MAJOR CLASH INEVITABLE
LONDON, Aug. 5. A Tokio cable says that Cabinet has approved a supplementary Budget of £24,000,000 for North China expenditure, for which purpose £5,700,000 has already been voted. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio correspondent says a major Chinese and Japanese clash is accepted as inevitable by ali Japanese editors and special correspondents in China, although they are inclined to believe a period of comparative quiet will intervene to permit both sides, particularly the Chinese, to strengthen their positions. A Nanking message states that people have started pouring out of the capital. The trains and buses leaving the city are crowded. The Government has advised civil servants to remove their families owing to the possibility of a food shortage. A Tientsiu message says the Japanese military have orderod all the influential aewspapers in North China to suspend publication, ineluding the English language publieations, the Tientsin Evening Post and the Peking Chroniele.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 171, 6 August 1937, Page 5
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