CUTTING OF DIKES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 9

CUTTING OF DIKES

CHIANG KAI-SHEK BLAMED

URGED TO SUE FOR PEACE

PEKING, June 18,

The Japanese puppet Government has issued a manifesto condemning General Chiang Kai-shek for cutting the dikes, which will serve no purpose but the destruction of the Chinese State and the impoverishment of the people. The manifesto urges him to i concede.' defeat and sue for peace.' ]

A cablegram received by the Chinese Consul from Hankow last night stated: On the 16th instant thre eenemy bombing planes bombed existing gaps in the likes at Chaokow and Yangchiao,. and widened them by more than 200 metres. We have ordered workmen to fill these gaps and instructed 'the vice-chairman of the relief committee to Inspect the flood areas and to give immediate relief to the sufferers.

DARING RAID

CHINESE AVIATORS FOUR ENEMY WARSHIPS SAID TO BE SUNK (Received June 20, 11.15 a.m.) ' HANKOW, June 19. Chinese aeroplanes made a daring attack on a concentration of fifty Japanese warships, probably mostly gunboata, and it is claimed that four were sunk and one damaged in the Yangtzeklang near Anking. Twelve Japanese pursuit planes engaged the raiders, whose superior speed enabled them to escape unscathed.

REPORTS FROM TOKIO CHINESE CHARGED WITH USE OF POISON GAS TOKIO, June 19. It is admitted that 200,000 Chinese have invaded Shansi Province, which the Japanese have claimed that they ' dominate. The Japanese accuse the Chinese of using poison gas. The Japanese forces approaching Hankow along the Yangtze River have reached the edge of the Tapieshan mountain range, the city's natural defence barrier. The Domei agency interprets the Japanese bombing of Hainan Island, near French Indo-China, as a warning to France against giving further assistance to the Chinese. The same agency reports an armed clash between Russians and Japanese on the Manchukuan border. Shots ■were exchanged.

CAMPAIGN IN LONDON

ANTI-JAPANESE FEELING

(Received June 20,11 a.m.) LONDON, June 19. As the culmination of meetings organised by the China Campaign Committee during the week, 2000 people marched from Trafalgar Square to the Japanese Embassy. The police cordon allowed the deputation to hand to a mansenrant a resolution protesting against the bombardment of Canton and urging an embargo on the export of petrol to Japan and a boycott on Japanese goods. RESTAURANT FRACAS SHANGHAI INCIDENT ATTACK ON PUPPET OFFICIALS (Received June 20,12.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. The Shanghai correspondent of "The SHmes" #tatea that threa gunmen,

strolled through a crowded restaurant in Foochow Road last night and fired into a private dining-room where mem[bers of the Provisional Government were holding a party. . They killed Cotnmissioner Jen Pao-an and a singsong girl, dangerously wounded another official, and seriously injured four others.

Six out of eight Japanese who were among the twenty guests left before the attack.

The assailants escaped during the panic.