OMINOUS QUIET IN NANKING BUT PRECEDES STORM.
MORE BRITISH WAR VESSELS ON THE MOVE.
4 United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received December 11, 10.50 a.m ) SHANGHAI, December 10. The present situation is ominously quiet, but this is obviously misleading. AH foreigners have been ordered by their respective Consuls to evacuate Nanking, where a serious outbreak is expected unless Chiang Kai-shek is ab'e to suppress the rebels in the surrounding areas.
The aircraft-carrier Hermes is proceeding to Shanghai from Hong Kong. A cruiser and two destroyers are proceeding to Nanking.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18941, 11 December 1929, Page 9
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