FOOD SHORTAGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 10

FOOD SHORTAGE

DANGER IN SHANGHAI. EVACUATION CONTINUES. (United Press Association; —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received August 18, 12.45 p.m. SHANGHAI, Aug. 17. Despite the pandemonium of the bombing of the environs of Shanghai, the relative military position of the Chinese and Japanese forces is unchanged. The martial activities have definitely accelerated the pace of the English, American and other evacuations. Dutchmen and Hungarians numbering 130 have departed for Manila and Batavia and Danes for Hong Kong. All outgoing Japanese ships are crowded with Japanese subjects. The city faces the prospect of an acute tood shortage. Hotels and restaurants are curtailing their menus. The stoppage of gas is compelling thousands to use charcoal or to eat cold meals. The Chinese claim that the Japanese warship Idumo was badly damaged by the motorboat’s torpedo yesterday, and also that Chinese air bombs set fire to two Japanese warships. Thirty thousand fresh Japanese troops have arrived in North China, bringing tbe total to 80,000. This was the original theatre of the Japanese operations in China before she was led into the Shanghai adventure by hasty' action on the part of the Navy. . . Chinese ’planes continue to attack Hongkew, where Japanese residents are massed, also Yangtse-poo, where large Japanese cotton mills are situated. In view of this the Settlement police force has evacuated this area. The Second Battalion Royal YVelsh Fusiliers disembarked to-day at YVoosung from the Maron and from the destroyer Delight. The Maron also brought half a millian dollars worth ot banknotes that were rushed from Hong Kong owing to the closure ot the hanks creating a demand for caeli. All .the banks have reopened temporary premises away from the Bund. The Chinese mob lynched a civilian Japanese near Sassoon House, becausethey believed lie was carrying poison. Tlie night passed quietly, only one fire not being extinguished.