WAR IN CHINA
JAPAN’S DETERMINATION KNOCK OUT THE ENEMY THE FIGHT FOR HSUCHOW felted Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON. May 18 The Japanese converging armies form a semi-circle with an average radius of 36 miles around Hsuchow railway Junction. Asked the prospects of the fall of Hsuchow, General Count Tcraucbi, the Japanese commander, said: " Hsuchow Is not the question with ue. There Is no piece that will not fell before the army's onslaught. Our plan Is to knock out the enemy In one blow." JAPANESE ATROCITIES ( CHINESE PRISONERS SHOT HORROR OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT Official Wireless) (Received May 19, 1.30 p.m.; RUGBY, May 18 Mr R. A. Butler, replying to a question in the House of Commons about the reported wholesale shooting of Chinese prisoners and the machinegunning of boats containing Chinese women and children at Amoy, 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 on the Amoy Bund. He added that the British Government could not too strongly deplore and condemn such violation of the Hague Convention.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20502, 19 May 1938, Page 9
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