Believed Reason; Further Japanese Encroachments People who have booked passages aboard Shanghai steamers originally destined for Haiphong will have to cancel their trips, at least for the time being, as the steamers wilt only stop at Hongkong, it is reliably learned from shipping circles. Shipping firms here have received information from their Hongkong agents, and although they cannot give reasons, well informed quarters believe that it is because of the apparently tense situation in Indo-China, where a Japanese move is reported Chinese reports from Hongkong published by the leading Chinese dailies here reveal that there is no betterment of situation in Indo-China, and that rumours that the Japanese are trying to land at Haiphong have gained ground. The reports further state that Chinese troops in border districts are in Teadiness for an attack and are determined to carry out self-defence measures, in the event of a Japanese attack or French capitulation.
Other reports state that at 9 am. on Tuesday steamers in Hongkong is; [ready to leave for Haiphong and Kwangchowwan were notified by the French consular authorities in the colony that they should not leave. The reports were published by the "National Herald."
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