TALKS IN TOKIO

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 7

TALKS IN TOKIO

PROTEST AT SHANGHAI FUTURE OF TRADE ]TALIAN ARRANGEMENT MORE FIGHTING ahead (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. July 26, 3 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. A message from Tokio says that tlie Japanese Foreign Office has announced that tire committee ha.s completed the negotiations and a full conference meeting is to be held at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday.

A Shanghai message states that the British Chamber of Commerce has telegraphed to London bitterly condemning the Tokio agreement, which exposes the continued existence of British trade to the whims of the Japanese military.

The Rome correspondent of The Times says that the Italian annoyance over the prospect of an AngloJapanese agreement is apparent from the newspapers which declare that the agreement is a combined attempt, to buy oft' Germany and shows Bie depth of “British demoralisation.”

It is reported from Shanghai that Japanese troops are deploying in a semi-circle within a 40-mile radius from Shanghai in the attempt to offset the threatened Chinese attack. The Hong Kong correspondent of The Times says that the Chinese penetrated at Sunwui and Tsengshing and withdrew after the conflict. The Chinese allege that their troops on entering Tenghai found a school tilled with a hundred headless bodies, including those of women.

The Japanese Consul-General at Hong Kong denies the story that the Japanese intend to close the Canton River and blockade Shlameeu.

It is reported from Hong Kong that the British steamer H'aitan struck a mine .between Swatow and Formosa, tearing a hole in her side and flooding the hold. There is no immediate danger. The commander of the H'aitan is an Australian, Captain Ellis Walker. .