THE JAPANESE OUTLOOK

Evening Star, Issue 22720, 6 August 1937, Page 9

THE JAPANESE OUTLOOK

MAJOR CUSH INEVITABLE CROWDS LEAVING HANKING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 5. The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ Tokio correspondent says: “ A major ChineseJapanese clash is accepted as inevitable by all Japanese editors and special correspondents in China, although they are inclined to believe that a period of comparative quiet will intervene to permit both sides, particularly the Chinese, to strengthen their positions.” A message from Nanking states that people had started pouring out of the capital. Trains and buses leaving the city are crowded. The Government has advised Civil servants to remove their families owing to the possibility of a food shortage. A Tientsin message says the Japanese military authorities have ordered all influential newspapers in North China to suspend publication, including the English language publications, the Tientsin ‘ Evening Post ’ and the Peking ‘ Chronicle.’ SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET EXPENDITURE IN NORTH CHINA. TOKIO, August 5. Cabinet approved the supplementary Budget of £24,000,000 for North China expenditure, for which purpose £5,700,000 has already been voted. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT AMICABLE SETTLEMENT SOUGHT. TOKIO, August 5. (Received August 6, at 1 p.m.) Revealing that Japan is negotiating with Chinn simultaneously with military operations, Mr Hirota, in the House of Representatives, added that it was hoped to settle the troubles in North China and also to regulate fundamental Sino-Japanese relations. China and Japan should co-operate against Communism, which was responsible for fanning anti-Japanese sentiments. Japan must deal sympathetically with whatever China wanted from Japan in order to break the deadlock. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT ANNOYED. TOKIO, August 5. (Received August 6, at 1.20 p.m.) The Government is irritated by reports that the Chinese are engaging American pilots and buying American planes and ships. It intends pointing out this will have • an unfavourable effect on the relations between Japan and America. FULLY PREPARED FDR PUNITIVE MEASURES 250 CHINESE POLICE ANNIHILATED. TOKIO, August 5. (Received August 6, at 10 a.m.) General Sugiyama (Minister of War), speaking on the Estimates debate in the Diet, said it was doubtful whether the Japanese garrison would be able to maintain its present attitude in face of the steady advance of the Chinese troops to North China. The Japanese were fully prepared for punitive measures if the Chinese assumed the offensive. It was estimated that 2,500 Chinese had been killed at Nanyuan and 150 at Tungchow, while the Japanese had disarmed 8,200 Chinese in Peiyuan, Tungchow, and west of Peking. They had also captured four field guns, four howitzers, 11 trench mortars, over 200 Czech machine guns, 5,000 rifles, and quantities of revolvers and swords. A Peking message states that the Japanese rounded up and annihilated 250 Chinese police, which, it is alleged, participated in the Tungchow; massacre.