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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1940, Page 8

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SHANGHAI DISPUTE.

[BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

SHANGHAI, August 19.

Admiral Hart, Commander of the American Asiatic Fleet, in a statement, said that there was a dispute between the American and the Japanese military authorities in regard to the control of the British sectors in Shanghai. It was now the subject of negotiation between Tokio and Washington. He pointed out that, pending the outcome of the negotiations, the United States marines had agreed to permit a Shanghai volunteer corps to take over the duties in B sector, embracing the central district, the waterfront, and the British area north of Soochow Creek.

The Japanese Bar Associations passed a resolution urging the Government immediately to occupy the British sector at Shanghai. CHINESE PROTEST. TOKIO, August 19. Japanese efforts to control the British defence areas in Shanghai without consulting Nanking have jrecipitated a dispute between Nan-

king and Tokio, and may delay the signing of a peace treaty. Mr Wang Ching-wei’s “Daily News,” in an editorial warned the Japanese that they would be unable to carry out the new-order programme if they continued to insist on acting as Nanking’s representative internationally. The Tokio newspaper “Nichi Nichi,” in an editorial, says: “The adjustment of French Indo-China and the Netherlands’s East . Indies by Japan’s southward policy must be most deliberate. However, an opportune time should not be missed. IndoChina and the Netherlands East Indies may consider Japan too easy if the Japanese attitude is too lukewarm, and if Japan takes a hesitating attitude third Powers will undoubtedly get more chance for shady dealing against Japan.” SHOT BY GUNMEN. SHANGHAI, August 19. Gunmen shot and seriously wounded Chan Hanuen, believed to be .a high agent of Wang Chingwei. CHUNGKING BOMBED. (Recd. August 20, 9 a.m.) CHUNGKING, August 19. About 100 Japanese planes bombed Chungking, setting fire to houses.