Hongkong, Jan. 11.
The Chinese Fishermen's Guild announced today that 10,092 Chinese üshermen had been killed or drowned as a result of Japanese Navy activities in south China waters since September 12, 1937.
The number of junks destroyed by the Japanese was placed at of these were set on fire, the statement alleged. Property loss was estimated at $8,000,000.
Significant was the fact that many of the ships destroyed w registered in Hongkong, and that ma of the victims were born in Hongkong, thereby making many of the alleged attacks violations of British neutrality. More than half of those Italian Demands Rejected Italian demands for French territories are expected to be rejected in Paris, despite the possibility of a new European crisis, the Ambassa dors reported. The only possibility that such a crisis will be averted lies in the hope that Signor Benito mussolini, Premier of Italy, accepts rench terms regarding Italian participation in the operation of the Suez Canal, the Congressmen were informed.
One Congressman told the United Press that the Ambassadors apparentty considered the postponement of hostilities in Europe the result of merely temporary expediencies which would serve only to intensify the iltimate crisis.
Mr. Kennedy, Ambassador in London, was reported to have described the general attitude of th British population as "defeatist." British youth, he said, accepts the belief that war is only a matter of months in the future.
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