SEA BLOCKADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23431, 22 August 1939, Page 9

SEA BLOCKADE

PORT OF_HONGKONG JAPAN'S INTENTION ANNOUNCEMENT MADE STOP ARMS TRAFFIC By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received August 21, 0.50 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21 The Japanese military spokesman ab Canton has announced Japan's intention to carry out a blockade of Hongkong, not only by land, but by sea, in order to prevent supplies reaching Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. The measure is designed completely to cut off the Chinese trade in arms between Hongkong; and Kwantung. British and Japanese military officials met at the frontier this morning and conferred 011 the exact demarcation of the boundary in order to avoid incidents.

HUGE AIR RAID . TOWN ALMOST DESTROYED HEAVY CASUALTIES EXPECTED (Received August 21, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21 Three-quarters of the town of Kiating, 160 miles west of Chunking, the Chinese capitnl, was destroyed after a huge Japanese air raid which caused uncontrollable fires. No details of the casualties are available, but they are believed to have been enormous, the city walls preventing quick evacuation. It is assumed the raid resulted from a Japanese broadcast that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek had moved to Kiating, although he is still at Chungking. ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN PLANS FOR EXTENSION ADVISORY BODY SET UP (Received August 21, 0.50 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 21 A "Grand Anti-British Association" has been formed in Peking to advise the puppet Governments upon methods of enlarging the anti-British campaign all over Asia. Cinemas will in future devote the first quarter of an hour to antiBritish cartoons. British cars, including those of the Embassy staff and the military authorities, have ceased flying the Union Jack.