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CHINESE IN NEW DEFENCE LINES

Both Armies Suffer Severe Losses When Liuho Battle Rages

SHANGHAI'S DEFENDERS HOLD

POSITIONS

POWER TO

CONFIDENT

OF

CHECK ATTACKS

Shanghai, Aug. 27 (9.10 a.m.).

The war zone here was quiet throughout the night as the Chinese completed their redispositioning plan in Chapei, Chenju, Tazang and Kiangwan area,

Chinese regular troops are now reported to have been entirely withdrawn from the immediate neighbourhood of Shanghai and to have established their lines more than 1,000 metres beyond the Inter- national Settlement boundary. Here they spent the night erecting additional fortifications.

All of the North Station and the north-eastern sector, in Chapei, are now held by militiamen who seem to be well fed, well-armed and above all confident in their ability to repulse the impending Japanese attacks.

Meanwhile, severe fighting continues at Liuho and points inland. It raged throughout the night. Both sides have suffered extremely heavy casualties.-Reuter.

Lotien Cleared Of Japanese

Shanghai, Aug. 28. Lottenchen and the surrounding vicinity south of Paoshan has been cleared of Japanese troops who suc- ceeded in landing around Woosung on the night of August 23, it was announced by the Chinese headquar ters to-night.

The re-occupation of the area followed one of the most severe land operations since the opening of hostilities in Shanghai. The oppos- ing forces battered each others'

STOP PRESS MONGOL

positions for nearly 24 hours and Lieut.-Cmdrs. H. E. Turner and R. following the arrival of Chineseyre- C. Hovenden were discovered early inforcements the Japanese

retreat.

beat

this morning by H.M.S. Thracian in a motorboat drifting helplessly in the

TROOPS

ASSIST JAPAN

AMBASSADOR BADLY HURT

Sir Jughe Montgomery Knatchbull- Hugessen, British Ambassador 10 China, who was seriously wounded when a Japanese plane machine- gunned the motor-car in thich he was travelling from Nanking to

though somewhat improved, iş ́stril

Britain

Delaying

Action in Tragic Case of Diplomat

FURTHER INFORMATION NEEDED

BEFORE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN

CAN BE FORMALLY APPROACHED

London, Aug. 26.

of

A Foreign Office communique states to-night that the... Government has received news of the shooting the British Ambassador to China, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, with the

at According to the information

hand the deepest concern. Ambassador's car was flying a Union Jack and was fired on with a machine-gun and then bombed at 2.30 p.m. by two Japanese aircraft.

Sir Hughe is very seriously in Shanghai.

wounded and is now in hospital

A British military attache and a financial adviser, who were. Shanghal yesterday. His condition in the same car with the Ambassador, are stated to be unhurt.

serious.

Sir Hughe's Crisis Approaches

No Change Noted In Condition During Night Considerable Suffering

Shanghai, Aug. 27.

A medical examination shows that the bullet which struck Sír Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen, en- tered his right side below the

It is reported that casualities on harbour. They had been missing New State Of armpit and emerged from his

both sides were extremely heavy. since yesterday, an engine

stranded. them

fallure

Lotienchen, once a quiet town on leaving arts the Lido, Mount!

the Yangise delta, is now a heap of ruins following a huge fire which Davis and other stations had been destroyed every building and hone asked to keep a look-out and H.M.S. joined in the Tamar's picket-boat in the area.-Central News.

search when no sign of the the miss- Tatung Station Bombed

ing

men was reported in the evening. Eventually the Thracian was sent out them to look for them and found weary but otherswise none the worse for their adventure.

at

Kwelsui, Aug. 27. Japanese planes made two attempts to bomb the railway station Tatung, important north Shans! coal and communication centre, yesterday afternoon, according to information reaching here.

The report states that no serious damage was done by the few bombs

SIBERIAN MAILS

The Hongkong postal

Authorities

Mongeukuo Planned

Stiff Fighting

Near Peiping

left side, well below the shoulder- blade, near the waist.

The Ambassador is in considerable pain and has been given several mor- phine injections, and may have to be given more.

An official bulletin says Sir Hughe is resting quietly and is as well as can be expected.

The Government is now obtaining certain further information which it requires. As soon as this information is received it will be in a position to take appropriate action with the Japanese Government. ---Reuter.

BRITAIN WILL NOT RECOGNISE BLOCKADE

Not Yet Informed Officially Of Japan's Plans

Britain's Problem

Berlin. Aug. 20. The attack upon Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Am- bassador to China, is the leading fenture in Berlin newspapers to- night.

London,

The Tageblatt, commenting, asserts that the incident accentuates sharply the developments in the Far East which have been the subject of

In carnest deliberations Washington and Parls.

The anxiety of the British public; has grown as it has increasingly realised how much British prestige is at

stako

In Eastern Aala. Says the

Allgemeine-Zeitung: Britain obviously wants to avert a dispute with Japan and intensifico- tion of matters in the Far East does of not fit in with the programme

U.S. May Invoke British diplomacy.

Neutrality Act

London, Aug. 26. The Foreign Office has hitherto

The situation in the Mediterranean has not yet been calmed, the paper adds: America does not want to com- mit herself; and Britain Is not yet ready to pursue an Eastern polley Router.

Washington, Aug. 20, The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, to-day described the wounding

Reuter's correspondent, who is re- not received official notification "Extremely Regrettable" maining at the Country Hospital, was of the Japanese intention of informed that Sir Hughe was asleep, blockading the south coast of "which is a very good sign," his in-Ching formant added.

As no legal state of war exists The corridor outside the diplomat's room is filled with flowers from well- there is no question of His

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ing the blockade any more than

of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen as "extremely regrettable

fortunate." Mukden, Aug. 27, An army of 20,000

Inner

that the planes succeeded in drop-notify that arrangements have now ping.

been made for mails by the SiberianMongolian troops contributed to Two Chinese who were caught route to be despatched via Japan. signalling to the Japanese bombers with umbrellas from

the

of

ground, were found guilty alding tho enemy and were executed yesterday | afternoon-Central,

18 Chinese Traitors Shot

Nanking, Aug. 20. Eightcon Chinese, including two women, who were tried by a military tribunal and found guilty of pass ing military information and giving other assistance of milltary impor tance to the enemy, were shot by firing squads of the Nanking Garci- son Headquarters and the Metropoli- tan Police Headquarters here morning.

This

Among those executed was Wang Chin, formerly a secretary of the Executive Yuen-Central News.

Bomb Three Railways

Nanking, Aug. 20. According to information received here to-day, Japanese planes carried on extensive bombing activilles on the Pelping-Sulguan, Tientsin-Pukow (Continued on Page 17.)

and

un-

President Ai a luncheon with Roosevelt Mr. Hull examined the latest developments in the Far East, met the Cabinet-Reuter,

the Japanese victory at Hankow Five Siamese in the case of the frequent and President Roosevelt afterwards

Pass, according to a Kwantung Army spokesman to-day. The Mongols, with the Japanese, cut off and inflicted heavy losses upon the retreating Chinese.

of a

admit that

Mongol state.

Warships

Japan-Built Vessels Arrive Here.

blockades of the coast of Spain, declared by the Insurgent leader, General Francisco Franco.

Great Britain will not be affected unless Japan claims the right to stop and search British ships, and this Japan has not hitherto intimated her intention of doing-Reuter,

Submarines Warned To Keep Clear

Ankara, Aug. 26. The Foreign Minister of Turkey has sent two notes to foreign powers warning them that tho Turkish military forces have been ordered to destroy any sub- marine found in the Dardanelles unless it surrenders.

The first note draws attention to the torpedoing of the Cludad de Cadiz on August 15 at the en- trance to the Dardanelles, and the torpedoing of the Armuru on August 18, two miles

from

Tenedos

The

second noto reporta

the

recent penetration by a mysteri-

003

submarine of the Sea of Marmora-Reuter,

Santander Surrenders To Franco

Insurgents Ask 100 Hostages Troops March Into City

Salamanca, Aug. 26. General Francisco Franco's Insurgent troops have entered Santander.-Reuter.

American Sympathy

Washington, Aug. 28. Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, has cabled the British Gov- ernment expressing the great distress of the American Government at the Japanese quarters

wounding of the British Ambassador Mongol Japanese cooperation

Five smart-looking Siamese war-

to China and offering solleitous, best against the Chinese is the prelude to

American Intentions Japanese support of the Inner Monships built in Japan arrived in Hong-

wishes for his recovrey.

Members of the Cabinet to-nigh! and the kong harbour this morning on their rolla Defence Movement,

Washington, Aug. 20. establishment

way to Bangkok. They comprlag the

Following a meeting with Preal-stated that President Roosevelt had styled Mongoukno.

training ships Tachin and Macklong, dent F. D. Roosevelt to-day, Mr. surveyed the whole Far Eastern It is now announced that a sniper and the torpedo-boats Klong Yol, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, told situation at a meeting during the shot and killed Major-General Shigeo Takbal and Kantang.

These craft were built in Japanese a press conference that the State afternoon, but no decisions had been Fujil, commander of a division of Manchukuo native troops, when the yards some time age, but have been Department was seeking to assemble reached. "It is rather a question of

Santander, Aug. 20. officer was reconnoitring the Chinese delayed in their departure owing to speedily all oficial facts about the watching," said one member of the

Two Government commander% positions near Charhor's boundary. weather and other circumstances, reported Japanes blockade of the Cabinet-Reuter.

They will pick up stores here and coast of

of China.

Thorough Investigation

standing on a hill-lop on the out- Reuter.

probably remain in harbour for two Japan has not yet amelally notified the American Government' of any

Tokyo, Aug. 20. skirts of the city this morning or three days before resuming their]

blockade orders.

All Japanese newspapers express formally surrendered Santander to Peiping, Aug. 27. voyage to Siam.

the blockade is implemented ob profound sympathy with the British the Insurgents, thus bringing another control of Japanese shrapnel bursting over This morning at 10 o'clock the the mountains west of the Foiping-Captain of the Macklong called on servers believe it will result almost Ambassador to China in his misfor- province within, the

General Franco.

Nine Inurgent fighter planes Ilonkow greeted Reuter's corres-Commodore Dicken, and the call is immediately in the Invocation of the tune.

A Foreign Ofee spokesman de- being returned later. On arrival, the American Neutrality Act by President pondent visiting the front yesterday. warships saluted the port and the Roosevelt, which forbids American clared: "It is quite unthinkable that circled overhead as a group of In

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Signal Hill battery replied.

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