Olympic Games Cancelled

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 165, 15 July 1938, Page 5

Olympic Games Cancelled

Owing to Enormous Strain Of War JAPAN CANNOT SPARE MONEY AND MATERIALS Uni tod Tress Association.— By Electrlo Tel egTa-ph.— Copyrlicn U Received Thursday, Midnight TOKIO, July 14. The Ministry pf Public Welfare haa vetoed the Olympic Games, although they axe not formally cancelled. The Demei News Agency interprets this as being tantamount t,o abandonment. To-morrow Cabinet is certain to confirm the decision which arises from unwillingness to spare wax materials on the vast bu !ding programme which is considered inadvisable in new cf the enormous strain of the China war pn Japan’s financial resources. The same reason prompted the Ministry of Commerce’s decision to postpone the international exhibition planned simultaneously with the Games 1 * pending the termination of the war in China.’* Mr. Spyeshima, a member of the International Gamer Committee, regretted the action and expressed the hope that the Games would be held in Toklo in 1948. STARVING JAP GARRISON RELIEVED BAD EATEN MULES, CATS AND DOGS Received Thursday, 9.10 p.m. LONDON, July 14. The Shanghai correspondent of the limes reports that Chinese guerillas carried out a night raid on Namoa Island, hilling a number of Japanese and capturing much equipment. They alio captured a Chinese puppet leader and his followers, who have been taken to Swatow for trial. The Japanese announce they have raised a siege of three towns in south bhansi, where the garrisons, who were cut off for two months, ate mules, cats and dogs to reinforce the scanty rations from aeroplanes. MORE JAPANESE BOMBINGS ATTEMPT AT AERODROME UNSUCCESSFUL The Japanese bombed a refugee camp s t Tsengcheng from the air, killing 240, and in addition 90 victims in other districts. Eeceved Friday, 12.42 a.m. HANKOW, July 15. Nine bombers raided, without damaging, an aerodrome, with four British gunboats standing by. At least 100 British Navy sailors are proceeding to Hankow to patrol the foreign areas, states a Shanghai mesaage. A Canton message states that 37 warplanes bombed the Pearl river bridge district and killed at least 150, wounding 480. The east Bund was strewn with bodies. BRITISH GOVERNMENT REJECTS PROPOSED LOAN TO CttllNA Received Thursday, 9.10 p.m. LONDON, July 14. ! It is understood the Government has rejected a proposal for a £20,000,000 loan to China, says the Daily Telegraph. RIGHTS IN CHINA JAPAN’S ATTITUDE TO OTHER POWERS LONDON, July 13. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, said in the House of Commons, because of rumours that Japan had informed Britain she had no intention of using the situation in China as a pretext for denying Britain’s and other Powers’ extraterritorial rights in areas occupied by the Japanese. that Japan had merely asserted that she would act against foreigners Impeding military operations.