CLEAN-UP DRIVE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 46, 24 February 1939, Page 7

CLEAN-UP DRIVE

SHANGHAI “BAD LANDS” COMBINED FORCES TO CURB TERRORISM. Received Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m. SHANGHAI, Feb. 22. In an effort to seize the perpetrators of the recent shootings, a force of 800, including 100 men ol the East Surrey Regiment, 100 Japanese, 100 Russians, and a detachment of Italian marines, participated in a clean-up drive of the so-called “bad lands” outside the western district of the International Settlement. Two hundred suspects were arrested and released after being questioned. The commander of the local Japanese military and naval forces called on the chairman of the Municipal Council and requested its assent to measures to cope with terrorism. Later they called on the commanders of the British and Italian forces and reported their action.

SHUMCHUN BOMBING

"REGRETTABLE ERROR” APOLOGY MADE TO BRITAIN TOKIO, Feb. 22. Japan has apologised to Britain for a “regrettable error” in the bombing of Shumchun. A War Office communique states that a plane dropped a bomb in mistake on British territory and thSI the missile struck the engine of a train. FURTHER DEATHS (Independent Cable Service.) HONGKONG, Feb. 22. Three further victims of the Japanese air raid died, bringing the total of dead in the British territory to 14. Eighty have died and many are wounded in the Chinese territory at Shumchun.

KULING REFUGEES

P.eceived Feb. 23, 5.5 p.m. SHANGHAI, Feb. 22. Forty-seven foreigners, including 19 Britons and 11 Americans, arrived at Kiukiang on foot from Kuling. Fortyseven remain at Kuling, including immoveable invalids and an English woman aged 84. The Japanese intend to attack Kuling within forty-eight liours.