Republican Congressmen delayed formal debate on the Naval Base bill and forced debate on the rule under which the bill was called up for consideration, Mr. Hamilton Fish, Republican Representative of New York, asserted that projected defence works on Guam Island were a "dagger at the throat of Japan." "He said it was a base Forty-seven Kuling Foreigners Leave Hankow, Feb. 22.
Escorted by British and American naval officers, 47 foreigners, accompanied by thirteen Chinese servants, descended Mount Lushan from the Kuling summer resort today.
Included were eleven Ameri cans, nineteen Britons, seven Germans, three Belgians, one ian and one Russian. Re: maining at Kuling are 47 others, including an 84-year-old British woman. Special arrangements for their transportation towards Shanghai in Japanese military transports are being made.
The Japanese Army, while hoping for the safety of those who still remain in Kuling, cannot be held responsible for any injuries they might sustain as a result of military operations, the communique remarked.—Domei.
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