MUST STOP LENDING SUPPORT TO CHANG.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 164, 14 July 1939, Page 7

MUST STOP LENDING SUPPORT TO CHANG.

JAPANESE DEMAND.

Believed Basis Of Talks With Britain. RECOGNISE "NEW ORDER." United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12 noon.) TOKYO, July 13. A special meeting of the -Japanese ( abinct approved the decisions of the •Japanese attitude in the talks with British representatives regarding 1 ientsin. It is understood 1 hey adhere to the demands tiiat Britain must abandon support of Marshal ( hiang Kai-shek and co-operate with •Japan politically and economically by recognising the "new order/' The Japanese Army rejected the British protest against wire-barricading ot three factories at Shanghai on July 10. The barricades will not be removed until a satisfactory reply is received to Japan's November Note of protest against their conduct.

The Japanese Domei news agencv reports that the municipality at Kuliiiil'su. largely as the result of British opposition, refused the Japanese demand' to appoint a Japanese police chief and policemen within the International Settlement.

The Independent C'alde Service quotes the "Daily Express'' Hongkong correspondent as saying that the biggest lie of the war is told in Hankow by a Jap-anese-owned newspaper, in which it is asserted that Britain handed over Hongkong to the Japanese amid tumultuous Chinese rejoicing.

A torrent of anti-British propaganda is sweeping South China in the Jap-anese-controlled Tress. It is variously asserted that the Chinese are fleeing from Hongkong because of the British brutality, and that the British are poisoning the Hongkong reservoirs.

DISCARDED TROUSERS. SAVED TIME AT SEARCHING. Independent Cable Service. (Received 2 p.m.) TIENTSIN. July 13. An American, intending to hire a taxi to take him into the British concession, tound the Chinese driver seated at the wheel in underwear. He explained that he was tired of taking off iiis trousers at command of the Japanese sentries.