The Archive · 1937

CHILDREN FLEE

Eighty on Way Down River

from Hankow Tokyo, July 20, Eighty Japanese women and chile dren left Hankow this morning for Shanghai, according to an oflelal ort received by the Navy Ministry, Simultaneously, the report said, about 200 Chinese residents in the Japanese Concession in the Yangtze ort, moved out to other parts of the 'Messayes received by the Gaimusho to-day from Swatow reported a reerudescenee of the "-anti-Jupanese agitation in the Kwangtung port, Japanese residents in Swatow, the reports said, are experiencing diate cully in obtaining daily' necessities, such as water und electric power. The Chinese. it was "added, neither buy Japanese goods nor sell any commodities to the Japanese—Domel, Chungking Japanese Hankow, July 20, 'Alnrmed by the events in North China, Japanese residents in Chungking Will withdraw to. this' elly to morrow. The situation here is becoming tenser every hour, with the Japanese Consular and Naval authorities taking exceptional precautions against "any "untoward incidents Mangehow Japanese Alarmed by the events in North Chins, 23 Japanese women and. children arrived here from. Hange chow on July 30, Included among them was. Mrs. Yuxo Matsumura, the wife of the Japanese vice-consul in Hangchow, and their three children, The group was escorted by Masai-chi Yamakita, Chief of the Hangchow Japanese Consular Police, who has returned to the Chekiang city,

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