London, Apr. 24. R. Quo Tai-thi, the Chinese Ambassador in London, speaking before the Manchester China Relief Committee meeting today, expressed the thought that in another year's time, whether there was an international war or not, "we will see signs of a peaceful settlement in the Far East."
Influences contributing to this settlement, he continued, were the heartening fact that European nations were beginning to resist aggression—as indicated by President Roosevelt's sending of the American Fleet to the Pacific—and the promise of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, that China would be kept in mind in forming a combination of countries to resist aggression.
Another factor, he said, was that the Japanese people, against whom China had no quarrel, were beginning to get weary of wgr. The Japanese militarists, however, he cpntinued, would not give up their designs of conquest yet. In the meantime, declared the Ambassador, the Chinese people would carry on the fight with redoubled energy.
Mr. Gordon Thompson, Secretary of the British China Relief Fund, said that every advance and retreat of the Chinese troops meant more suffering. His appeal for 50,000 field dressings by the end of April has Foochow Bombed By Japanese Swatow, Apr. 24.
Foreign property in Foochow was damaged as a result of a Japanese raid on Friday, a cording to" reports received here today.
A German godown is said to have been razed; an American hospital, which was flying its national flag, was bombed, while the Customs House was damaged. Missiles fell near the property of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca., the force of the explosions shattering the windows.
Four foreign steamships—Seistan (British), the Sandviken (Norwegian), the Prosper (Norwegian) and a Greek vessel—were boarded by the Japanese at Sharp Peak last week.
The British destroyer Scout (905-tons) placed armed guards aboard the Seistan, thereby preventing her removal, but the Prosper was taken to Formosa.—Reuter. a detachment pushing westward from Tungshan.
The Chinese press this morning gave prominence to reports of Chinese successes on the Kiangsi front which claim that the detachments which recaptured Kaoan yesterday continued to advance eastward along the highway in the direction of Nanchang.
The detachments, according to the Chinese reports, captured at noon on the same day, Tsiangfukwan and Wanshoukung, reaching the outskirts of Nanchang.
A Chinese field dispatch received here states that Chinese troops ente ed Kaoan at 6.30 am. yesterday and completely occupied the town after two hours of street fighting with th Japanese, who retreated to the northeast. t in the engag ment, the Japanese lo d 200 dead, 17 light and guns and 60 rifies.—Reuter.
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