500 KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 192, 16 August 1938, Page 9

500 KILLED.

MORE BOMBING.

Eight Hundred Believed Wounded. »

ANOTHER JAP. RAID

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 1 p.m.)

SHANGHAI, August 15.

The Japanese bombed Yanghshi, and it is estimated that 500 were killed and 800 wounded. ■

An earlier message from London said the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Litvinoff, summoned the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Mr. Shigemitsu, and protested against a violation of the Changkufeng section by Japanese last Saturday, the details of which have not been disclosed, says the Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."

Mr. Shigemitsu rejected the protest and disclaimed knowledge of the incident. On the contrary, he said, his information was that the frontier was quiet. He expressed astonishment that an incident could have occurred on the same day that the Russian and Japanese representatives agreed to a line under the truce.

An official announcement issued in Moscow estimates the Russian casualties in the 12 days of fighting on the Manchukuo border at 236 killed and 611 wounded.

BRITISH TUG SEIZED. Gunboat Hastens to Rescue; Protest Lodged. ACTION BY JAPANESE. SHANGHAI, August 15. In response to an urgent summons, the British gunboat Scarab hastened to Tungchow Island, where it was found that an armed Japanese guard -was in possession of the British tug Victoria, which was under charter to a Japanese firm. It was discovered that the Union Jack had been torn down and the Japanese flag was flying. ' The captain of the tug declared he had been pinioned, after which the tug went aground. The commander of H.M.S. Scarab demanded that the Union Jack should be hoisted again immediately and that the tug should be freed. He made a protest to the Japanese naval authorities, who are investigating.

DUTCH ARE At ARMED. EXPANSION BY JAPANESE. TOKYO, August 15. The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. T. Kawai, says the Netherlands Indies are again alarmed over Japan's rapid development of Celebes. He emphasises that they have no need to take the position so seriously—at present anyhow. "We are without money for such expansion," he says.