STATE OF WAR
WITHOUT DECLARATION ADMITTED BY JAPAN. BELLIGERENT RIGHTS CLAIMED IN CHINA. • By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, May 8. For the first time during the whole campaign a Japanese spokesman used the term “b’elligerent rights as a justification for the bombing attack on Chungking. He added that a stiite of war exists, despite the absence of a declaration of war. CHINESE CUT OFF ACCORDING TO JAPANESE. RETREAT FROM H'ANKOW AREA. (Received This Day. 10.15 a.m.) TOKIO. May 8. . The Japanese claim to have cut. oil one-fifth of General Chiang Kia Slick’s 100,000 troops who are retreating north east of Hankow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1939, Page 5
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