TROUBLE FOR JAPAN
PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS. NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHINA. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received August 14, 11.55 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 13. Tlie Times Tokio correspondent states that the developments at Shanghai compel the Japanese to contemplate warfare on two fronts, inasmuch as there are from 3000 to 5000 Japanese civilians and refugees in Shanghai whose evacuation is difficult and abandonment impossible. The Nanking Government hopes that Japan will send an army to Shanghai to protect them, thus embarrassing herself not only by reducing her forces in North China but having to face on the Shanghai front General Chiang Kaishek’s German-trained divisions. Japan, therefore, has decided to negotiate with Nanking for ."the cessation of the warlike preparation's in Shanghai, which can he accomplished by the neutralisation of Shanghai conditionally on tho withdrawal of tho Chinese troops. TROOPS OUTNUMBERED. JAPAN’S ADVANCE HELD UP. Received August 14, 1.15 p.m. SHANGHAI, Aug. 13. General Chiang Kai-shek’s crack 87th Division have taken up positions in the Kiangwan section and other Chinese troops are being rushed up to Shanghai. The Japanese are hopelessly outnumbered and await reinforcements before attempting ' to advance.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 10
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