CANADIAN FEAR

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 11

CANADIAN FEAR

Plans Of Japanese Militarists MR. HEPBURN’S VIEW By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received July 28, 11.15 p.m.) NIAGARA FALLS, July 28. The Premier of Ontario, Mr. Hepburn, in a public address, said: “The Canadian people have been smug and apathetic for too long. Their future is not as secure as the past has always been. “When Japan completes her conquest of China she will turn to Canada. I in British Columbia in 1938, and the people out there take a most serious view of the problem.” He confessed that when he was a member of the Federal Parliament he opposed measures to strengthen Canada’s national defence, but he said he had since changed his view concerning the “Japanese menace.”

FOOD SCARCITY IN HONG KONG

Continued Anti-British Riots In China HONG KONG, July 27. The closing of the Pearl River by Japan has resulted in the cutting off of fresh food supplies to Hong Kong from Macao, and the cost of living is rising sharply. Twenty-eight British women and children from Tangk’u and Baku speni last night in a tugboat on the river as a precautionary measure in view of continued anti-British riots and demonstrations. H.M.S. Sandwich stood by. Evacuation is not planned, although Chinese demonstrators say that they cannot guarantee the safety of British citizens longer than a month. Japan lias informed the British Consulate in Tientsin, as a result of the protest of July 24. concerning riots, that the local Chinese authorities are responsible for maintaining law and order.

Tientsin reports that for the first time since they were introduced in March, 1938, Japanese Federal Reserve Bank notes were not quoted at a discount in terms of the national dollar today. Tins morning unofficial quotations show a Reserve Bank premium varying between 8 and 12 per cent.

Miss G. A. Riigg. of the China Inland Mission, has been missing for thre months in Kiang.si Province. The British Consul is investigating.

INVADERS STOPPED BY FLOODS Town Engulfed In North PEKING, July 27. Torrential rains and disastrous Hoods have stopped the Japanese operations in North China, rendering homeless thousands of people, and engulfed the town of Tungehow. PROTECTION TAX Chinese Irregulars In Shanghai

SHANGHAI, July 27. Chinese irregulars sent letters to residents around the British-manned western perimeter of the International Settlement demanding a protection tax. Several paid up, after which they received a written guarantee of immunity from further trouble. The tax is being used to fiuance the Irregular forces.