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Show banking Prepares To Oefend itself Against invaders BY ITNITED PRESS Developments today in the Chinese-Japanese war: NANKING United States and other ambassadors evacuate former for-mer capital; city prepares to defend de-fend itself against Japanese army, now but 100 miles away. HANKOW-3,000 refugees, including in-cluding Chinese government officials of-ficials and their families, arrive in new capital ;city is overcrowded. overcrowd-ed. . SHANGHAI Japanese press past Wusih, 70 miles inland, in march on Nanking; Chinese government gov-ernment complies with Japanese demand and moves national lottery lot-tery from international settlement settle-ment to Hankow; foreign officials have made no formal demand for neutral area in Nanking, Japanese Japan-ese spokesman asserts. TSINGTAO Japanese drive on Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province, Pro-vince, continues; Huangtai fired by Japanese shells. BRUSSELS China hopes to get secret aid from certain nations attending far eastern peace conference; con-ference; "filibuster" delays conference con-ference adjournment. |