TE threatened visit of Japanese planes to Nanking to-day did not materialise, it is believed because of rain which must have made the Japanese air fields around Shanghai sodden. "As the zero-hour, 12 noon, approached, an ominous silence prevailed in the capital, but midday came and went without the expected raid.
Contrary to an earlier report, the United States Ambassador, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, and other members of the American Embassy have not gone up river, With the exception of Mr. J.
Hall Paxton, Second Secretary, all the members of the Embassy staff boarded the Luzon last night. It was originally intended that the gunboat should proceed upriver, but this plan appears to have been cancelled at the last minute,
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