Paris Report on Sino-Soviet Pact a "Fabrication"
Nanking, Sept. 1.
Reports of alleged secret clauses in the Sino-Soviet non-aggression treaty involving the supply of war materials, were categorically denied to-night by the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The sensational reports published in this connection in the Paris newspaper, "Lo Jour," were characterized as "pure fabrications" by the spok man, who surmised that they were circulated to suit the purposes of those elements working for a general war in Europe—Kuo Min.
Japanese infantry were landed in large numbers in Wayside yesterday.
A large troop-ship berthed at the N.Y.K. Wayside Wharf yesterday morning and started putting columns of troops ashore. Some of soldiers were seen marching from the wharf into Yangtszepoo Road and proceeding east in the direction of Pingliang Road. The number of troops landed could not be accurately estimated, but it was believed to be very large.
There was feverish activity along Broadway, Broadway East and Yangtszepoo Road throughout the day. At midafternoon Japanese warships in the Whangpoo off Yangtszepoo shelled Chinese wharves west of the Lay Road Creek, doing considerable damage.
Yesterday morning the Transport Company, S.V.C., and the Municipal Police continued to evacuate Chinese residents of Yangtszepoo. A convoy of 28 trucks operated between Yangtszepoo and the Central district taking hundreds of evacuees to Safer territory. It was believed that about 3,000 Chinese remained in Yangtszepoo after Tuesday's evacuation, and most of these residents were shifted y terday.
The landing of Japanese reinforcements at the Woosung forts and Woosung village yesterday was admitted by a Chinese military spokesman at the press conference this evening.
The apparent objective of the Japanese soldiers in their second landing, the spokesman said, was to form a juncture with their forces at Lotien by way of Yuepoo.
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