MUTUAL BLAME
Alleged Causes of Conflict PROVOCATIVE ACTS • • i (Beceived 14, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 13. A statement issued by the Tokio Foreign Offiee ascribes the situation in. China to the brutal murders of the Japanese sailors on August 9, aggravated by persistent aets of provocation on the part of Chinese forces. The Japanese Cabinet has decided to invoke the right of self-defence in Shanghai in a drastic manner. According to the newspaper Asalii Sbiinbun and tho British United Press eoxrcspondent at Shanghai, the Chinese aay that a Japanese patroi nttacked the Chinese position in the Chapei district and made a charge across the railway track alqpg the edge of the International Settlement. Tho Chinese stoqd lirm, fighting froin behind sandbag barricades. Clashes between Chinese and Japanese occurred 6imultaueously at the Tientungnan railway station, near the headquarters of the Japanese lauding paxty, and on the east Paoshan Toad. A message from Shanghai states that General Chang-Chihung has been appointed to the Supreme command of ihe Chinese forces in the ShanghaiNanking areas.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 5
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