The Archive · 1938

British Submarine Arrives

HLM, S. Otus, a British submarine on kong, is pictured as she came alan 3. The unusual spectacle of a. Bri attracted a lot of way from Weihaiwei to Hong-

ish submarine 20° for up the: river ie, HALS""Dunean on September terest on the Bund, Seaforths Comply with Removal of Factories Japanese Request To Interior Shanghai, Sept. 6.

The sight of a party of Seaforth Highlanders marching along Garden Bridge at about pin. yesterday afternoon gave rise to rumours that further Incident had developed over the question of the situation of the British and Japanese sentry boxes the centre of the bridge, but a "North-China_ Dally News" representative, who visited the scene shortly afterwards, was Informed that nothing untoward had occurred, Shortly before 5 pin, he was told, the Seaforths moved their sentry boxes into the road in order to bring them in line with those "Resumption of Radio Phone Service Shanghai, Sept. 2.

Radio-telephone service -between Shanghai" and Japan, suspended since the outbreak of the hostilities in this area a year ago, will be resumed by the Central China. Telecommunications Ca. Ltd. in October. This was revealed yesterday following the arrival here on August 31, in the Shanghai Maru of two "hello girls", Mrs. Aiko Kondo, 27, and Miss Kusado Katono, 25, form-

Shanghai, Aug. 31.

Over 80,000 tons of machinery have been registered with the Chinese authorities by Chinese factories in Hankowt for' their removal to Szechuen, according to a Chinese report received here yesterday.

The Central Factory Removal and Construction Committes, established by the Chinese Government, has made the necessary arrangements with the Min Sung Industrial Ca, to ship the machinery to Chungking.

To facilitate such removals, the four Chinese Government banks and some commercial banking institutions have been giving loans to Chinese factories. The provincial governments have also extended facilities to the transportation of machineries and establishment of factories in the interior, From Foochow, four printing factories, lumber mill and a-match factory have been removed to the interior, Arrangements have also been made for the removal of nine iron factories from Foochow to the interior, Both the Kwangtung and Hupeh provincial governments have urged Chinese factories located at Canton and Hankow to move. to a safer place. A group of these factories has already moved to Chungking and Kweilin, The constable, however, proceeded to carry out his instructions and halted the rickshaw, at the same time demanding the puller's arm-badge. At this point the Japanese passenger, sono, protested and as the policeman endeavoured to take the badge from the puller's arm the Japanese descended from the rickshaw and, in the. presence of scores of witnesses, struck the constable in the chest, Not satisfied with hitting the police man, the Japanese, according to reports made to Central Police Station, further grasped his belt and. pistol yard" and started to pull the CPC. up the bridge towards the Hongiew side, At this juncture the foreign police sergeant on duty at Soochow Road and the bridge arrived on the scene and attempted to pacify the Japanese. The latter, however, would not be pacified and even struck at the much bigger foreigner. The blows made no impression on the massively-bult sergeant A liculonant in the Seaforth High: landers appeared on the scene at this moment and asked if he could give assistance to the police. The foreign sergeant asked the lieutenant if he could provide someone to look after the Japanese while he, the sergeant, {telephoned to Central' Station, The Veutenant quickly summoned a corporal from the guard stationed at the British Consulate-General, Some five minutes later the Japan= ese {rouble-maker and the {wo police men were on their way to the station, from where a call was sent to. the Japanese Consular Police, The Japanese was handed over to Consular constables. It was said that action will be taken' against him in the Japan-60 Consular Court, The Chinese constable had to be sent to the Police Hospital for treat ment of bruises on his chest and abrasions on his left hand, erly operators at the Tokyo Central Telephone Exchange.

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