MUCH WIDER ARENA

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1938, Page 9

MUCH WIDER ARENA

FIGHTING IN CHINA

FOREIGNERS WARNED JAPANESE NOTE ' EVACUATION REQUEST United Press Association—By Electric Tel»» graph—Copyright. i (Received June 21, 10 a.m.) 1 TOKIO, June 20. The Minister of Foreign Affairs* General Ugaki, has sent a Note to the foreign ambassadors warning them that the fighting in China is likely to spread over a huge area embracing half of China. Foreigners are requested to evacuate the territory between the Yellow River and the Indo-Chinese border, and otherwise to identify their property clearly and to inform the Japanese authorities of its whereabouts. General Ugaki also stated that it might be necessary to bomb Chinese military establishments outside the area indicated, which includes Hankow, Canton, and most of the towns in the coastal area south of Shanghai.

ADVANCE ON HANKOW

PROGRESS OF JAPANESE (Received June 21, 10.10 a.m.) TOKIO, June 20. The Japanese advancing to Hankow from north of the Yangtze-kiang claim to have occupied Hotaochen, 150 mile* east of the main objective.

APPEAL BY JAPAN

INTERPRETED AS DESIRE FOR PEACE LONDON, June 20. The Peking correspondent of "The Times" reports that special interest attaches to the strong appeal for peace issued at the weekend by the Japanese puppet Government at Peking, because, if it 1 was not Japanese-inspired, it obviously has warm official Japanese support and approval. The appeal dilates on the "sacrifices of the Japanese and the sufferings of the Chinese" in the past year, and declares that it will take a century to recover from the war. It urges General Chiang Kai-shek to acknowledge defeat and cease fighting, and asks the Hankow leaders to join in the puppet Government. The appeal is interpreted in some quarters as evidence that the Japanese are anxious to end the war, which is drawing them deeply into the interior at an ever-increasing cost of men and money.

REFUGEE GIRLS

SECRET SALE ALLEGED

(Received June 21, 9.15 a.m.)

HONG KONG, June 20.

The British-owned newispaper the "Hong Kong Sunday Herald" alleges that Chinese girls between the ages of 14 and 21 years, mostly refugees from Canton, Swatow, and Amoy, are being sold in a secret slave market at Hong Kong for £8 to £17.