JAPAN OFF MACAO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 307, 28 December 1937, Page 7

JAPAN OFF MACAO

TWENTY VESSELS SIGHTED LANDING IN SOUTH CHINA i PROBABLE OBSERVATIONS IN PROGRESS 1 Received Dec. 27. 10.40 p.m. HONGKONG, Dec. 27. | European passengers aboard a steamer bound for Macao report that they sighted 20 Japanese vessels, comprising warships, transports and aircraft carriers, hove-to 15 miles from Macao. ’Planes from the carriers were engaged carrying out observations. It is now believed that a Japanese landing in South China will be made in the Macao hinterland, from where | direct roads lead to Canton. HANGCHOW OCCUPIED ATROCITIES AT NANKING I BLACK PAGE IN JAPANESE j HISTORY SHANGHAI, Dec. 26. ! The complete occupation of Hang- i chow is announced. All foreigneis j and foreign property are safe. The Japanese have also occupied Fuyan, two miles south-west, and Yuand, 18 miles west, through which the Chinese retreated. A Hankow message states that a Chinese official statement, confirms reports of atrocities after the Japanese entry to Nanking. It says that the story of Japanese fury, pieced together from authentic foreign and Japanese sources, is a record of horror and shame, which will remain one of the darkest and bloodiest pages'in Ihe history of Japanese aggression. There was wholesale looting and outrages against women. It is alleged that Chinese soldiers were tied together in batches of 50 and placed between lines of machine-guns. RE-OPENED TO FOREIGNERS AREAS NORTH OF SOOCHOW CREEK. JAPAN'S BELATED CHRISTMAS SHANGHAI. Dec. 26. Describing it as a belated Christmas gift to Shanghai, the Japanese spokesman announced the re-opening to foreigners of all areas north of Soochow Creek on December 27. Chinese are barred unless provided with a pass. The Mayor of Tsingtao urged residents to depart immediately in view of the impossibility of keeping the city clear of hostilities. A Hankow message states that the new Soviet Ambassador to China, M. Ivan Lugonets Orelsky, aged 38. will present his credentials at Chunking on January 1.

JAPANESE ATTACK MISSION HEADMASTER ARRESTED PEKING, Dec. 26. Japanese soldiers raided the Anglican mission school and broke into lhe house of the headmaster. Dr. Timothy Lin. a Chinese, who was educated at Cambridge, smashed his desk, seized papers, ransacked the school, and arrested Lin on an unknown charge.