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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4,

1938.

SOVIET CLAIMS TREMENDOUS LOSSES INFLICTED UPON JAPANESE IN Lepers Revolt, Situation May BORDER FIGHTING Present Food Provoke War

Demands On Grand Scale Indignation Expressed

Japan Playing With Fire, Says

Moscow Paper

Moscow. Aug. 3.

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By Russian Workers

Moscow, August 3. "Tremendous losses" are claimed to have been inflicted upon the Japanese during the day-long fighting at Changkuleng yesterday. according to the Tass agency.

PANIC CAUSED IN RUMANIAN TOWN

Bucharest, Aug. 3. Inmates of the leper, camp at Tichilegti staged a revolt yesterday because the food given them was in their view "not fit for human consumption," according to reports received here.

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London, August 3. "Neither Russia.nor Japan, y appears anxious to treat the skirmishes at Changkuleng as

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quarrel that cannot be solved except by war." say's the Daily Telegraph, in in editorial this morning. "But the situation may provoke at almost any moment a war on a grand scale. The difference In view should be capable of arbitral settlement,

"Japan is playing a danger- ous game and playing with fire."

Journal de says the Moscou in a leading article on Changkufeng. "The Japanese Government must fully realise that local conflicts reaching the proportions of the present,

into

The Japanese offensive was resumed at dawn yesterday. it is 'may easily expand

reported. When the Japanese were crossing into Soviet territory, they general conflict."

"Unt. some settlement is reach- The Journal warns Japan against were subjected to artillery fire and air bombing from the Soviet side.

ed a big section of the Japanese subjecting peace-loving

"Tremendous indignation" at the Party and the Government to

Army "In China will be held in Russia to trials indefinitely, and provositive actions" of the Ja- repulse the enemy."-(Renter).

readiness to meet what is regard- says the Soviet will not tolerate panese militarists on the Far East NO TENDENCY OF ALARM

ed as a Russian threat and opera- any violation of its borders or that em tront were expressed yesterday

· London, August 3.

The arrival of the lepers, whose tons elsewhere, will be conducted irresponsible elements in the Japat crowded meetings in the big There is no tendency of alarm in

faces showed frightful marks of the with increasing difficulties, anese military clique or desperate cities throughout Soviet Russia. well-informed circles in London

horrible disease. caused panic "Some check may be placed politicians should organise the

says the Tass, agency.

respecting the Russo-Japanese in- murder of Soviet frontier guards or

At one meeting, the workers cidents, states Reuter's diplomatie among the population of the town upon the Japanese disposition to The lepers refused to leave be-treat as permissible whatever may attack Red Army units.

requested the Soviet Government correspondent, whose opinion is

fore their demands were fully suit its purpose in the punishment. to rebuff the Japanese multarists based on reports from Moscow and granted. Authorities thereupon of China." "

Soviet

FEARS NO CONSEQUENCES Faced with these facts, the Soviet is compelled to take sufficiently

effective measures, not only to put

an end to these concrete violations

of its borders but also finally to put an end to similar provocative sallies of the Japanese and Man- churians.

The paper concludes that in everything that concerns defence of the rights of its citizens and the Soviet frontier, the Soviet fears no Consequences, "however tar-reach- ing they tright be. The respon- sibility, therefore, will rest with the Japanese Government.-(Reuter),

GUERILLAS ACTIVE NEAR HANGCHOW

Slaoshan. Cheklang, Aug. 3. Chinese ruerillas are again ac- Live in the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway zone east of Hangchow,

vigorously...

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Speakers at a meeting of textile workers declared that the youth of the Soviet are ready for any enemy who intends to encroach upon the peaceful working peoples of Rus sla.(Reuter).

* MOSCOW NOT PERTURBED

Moscow, August 3.

The fighting on the Far Eas- tern border has not disturbed the calm of the Soviet capital, and the affair is regarded here as merely another" local in- cident which has caused bað blood but will 'blow over.

It is pointed out that Sövlet Russia is not prepared to go to

Tokyo.

Thirty lepers escaped from the camp and marched in a procession to the town of Tulces, which is 20 kilometres from the isolation camp. to submit their complaints to the authorities.

The incident. is not likely to lead conceded to the demands and the

tion camp. escorted by guards. to serious conflict and amounts lepers marched back to the isola- only to frontier trouble.

(Transocean).

are

Suggestions of possible mediation discounted, as there is no tendency at the moment to think has declared that it intends only that such a course is necessary.to defend territory indisputably (Reuter).

belonging to the Soviet and that its troops are strictly obeying these instructions.

Both land. sea

have

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ANOTHER VIEW

The Daily Express regards war as unlikely, saying that Stalin is scared of war in the Far East lest Germany should attack him in the west. Japan dare not fight because the war in China is taxing her military strength far' more than she anticipated.

paper is of the opinion and air forces: The remained throughout ex- that the incident will be settled other incidents during the. the mits of like

last five years.

within

MOSCOW BLAMED

Berlin. August 3. News of further clashes between Soviet and Japanese troops has

clusively evoked speculation regarding the outcome of the border affair, but Soviet territory:

It is supposed the Japanese re- The Daily Sketch says that had opinion is generally inclined to the view that neither Moscow nor ports were circulated deliberately the Russo-Japanese fighting oc

impossible tp Tokyo desires war, certainly not by interested Japanese militarists curred only a year ago" it would war, but Tokyo in view of its commitments in order to justify their repeated have been almost

attacks on Soviet territory, and have avoided a major tremendous losses which they have today the conflict can be describ-

ed as "Russo-Japanese friction."

war and believes Japan is bluffing in China. but will climb down if Russia makes clear her determination noti to yield.

Brief reports of the fighting are

in printed inconspicuously

the newspapers, which, studiously avoid comment.

PUBLIC SENTIMENT The general sentiments of the They recently dynamited three steel bridges on the railroad near public and the country's prepared. iness are, however, summed up in Wangtien station. Japanese troops

resolutions adopted at factory trying to drive them away were at-

meetings yesterday on the occasion, tacked and slain.

of an "Anti-War Day."

On the night of July 31, about 20 Chinese "dare-to-die" soldiers staged a surprise raid on Haining, inflicting severe losses on the Japanese.

Meanwhile another Chinese unit

Slashib, attacked

northeast Di Haining. on the Shanghai Hang- chow Rallway. (Central News).

Frenchwomen Denounce Air Bombings

Hankow, August 3 French women delegates to the recent conference. of the Inter- national Peace Campaign held in Parls have issued a manifesto bit- terly denouncing the bombing of open cities and the slaughter of women and children in China and Spain, according to a letter just received by the China branch of the Campaign from its head" or- ganisation.

.. Representing the voice of two million Frenchwomen, the mani- festo "appeals to mothers through- cut the world to render help to the numerous child victims of the bombings.

"If you refuse to help them now," the manifesto says, "your own chil- dren will not be rescued by others. when disaster comes your way.""

The declaration also urges de- mocratic countries to put a stop to the lawless and Inhuman actions now being perpetrated in China and Spain(Central News).

FIGHTING STILL RAGING ON NAMOA ISLAND

Swatow, Aug. 3. Brisk rifle and machine-gun fire from the direction of Lungoa, od Namoa Island, was dimly audible here yesterday. Indicating that fighting was again in progress be- tween the Chinese defenders and Japanese invaders on the island.

It is learned here that the morale of the Chinese defenders has been heightened as large quantities of food and military supplies have been sent to them.

Chinese wounded soldiers on Namoa have been safely taken to Tenghai un the mainland for treatment,, -

(Central

medical News).

Une resolution declares: "Let the Japanese samural remem- ber that the Soviet people are not scared by threats and thai the Stalinist Youth is ready to the answer its first call to

The Nacht aus Gabe declares: "We do not belleve Moscow is seeking to risk, a genuine war and we know that Tokyo will do nothing to increase the ten- sion,"

Soviet Russia is held responsible. for the incidents.(Reuter)."

Moscow, August, 3. Reports of flights by Sóviet bombers over Manchurian and Korean territory, circulated by · Japanese telegraph agencies and newspapers. are phatically refuted by compe tent Soviet circles, says officia! Tass Agency.

had to bear. CONTINUATION OF HOSTILITIES

The assumption is also ex- 'the Japanese pressed that military is being encouraged in its, provocative actions by cer- tain Japanese diplomats.

conditions Under these continuation.

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of hostilities, fraught with extremely serious consequences, is regarded as inevitable(Reuter).

JAPANESE DIVISIÓN LEAVES Hotseh, Shantung, August 3.

It is a hopeful sign of the times, it adds, that neither Russia nor Japan is now prepared to embark adven- upon a dangerous and turous war-(Reuter).

FINDING HOMES FOR REFUGEES

London, August 3. The Inter-Governmental Com-. mittee which the Evian meeting decided should assemble in Län- don to resume the efforts with

It is learned that one division which the meeting was coricerned-

of Japanese troops has left Shan- namely to find new homes for re- tung for Manchuria through Tsing-fugees from Germany and Austria The Agency points out that since! tao since the outbreak of the-will meet in London today under the very beginning of the frontier Changkufeng Incident (Central the présidency of Lord Winterton.

the Sovjet conflict

Government | News).

-(British Wireless).

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