USE OF POISON GAS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 10

USE OF POISON GAS

JAPANESE CHARGED AIR RAID ON SWATOW (Received June 30, 11.45 ajn.) HANKOW, June 29. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs accuses the Japanese of using , poison gas on June 26 during operation* along the Kiangsi section of the Yangtze River. Thirty persons were killed in' • Japanese air raid on Swatow. JAPANESE DENIAL

Anglo-french Warning

LANDING ON HAINAN ISLAND

(Received June 30^.45i,a£p.),; TOKIO, June 29.

- The Japanese Press < denies that Japan has received a warning from Britain and France against landing on Hainan Island, and state that the British and French Ambassadors merely called on the Foreign Minister and inquired whether Japan intended to occupy the island.

According to a London message on June 27, the Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs announted in the Hfcnue of Commons that England and France had warned Japan that occupatianof Hainan Island would be likely to lead to undesirable complications and that in the event of such ah incident they would no doubt collaborate as was necessary. It -was stated that the warning not only concerned Hainan Tfimwi but also other Chinese Islands in ttie vicinity of Hong Kong and Indochina.

PORTENT OF PEACE

TOKIO PAPER'S COMMENI

(Received June 30, 9.40 ajn.)

TOKIO, June 2». A leading financial daily, the "Chug 4 Shogyo Shimpo," sees portent of peace between China and ,Japan; in the ; not distant future in a setback yesterday on the Stock Exchange in armament shares, coupled with a cessation of stockbrokers' enthusiasm and increased capitalisation *of companies.