AID TO CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1940, Page 6

AID TO CHINA

SOVIET TO CONTINUE

REPORTED REJECTION OF REQUEST BY JAPAN

AIR WAR LOSSES

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, November 23.

A Shanghai message says it is reported without confirmation that the Soviet Union has rejected a request by Tokio to discontinue aid to Chungking.

Two hundred Japanese naval reservists are stated to have been unexpectedly mobilised to be sent home.

It is reported from Chungking that during the past 40 months of hostilities between China and Japan, 986 Japanese aircraft have been destroyed by Chinese planes or brought down by ground forces. These figures do not include damaged aeroplanes which crashed behind the Chinese lines.

British property has suffered very heavy damage as a result of the Japanese attacks since the beginning of the war. The British property losses are estimated at 1,949,465 Chinese dollars; American, 1,468,000 dollars; Italian, 744,000 dollars; German, 150,000 dollars; Spanish, 30,000 dollars, and French, 17,000 dollars. The spokesman for the Chinese Air Force declared that these figures do not include the losses by foreign Governments and institutions.

Shanghai reports that a raiding party of the Chinese Fourth Route Army today boarded a Japanese freighter on the Yangtze and captured two officers and 10 members of the crew, after which the ship was set on fire and sank.