The United States' stand in China affairs was fully discussed in the "Washington Post" today. This newspaper asserted that the U.S. could not be disinterested in the Tientsin affair.
It even went so far as to say that the major section of American opinion favoured positive action by the Government.
Noted Underworld Leader, Three Friends Shot in Swatow Road Kao Lee-sung, alias Mobee Akung, king of the underworld who has come into contact with the police on repeated occasions during the past few years, is now lying at the Paulun Hospital with shot wounds in the chest, whilst three persons with him at the time of the shooting are also being treated there.
The shooting occurred at 940 p.m. yesterday, as the party were leaving a sing-song house in a lane on Swatow Road, near Vu Ya Ching Road. An undetermined number of gunmen opened fire without warning and managed to escape before an alarm could be raised, whilst five persons, Kao and his party and a pedestrian, were wounded. The pedestrian was rushed to the Lester Hospital for Chinese in an emergency ambulance, the four other victims being taken to the Paulun Hospital, where Kao's condition is declared to be very serious, a number of shots having wound ded him in the head and the chest. It was not believed that he would survive.
Others to be wounded were Ching Yue, a lawyer who sustained serious injuries through the chest and arms, and Tai Yung-Kwang, alleged to ibe connected with "Ta Tao" gambling dens, who sustained only minor wounds.
Whilst detectives at Louza station made no statement, not even giving the names of the wounded persons, it was ascertained that three previous Germans Sound Note of Warning to Rumania Over Military Pact Possible Turkish-Rumanian Agreement Condemned May Bring About Dissolution of Entente, Says Berlin "The question brought up in North China," it stated, "will influence the future of all foreigners throughout China.
"If Britain and France are forced to capitulate in Tientsin and accept the claims of the Japanese authorities as the price for cessation of the attempts had been made on Kao's life in the past few years and in this instance, it is believed that a rival gang operating gambling and drug dens in the Japanese occupied Western district, wanted to do away with Kao who heads the Dah Sung Gambling Den Syndicate operating in the Berlin, June 17.
reports of a forthcoming Rumania-Turkish military agreement which will bind the two countries more closely together and will draw Rumania even more firmly into the Anglo-Turkish bloc, have elicited a note of warning from political circles in Berlin.
In a tone similar to that of the Italian press which warns Rumania that Italy will not tolerate a power constellation that will threaten the freedom of the eastern Mediterranean, political quarters here point out that if Rumania concludes a military pact h Turkey it wil bring the neutrality of the Balkan Entente to sri end and will probably bring about the dissolution of the Entente itself. By allying herself with Turkey, Rumania—it is declared—will definitely join the encirclement front and there can be no question of a Turkish-Rumanian bloc within the Balken Entente.
The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" refers in this connection to the position of Yugoslavia and asks whether Rumania intended to observe the assurances that were given to the Yugoslav Foreign Minister. It will be recalled that Rumania had promised to insist at Ankara that the Anglo-Turkish alliance should have no significance in the Balkans. The paper also calls attention to Italy's position as one of the signatories of the Montreux agreement and states that Rome will certainly demand a clarification of the present issues.—Trans-Ocean.
Concessions blockade, a precedent of extraordinary scope will be established.
"It would mean that Japanese decrees are law in the whole of the Far East and that foreigners would not in future be authorized to live and trade in China except on Japanese toleration.
"All signatories of treaties are responsible for resistance to the last against Japanese trespassing on the legitimate rights and interests of foreigners."
The newspaper emphasized that American antagonism towards Japan had continually increased during the past two years and that American sympathy was now largely on the side of China.
(Continued on page 12) vicinity of Brenan Road. A Chinese source last night explained the reason for the shooting as being a quarrel ever the division of spoils in connection with a chain of gambling and opium dens being operated by Kao in the Japanese-occupied western districts.
Investigations are being carried out by detectives from Louza station.
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