CHINA AND JAPAN

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1932, Page 5

CHINA AND JAPAN

THE BOMB VICTIMS. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). SHANGHAI, April 29. Shigemitsu was terribly injured in the lower part of the body, being almo»t disembowelled Murai was sim ilarly injured. Uyeda is likely to 10-c a foot, and Nomura may lose his left eye. Shirikawa’s face was disfigured nd his teeth were blown out. The would-be assassin, a Korean was so severely man-handled that he subsequently died. Three Chinese attested were also battered unmercifully, and two will probably die.

When the bomb exploded, it stunned officials and people within a radius of twenty yards. As a result of tht outrage the Japanese have declared martial law in the northern district. A state of ten «ion is existing. which will prevent the possibility of peace talks in the immediate future. RUGBY, April 29. An expression of the deep regre with which the British Government learned of the Shanghai bomb outrage as the result of which six Japanese loaders suffered injury, has been conveyed to the Japanese Government by I the British Ambasador at Tokio. JAPAN’S REFUSAL TO LEAVE CHINA. LONDON, April 29. The “Daily Mail’s” Geneva correspondent says: Mr Stimson is probably remaining over the weekrend, as the result of the acute situation that ha.again arisen over th? Sino-Japanese dispute. While Japan accepted Sir M. Lampson’s proposed Shanghai armistice terms, she categorically refuses o give the League’s investigating commission the right to fix the date for withdrawal. The Chinese Government has accordingly suspended the- armistice negotiations. ONE VICTIM DIES.

SHANGHAI. April 13 Karabata, the President of the Jap nese Ratepayers Society, who was njured in yesterday’s bombing, died o-dav.