CHINA & JAPAN
USE OF GAS ON SHANTUNG FRONT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.0 a.in.). v GENEVA, May 9. Dr Wellington Koo notified the League that the .Japanese have several times used gas on Shantung front, in a desperate effort to overcome the resistance. (Received this day at 11.0 a.ni.). SHANGHAI, May 9. The Red Cross Director. Dr McClure has returned from Nansiichow, which was bombed on May 5. Me estimates 370 were killed, of whom one hundred died in Lllion Catholic mission, which is a shambles of blood, misery and terror. At Chungking, one hundred Chinese were killed and injured and seven thousand homes burned and thirty thousand are homeless, as a result of a fire in the poorer 'quarters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1938, Page 5
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