JAPANESE TROOPS

Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 9

JAPANESE TROOPS

IN NEIGHBOURHOOD OF HONGKONG FOR FIRST TIME IN WAR Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright HONGKONG, November 24. (Received November 25, at 8 a.m.) The Japanese advancing from Sheklung are for the first time in the neighbourhood of Hongkong. They are fighting in the direction of Lunkong, 20 miles away. Two thousand Japanese have arrived from the west and are believed to bo attempting to clear the railway area of Chinese. The Japanese have asked permission to run an air service between Canton and Hongkong. REOPENING OF YANGTSE " (BRITAIN’S PROTEST TO JAPAN. TOKIO, November 24. (Received November 25, at 11 a.m.) Sir Robert Craigie informed Mr Arita (Foreign Minister) that Britain does not accept Japan’s arguments against the reopening of the Yangtse. The Spokesman said the Pearl River would shortly be reopened, but this depended on strategical necessity. WARNING GIVEN TO HONGKONG CONSUL CANTON, November 24. (Received November 25, at 10.30 a.m.) The Japanese warned the Consul of the operations against the Chinese extending to the borders of the British leased territory. SHENSI INVASION PLANNED CUTTING OFF ARMS FROM RUSSIA. LONDON, November 24. Received November 25, at 2 p.m.) The Shanghai correspondent of ‘ The Times’ says the Japanese are preparing to invade Shensi Province in order to cut off the supply of arms from Russia. The 'English and French Chambers of Commerce and the National Association of eight countries are united in opposing unjustifiable Japanese military restrictions on foteign trade.