Mobilisation in Japan

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 8

Mobilisation in Japan

TENSE INCIDENT IN SHANGHAI SETTLEMENT BOMB THROWN AT CAR United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Conyric-Ht TOKIO, March 18 The Diet passed the Mobilisation Bill. A Shanghai message says: There wat a momentary tense situation in the International Settlement through a boml being throwm close to a car containing Japanese officers. The damage war slight, but it was feared that the inci dent might be a pretext for action b; the Japanese, who advised Japanes residents to withdraw from non-Japr.r ese sections of the Settlement and th French concession, which French troop with fixed bayonets manned. The idea was prevalent that Japa would take over the settlement, but th Japanese denied any such intentio. Their proposal for an armed march i Nanking road was abandoned after a; American intimation that marines woulc oppose it by force. Japanese planes bombed Canton at intervals of eight hours. Hankow was bombed twice also three railways radiating from Canton.