TRANSFER PLANS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 November 1937, Page 10

TRANSFER PLANS

3.15 P.M. EDITION.

INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT. BOMBING AT CHOWKIAOW. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received Navember 24. 1.10 p.m. SHANGHAI, Nov. 23.Negotiations are proceeding smoothly for the transferring to Japan of the Chinese administrative machinery in the International Settlement, including the Customs and Post Offices. A Tokio message states that a Japanese air raid on Chowkiaow annihilated the local Chinese air force, bringing down five ’planes, which challenged the Japanese, and destroying 20 on the ground. VISITOR’S EXPERIENCES. NEW ZEALAND SIGHTSEER. . Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. Miss M. Sutherland returned to Wellington to-day from a trip to the East. She said the ship she was travelling in, the Nankin, was held up by a Japanese destroyer before the Nankin reached Hong Kong, and she was boarded and her papers were examined. All the time a gun was trained on her.

One night a number of Japanese destroyers were passed and their searchlights were played on the Nankin. Submarines could be seen manoeuvring around. Miss Sutherland left New Zealand before the fighting began in earnest. “We were not allowed to go to Shanghai,” she said, “and even Canton was not safe to go to; but I visited Yokohama. Instead of a fortnight I only had five days in Japan. I enjoyed the visit very much, the .Japanese treating us very well.”