Conflicting Reports From China
Sweeping down from Inner Mongolia, Chinese forces captured Ghangping, twenty-five miles north-west of Peking, asserts a message from Hankow.
Fighting continues along the Lunghai railway, west of Hsuchow. The Chinese are in a critical position at Kaifeng, the capital of Honan, on which two Japanese' columns are closing. The Chinese launched a desperate counter-attack. The capture of Langfeng is confirmed, and the Japanese say that 80,000 Chinese are fleeing after 2000 casualties had been incurred. Japs Deny Amoy Massacre. The Japanese Foreign Office at Tokio officially protests against Mr R. A. Butler’s statement in the House of Commons last Wednesday that the Japanese had shot Chinese prisoners on the Bund at Amoy. The spokesman announced that an investigation had proved Mr Butler’s allegation false. It had seriously compromised the honour and prestige of the Japanese navy.
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Northern Advocate, 25 May 1938, Page 5
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