WAR IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 9

WAR IN CHINA

JAPANESE CASUALTIES ANNOUNCED SHOCKING ATROCITIES ALLEGED RAID BY BOMBING SQUADRONS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright TIENTSIN, August 3. (Received August 4, at 1.30 p.m.) Japanese planes again bombed Paotingfu, Kalgan, and other places in the Hopei province. Tho Japanese occupied Yangliuching, west of Tientsin, without resistance. The Chinese report that Japanese troops killed hundreds of villagers ‘as a reprisal for alleged tampering with the Peking-Tientsin railway. The Tokio correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that all the northern provinces of China are preparing for defence. Rich Chinese are leaving Tsingtao for Shanghai. Japanese women and children have already been brought to Tsingtao, en route to Japan. Air defences are being prepared at Taiyuan, whore tho people are dispersing to tho hills. Other sources from Tokio state that a War Office communique announces the Japanese casualties since tho start of the conflict in North China as 330 killed and 837 wounded. Major Nakagawa, the spokesman for the War Office, told an all-party conference at tho House of Representatives that 130 bodies of Japanese Koreans, including women and children, had been recovered at Tuugchow. All bore hideous marks of atrocities. Major Nakagawa added that 11 Japanese women taking refuge in an hotel at Tungchow were all outraged. An escaped Japanese told the Tientsin correspondent of the ‘ Asahi ’ that he found a pond inside the east gate crimson with tho blood of 60 Japanese Koreans who had been killed and thrown into the pond. Twenty-nine others were found butchered in another pond nearby, women and children being included in. each case. RAID ON CONSULATE JAPAN REPUDIATES RESPONSIBILITY TIENTSIN, August 3. (Received August 4, at 1.30 p.m.) Japan summarily rejected the Soviet protest against the raid on the Consulate at Tientsin, and stated that the incident occurred outside the area controlled by the Japanese. The reply suggested that Russian Whites were responsible for the raid, their object being to seize the archives, in which they were successful. EAST HOPEI GOVERNMENT TRANSFER OF HEADQUARTERS LONDON, August 3. (Received August 4, at 1.30 p.m.) The autonomous Government of East Hopei, established under Japanese auspices after the occupation of Jehol, has transferred its headquarters from Tungchow to Peking.