Chungking, Feb. 6.
A semi-official Chinese dispatch from Kuling states that Japanese artillery are shelling Kuling, "average 50 shells each day."—Reuter.
Questioned at the press conference, XeSterday, the Embassy spokesman Stated that no replies had been re-[ceived by Sunday evening from the foreign authorities in Shanghai to the Note addressed to them on February 1 by Mr. Y. Miura, Japanese Consul-General, on the subject of the evacua-ition of Third-Power nationals by February 10.
The local Japanese authorities have umed, it further was stated, that the foreigners must have despatched a courier to the Japanese military in Kiukiang.
Asked if the Japanese and Chinese forces round were engaged in armed conflict, the military spokesman said that he did not know, but he felt certain that no major operations were being undertaken until after February 10. Heavy fighting would not necessarily begin on that date.
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