WAR ATROCITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20263, 4 August 1937, Page 7

WAR ATROCITIES

JAPANESE SLAUGHTERED. WOMEN AND CHILDREN INCLUDED. THE STRUGGLE IN NORTH CHINA. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 4, 1 p.m.) TIENTSIN, August 3. Major Nakagawa, spokesman of the Japanese War Office, told an all-party conference of the House of Representatives that 130 bodies of Japanese and Koreans, Including women and children, had been recovered at Tung Chow. All bore hideous marks of atrocities. Major Nakagawa added that li Japanese women, on taking refuge in an hotel at Tung Chow, were outraged. A Japanese who escaped told a newspaper correspondent that he found a pond inside the East Gate crimson with the blood of 60 Japanese and Koreans who had been killed and thrown Into the pond. Twenty-nine others were found butchered in another pond nearby. Women and children were included In each case. A SOVIET PROTEST. REJECTED BY JAPAN. RUSSIAN WHITES BLAMED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 4, 1.30 p.m.) TIENTSIN, August 3. Japan has summarily rejected the Soviet protest against a raid on the Consulate In Tientsin. It is stated that the Incident occurred outside the area controlled by the Japanese. It suggests that Russian Whites were responsible for the raid, their object being to seize the archives, in which they were successful. BOMBING BY JAPANESE. MANY VILLAGERS KILLED. CHINA’S DEFENCE PREPARATIONS. PEOPLE DISPERSE TO HILLS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Augu3t 4, 12.15 p.m.) TIENTSIN, August 3. Japanese planes again bombed Pao-ting-fu, Kalgan and other places in the Hopei province. The Japanese occupied YangliuChing, west of Tientsin, without resistance. A Chinese report states that Japanese troops killed hundreds of villagers as a reprisal for alleged tampering with the Peking-Tientsin railway. The Tokio correspondent of the Times says that according to Japanese news all the northern provinces of China are preparing for defence. Rich Chinese are leaving Tsing-tao for Shanghai. Japanese women and children have already been brought to Tsing-tao, en route to Japan. Air defences are being prepared at Taiyuan, where the people are dispersing to the hills. Other sources from Tokio state that a War Office communique announces that the Japanese casualties since the start of the conflict in North 'China have been 330 killed and 837 wounded. The Antonomous Government. The autonomous Government of east Hopei, which was established under Japanese auspices, has transferred its headquarters from Tungchow to Peking.