SHANGHAI STRUGGLE

Grey River Argus, 17 August 1937, Page 5

SHANGHAI STRUGGLE

CHINESE CAPTURE MILLS Japanese Guns Active REINFORCEMENTS BOMBED CHINESE HANGARS BATTERED. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] SHANGHAI, August 16. The Chinese announce the capture of the Japanese Naval Club, after a bitter fight, and 20 Chinese and 200 Japanese were 'killed. REFUGEES IN INTERNATIONAL QUARTER. SHANGHAI, August 16. A quarter of a mijlion Chinese refugees have already hidden themselves in empty houses and shops and the honeycomb of alleyways. There is only ten days’ supply of rice available for the refugees, but the Municipal Council has ordered ten thousand tons from Hong Kong. EVACUATION OF BRITISH. LONDON, August 15. The situation was discussed at a conference at Whitehall between rep resentatives of the War Office, Admitalty, and the Air Force, when it was decided to move a battalion of the Ulster Rilles from Hong Kong to Shanghai, to .evacuate a number of Britons, pursuant to which the Consul General in Shanghai is arranging to evacuate women and children to Hong Kong on August 17. The evacuation of American women and children from Woosung, will be gin to-morrow. A temporary truce will permit tenders to pass Japanese warships in the river. SAFETY OF FOREIGNERS. • . © [British Official Wireless]. RUGBY, August 14. News from Shanghai disappoints the hope that hostilities between the Chinese and Japanese might be arrested. The British and other Governments interested in the maintenance of the immunity of the International Settlement remain in close touch, and the Japanese and Chinese authorities are aware of the importance which these Governments attach to the safety of the settlement and the observance by the military forces on both sides of the conditions necessary to ensure it. ■