JAPANESE WITHDRAW
WHEN MET BY FRENCH. INCIDENT IN SETTLEMENT. SEQUEL TO MARCH. (United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyrigh t.) Received December 6, 8.5 a.m. SHANGHAI, Dec. 5.
A party of 16 Japanese soldiers marched along the Settlement Bund at 9.30 a.m. towards the boundary of the French concession but they halted when they saw a line of French police drawn across the roadway. The forces eyed each other and then the Japanese withdrew
The Japanese naval spokesman denied that the Japanese had occupied Tsungming Island. A Hong Kong message says that Sir H. Knatchbull-Hugessen (the British Ambassador who was injured early in the campaign) is going to England on December 11. He expects to return to China in tlie summer.
Japanese aircraft bombed the railway fifteen miles from the /frontier of British territory. The train in which the British Embassy officials were travelling to Hong Kong was 45 minutes journey away. Mr R. C. Howe, British Charge d’ at Nanking, on arrival at Hong Kong, said: “We saw two aeroplanes flying over the train and saw one bomb drop ahead. "We did not s.Vp. The Japanese guaranteed the safety of the train but not the safety of the track.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 7, 6 December 1937, Page 7
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