TIENTSIN FLOODED

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 August 1939, Page 7

TIENTSIN FLOODED

RESIDENTS’ GRIM BATTLE HUNDREDS DROWNED [toy CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. August 23, 1 p.m.) TIENTSIN, August 22. Facing fres|i • l jpqrils from flood, starvation, anti epidemics, the residents of the British and French Concessions are fighting a grim battle against the rising waters. Hundreds have already been drowned, and thousands are missing. OVER 3,000,000 AFFECTED LONDON, August 22. “The Times’s” Shanghai correspondent says that over 3,000,000 are affected by the Tientsin floods. The country for a 30-mile radius has been turned into a lake, dotted with mounds packed with refugees.. '■■ .Thousands of people have been washed away. The British ajba,.is submerged, except for a strip along the Bund. The Italian concession and the railway station alqjieytpscaped the deluge. British troops were called out, and manned sampans, rescuing those in danger. The Japanese given up the attempt to enforce -thb blockade, but are still delaying/ feigners ’at the bridge barrier and’aVe preventing refugees going to Pekin. The food problem is very acute. Y . >' 4 £ I? MAROONED ON HOUSETOPS The flooded streets are filled with hundreds of craft of all kinds. Thousands of people are still marooned on the house-tops. The water is six to 15 feet high throughout the Japanese concession, which is the worst affected. It is reliably reported that Chinese guerillas, taking advantage of the situation, caused a number of serious fires on Japanese property at Laes, which is a large supply depot.

SHANGHAI INCIDENT. TOKIO, August 22. The Nanking puppet Government has worked out a plan for the fundamental solution of problems in the International Settlement and' foreign concessions at Shanghai, whose puppet Mayor, Mr. Fusiaoen, under threat of other measures, demanded that the Municipal Council should apologise and punish the police, and compensate the victims of Saturday’s incident, when Sergeant Kinloch, after being shot in the back, without provocation, by puppet police and trespassers, returned the fire and killed two of them. CHINESE ASSASSINATED „ HONG KONG, August 22. A nephew of General Wang Ching Wei has been assassinated here. HONG KONG PRECAUTIONS. HONG KONG, August 22. The Government of Hong Kong has ordered the immediate compilation of a register of the British women and children with a view to their possible evacuation. NO RESPONSIBILITY. PEKIN, August 22. The Army spokesman declared that Japan would not assume responsibility for the lives of Britons, Americans, and Chinese in the occupied areas. PROTEST BY FRANCE. HONG KONG. August 22. Japanese aeroplanes bombed Ma chang and pursued refugees into French territory, where they killed 10 with machine-guns. The French authorities have protested. ■ CASE OF FOUR CHINESE. RUGBY. August 22. The hearing regarding the summons for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of the four Chinese was adjourned until to-morrow, after .statements- by Sir Terence O’Conner, for the Foreign Secretary, and Sir Walter Monckton, for the applicants.