STATE OF SIEGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 217, 13 August 1937, Page 7

STATE OF SIEGE

SHANGHAI EXPECTS ATTACK. TENSION AT NANKING. DEMANDS BY JAPAN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Aug. 12.

A state of siege has been proclaimed in Chinese territory. It is considered that the Japanese are determined to use force if the Chinese do not comply with their demands. It is conjectured that they will rely mainly on air ,attacks. The British Consul has advised outlying Britons to conic into the International Settlement, but many prelei’ to ship their families to Hong Kong. The tensest atmosphere has arisen at Nanking following the news that Japanese warships are off Shanghai. A Tokio message states that the Domei News Agency reports renewed fighting at Nankow, 30 miles northcast ot Pekin. The Japanese have captured the railway station. An inspired Doinei message explains that the naval measures have been taken in consequence of the murder ot Lieutenant Oyama. An official message mentions that another reason is that the Central Government’s troops in defiance of the agreement advanced along the PekmSuiyan railway whereupon the Japanese moved against the Chinese Eighty-ninth Division at Nankow. The Daily Telegraph’s Shanghai correspondent says that the Mayor of Shanghai, who is negotiating with the Japanese, says that Japan, in satisfaction for the Hungjao aerodrome shooting, is demanding an apology, a guarantee of no recurrence, punishment ot the Chinese guards who fired on the Japanese, compensation, and the withdrawal of the Chinese Public Salely Corps from the Shanghai area.