CHINESE MASSACRE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 252, 5 August 1937, Page 5

CHINESE MASSACRE.

RECOVERY OF 130 BODIES. HIDEOUS MARKS OF ATROCITES. (United Press Copyright.) LONDON, August 3. The Tokio correspondent of “The Tidies”" states that Majqr Nakagawa (Spokesman for the War Office) told an all-party conference at the House of Representatives that 130 bodies of Japanese and Koreans, including women and children, had been recovered at Tungcliow. All bore hideous marks of atrocites. Major Nakagawa added that eleven Japanese women who were taking refuge in an hotel at Tufigchow were all outraged. An escaped Japanese told the Tientsin correspondent of the newspaper, “Asahi” that he found a pond inside the east gate crimson with blood. Sixty Japanese and Koreans who had been killed were thrown into the pond and 29 others were found butchered in another pond nearby. Women and children were included in each case. PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE EXODUS OF RICH CHINESE. LONDON, August 3. The Tokio correspondent of “The Times” says that according to Japanese news all the northern provinces in China are preparing for defence. Rich Chinese are leaving Tsingtai for Shanghai. Japanese women and children have already been brought to Tsingtao, en route to Japan. Air defences are being prepared at Taiyuan, where people are dispersing to the bills. Oilier sources from Tokio state that a War Office communique announces that the Japanese casualities since the start of the conflict in North China are 330 killed and 837 wounded. The autonomous Government of East Hopei, established under Japanese auspices after the occupation of Jeliol, has transferred its headquarters from Tungchow to Peiping. BOMBED BY JAPANESE. TIENTSIN, August 3. Japanese planes again bombed Paotingfu and Kalgan, and other places in the Hopei province. The Japanese occupied Yanglincliing, west of Tientsin, without resistance. The Chinese' report that the Japanese troops killed hundreds of \ T illagers as a reprisal for the alleged tampering with the Peiping-Tientsin railway. A PROTEST REJECTED. RAID ON SOVIET CONSULATE. LONDON, August 3. Japan summarily rejected the Soviet protest against the raid on the Consulate at Tientsin. It is stated that the incident occurred outside the area controlled by the Japanese, and suggests that Russian Whites were responsible for the raid, their object being to seize the archives, in which they were successful.