SITUATION IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9

SITUATION IN CHINA

ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT SWEEPING COUNTRY TRADESMEN REFUSE TO SELL FOOD Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, August 9. (Received August 10, at 10.5 a.m.) The evacuation of Japanese residents in towns on the Yangtso River has been completed. An anti-Japanese boycott is sweeping China. Tradesmen refuse to sell food to Japanese who _ are forced to obtain provisions from Japan. JAPANESE IN CONTROL OF PEKING TROOPS TO PRESERVE LAW AND ORDER. PEKING, August 9. (Received August 10, at 11 a.m.) The Commander of the Japanese troops in Peking states that the troops will preserve law and order and threatens disturbers with severe penalties. The police visited the Chinese Government radio station and removed essential parts, preventing transmission of even commercial messages. OFFICERS FIRED AT SERIOUS REPERCUSSIONS EXPECTED. SHANGHAI, August 9. (Received August 10, at 11 a.m.) Chinese sentries at Hungjao aerodrome fired on a car containing Japanese officers who refused to stop when challenged. One officer was killed. Serious repercussions are expected. TERROR-STRICKEN REFUGEES COWER IN STREETS OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT. SHANGHAI, August 9. (Received August 10, at 11 a.m.) Sixty thousand terror - stricken Chinese refugees cower in tho streets of the international settlement fearing a repetition of tho Japanese bombing of their homes as in 1932, when thousands were slain. Officials, despite the apparent imminence of open warfare, are heartened by the Japanese withdrawal from the central and upper valleys of the Yangtse-Kiang and Finance Minister Kung’s completion of a credit agreement with Paris. The Japanese repulsed a minor Chinese attack on the Great Wall, 50 miles north of Peking.