from respondents consequently left.

General Matsul reporting com- Reurer.

plete Japanese occupation ct. Nanking while a joint conference between Imperial Headquarters and the Cabinet will also be held.

Reuter

SITUATION OBSCURE Shanghai, Dec. 7: According to a Japanese report this morning's Japanese air raid' on Nanking in

WRITTEN APOLOGY FROM "JAPANESE"

Shanghai Hotel Incident

Shanghai, Dec. 7.

Following representations from the Consular Body in conection with the Great Eastern. Hotel al- fair, the Japanese Consul-General, MT. Okamoto, has-sent-a-written- apology to the Chairman of the Settlement Municipal Council and declared that the incident occurred without his knowledge and stated that steps will be taken to prevent any recurrence.

The settlement of the affair was welcomed as indicating a more conciliatory attitude on the part of the Japanese authorities. Reuter.

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING AT TAIHU LAKE

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The South Is Loyal To The COLONY'S HOUSING AND

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History Made In China By Japanese Aggression

Kwangtung Governor Interviewed

BY E.R. ELLIS

DURING MY TEN DAYS' WAIT IN CANTON FOR A PASSAGE TO HANKOW I TOOK THE OP- PORTUNITY OF SEEING AS MANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AS POSSIBLE AND SEVERAL OF THES WERE KIND ENOUGH TO GRANT ME INTERVIEWS. OF THEM ALL I LOOKED FORWARD TO THE MEETING WITH GENERAL WU TE-CHEN, THE GOVERNOR OF KWANGTUNG.

His Excellency had been in conference for three days and twice had to postpone the interview. These state conferences, which usually begin about 10 am, are often in session until the small hours of the morning.

It has been a polley of General Wu, since assuming the governorship, to attend to all important matters of state personally and it is said that there is not one single, thing in, the administrative., policy of his state with which he is not familiar. Since the outbreak of hostilities with Japan, a reavy burden bas devolved on his shoulders.

Kwangtung being, perhaps, the most wealthy state in China, not only. In money but in men, material and brain, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has, from the outset, placed enormous hope on the support which he expected from the Province and the measure of that support and assistance de- pended largely on the leader, General Wu Te-chen

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his business, having It Harnessed all the available re- sources of the province, not only to see that adequate assistance was. sent to the north, but also to pre- pare the State for the ever present danger of invasion. While this task was taken in hand, in August came the borrible series of Japan- ese bombing raids in the following month causing not so much ma- terial damage as an appalling loss

Japanese Driven To of human life and with that a

Southern Bank

of

Nanking, Dec. 7. As a result hand-to-hand fight ing raging around the town Wuhsing through last night, in which both sides suffered heavy casualties, the Chinese forces have cat off the enemies connections with Kahsing and Changhsing and pushed them back to the southern bank of the Tahu Lake.

The Chinese artillery positions the the

JAPANESE CONSULAR at the northern bank of

POLICË STAGE SECOND RAID

Shanghai, Dec. 7: The second raid in the International Settle- ment on the southside of Soochow Creek was staged last night by Japanese Consular police. who ar- rested a Korean and removed him to Hongkew. The Japanese Con- sulate had issued a warrant for the

unan.—" Reuter.

AGRICULTURAL EXPERTS SENTENCED

Moscow, Dec. 1: Nine Soviet agricultural experts have been sen- tenced to death. They жеге ас- cused of causing death of 100.000 cattle in east Siberia and spreading. diseases among livestock. Reuters Bulletin Service.

HONG KONG MAIL MAY BE SALVAGED

Londɔn. Dec. 7. The Postmaster · General an- nounces that the greater bulk of malls from Malaya, India, Hong Kong, Egypt etc. on, the flying- boat "Cyguns!" which crashed near Brindisi, is likely to be recovered.- Heuter.

THE DOLLAR

T.T. ON NEW YORK: 30-15/16 YT 'ON LO IDON: 12.7/80.

London Silver Market

(From Our Own Correspondent). London, Dec. 7. London stiver prices to-day

up 1/16 for "Spot" and unchanged for "Forward," as fol- *low:

-were-

...Dec. 8.

Bpot................18-7/16 Forward..........18-3/16

Yangtze River opposite to Klangyin Fort was subjected to a neavy artillery bombardment from several Japanese warships, early this morning with an attempt to cover the landing marines by means of a number of small craft, which were, however. effectively resisted by a heavy barrage of Chinese machine-gun fire. The attempted landing eventually fail-

ed..

Thousands of Japanese wounded soldiers and dead bodies were transported to Shanghal from the fronts through the Shanghai- Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow Railways in the past two days in- dicating the seriousness of fight- Ings in consequence of the major Chinese counter-attack- Hun Nan Newt.

RECAPTURE OF CHANGESING

Nanking, Dec. 7.

Following the recapture of Changhsing, the Chinese forces to- day continued their push south-

west in the direction of Lushan, Anchih and Hsiaofeng.

Another Chinese column is ad- vancing southward to attack Wu- hsing. Chinese units at Tebching, Wukang and Hsungten are 180 moving westward to join the on- slaught on’Wuhsing.

general evacuation of civilians from the chief cities. It was soon realised that strong and swift measures were necessary in order to prevent a complete collapse of the whole commercial and business structure of South, China

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ADMINISTRATIVE GENİUS Like the administrative ..gentus: that he is. General Wu Te-chen rose to the occasion "so well that within a month not only were practically all business people and shop-keepers back at their work. but civilian refugees began to re- turnin large numbers. To-day,] things in Canton and other large South China-cita are perfectly normal insofar as war time con- ditions permit; and the credit for this happy state of affairs must go In a large measure to the ability. driving power and genius of Gen. Wu. This fact is fully realised by every official in the Province.

Above all things General Wu is a worker. General Morris Cohen,

Red Cross units aldi ng wounded refugees.

ARMY OFFICIALS MISSING

Anxiety Felt In Manila

Manila, Dec. 7: Mach anxiety is for Major-General Santos, Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army, who with a party of Army On the Shanghai-Nanking Rail-officials set off from Manila in two 72y front, heavy fghting is going planeg which had not been heard on at Esinleng, east of Chinklang. of since yesterday. A third plane Chinese defenders have taken up was forced down by the typhoon- their positions at Chatse' and Lao-

'Reuters Bulletin Service. yashan where mountainous · bar- flers will hold up the Japanese advance.

International News Agency.

R.M.A. DORADO

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