JAPANESE IN CHINA
FOOD BLOCKADE AT SHANGHAI POSTPONED RESULT OF GERMAN-SOVIET AGREEMENT ACUTE RISE SHORTAGE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 25. Reuter’s Shanghai correspondent says that an acute rice shortage caused further serious riots., It is believed that the Japanese intended to hold all foreign areas to ransome by a food blockade, marching in when the situation was out of hand, but postponed the move owing to the German-Soviet agreement. The idea of new blockades on the lines of that at Tientsin is now scouted. EXODUS FROM HONGKONG HARBOUR ENTRANCES MINED. HONGKONG, August 25. (Received August 26, at 8 a.m.) British women and wealthy Chinese applied all day long yesterday to the United States Consulate for visas to Manila. Ships bound for Australia and Manila are packed. Booms and mines have been placed at the harbour entrances, forcing inward and outward bound vessels to follow a buoyed track. SITUATION AT TIENTSIN EPIDEMICS FEARED. TIENTSIN, August 25. (Received August 26, at 8 a.m.) It is understood that between 30,000 and 40,000 Japanese troops are strung along the British frontier. In Tientsin epidemics are feared.
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Evening Star, Issue 23355, 26 August 1939, Page 16
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184JAPANESE IN CHINA Evening Star, Issue 23355, 26 August 1939, Page 16
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