STOP BOMBINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 229, 27 September 1937, Page 7

STOP BOMBINGS.

AN IMMEDIATE REMEDY.

HOLLAND, AMERICA AND BRITAIN.

CEASE TRADING WITH JAPANESE.

BUTCHERY OF NON-COMBATANTS DEPLORED.

(United Tresa Association.—Copyright.— Rec. 1 p.m.)

LONDON, September 26. Numerous pulpit and platform denunciations were made to-day regarding Japanese 'butchery of non-combatants." These included a suggestion by Mr. John Marchbank, secretary of the Kailwaymen s Union, that a message from King George, in the name of the British people, expressing horror and indignation at air bombings, would influence the Emperor of Japan. Declaring that the bombings must and can be stopped. Sir Frances Dyke Ackland. MP., in a letter to "The Times," points out that oyer three-quarters of Japan's total trade is with Holland, the United States and the British Empire, whose heads are men of high ciyilisaUon, human, merciful and peace loving, possessing the same faith and ideology and could act in unison immediately and stop Japan s inward and outward trade within a week. That would stop the massacres. There was no need to wait for co-operation of dictators or the League. Three men acting together might change the course of world history.

The Times Shanghai correspondent says an official report states that the Japanese Army casualties to September 21, excluding naval, number 1412 killed and 4169 wounded, which is 10 per cent of the total, assuming the force engaged at 50,000. Chinese are still holding the Kiangwan salient and resisting pressure on the entire Shanghai front, as well as inflicting heavy Josses.

PREPARING FOR OFFENSIVE.

JAP. CONCENTRATION OF FORCES.

MEMBER OF IMPERIAL FAMILY WOUNDED.

(Received 1.30 p.m.)

SHANGHAI, September 26

Owing to steady rain the situation on the Shanghai front is unchanged. The Japanese Army spokesman announced the concentration of forces and supplies on all fronts in preparation for a grand offensive.

The Mayor of Canton has appealed to the Great Powers to prevent Japanese air raids on the cities, irrespective of military objectives.

The Admiralty at Tokyo announces that Japanese 'planes and warships bombarded Hoihow, on Hainan Island, damaging strong fortifications. 'Planes heavily bombed Chapei, Shanghai, to-day and three times raided Canton at dawn.

It is officially claimed that the Chinese War Office at Nanking was smashed to pieces during yesterday's air raid.

Prince Hiroyoshi Fushimi, commander of the Japanese 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, was slightly wounded aboard his ship on the Whangpoo by Chinese snipers. He is a member of the Imperial family but not of the reigning House.