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Show Japanese Evacuating Nationals at Hankow Nanking Prepares Citizens for Defense Against Air, Gas Raids by Foes NANKING. Aug. 6 (AP) China's capital verged on war fever tonight while Japanese bluejackets in Hankow, central China's great trading center far up the Yangtze, feverishly evacuated their people and faced Chinese soldiers across street barricades. A Nanking air defense association bought gaa masks, trained Its members mem-bers and told the people what to do in the case of bombs or gas attacks. Such simple directions were necessary nec-essary because most of Nanking's more than a million people do not have the money for masks. "Be prepared," aald one citywlde slogan, "the enemy airplanes are expected to drop bom be momentarily." momen-tarily." Thus actual preparations for par- . ticlpation in. the month-old undeclared unde-clared war spread afar front its Pelping cradle. All Japanese is Japan'a Hankow concession and near-by areas ware tCoaUnoe ea Pa Twe ' IWial Tee Japanese Girls Study Tradeof War . y- t : Sw- a' i v jr -t . w . , NIPPON'S YOUNG WOMEN AT TOKIO TAKE TP TOOLS OF WAR ; Stay-at-homes must drill daily, learn use of rifle and gas masks while men fight In China. Japanese Evacuate Nationals at Hankow (Continued tram Pas On ordered ' to concentrate at the -Yangtse river waterfront for whole- sale evacuation, which was to be completed tonight River steamers are carrying the Japanese down to Mhanvhal. nrse eleventh gunboat flotilla on the Yangtze river declared a state of emergency existed in the area, landed additional marines to rein- ! Three hundred Japanese marines were ashore at Hankow. Chinese troops in and near the city were estimated at (0,000. Japanese marinas ma-rinas and Chinese Infantrymen In full war kit were facing each other across barricades only the width of a street apart. The Toklo war office aald the Japanese naval forces on the Yangtse had taken special measures to meet Chinese attack after the Chinese had surrounded the Hankow Han-kow Japanese concession. Chinese forces. It was said, built trenches and broke communications linss leading from the Japanese concession. conces-sion. The United States consul general at Hankow, according to dispatches dis-patches to Nanking, advised all Americans In that part of his consular con-sular district north of the Yellow river to withdraw southward to places of safety. This action followed closely an official Japanese Intimation that the north China aone ef hostilities might extend southward to the Yellow Yel-low river, the natural boundary between be-tween north and central China. The Hankow consular district Includes In-cludes a small part of Honan prov-Inoe prov-Inoe above the Yellow river, but not the larger area In Shantung province, where United States elti-sens, elti-sens, en advice of their consul at Tslnanfu, already were reported concentrating at Tsingtao, on the coast. 100 Americana In troubled Hankow Itself were about 100 Americans, with several score more In mission centers near by. At Kikungshan, famed central China summer reeort In Honanv about 100 miles north of Hankow, were about M0 Americans, missionaries mission-aries with their wives and children. The Japanese civilian evacuation of Hankow gave every evidence of I fears of early trouble. The Japa- force those already ashore and ordered or-dered the evacuation. Hankow, with Its sister Wuhan cities of Wuchang and Hanyang, liss on the Yangtie some 600 miles south of the north China sone of conflict, on a direct line. It is the southern terminus of the 754-mile railway from Peiping, down which the Japanese have advanced some 40 miles southwest of Peiping. It haa become a danger point because be-cause it le a concentration point for Chinese forces going northward by train, presumably to oppose further Japanese advances. Nanking banka experienced a heavy rush, with war scared residents resi-dents withdrawing their funds and departing for Shanghai or farther Inland. No bank, however, was short of cash. Thousands were leaving the capl-! tal every day by every sort of means. The streets were packed with automobiles, carts, wheelbarrows wheelbar-rows and jlnrikishas loadsd with boxes and household utensils. j I NANKING. Aug. (UP) The Japanese suffered heavy casualties today when Chinese detachments of "plain clothes" soldiers, who had filtered through their lines near ' Lluliho, recaptured the Important town of Lianghsiang, the Chinese : Central News Agency reported from Paoting-Fu. Military headquarters at Paotlng- Fu aald the Chinese attacked during a heavy rainstorm and took the Japanese by surprise. Lianghsiang is on the Peiplng-Hankow Peiplng-Hankow railway, midway between Lluliho and Changhstmtlen, a railway rail-way junction Just southwest of Pel- I ping. i "Our troops now are advancing on Nantung, north of Llangh- 1 slang," the news agency said. "They ! have captured large stores of arms j and munitions." i |
