JAPANESE FORGES

Evening Star, Issue 22954, 11 May 1938, Page 9

JAPANESE FORGES

SUCCESS CLAIMED IN HONAN WALLED CITY CAPTURED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright TOKIO, May 10. The Japanese claim to have captured the walled city of Mencheng, 75 miles south of Lunghai railway. Another force, after crossing the Hai River, reached Kuchen, 65 miles from Hsucbow. The Chinese expect the Japanese to attempt to make a breach in the railway west of Hsuchow. Prince Konoye predicts a definite war development, justifying union between the Peking and Nanking Governments. WARSHIPS SHELL AMOY AMOY, May 10. Japanese warships shelled Amoy and launched an attack on the island. Planes dropped leaflets on the adjacent island of Kolangsu, intimating that Amoy had been occupied and warning foreigners and foreign ships to depart. TOWN GOING UP.IN SMOKE HONGKONG, May 10. (Received May 11, at 1.10 p.m.) A message from Amoy states that the greater part of the town is going up in smoke after the bombardment. Tokio claims that a large force of Japanese landed and routed the Chinese and occupied the eastern part of the island. USE OF POISON GAS CHINA’S APPEAL TO LEAGUE. GENEVA, May 10. Dr Wellington Koo informed the League Council that Japan intended large-scale employment of poison gas on the Shantung front. He demanded invocation of the Covenant in order to prevent such an infamous ccime and vindicate League principles. He added that although China, with a major vie-

tory at Taierchwang, had turned the tide of battle and shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility, she still needed war materials. No nation except one, despite League resolutions, had done anything to assist her. Japan’s armed forces numbered 1,000,000, and her lack of success had driven her to increased ruthlessness, including wanton slaughter by bombs ..of noncombatants, with unprecedented violence towards women and children and the massacre of hundreds of male civilians. > ,