TIENTSIN QUIET
SEARCHES LESS RIGOROUS SUPPLIES TO CONCESSION BOOM AT FOOCHOW BRITISH IGNORE ORDER. (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reod. June 30, 3 p.m.) LONDON, June 29. The Shanghai correspondent of The Times says that large supplies of fresh foodstuffs entered Tientsin today. There were only short delays at the barriers.
The situation at Swatow is reported as unchanged. British ships continue to call but do not enter the harbour. Passengers are being transhipped. JI.M.S. Scout is outside.
The navy authorities report that Britons have not evacuated Foochow. Tientsin reports that the British Concession was quiet to-day. The searches by the Japanese are less rigorous.
An Independent Cable Service message irem Foochow states that the Japanese have announced that they have decided to boom the river. The British authorities replied that they intended to leave a destroyer in. the harbour. The Japanese answered that the vessel would be bottled up.
A Chungking message states that the Japanese were forced to evacuate Yuhwan Island after heavy casualties.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19978, 1 July 1939, Page 7
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