Evening star., 1938-01-08

ties at Shanghai and hare claimed
po,Oer to arrest foreigners in their
oDn settlements and try them be-
fore military courts for ofenses
against Japanese military forces.
D. the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. Jan. 8-Japanese guns
were trained on French troops within
the French concession for an hour
today as an American official of the
Shanghai Municipal Council pro-
tested repeated japanese assaults or
settlement police.
The international incident was the
second in two days in which Jap.
anese forces attacked police in the
foreign areas
TN Toxic Domei News Agency
reported Premier Prince Fumimaro
Konoye had sought an understand
ing with his cabinet to continue the
war against China for four more
years. A four-year replenishment
plan, Domei said, was being worked
out along that line for presentation
to Parliament.)
A French concession policeman OF
Russian nationality was struck in the
face by Japanese soldier. The police
man had intervened to prevent the
soldier from beating Chinese woman
attempting to escape from Nantao into
the French concession for water.
Armored Cars Brought Up.
Other japanese soldiers tried to drag
the policeman across the boundary
into Nantao. When he fed, the Japa-
nese ranged rifles and machine guns
along the concession border. French
armored cars were brought up to re-
1nforce the frontier.
The municipal councils strenuous
protests were lodged with Suemasa
Okamoto, Japanese consul general by
Cornell S. Franklin, its American
chairman.
After two British soldiers were
beaten yesterday the British COM
mander. Maj. Gen. A. P. D. Telfer-
6molet, protested to japanese au-
thorities, warning that recurrence
might lead to "gravest consequences. "
French officials were strongly con-
eidertng a formal protest against to-
days incident.
(1n Paris, however, q foreign
ofiice spokesman said France was
mot alarmed" by the incident"
Chinese press reports, meanwhile,
said wharves, the railway station and
public buildings had been destroyed
by Chinese forces at Haichow, Kiangsu
Province, eastern terminus of the
Lunghai Trunk Railroad, carrying out
China's "scorched earth" policy of
leaving the Japanese only ruins.
Soldiers Slugged Britons.
The British policemen were slugged
by japanese soldiers in an asserted in
vasion Of the British defense zone of
the International Settlement.
Gen. Telfer-Smollett was reported
TO have warned Japanese military Off
cials that recurrence might bring
ssravest consequences
Rough handling of the policemen
provoked sharp press criticism of
Japan In London. The Daily Ex-
press went so far as to predict that
diplomatic relations might be sew
cred by Britain. The foreign Office
awaited an official report.
Reuters, British news agency,
reported In Shanghai dispatch
that Japanese marines had occu-
pied the British-owned New Asia
Hotel in the International Settle
ment, and that two Union Jacks
were hauled DOWN.
Meanwhile, the fury of the war Gen.
tered 400 miles to the northwest OF
Shanghai along the East-West Lunghai
Railway, China's last line of defense y
japanese reported capture OF
Tsowhsien in their southwark drive
through Shantung Province, designed
30 win control of the railway.
Tsowhsien, 80 miles north of the
important railway junction, Suchow
was the birthplace of the philosophe,
Mencius. Chinese denied its loss.
Japanese also reported capture o1
Yenchow and Tsining in a drive down
the Tientsin-PukOW Railway.
League Aid Reaches Hong Kong.
HONG KONG, China, Jan. 8 (P.-
Three complete medical units, stated
and equipped by the League of Ma.
tions, landed at Hong Kong today pre-.
pared to combat disease and disaste,
In war-ravaged China.
Controlling smallpox and typhus
fever, which already are present anc
may assume epidemic proportions
unless checked Immediately, IS the frs,
mission Of these medical units.
Headed by European dictors who
eventually will have hundreds oi
medical workers serving under them
the units will try to prevent epidemics