London, Jan, 17.
The withdrawal of diplomatic representation between China and Japan is Considered here as Japan's attempt to show the world her determination to crush General Chiang Kai-shek and dismiss his authority without a declaration of war which would compel the United States to invoke the Neutrality Act, thereby involving difficulties for Japan.
Observers here wonder whether this was the only decision reached at the Imperial Conference in Tokyo.
The press here is giving prominence to the reports of Japanese landings at Tangchiawan, forty miles from Hongkong. Hongkong remains the point on which is centred the attention of both the British government and British public opinion.—Havas.
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