JAPANESE BARBARITY
DEPLORED AND CONDEMNED BY BRITAIN SHOOTING OF CHINESE VIOLATION OF THE HAGUE CONVENTION. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, May 18. Replying in the House of Commons to a question about the reported wholesale shooting of Chinese prisoners and the machine-gunning of boats containing Chinese women and'children at Amoy, Mr R. A .Butler (Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs) said he had no official reports that boats containing Chinese women and children were machine-gunned, but a number of Chinese soldiers were taken prisoner and shot. He added that the British Government could not too strongly deplore and condemn such a violation of the Hague Convention.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 8
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