OMINOUS QUIET
IN CHINESE SITUATION tVAUUATIUN ORDERS TO FOREIGNERS. .WARSHIPS PROCEEDING TO NANKING. (United Press Association— By CableCopyright.) (Received 11, 10.50 a.m.) Shanghai, Dec. 10. There is ominous quiet in the present situation but this is obviously misleading. All foreigners have been ordered by their respective corfsuls to evacuate Nanking, where a serious outbreak is expected unless Chiang Kai-shek is able to suppress the rebels in the surrounding areas. The aircraft carrier Hermes is proceeding to Shanghai from Hongkong. A cruisei and two destroyers are proceeding to Nanking. EVACUATION OF WOMEN. (British Official Wireless.) x (Received 11 11.5 a.m.) Rurjby, Dec. 10. Hongkong messages state that the majority of the British and American women in Nanking were evacuated yesterday on the steamer Shanking and that the remainder—two British and about four American—are being evacuated to-day. Earlier messages on page 5.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 305, 11 December 1929, Page 7
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