RUSSIAN DRIVE TO CHINA

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 9

RUSSIAN DRIVE TO CHINA

Opinion Expressed In Peiping “BITTER LESSON FOR JAPAN” (TOTTED PRESS RSSOCIXTtOE—COPTBIBHIJ • (Received August 23, 2.30 sum.) PEIPING, August 22. Russia is expected to drive towards China; now? that' she is free in' Europe. The opinion is expressed that Japan has learned a bitter lesson as to the value ; of the Anti-Comintern: as- | surances. <•. • JAPANESE BOMB KIATING-FIJ CITY WALLS PREVENT EVACUATION LONDON, August . 21. Three-quarters of the _ city of Kiating-fu was destroyed after a huge Japanese raid which 'caused more than 500 casualties and uncontrollable fifes. - ■ ,’ ■ , Mr Peter King, -and Mrs . King, Australians, Mrs H. Mclntyre, a Canadian, Miss McLean,' an American, and Miss Thoermg had • narrow escapes. The Canadian church and clime were demolished. ' “ . . The buildings in the business district were wrecked. Nine university students were killed.. The city waUs. - prevented the quick evacuation of the| inhabitants. It is • assumed that the raid resulted from a Japanese broadcast that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek had moved to"Kiating-fu, although he is still in Chungking. ■' The Hong Kong correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency states that Japanese aeroplanes from warships anchored at Pakhpi, a treaty port, are reported to have bombed and machine-gunned the surrounding country, violating Kwang Chow-man, ~ which was leased to the French in. 1898 for 99 years. ■: Japanese, aeroplanes, bombed Machang and pursued refugees into French territory, where they killed 10 with machine-guns. The French authorities have pretested. FOOD RIOTS IN SHANGHAI ' “ ■ » ■ • FLOUR AND RICE STORES LOOTED LONDON, August 21. Hundreds of Chinese looted the .dour and rice stores’ in Shanghai and carried off hundreds of bags of flour before the police beat them back. These were the first food riots there, since 1937.

The Shanghai correspondent of “The Times” states that, only 12 days’ supply of rice is left for 4,000,000 inhabitants, after the Japanese Army ban on imports-from the hinterland. Several riots have occurred.

THE ANTI-BRITISH

CAMPAIGN PKOPAGANDA METHODS TO BE STUDIED LONDON. August 21. It is reported from Peiping that • “Grand Anti-British Association** has been formed to advise puppet governments, oh methods of enlarging the 'anti-British, campaign, throughout Asia. The cinemas, in future, will devote the first quarter of an hour to anti-British cartoons. British cars, including those used by the embassy and military authorities, have ceased- flying the Union Jack.