A MASSACRE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 250, 3 August 1937, Page 5

A MASSACRE

JAPANESE AND KOREANS. THREE HUNDRED CIVILIANS. OUTRAGE BY THE CHINESE. (Unitea Press Association— Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) TOKIO, August 2. There is official confirmation of the report that nearly 300 Japanese and Korean civilians, including women, were massacred by Chinese at Tungchow, only 100 succeeding in taking refuge in the Japanese barracks. Inflamed Japanese opinion recalls the Russian massacre of 600 Japanese at Niekolaivesk in 1919, which affected Russo-Japanese relations for many years. Japanese troops lost 20 in driving off the Chinese at Tungchow, and the Chinese casualties are estimated at 1000. WAR SPIRIT IN TOKIO.

TALISMANS FOR SOLDIERS. CHINESE REWARDED FOR AID. LONDON, August 2. The Tokio correspondent of “The Times” states that two Chinese corps are co-operating with the Japanese in relieving Tung-chow. They receive i General Katsuki’s thanks and £I3OO. Chinese stragglers dynamited the Tientsin railway 20 times in four days, disappearing when pursued. The war enthusiasm is growing in Tokio. Hundreds of Buddhist temples are completing 100-stitch girdles as talismans for the soldiers, and cheering youths are careering through the city on beflagged trucks. Sixteen hundred reactionary patriots prayed for victory before the Meiji shrine. War fund collectors stand on every corner, the army and navy having al ready largely benefited. A crop of war songs and films have appeared, the latter being censored if they are too jingoistic. Anti-profiteering legislation is under preparation. The newspaper “Chugai Shogyo ’ says the North China will cost less than Manchuria. HEAVY CHINESE LOSSES. TWQ BATTALIONS’ CASUALTIES.

LONDON, August 1. The Peiping correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” helped to bring in wounded Chinese who were lying in hundreds on the Nanyuan battlefield, ignored by the local inhabitants. Every officer and man in two battalions were killed or wounded where they stood; Only 100 of 2000 wounded in Peiping were able to help themselves, _ the others having suecumbed or committed suicide.