Chungking, Dec. 22.
Preparations are being rushed in Kwangsi" province to meet a possible Japanese invasion, according to Chi-mese reports received here today.
As a part of these preparation, the reports continue, Kwangsi province is now divided into twelve guerilla warfare districts, while all people living in the vicinity of the highways, railways and waterways are now ordered to evacuate to areas away from communication lines. They are ordered io-take food supplies with them and to destroy and burn what cannot be taken.
All students, of both sexes, over eighteen years old, the reports add, have been organized into student corps and assigned to different guerilia warfare districts for political work with. the army.—Reuter, U.S, to Send Wheat To Aid Chinese London, Dec. 22.
écording^ to the Washington correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," 500,000 bushels of wheat per month, for the next six months, will be provided by the Red Cross for the relief of suffering China. The plan, he says, is similar to that undertaken by the, Surplus Commodities Corporation for civilians in Spain, as has been announced by Mr. Sumner Welles, US. Under-Secretary of Mr. Anthony Crossley, Con; rvalive member for the Stratford Division of Lancashire, enquired regarding the result of the enquiries into a case in which Japanese soldiers entered the premises of Andrew Harper & Company, Canton, and seized motor cars, and accessories there, despite British consular seals on the building.
Mr. Butler said he thought the reference was to Wallace Harper's. The company, he said, was registered a British, but a substantial block of the shares was at present in foreign, non-Chinese hands.
Lord Halifax, Mr. Butler went on, had been asked for details beyond those already received, with a view to deciding whether any further action was requisite beyond the representations already made by the British Consul-General in Canton.
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