Show j Japanese Guns Menace French at a Shanghai SHANGHAI Jan 8 AP Japanese AP-Japanese Japanese guns were trained on on on French troops within the French concession for an hour today as an American official of the Shanghai municipal council protested re repeated repeated repeated re- re Japanese assaults on settlement police The international incident was was was' the s second in two days in which Japanese forces attacked police inthe in inthe inthe the foreign areas A French concession policeman o of Russian nationality was struck in the face by a Japanese soldier The policeman had intervened to prevent the soldier from beating a Chinese woman attempting to cross from into the French concession concession concession con con- cession for water Other Japanese soldiers tried to drag the policeman across the boundary into When he fled the Japanese ranged rifles and machine guns along the concession border French armored cars were brought up to reinforce the fron fron- tier The municipal councils council's strenuous protests were lodged with Japanese consul general by Cornell S. S Franklin its American Ameri Ameri- can chairman After two British soldiers were beaten yesterday y the British com com- mander Major General A. A P. P PD D D. Telfer-Smollet Telfer protested to Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese authorities warning that a a. recurrence might lead to gravest consequences French officials were strongly considering a formal protest against today's incident In Paris however a foreign of office office office of- of fice spokesman said France was not alarmed by the incident The British policemen were slugged by Japanese soldiers in an asserted invasion of the British de defense defense defense de- de zone of the International Set Set- Telfer was rep reported to have warned Japanese military officials of- of officials officials of of- that a recurrence might bring gravest consequences Rough handling of the policemen provoked sharp press criticism of Japan in London The Daily Express Express Ex Ex- press went so far as to predict that diplomatic relations might be icy ev- Continued on Page Two Column One JAPANESE GUNS MENACE FRENCH Continued from Page One er ered d by oy Britain The foreign office awaited an official report The Express said the usual apology apology apology apol apol- ogy merely would cross cros any Brit- Brit BritIsh BritIsh Ish protests The Telegraph and Morning Post stressed that lack of control over the Japanese military was WM a contributing factor Reuters British news agency reported reported reported re re- re- re ported in a Shanghai dispatch that Japanese marines had occupied the owned British-owned New Asia hotel Inthe Inthe in inthe the International Settlement and that two Union Jacks were hauled down Sees Irritant Effect The London Daily Dally Mail Mall comme commenting com corn me meriting tIng on slugging of the policeman policeman policeS police- police S man man observed that these deliberate deliberate ate outrages will have a further irritant effect upon relations between between between be be- tween tween Japan and the powers al- al 7 ready teady affected by Japanese actions in Shanghai Meanwhile the fury of ot the war centered miles to the northwest of Shanghai along the west east-west line railway Chinas China's last of defense Chinese press reports said wharves the railway station and public buildings had been destroyed by Chinese se forces at pr province eastern terminus of of the trunk railroad carrying caru car- car u tying ying out Chinas China's scorched earth policy of leaving the Japanese only ruins Japanese reported capture of in their southward drive through Shantung province designed designed designed de de- de- de signed to win control of the rail rail- way Chinese Deny Loss 90 miles mUes north of th the Important railway junction unction SuChow SuChow Suchow Su- Su Chow was the birthplace of the philosopher Chinese denied denied de- de nied flied its loss 0 Japanese also reported capture of r Yen chow and Taming in a a drive down the r railway Eighteen Chinese airplanes eight of them Russian made were shot down In an air raid at a Japanese naval spokesman said The Japanese lost one pursuit plane HONG KONG Jan 8 UP UP-A UP A huge shipment of German arms for Generalissimo Chiang shek's Kai armies has arrived in China foreign foreign for- for eign military sources reported to- to day The reports said that the shipment shipment shipment ship- ship ment was the largest ever sent to China by Germany It was composed composed com com- posed chiefly of antiaircraft raft guns The new supply was said to have arrived at Hunan provInce provInce province ince by way of Hong Kong Two German instructors accompanied f j the e cargo i HONG KONG China Jan 8 UP UPI I Three complete medical units staffed and equipped by the League of of Nations landed at Hong Kong today today prepared to combat disease wand end and disaster in war-ravaged war China Controlling smallpox and typhus fever dever which already are present and may assume epidemic proportions proportions proportions unless checked Immediately Is the first mission of these medical units TOKIO TORIO Jan 8 UP UP-Domel UP Domel Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese news agency reported today Premier Prince Konoye had sought an understanding wit with his cabinet to continue the war against China for four more years A year four-year replenishment plan Domel said was being worked out along that line for presentation to parliament DOVER England Jan 8 UP UP- UP Sir Hughe who was wounded in a Japanese airplane attack while he was ambassador ambassador am- am to China arrived home to today to- to day |