FAR EAST TURMOIL

Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 12

FAR EAST TURMOIL

POSITION IN HONGKONG REGISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN POSSIBLE EVACUATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright HONGKONG, August 22 (Received August 23, at 8 a.m.) The Government has ordered the immediate compilation of a register of British women and children with a view to possible evacuation. MACHANG BOMBED FRENCH AUTHORITIES PROTEST. CHUNGKING, August 22. Japanese planes bombed Machang and pursued refugees into French territory, killing 10 with machine guns. The French authorities have protested. LIVES OF FOREIGNERS NO PROTECTION IN OCCUPIED AREAS. PEKING, August 22. (Received August 23, at 10.30 a.m.) The army spokesman declared that Japan would not assume responsibility for the lives of Britons, Americans, and Chinese in the occupied areas. CONCESSION PROBLEMS PUPPET GOVERNMENT HAS A PLAN. TOKIO, August 22. (Received August 23, at 10.30 a.m.) The Nanking Puppet Government has worked out a plan for a fundamental solution of. the problems of the international settlement and foreign concessions- in Shanghai, whose puppet mayor (Mr Fusiaoen), under threat of other measures, demanded that the Municipal Council should apologise and punish the police to compensate for the victims in Saturday’s incident,, when Sergeant Kinloch, after being shot without provocation in the back by puppet police and trespassers, returned the lire and killed two of them.

TIENTSIN FLOODS STILL RISING TIENTSIN, August 22. (Received August 23, at 10.5 a.m.) The lioods are still rising. The British are distributing food to refugees. The municipality has requisitioned all stocks for distribution without profit. FLOOD WATERS FILL STREETS CHINESE GUERRILLAS ACTIVE TIENTSIN, August 22. (Received August 23, at II a.m.) The Hooded streets are filled by hundreds of craft of all kinds. Thousands are still marooned on the housetops. The water is 6ft to 15ft high throughout the Japanese Concession, which was most affected. It is reliably reported that Chinese guerrillas, taking advantage of tho situation, caused a number of serious fires on Japanese property in Laes, which is a largo supply depot. A GRIM BATTLE HUNDREDS ALREADY DROWNED. TIENTSIN. August 22. (Received August 23, at 1.5 p.m.) Facing fresh perils of flood, starvation, and epidemics, residents in the British and French Concessions are fighting a grim battle against the rising waters. Hundreds are already drowned and thousands are missing. OVER 3,000,000 AFFECTED

BRITISH TROOPS MAN SAMPANS. LONDON, August 22. (Received August 23, at 1.30 p.m.) The Shanghai correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says over 3,000,000 are affected by the Tientsin floods. The country for a 30-niile radius has been turned into a vast lake dotted with mounds packed with refugees. Thousands of people wore washed away. The British area has been submerged except for a strip along the Bund. The Italian Concession and the railway station alone escaped the deluge. British troops were called out and manned sampans, rescuing those in danger. The Japanese have given up the attempt to enforce the blockade, but are still delaying foreigners at the bridge barrier, preventing refugees going to Peking. The food problem is very acute. CHINESE ASSASSINATED HONGKONG, August 22. (Received August 23, at 11 a.m.) A nephew of Wang Ching-wei was assassinated here. WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS HEARING ADJOURNED. (British Official Wireless.' RUGBY, August 22. (Received August 23, at noon.) The hearing regarding the summons fur a writ of habeas corpus in the case

of the four Chinese was adjourned till to-morrow after statements by Sir Terence O’Connor for the Foreign Secretary. and Sir Walter Monckton for the applicants.