MORE INTENSE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23388, 3 July 1939, Page 9

MORE INTENSE

JAPAN'S BLOCKADE TIENTSIN CRISIS FOREIGN CONCESSIONS EXITS ALL BARBED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON. .Tune 00 The Japanese have carried out their threat to intensify the Tientsin blockade, says the Hongkong correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. They have closed all the barriers and electrified 22 miles of entanglements, permitting entrances but no exits to the British and French concessions. The British Consul at Tientsin today informed British subjects resident in the concession that Mr. C. («. Jamieson, Hrilish Consul-Oeneral. had received a cablegruin from Whitehall requesting a continuance of care in ihe direction of avoiding exposure to any indignities for the next few days. The messago asks Britons to refrain from passing the barriers except on occasions of necessity. It adds "that it is absolutely imperative that they should observe this rule.

Situation at Foochow and Swatow The Japanese blockade of Foochow, in tho course of which they were to have placed a boom across (lie Mill Kivcr, thus bottling up a British destroyer, lias been postponed for a lew days ill compliance with the British v e(|nest to lie permitted to evacuate nationals, says a message from lokio. The Shanghai correspondent of Renter's reports thai. 30 British bluejackets have been landed at, Foochow from 11.M.5. Grasshopper to protect British lives nnd property. Chinese reports say that Japanese airmen are heavily bombing the centre of the city. .A message from Shanghai states that bombs destroyed the offices of the American foreign mission at Foochow. There were no casualties. I wenty-six warships are concentrated ofl the city. •Japanese airmen bombed the city of Swatow, bitting the American Union high school. No Americans were killed. The Chinese casualties are not known. New Puppet Government The new puppet Government of Wang Ching-wei, a former Chinese Premier, who advocates peace with the .Japanese, and who has been outlawed by .Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, will replace the reformed Government in Peking, but not the provisional Government. The latter will continue to function semi-independent ly.

The Wang regime will he established in Nanking under the Chunmin (All People's Government). Its territory will ht> China, south of the Lunghai railway. Anti-Chiang Kai-shek elements from the Kuoniintang will he allowed to carry un activities in the Chunmin's territory. Japanese Army officers will train Chinese troops tor the administration by Wang.