The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-14

The cabinet, increasingly anxious, decided to meet daily at noon dur Ing the crisis. A foreign office spokesman said that the government did not want any other powers to intervene in the situation that hos arisen from clashes between Jap- anese and Chinese troops in the Peiping area. He added that the cabinets attitude toward any ef- fort at mediation-aside from d. rect intervention-would be deter- mined If and when mediation was offered.
 Settle Matters Direct
 The governments attitude seemed to be, however, that 1t was best to settle nlatetrs direct, and preferably with local authoriteis at Peiping rather than the national govern nent.
 The warning against foreign in- tervention was made coincident with receipt of an official news agency dispatch from Shanghai saying that the Chinese government understood that the United States, Great Britain and France would in. tervene and that Chinese diplomats abroad were seeking to make are arrangements for intervention.
 Yield No Territory
 Shanghai, July 14.-(UP)-China's leaders, steeling themselves to defy the Japanese war machine, mo- bilized formidable army today and ordered authorities. ct Peiping to stand firm against any demands. The government instructed Gen. Sung Cheh-YuaI1, head of the semi-autonomous northern overn- rnent: "Yield no inch of territory. Do not disrace the nation. Sign no agreement" 0eneralissimo Chiang Kai.shek, the country's strong man, commander in chief of the army, was expected at Nankins, the capi- tal, to take charge.
 Chinese Mobilixing
 It was said authoritatively that heavy concentrations of crack Gen. tral Chinese army soldiers were rnobiiizing along the L,inRhai rail- road, $50 miles south of the Peip- ing area. From tbeir mobilization line they could take the main line Peiping -Hankow railroad direct to the Peiping front. It was report cd that 8l war planes had arrived at Loyang, in Fukien province in the soutr, ready to speed to Peip- ing. Government leaders, await ing Chiang Kai-Shek, held an en- ergency conference at Nanking this afternoon. Officials of the QuoIl- intang, the dominant government political party, urged newspapers to maintain calm while the govern. ynent decided It's policy. There were increasing signs of an unusual na- tional until in this crisis, and 3 disposition at whatever cost to stand up to Japan and resist any effort at further encroachment on China's territory and sovereignty.
 3O,0OO Crack Troops
 Tientsin, China, July 14.-(UP) Thirty thousand troops of Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, China's dominant military leader, have are rived in Hopei province by the Peiping- -Hankow railway, both Chin- csc and Japanese sources declareo today. s'
 The troops are the best trained in China and have bene developed under Germa ninstructors.
 The development coincided with the arrival of Japanese warships off the China coast and an order to Japanese army reservistS in the Tientsin area, on the sea, to stand by ready for action.
 The destroyers Kiku and Aoi are rived at Tangku, near here. and the Manchukuan gunboats Haifeng and Hailung arrived at Chinwangtao. on the Manchukuo- China Frontier.
 Japanese troops started "war games" in the Tientsin suburbs, near the east arsenal.
 It was reported that Japanese citizens in outlying citeis were in. structed to be ready for quick evacuation.
 Chinese sources asserted that Ja- pan faced danger of a revolt in Manchukuo because she was daring her army ther etc, reinforce her troops in China. Already there had been widespread uprisings, it was alleged.