Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1937, Page 3

BRNANKING ENBASS)Y CLOSED BY JPAN harge d’'Affaires Ordered io Leave Cap:ital at Oppor- tune Time. By the Associated Press TOKIO. August 16.—The foreign of- ce announced today Foreign Minister JKoki Hirota had ordered the Japanese ‘harge d'Affaires at Nanking to close he Japanese Embassy and leave the hinese capital at an opportune oment Foreign office officials said it was ot vet known whether the action onstituted severance of diplomatic re- ations with China. Shinrokuo Hidaka, the Japanese ‘harge d'Affaires at Nanking, has een in charge since the present crisis tarted. Japanese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe has been at Tientsin and hanghai, where Japanese and Chi- ese forces have clashed Consuls Ordered to Leave. Japanese Consuls throughout China nd all Japanese at Canton, Chefoo nd Tsinan were ordered to leave im- ediately Tokio newspapers, speaking more trongly than at any time since hos- ilities began, called on the Japanese 0 “punish” China speedily The newspaper Nichi Nichi asserted asting Chinese-Japanese peace is im- ossible until Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek’'s “reputed policy of stimu- ating the anti-Japanese movement is iscouraged, by force of arms if neces- ary.” It re: Nichi Nichi said | Eight Japanese planes were lost in he battle for Shanghai Saturday and esterday, the navy office said lared 52 Chinese planes were shot own, 20 Chinese planes were de- troyed while on the gruond and 17 Chinese hangars containing an un- nown number of planes were wrecked No Announcement of Planes. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye ad informed Emperor Hirohito of the overnment’s decision to take “firm, esolute measures” in Shanghai, Nan- ing and North China. There was no nnouncement what action was plan- ed. Japan, the government said, has no erritorial designs on China, but it nsists on ending “anti-foreignism and nti-Japanism” in China Premier Konoye and Home Min- ter Eiichi Baba reached a tentative fecision to convoke a special session t the Diet (Parliament) in mid- eptember for not more than one week final decision was expected at to- orrow’s cabinet meeting The government started a special ne-week course to train 42 picked il aviators for war service. —e Bandits Forced to Wed. How to dispose of 45 women bandits aptured by his troops was solved by yen. Ma Pufang, garrison commander t Sining, China. He had them mai- s too late for self-defense meas- | It de- | | Japanese fiyers directed n THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, umerous attacks today against C hinese airports and officia ped on air bases at Nanking, Hangchow, Soochow, Kwangteh and Shanghai this morning in surprise attacks on airports at Hungjao, to the west and Lung hour and then turned back over the city to engage a Chinese air fleet. Twenty Japanese . to the south. D€, rop- planes roared over Shanghai They bombed the ports for an The Lungwa Field is shown in the above air view. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. U.S.1S SEEN DRAWN | INTO CHINESE “WAR” Lewis Charges Seeking Involvement in Far East Conflict. | By the Associated Press. Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Tllinois | told the Senate today American “un- derofficials” were “assuming to direct | the affairs of this Nation™ along lines | that could involve the United States in the Sino-Japanese conflict. Some “influence” in the Orient, he asserted, was “assuring England that | | American troops now in China will | be kepl there to co-operate’ with | Great Britain's efforts to preserve her concessions and property. Reading from a London newspaper | dispatch, which, he said, declared the British policy was based on col- laboration with the United States, Lewis said: | “If there be those in the Orient or at Washington professing to be | American officials who are seeking | to bind this Government to co-operate “Underofficials” | | | | 1 Wife of Generalissimo Is ‘Shocked’ by Shanghai i Holocaust. ! By 1he Associated Press. NANKING, August 16.—A little Chi- | nese woman stands today with her husband in the path of Japan's ad- vance into China. She is Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, Wel- lesley-educated wife of the head of the Chinese government and army and, in her own right, commander in chief of the nation’s air forces. More than any one she has been responsible for building up the Chi- | nees Air Corps until today it numbers | 550 planes with 15 flying bases scat- tered throughout the country. Shocked by Bombing. Squadrons of Japanese opened a campaign yesterday " planes to de- ted, choosing @s bridegrooms 45 of With England in possible military con- | stroy all bases of this air force within | he soldiers who had rounded them up. 1l were married at one ceremony, held | t garrison headquarters and watched bv & large crowd Keeps Customers Guessing. ALPINE, Idaho-Wyo. OP).—Mrs. ern Livingston, Jostmistre keeps or customers guessing. | In 1935 she received mail at her ome in the Wyoming section of this! own, situated on the State line. Later he moved uptown to Idaho, and now he has moved back to Wyoming. | | flict for the purpose of preserving the | English possessions, 1 must announce | that such cannot be with the consent | | of the State Department.” PAIVA PARAGUAY HEAD | ASUNCION, ().—The Paraguayan Army and Navy | today completed their reorganization | of the government by making Dr. Felix Paraguay, August 16 Paiva, School, republic. dean of the University Law | provisional president of the I 250 miles of war-torn Shanghai i Mme. Chiang declared yesterday that Saturday's air bombing tragedy | in Shanghai was due to bombs being loosed accidentally from Chinese Army planes damaged by Japanese anti-air- craft fire. | In a telegram to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., in Shanghai, she said | her husband, “shocked and grieved,” | had ordered an investigation of the holocaust. Mrs. Roosevelt, a visitor in Shang- hai, telegraphed Mme. Chiang, urg- ing. “as a sincere friend,” that steps Mme. Chiang Battles Japanese With Her Force of 550 Planes | MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK. be taken to prevent a repetition of the tragedy. Credited for Aviation Growth. Observers have credited the rapid growth of Chinese military aviation in | the last eight years to the executive ability and far-sighted labors of the! country's first lady. Already prominent in the Sino-Jap- | anese conflict. this force of 18 Ameri- | can pilots, 90 Italian engineers and | nearly 600 Chinese officers and 400 | cadets, was expected to become a pow- | erful instrument of military offense under her guidance. | China (Continued From First Page.) mericans, were killed and some 1,200 vounded when Chinese bombs lunged into the heart of the inter- ational areas Indications were the fighting would ncrease in extent and ferocity. Air | nd land battles were reported racing long the Yangtze River's southern ank some 10 miles north of the city, vhere Chinese air squadrons were rying to prevent the landing of Jap- nese forces. Japanese said these were Japanese rmy units, vanguard of at least two ivisions, coming from Japan to smash hinese resistance in this area. As night came down fighting seemed | o center on Pootung, densely popu- | ated industrial center just across the | arrow Whangpoo from Shanghai. Chinese infantry and artillery had | oved in there to blast at the Jap- nese warships on the river. Japanese planes bombed the district thoroughly n the late afternoon, while throngs vatched from Shanghai rooftops across he river When it became too dark for bomb- ng®the planes withdrew, but big guns n Japanese warships off Woosung, 10 iles away, took up the bombardment. The United States gunboat Sacra- ento and the French cruiser La- otte Picquet lay in the river just ff the Pootung battle zone. The | JFrench boat loosed a smoke screen to protect the two. A Japanese destroyer pointed toward the Pootung shore to | xchange point blank fire with Chi- | ese guns. | The Japanese air fleets carried the | var hundreds of miles inland forl he third successive day, bombing | hinese military centers. Nanking | eported two Japanese planes were brought down and a third damaged hen six bombing planes raided the huyung Airdrome, 25 miles south of he Chinese capital. Shortly after the Japanese attacked t dawn with all their forces on land, ea and in the air, the Chinese air [fleet struck in counter-attack. Thirty lanes suddenly appeared over the eadquarters of the Japanese landing Iparty and began raining bombs. A Japanese attack squadron rose ifrom its airdrome to the east to give lcombat and out of the west 13 Chinese Iplanes suddenly Joined in. After a brisk battle high above the city the Chinese planes withdrew. Hongkew Blasted. They circled wide and then, chang- ing direction, returned to blast at the Japanese inhabited Hongkew district of the International Settilement and the warships lining the Whangpoo River. Japanese reported that a num- ber of Japanese citizens and several foreigners were killed and many in- jured when a Chinese bomb struck East Broadway in the vicinity of Hongkew Creek. A squadron of seven light Chinese ‘bombers registered direct hits on the Japanese consular police station, seri- ously injuring two Japanese officials. Another bomb struck the water be- tween the Japanese consulate general and the cruiser.Idzumo, flagship of the | the homeland was reported to be try- | 1and stage. Another smashed through the | roof of the Nyk Shipping Co.'s ware- | house and office, injuring one Japanese | employe seriously. Japanse ships all along the water front opened fire with their anti-air- | craft guns, the spent shells falling | within the International Settlement Police reported that two Russians| were killed and two wounded when | one shell fell in front of the Savoy | Hotel on Broadway, just behind the | Japanese consulate. Air Defenses Erected. Foreign businesses in the danger | zone were urgently constructing air de- fences and in the French concession reinforcements were rushed to the | barricades where machine gun nests | have been constructed behind the | sandbag ramparts. Tanks and armored cars rumbled through the streets to vantage points. ‘The Japanese dawn attack spread all through the rich Yangtze Valley, the heart of China's commercial wealth. The Japanese announced officially that their planes had bombed two airdromes outside the capital at Nanking this morning, destroying 10 machines on the ground and shoot- ing down another 10 in aerial com- bat. The Ming Palace Airdrome was reported in flames. The Japanese embassy at Nanking was ordered closed by the Tokio foreign office and Japanese diplomatic and consular officials arranged to leave. The Chinese were believed to be bombing Japanese troop concentra- tions at Woosung and a few miles to the west at Liuho where the vanguard | of two Japanese army divisions from ing to force a landing to take the Chinese positions in the rear. Chinese declared their aerial attacks had beaten off the Japanese attempts to | from transport ships in the Yangtze. The Chinese were consolidating their positions all along the 15-mile frént with which they have pinched in Shanghai, and were rushing con- struction of artillery positions in the Pootung district, across the Whangpoo River. The additional fortifications on the right bank were designed to threaten the Japanese warships from the rear. The Japanese launched their attack from Woosung to Lunghwa &t dawn and by midmorning the grave decision to evacuate the Americans had been taken. Almost at once Americans began to pack their bags and remained at places where they could be reached immediately for an order to con- centrate on previously designated spots in the French concession. In evacuation, Consul General Clar- ence E. Gauss announced, “preference will be given, as follows: Expectant mothers, women with small children, women and elderly persons. Men traveling with families will be given consideration.” Ship Bookings Close. Before the day ended bookings for women and children to be evscuated aboard the President McKinley for Manila were closed. Only 350 were crowded onto the ship in addition to those who had already booked. Japanese fleet, destroying the landing ~ The some 4,000 Americans within |over of all available means of trans- | & position off the city faced an acute food shortage if their evacuation could not be car- ried out. Shanghai was becoming in- | creasingly isolated and with the taking port by the Chinese Army little food was finding its way into the city. | Americans appealed to Washington to | instruct the Marines to open their | commissary to the commudity if it | became necessary. A shortage of gasoline hampered the use of motor cars in carrying out the evacuation. American warships were in position along the Whangpoo to speed the | flight of United States citizens if com- mercial vessels proved inadequate. The Augusta was lying just below sev- eral Japanese warships off the Shang- | hai Power Co. | The cruiser Sacramento, which had | been anchored near the Augusta,| moved upstream and around the bend in the river at the Garden Bridge to | the American naval buoy on the French concession water front. This placed the Sacramento directly ahead of a Japanese river | patrol boat which is repeatedly firing | machine guns and other small arms at | Chinese planes. i (Dispatches from Admiral Yarnell to the Navy Department in Wash- ington reported the Sacramento was damaged yesterday afternoon by two bombs which fell 20 yards from the vessel. The ship was shaken, but none of its complement injured.) ] . MRS. H. J. KAMEROW EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL Wife of Insurance C:npany Rep- resentative Will Be Buried Tomorrow. Mrs. Jeanette Kamerow, 45, of 5320 Eighth street, wife of Harry J. Kamerow, sales representative of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co., died yesterday in Garfleld Hospital after a short 1llness. - Mrs. Kamerow, a resident of this city for 24 years, was active in the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Jewish War Veterans, Temple Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Jewish Consumptive Rellef Association and the Ladies’ Auxiliary of B'Nai Israel Congregation. Besides her husband, Mrs. Kamerow is survived by a brother, Dr. Istael J. Feinglos, Baltimore. Fuperal services are being held to- day in the chapel of Bernard Dan- zansky, 3501 Fourteenth street. Ad- -ditional services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Lewis Chapel, Balti- more. Burial will be in Mount Car- mel Cemetery, Baltimore. Delivers 13 Babies on 13th INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (#).—Mother nature deflied superstition to deliver 13 babies to Indianapolis hospitals on Friday the 13th—seven girls and six boys. England’s four largest railways lost 350,000 towels in the last year. s Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) cause of the Sino-Japanese situation and the possibility of a week end ad- journment of Congress, Mr. Roosevelt would return directly to Washington by train Thursday after his trip to Roanoke Island, N. C. Leaves Tomorrow. The President will leave here laté | tomorrow night to speak on the island | at a celebration to commemorate the | 350th anniversary of the establish- | ment of the first English colony in! this country and the birth of Virginia | Dare, first white child born on the continent. He had tentatively planned to| motor to Norfolk after the speech and board the yacht Potomac to cruise back to Washington. Officials said today this plan had been changed. The latest Japanese invasion of | China began & month ago. As long| as the Japanese forces had not con- tacted the forces of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek the administration consid- ered the Japanese invasion as one of the usual unpleasant incidents to which we have become accustomed in | the last five years. But now that the Japanese troops are fighting the forces of China's national government at Shanghai, it is difficult to maintain that a state of war between the two countries does not exist. 1932 Battle No Precedent. Not even the battle for Shanghai in 1932 can be considered as a prece- dent to enable Mr. Roosevelt to delay. his proclamation. The forces which threatened to| throw the Japanese into the sea five years ago were the 19th Route Army, under Gen. Tsai Ting-kai and were troops belonging to the provincial Cantonese government. Chiang K. shek had actually ordered his sub- ordinate to withdraw. Thus there was no question of a war between the forces of two recognized governments. The situation is altogether different now. While the administration is re- luctant to take any steps which even indirectly would help the aggressor, the White House does not quite see how the issuance of the neutrality proclamation with all its implications could be much longer delayed. (L S Needle Record Set. ‘When Nicolas Jones of Paarl, South Africa, heard that & man in England claimed a world record after putting nine threads of cotton through the eye of a needle, he tried his skill and set a mark of 16 threads. Now he can put 40 threads through the eye of a needle and lays claim to the world champion- i AWYERS’ BRIEFS 3 COMMERCIAL PRINTING 5 ADVERTISING SERVICE ~ BYRON S. ADAMS i Y i s MARINES IN MANILA TO GO TO SHANGHAI S. S. President Hoover Will Carry Force of 104 Men to Augment 4th Regiment. A rifle company of United States Marines, comprising two officers and 102 enlisted men, will be sent from | Manila to Shanghai to augment the 4th Marines, the Navy Department announced toda Arrangements are being completed by the commandant of the 16th Naval District, Cavite, P. I, to transport the force, which is scheduled to sail on Wednesday aboard the S. S. President Hoover. Meanwhile, the Department an- nounced, arrangements are being per- fected for the evacuation of Amer- icans from Shanghai, and the general | manager of the Dollar Steamship Co has been instructed to divert the line's ships from regular schedules to evac- | uate American women and children |to Manila from Shanghai. The steamship line's general man- | ager will require passengers to pay the | expense of transportation in cash or by arrangements acceptable steamship company. explained that those destitute of cash, due to the emergency, may be referred to & subcommittee of the American Emergency Committee at the Dollar Line office. Under the evacuation program, at 10 a.m, tomorrow a vessel will sail from the customs jetty to connect at Woo- sung with the liner President Jeffer- son sailing directly to Manila. On to the | Wednesday at 10 am. another craft | will leave the customs jetty, connect- ing at Woosung with the S. S. Presi- dent McKinley, salling for Manila by | way of Hong Kong. The Navy De- partment said that other sailings will be announced subsequently. o Lord Strathcarron Dies. LONDON, August 16 (#)—Lord Strathcarron, who as Ian Macpher- son was & former chief secretary for Ireland, died Saturday. 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All the money will be expended by the States, the Federal Government merely making allotments on a popu- lation basis, Of the total, $7,146,000 appropriated under the continuing Smith-Hughes act of 1917 must be matched dollar- for-dollar by the States. The re- mainder, appropriated under the George-Deen act of 1936, requires the States to put up 50 cents for each Federal dollar. In the past, however, the States have more than matched Federal | funds. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936—the last year for which com- plete figures are available—the total spent for vocational education was $33.427.834, of which $9,748,925 was Federal money and $23,678,909 was State and local money. The enroliment in vocational classes was 1,381,701, an increase of 134,178 over 1935. About 391,000 of the stu- dents were farmers, trade and indus- trial workers and homemakers taking Instruction in evening classes; 334,000 | employed youths attending part-time classes, and 656,000 girls and boys attending full-time classes in agri- culture, trade and industry and home | economics. There also were 44,625 disabled persons learning new vocations which | they might carry on despite their dis- | ability. 8Some of the uses which the States make of additional Pederal funds are: New programs in backward com- | munities, vocational education in the distributive occupatinns, special classes for untrained, unemployed youth, ap- prentice training and retraining for unemployed whose special skills have suffered from long disuse. U. S. BANKS’ CHINA UNITS AUTHORIZED TO CLOSE Federal Reserve Board Recognizes 1937. | Existence of Undeclared War | in Far East. By the Associated Press. MONGOLIAN DRIVE OF JAPAN SLOWED Chinese Soldiers Hold Hastily Dug Trenches on Slopes Col. Roosevelt May Fly to Aid Wife in China Overlooking Nankow. By the Associated Press. PEIPING, August 16.—Chinese s0)- diers, clinging to positions behind rocks and shallow, hastily-dug trenches on the barren slopes overlooking Nankow, slowed down a Japanese ad- vance toward Inner Mongolia today. Lightly-armed Japanese infantry- nien crawled over the terrain into Nankow Pass, some 30 miles north- west of Peiping, but heavy artillerv rould not be lugged over the rugged country and bad weather kept Jap- anese airplanes grounded. | Chinese reports said 1.500 soldiers— | 500 Chinese and 1,000 Japanese—had been killed already in the fight for the pass, the entrance to Chahar Province and Inner Mongolia. In that district, nominally Chinese, there have been recurrent pro-Jap- anese movements. Japan would like to dominate Inner Mongolia. One reason is that the region adjoins Outer Mongolia, independent state which has a military assistance pact with Japan'’s rival, Soviet Russia. Through Nankow Pass runs the only route over which the Japanese ecan COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. OYSTER BAY, N. Y, August 16 | () —Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., said | at his home last night that he was| considering flying to Shanghai unless | he received word today that his wife and their son, Quentin, had been able | MOve heavy armaments from North- 10 leave the embattled city safely. | ¥est Hopeh Province, now under dom- f ination of the Japanese Army, to Cha- He said Mrs. Roosevelt and their | har and Inner Mongolia son had planned to depart from the | Chinese city aboard the Dollar Line steamer President Jefferson, which | India's First Woman Minister. dispatches said was expected at Woo- | | India's first woman minister, Mrs sung, near Shanghai, today. A num- | yijai Pandit, has taken the oath of ber of Americans were taken by tender office in the United Provinces cabinet from Shanghai to Woosung last night, | in Lucknow but it was not learned if Mrs. Roose- | velt and her son were among them, Japan's Trade Increases. Japan's trade with the United States Construction of the Liachen-Tsinan in the first five months of this year Railway in China will be started was 94 per cent above that of the like shortly | period of 1936 t NOTE—The long period of professional service of both DR. FRANK J. 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