POISON GAS
USED BY THE JAPANESE FORCES ACCORDING TO THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES. NOTIFICATION TO LEAGUE. (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) GENEVA, May 9. Dr Wellington Koo has notified the League of Nations that the Japanese several times used poison gas on thd Shantung front, in a desperate effort to overcome resistance. WAR HORRORS RED CROSS DIRECTOR'S REPORT. MISSION BECOMES SHAMBLES. (ecd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 9. A Red Cross director, Dr McClure, who has returned from Nanshuchow, which was bombed on May 5, estimates that 370 persons were killed, of whom 100 died in the Italian Catholic Mission, which was a shambles of blood, misery and terror. At Chungking 100 Chinese were killed and injured and 7,000 homes were burned. Some 30,000 persons are homeless as the result of fires in the poorer quarters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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