Navy Minister Reports Effects Shanghai War Is Having Tokyo, Sept. 28.
Attention of the Cabinet was called to-day by Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Navy Minister, to the effects military developments in the Shanghai area might have upon 640,000 hungry Chinese refugees seeking safety in the International Settlement and the French Concession there.
The Admiral said that of the 700,000. refugees in the two areas, only 60,000 men, women dnd children were receiving attention in refugee camps. Others, he said, were living in miserable conditions. About 500,000 of the-refugees, he believed, rushed into the foreign-administered areas from the outlying districts. About 20,000 refugees, Admiral Yonai added, came from Kating alone.
The situation along the Tsinpu line, Gen. Gen Sugiyama, War Minister, reported to his colleagues on the Cabinet, was "developing in favour of the Japanese troops."
Gen. Feng Vu-hsiang, appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese forces on the Tientsin-Pukow line, Gen. Sugiyama added, has already left Nanking for the North to assume his command.
Anti-Japanese propaganda, the War Minister asserted, was rampant in the areas in which Red troops are stationed.—Domei,
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