SITUATION SERIOUS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 90, 18 April 1938, Page 7

SITUATION SERIOUS

JAPANESE IN CHINA GERMANY SAID TO BE UNEASY Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, April 16. The Manchester Guardian diplomatic correspondent says the situation of the Japanese in China is considered to be serious but not desperate. The Chinese are believed to be employing the right military tactics. Their viewpoint is that their resistance is not weakening and peace is remote. Most of their war material is reaching China through Hongkong and is German and Italian. Some has been received from Russia, but is mostly inferior. Germany is uneasy regarding the Japanese difficulties because a prolonged war will diminish Japan’s value as a member of the anti-Comintern Pact. DESTITUTE IN CHINA 2,000,000 PEOPLE. EFFORTS TOWARD RELIEF. Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, April 15. The Hankow correspondent of The Times reports that two million people are destitute in China. The Government is trying to find relief work for refugees, half a million of whom in Hankow are being supported as far as possible by the Lord Mayor's fund and the International Red Cross. CHINESE ARMY CHIEF REPORTED CASUALTIES. TOKIO, April 15. The Japanese claim that. General Chiang Kai-shek was wounded in both legs during the bombing of Changsha on April 10, and Mr. T. V. Soong was wounded in the stomach. CLAIMS IN SHANSI JA P A NESE C A PTU R ES. TOKIO, April 15. Ihe Doniei news agency reports that the Japanese in Shansi Province liquidated eight Chinese divisions In the Tahsing ranges and captured several towns