JAP SUCCESSES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1938, Page 5

JAP SUCCESSES.

NORTHWARD THRUST TO SUCHOW. LUNGHAI RAILWAY OBJECTIVE (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-r Copyright) Received Tuesday, Midnight. TOKIO, May 10. The Japanese claim to have captured the walled city of Mencheng, 75 miles south of the Lunghai railway. Another force after crossing the Hai river reached Kuchen, 65 miles from buchow. The Chinese expect the Japanese will attempt to breach the railway west of Suchow. Prince Konoye, Japanese Prime Minister, predicts a definite war development justifying the union of the Peking and Nanking Governments. The police throughout Japan are blacklisting all Left Wing scholars and authors with a view to checking Popular Front tendencies. The long-distance Japanese aeroplane “Wings of the Century” has commenced an attempt to circuit the Yokohama area to demonstrate the possibility of a round-the-world flight in three hops. FORCED LANDING. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) TOKIO, May 10. The aeroplane “Wings of the Cen tury” after completion of 1250 miles, made a forced landing at Kisarazu. She was undamaged. JAPS ATTACK AMOY ISLAND Received Wednesday, 2 a.m. AMOY, May 10. Japanese warships shelled Amoy and launched an attack on the island. ’Planes dropped leaflets on the adjacent island of Kulangsu, intimating that Amoy had been occupied and warning foreigners and foreign ships to depart. LARGE-SCALE POISON GAS. INCREASED JAP RUTHLESSNESS Received Wednesday, 1.30 a.m. GENEVA, May 10. Dr. Wellington Koo informed the League Council that Japan intended the large-scale employment of poison gas on the Shantung front. He demanded the invocation of the Covenant in order to prevent such an infamous crime and to vindicate League principles. He added: “Although China with a major victory 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 the 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 the wanton slaughter by bombs of noncombatants, unprecedented violence on women and children and the massacre of hundreds of male civilians.”