IN CHINA

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 5

IN CHINA

- Press Aspu.'

VIOLATION of Treaty Alleged shanghai trouble Withdrav/al of Troops Demanded STATE OF SIEGE

■By Toiearnpb-

-Copyrigbt.,

(Reeeived 13, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Ang. 12. At the request of the Japanese authorities a truce committee, eonsisting of the Japanese CousulHcnoral and Military Attache, the Chinese Mayor of Shanghai, and the Consuls-General of Britaiu, the llnited Statcs.and France has hren summoned to meet. They vvOii be asked to consider thc Japaiitse aJIegatioo that the Chinese violatcd thc Shanghai Truce Agreement of 1932 by bringing regular troops within tlie dcinilitarised zoue extending twcjve milcs from Slianghai. Foreign volunteers have mobilised to protcct foreign intercsts and barrieades have bccn ereeted. A state of siege has bcen proclaimed in Chinese te.-ritovy. It is eonsidcred that the Japanese are determined to use force if the Chinese do not comply with thcir demands. It is conjeetured that they will rcly mainly on air atlaeks. The British Consul has advised. outlving British residents to come into the International Settlement, but many prefer to ship their families to Hongkong. The tenscst atmosphere has arisen at Nanking following the uews that Japanese warships are oi! Shanghai. The Domei News Agency reports renewed fighting at Nankow. The Japanese have captured the railway station. The ines-

sagc explains that the naval ineasures have been taken in eonsequence of the murder of Lieutenant Oyama. An official message mentions that anotlier reason is that tlie Centrai^ Government's troops in defiance of tlie agreement advaneed along the Peiping-Suiyan railway whereupon thc Japanese rnoved against the Chinese Eighty-ninth Division at Nankow. The Shanghai correspondcnt of The Timcs says that 4000 marines wcre landed thcre from the Japanese fleet, bringing the total to 9000. The Japanese admiral detnanded that all Chinese troops be withdrawn 30 miles from Shang-. hai and all defenccs within thc area dismantled, otherwise the eity would be bombarded. The Shanghai correspondcnt of the British United Press Agoney says that China rejected thc Japanese demand. A Foreign Office official at Nanking'said that if tlie Japanese started trouble the Chinese would reply. The Daily Telegraph's Shanghai correspondcnt says that the iMayor of Shanghai, who is negotiating with the Japanese, says chat Japan, in satisfaction for the flungjao acpodrome shooting, is demand ing an apolqgy, a guarantee of non-rceuTrence, punishaienl ot tlie Chinese guards who lircd on thc Japanese, compensation, and the withdrawal of the Chinese Public Safety Corps from the Shanghai area.