WAR STORES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 5

WAR STORES

TAKEN TO HONG KONG ON AUSTRALIAN CARGO STEAMER. PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE SIEGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) MANILA, July 2. An Australian freighter has left for Hong Kong, carrying 1800 tons of water instead of the usual 400 tons, also additional supplies, enabling her to take on 500 to 600 evacuees. She also carried rolls of barbed wire and hundreds of kegs of nails useable in barricades and other emergency stores for use in the event of a siege of Hong Kong. WOMEN & CHILDREN TRANSPORT BY AIR LINER. HONG KONG, July 2. A special Imperial Airways’ plane will be evacuating families of the company’s employees to Bankok (Siam) this afternoon. The leading British shipping companies are taking their employees arid families to Singapore. ARREST OF AGITATORS DEMANDED BY PUPPET GOVERNMENT. AT JAPANESE INSTIGATION. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 2. The authorities are very much concerned over Wang Ching Wei’s demand for the arrest of 84 prominent Chinese residents in the foreign areas, on charges of agitating against the Nanking Government. The authorities declare:— “There is no doubt that the action is of Japanese origin, connected with the long existent Japanese programme to eliminate all Chinese opposing the Japanese aims.” The Nanking regime has no jurisdiction over foreign areas and the order is believed to signify impending forceful measures against the settlements or a long-drawn programme of kidnappings and assassinations.