MAJOR CLASH

Grey River Argus, 6 August 1937, Page 11

MAJOR CLASH

COMING IN CHINA Exodus From Capital [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l (Received August 5, 8.40 p'.m.) LONDON, August 5. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Tokio correspondent ’says: A major Chinese Japanese clash is accepted as being inevitable by all of the Japanese newspaper editors and by Japanese special correspondents in China; although they are inclined to believe that a period of comparative quiet, will intervene so as to permit both sides, and particularly the Chinese, to strengthen their positions. , JAPAN’S WAR BUDGET. (Received August 5, 8.30 p.m.) ' TOKIO, August 5. The Japanese Cabinet have approved of a supplementary budget of twenty-four millions sterling for the country’s North China expenditure, for which purpose the sum of £5,700.000 has already been voted. NANKING PEOPLE. GREAT RUSH FOR SAFETY. NANKING, August 5. People have started to pour out of the capital. The trains and buses leaving the city are crowded. The Government have advised th: civil servants to remove their families owing to the possibility of a food shortage. NORTH CHINA PAPERS. ' SUSPENDED BY JAPANESE. (Received August 5, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. A Tientsin message says that the Japanese military have ordered all of the influential newspapers in North China to suspend publication, including two English language publications, the “Tientsin Evening Post” and the “Pekin Chronicle.” CHINESE CONFERENCE. NANKING, August 4. The principal military leaders in China are gathering at Nanking for an exchange of views with the Prime Minister and Chiang Kai Shek. Parliament will meet on August Bth, to pass Bills dealing with the state of emergency. The dangerous Sino-Japanese tension continues, but troops sent north by the Chinese Central Government and the Japanese forces there have not yet come to grips.