WAR IN CHINA
FOREIGN SHIPPING YANGTSE TO REMAIN CLOSED UP A. —Bv Electric Telegraph— GopyrtghQ (Received 30lh November, 11.10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, 29th November The Japanese spokesman declared that the Yangtse-Kiang River would remain closed to foreign shipping until General Chiang Kai-Shek's government was annihilated or had capitulated, and China was satisfactorily rehabilitated. Admiral Oikawa, commander-in-chief, sent a memorandum to the English, French and Italian commanders in a similar strain. DANGER OF CHINESE CURRENCY SOLLAPSE (Received 30th November. 1.15 p.m.) VANCOUVER. 29th November. A message from Victoria states that Mr Edward Hall-Paton. British financial adviser in the Far East, arrived at Victoria from the Orient. He stated that the danger of a Chinese currency collapse was the keeping of the Yang-tse-Kiang river closed to international trading. The collapse would be as detrimental to Japan as to other countries. Mr Hall-Paton is en route to London to report to the British Government.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 7
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