POOCHOW SITUATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 5, 6 July 1939, Page 9

POOCHOW SITUATION

NINE WOMEN LEAVE

THREAT TO BOMBARD PORT

(Received July 6, 1.30 p.m.)

LONDON, July 5,

The Hong Kong correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that nine English and American women were evacuated from Foochow on the eve of the blockade of the harbour by means of booms and mines. The Japanese have threatened to bombard the port at dawn.

shipyards, through which arms from Germany have been landed. Over a hundred Poles employed in the shipyards have been dismissed, and all Poles of Danzig nationality employed on complementary works have been given a fortnight's notice.

The Berlin correspondent o£ the British United Press says that the first newspaper admission that Britain is not bluffing and intends to go to war in fulfilment of her obligations appears in the "Borsen-Zeitung," which says:—

"England does not need to convince us of the genuineness of her intentions. She confirms her encirclement policy and her will to war against Germany and to allow it to become a world war. To camouflage this brutal will behind humanitarian phrases or protestations of sympathy to Germany is bluff, but the will itself is not bluff."