WOMEN LEAVING
OUTWARD SHIPS PACKED MINING OF HARBOUR (Reed. Aug. 26, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 25. A Hong Kong message states that British women and wealthy Chinese applied all day yesterday to the United States Consulate for visas to Manila. Ships bound for Australia and Manila are packed.
Booms and mines are placed 1 in the hailbour entrances, .forcing inward and outward vessels to follow a buoyed track. A Tientsin message states it hr understood that between 30,000 and 40,000 Japanese troops are strung along the British frontier at Tientsin. Epidemics are feared in the flooded city.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 7
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97WOMEN LEAVING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 7
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