A MAJOR CLASH.
REGARDED AS INEVITABLE. SHORTAGE OF FOOD LIKELY. SUSPENSION OF NEWSPAPERS. United press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, August 5. The Tokio correspondent of the Dally Telegraph says a major clash between the Chinese and the Japanese is accepted as inevitable by all Japanese editors and by special correspondents in China. These journalists, however, are Inclined to believe that a period of comparative quiet will Intervene to permit both sides —particularly the Chinese—to strengthen their positions. Despatches from Nanking state that the people have started to pour out of that city and nil trains and buses leaving it are crowded. Tho Chinese Central Government has advised civil servants to remove their families owing to the possibility of a shortage of food. From Tientsin it is reported that the Japanese military have ordered all tho influential newspapers in North China to suspend publication, including those printed in the English language—namely, the Tientsin Evening Post and the Peking Chronicle
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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159A MAJOR CLASH. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20265, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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