CLASH IN CHINA
MORE JAPANESE TROOPS. THIRTEEN THOUSAND IN SHANTUNG. ANGER WHIPPED TO DANGER POINT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received May 8, 9.25 a.m. SHANGHAI, May 7. Japan is pouring troops into Shantung, and many warships are in Chinese waters in anticipation of antiJapanese outbreaks. An additional 8000 troops have been ordered to proceed from Nagoya, thus making a total of 13,000 in the Shantung province. Eight destroyers have been ordered to the Y'angtse to protect Japanese nationals in the principal ports—seven to Canton and four to Shanghai. General Ugalci, who was Minister of War in 1925, has been appointed com-mander-in-chief of the land forces.
It is reported that the Japanese Government proposes placing Tsinan and the neighbouring region under Japanese protection p'ending the restoration of peace. There is a possibility that the whole of Shantung will he temporarily seized.
Reports of atrocities on Japanese civilians, especially women, is whipping Japanese anger to the danger point. JAPANESE CASUALTIES. TOKIO. May 6. War Office advices indicate that nearly 300 Japanese were killed in the Tsinan district. Communications have not been restored, the railway having again been interrupted by Southerners after the passage of relief forces from Tsing-tao.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 7
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