Shanghai, June 26.
Formally launching a" campaign seeking. ¥-12,000,000 as relief funds from. the Japanese Government, several hundred Japanese residents gathered at the Japanese Club, Boone Road on June 23. The money would bbe distributed in the form of low terest Toons with a lengthy redemption period.
'The gathering, stood styled "The First' General. Joint Meeting _of Japanese War Sufferers in Shangnah" Tasted for three hours. Dis satisfaction with the allotment of only ¥.4,500,000 for Shanghai relief was voiced: by the speakers.
Shanghai, June 22.
Tntimation of "possible" Japanese! military operations. in South China was given by a Japanese Embassy spokesman at a press conference yesterday.
The spokesman admitted itn reply to questioning that the note of -Gen. Kazushige Ugaki, Japanese Foreign Minister, to foreign envoys "for the first time" included South China in the so-called "danger 20 "The specified area culs a wide swathe through Kwangsi, Hunan and }Hupeh and includes all of Kwangtung and Kiangsi provinces, running {rom Pakhoi to Sian by way of Hengyang and Tehang.
Military establishments, the spokesman said, included "not_ only places Where Chinese troops are at present, but all enterprises directly or indirectly utitizable by the Chinese for transportation "and" manufacture of munitions and equipment and. com-
Foreign property harbouring Chinese troops will automatically lose immunity and the right to protection By Japanese forces," the spokesman stated,
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