Show JAPANESE BEAT UP TWO BRITONS SHANGHAI Jan 7 UP Major Ri-Major Major General A. A P. P D. D Telfer commanding British troops at Shanghai protested today against an n attack by Japanese soldiers on two vo British officers of the Shanghai municipal police General Telfer accused Japanese armed forces of invading the he British defense zone in the In- In International International Settlement and was reported rc- rc ported to have warned the Japanese Japanese Japa- Japa nese ese military that repetition might result in the gravest consequences A Japanese embassy spokesman questioned concerning the attack said aid We have no information Inspector F. F G. G West one of at the officers said he and Sergeant A. A R. R soldiers soldiers solers sol- sol Turner urner were watching Japanese diers ers search Chinese peddlers near the he line between the British deens defense delease de- de I lease ens zone zone- and the Japanese pied led area and end remarked that the peddlers were receiving unnecessarily unnecessary ily y rough treatment Two Britons Beaten West said a Japanese policeman shouted Its none of ot your damned business and struck Turner on onic the ic nose Several Japanese soldiers th then hen n rushed across the line the officer declared and pummeled him When he rushed to Turners Turner's aid West said the Japanese soldiers beat eat him also Twenty Japanese censors and communications officials who established es- es themselves yesterday in the he offices of three foreign cable companies in Shanghais Shanghai's International International lonal Settlement began supervision of f dispatches Twenty-four Twenty Japanese planes raided aided the Chinese airport at Nan- Nan cha hang chang g capital of province a naval spokesman reported He said aid Chinese fliers attempted another anther an an- lather other ther air attack on a J Japanese air air- drome at on the Yangtze river iver above but were unsuccessful unsuccessful un un- un- un successful when Japanese planes took ook the air and forced the Chinese to o dump their bombs in the Yangtze and flee Outdistanced Japanese He said the Chinese were flying speed high-speed planes that the Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese could not catch Chinese and Japanese troops troop massed today for battle for control contro of the eastern section of the Lung Lung- hat lai railway Chinas China's main west east Chinese asserted they had about abou men along the line in northern northern north north- em ern and eastern Honan Hona provinces between Suchow miles niles northwest of an and 90 miles to the west weaL Japanese forces numbering were thrusting at the line from both the north and the south The Th column fighting north from Nan Nan- king ting still had 80 miles to go an and invaders driving south in Shantung province were miles from Su Su- Su- Su chow Slash at Rail Lines Control of the railway would give Japanese a base for a push westward to the Han kow railway and thence southward miles to one of Chinas China's temporary capitals Chinese asser asserted assert assert- ed their forces would make a supreme supreme supreme su preme effort to keep Japanese fr from m the the nations nation's jugular jugular jugular jug ular vein From above Nankin came reports that Japanese wa warships warships war war- ships and transports were prepa preparing preparing ing to steam up the Yangtze with wit miles southwest o of as the first objective Japanese in Shanghai continued daily searches of houses in the Nan Nan- tao quarter in their drive to stam stamp ou out Japanese anti-Japanese terrorist ties Although there was no official confirmation there were persistent reports that terrorist bombings Inthe in inthe the Japanese-controlled Japanese re refugee refugee ref ref- ugee zone had caused the death o of more than a score of at persons Including in including in- in eluding several Japanese soldiers The North China area was comparatively comparatively com corn quiet A Japanese spokesman at admitted that tha Chinese communist guerilla bands bane frequently had raided the railway from bases in Honan province province province ince north of ot the line No band ban was larger than men and Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese casualties were few the spokesman spokes spokes- man said One Japanese outpost of 12 men was wiped out recently LONDON Jan 7 UP UPI Prime Prime Minister Minister Min Mm- ister Neville Chamberlain toda today took under consideration Japans Japan's proposals for changing the status statu of the Shanghai International Se Settlement Settlement Set Set- one of the most troublesome troublesome troublesome trouble trouble- some phases of Japanese Anglo friction over the Shanghai situation Informed persons said the Bri British British Brit Brit- ish government was in touch with wit Washington and Paris concerning the Japanese proposals which reached the government here only today The Japanese consul general a at Shanghai January 4 handed the se settlements settlement's settlements settlement's set set- governing council proposals proposals proposals pro pro- for increasing the numbers of Japanese police and other em em- and placing Japanese In controlling controlling controlling con con- trolling posts in all departments o othe of the settlement administration These would mean consequent lessening lessening lessening les les- les- les of British authority hitherto dominant In the settlement |