JAPANESE SHOT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7

JAPANESE SHOT

CHINESE SENTFjY’S ACT. CHALLENGE IGNORED. REPERCUSSIONS FEARED. (United Press Association—By Elqctric Telegraph.—■ Copyright.) Received August 10, 9.55 a.m. . SHANGHAI, Aug. 9. Chinese sentries at the Hungjao aerodrome fired on a car containing Japanese officers who refused to stop when challenged. One was killed. Serious repercussions are expected. The commander of toe Japanese troops in Pekin states that the uoops will preserve law and order and tlireai-ens disturbers with severe penalties. 'ihe police to-day visited the Chinese Government radio station and removed essential parts, preventing the transmission ol even commercial messages.

JAPANESE BOYCOTTED. UNABLE TO BUY FOOD. Received August 10, 9.20 a.m. SHANGHAI, Aug. 9. The evacuatioii of Japanese residents from towns on the Yangtse River is completed. An anti-Japanese boycott is sweeping China. Tradesmen refuse to sell food to the Japanese, who are forced to obtain provisions U' om Japan. WARFARE FEARED. SOME OPTIMISTIC SIGNS. Received August 10, 11.40 a.m. SHANGHAI, Aug. 9. Sixty thousand terror - stricken Chinese refugees cower in the streets of the Internationa] Settlement fearing a repetition of the Japanese bombing of their homes as in 1932, when thousands were slain. Officials, despite the apparent imminence of open warfare, are heartened by the Japanese withdrawal from the central and upper valleys of the Yangtse Kiang and the completion jif a credit agreement with Paris by tne I'inanco Minister, Dr. Rung. The Japanese repulsed a minor Chinese attack on the Great IVall, 50 miles north of Pekin.