JAPAN ANGRY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 186, 9 May 1928, Page 11

JAPAN ANGRY

REPORTS OF ATROCITIES IN

CHINA

TROOPS BEING POURED INTO SHANTUNG

MANY WARSHIPS IN CHINESE WATERS

Japan is pouring troops into Shantung, and many Japanese warships are in Chinese waters in anticipation of anti-Japan-ese outbreaks.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.)

Shanghai, May 7.

Japan is pouring troops into Shantung. Many Japanese warships are in Chinese waters in anticipation of antiJapanese outbreaks. An additional eight thousand troops have been ordered from Nagoya, bringing the total to thirteen thousand in the Shantung Province. Eight destroyers have been ordered to the Yangtse to protect Japanese nationals in the principal ports. Seven have been sent to Canton and-four to Shanghai. General Ugaki, Minister of War in 1925, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the land forces.

It is reported that the Japanese Government proposes placing Tsinan and the neighbouring region under Japanese protection pending a restoration of peace. There is a possibility of the whole of Shantung being temporarily seized. Reports of atrocities to Japanese civilians, especially women, are whipping Japan’s anger to a dangerous point. POSITION AT TSINAN-FU COMPARATIVE QUIET RESTORED (British Official Wireless.’, Rugby, May 7. The latest reports infer that comparative quiet has been restored at Tslnan-fu. About one thousand Japanese reinforcements have arrived from Tsingtao, although the railway is cut in three places. It is stated that further forces are being sent. RENEWED ATTACK ON TSINAN GRAVE FEARS FOR RESULT (Rec. May 8,11.15 p.m.) Tokio, May 8. A Tientsin dispatch to the “Asahi Shimbun” reports a renewed attack on Tsinan. Severe fighting continues, and there are gravest fears for the result. The Japanese are outnumbered. Communications between Tsinan and Tsingtau, working the previous day, are again interrupted. Cabinet is stressing the necessity of a cautious policy of protection, not punitive. It is continuing its deliberations. Meanwhile twenty transpo" s and troops are ready waiting a decio.on, which is expected to-day. The news of renewed hostilities, it is hoped, is exaggerated, but is feared to be true. The War Office is without advices.